Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-04-25
WASHINGTON.

OUT, In the shape Ol Il newspaper liz
terview, a statement of his position
upon the various questions now be-
fore the country. Needless to say
that he stands upon good solid dem>
ocratic ground, just as he has done
for 10 these many years. Mr.. Spring.
er's opinion on New York politics,
expressed in the same interview, has
excited much interest here. He says
that Representative Roswell P.
Flower, who was the chairman Of
the democratic Congressional COM
mittee last year, will certainly be
nominated for Governor of New
York this year, and that if he is
elected by a Fundamentally large mas
jority as he thinks he will be, he will
be the Presidential nominee of the
party next year.
Such prominent South Oarolinians
as Ex-Governor Thompson, now the
democratic Civil Service Commits
sioner pay that the telegraph reports
of q movement in South Carolina for
the assertion of the democratic party
by a large number of white men who
will act with the republicans in the
future is news to them, and they all
express themselves as not believing
such a movement possible in that
State.
The fact that Mr.. Harrison is jeal~
Gus of Mr.. Blaine has long been APP
parent, but story that 1 acciden-
tally stumbled upon makes it out
even a worse case than / thought il
| to be. Russell Harrison, according
to my information, who is now trav-
elling with the Presidential party
took occasion before leaving Wash
ington to intimate to several people
whom he thought to be unfriendlS
towards Mr.. Blaine, that he though
it was shame that his father
who had been forced to almost re
sort to compulsion to prevent Mr.
Blaine taking steps towards con
ciliating the Italian Government
should be deprived of the credit TO
the firm stand taken by this Govern
ment in that matter, when it was t,
him, and to him alone that it wa
due. Russell also said that "Fathe
may find it necessary to break witt
Mr.. Blaine, in order to place himsel
in the proper light before the people,
Poor things!
The republican post Office official
are indulging in great deal of sci
congratulation over the establishment
of post offices on several lines of Ocea
steamers for the distribution of ma
matter in transit, which is exploite
as something entirely new, and du
to the fertile Wanamaker brair
Away back in the Buchanan admin
istration similar post offices wei
maintained on the lake steamer
that ran into Chicago and if brotht
Wanamaker will examine the ret
!, ords of his Office when he gets bac
to Washington he may be able to G,
some useful pointers on the condu
of steamboat post offices. III
steamship post Office is an eXcellel
idea, but it did not originate wit
Mr.. Wanamaker.
Secretary Foster having returnt
from his political trip to New Yol
: he and Senator Sherman put the
!. heads together to make a little #
e for Ex-Governor Foraker in Ohio tn
: year. l asked Senator Sherman if
/, was true that he intended retirir
- lOIIl punt lllc dJ Iu0 Cuu vi
e present term, but l am still waitil
e for the ansWer-he talked about Il
= prevalence of the grip very freel
y but Of politics nota word. Howevt
e its dollars to wood tooth picks tn
n John Sherman never willingly I
" tires.
:, Secretary Proctor has gone to VI
l. mont to look after his marble qua
n ries, and incidentally to clinch t
le bargain he is believed to have To-
/, ago made to succeed Senator Z
n munds. / should like to know e
Of actly the number of days that n
'e Proctor has spent in his Office in
lie War department since he became
)r member of the cabinet officer in Il
time has ever touched his record
an absentee.
The Alliance is undoubtedly