San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-04-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom Our Regular Correspondent

From Our Regular Correspondent
| WASHINGTON, March, 80, 1891.
The president is not a man easy to
take offense, nor is he given to I'M
plying improper motives to men, who
for political reasons make practice
of misrepresenting everything that ne
or apy member of his administration
does. but he Is an ordinary human
being, and as such resents the OUT
right manufacture of stories for the
express purpose of making, or rather
trying to make. misunderstanding
between himself and other republl-
can leaders. Therefore ii is only nat
ural that he should be somewhat
offended at the publication of news
| paper article intimating that he and
Major Mckinley are rivals for the
presidential nomination next year,
and purpoT ting to state upon authori-
ty that Major Mckinley was already
actively working against the renOm-
nation of Harrison and for his own
nomination, and further, that Major
Mckinley claimed the nomination as
right, because he was the author of
the tariff act passed by the Fifty first
congress.
The story was bundle of mis-
statements from beginning to end,
and the object of its democratic
author Is easily discernable, as, in
order to make 1t appear more plausible
and as emanatiDg from republican
source, it Is based upon the assumed
certainty of the n minatiOn and
election of Maj. Mckinley as Governor
of Ohio THE fall. That such will be
the case is the general belief and hope
of all republicans hereabouts, but the
object of the writer of the story was
to prevent the very thing that he
assumed to be certain to occur. He
hoped to create dissen ton among the
Ohio repu blicans by making 1t appear
that Maj. McKinley's election as
Governor would be covertly opposed
by the President.
This democratic would-be mischief
maker we'll knew that Maj. McKin-
ley was out of this city and that his
story would get we'll circulated be-
fore there would be All opportunity
to deny 1t. New, as matter of fact, |
1 happen to know that the President |
is particularly DESTROYS of seeing
Maj. Mckinley nominated for Gover-
nor of Ohio, and that he proposes |
doing everything that he may with |
property do to help elect the cham.
pion of protection after he is nomin-
ated, and 1 also know that Maj. Nc |
Kinley is fully aware of these senti-
ments of Mr.. Harrison, and that he Is |
equally as fri. ndly toward Mr.
Harrison. 1t is evident, however,
that the democrats propose to keep
up their old time tactics of trying to
make political capital for tn ir own
party by attempting to create dissen-
ton among the friends of prominent
republicans; therefore the republicans
should be constantly on their guard
and place no credence in stores of
alleged quarrels or ".trained rela-
ions" between eminent republicans.
The republican party, as represent.
ed In congress and il the adm nistra-
lion, is today clearer of factions than
1t has been at any time for fifteen
years past.
Secretary Foster has exploded
another democratic "Roorback. 1t
was stated that the treasury depart
ment was greatly embarrassed to
know where the money was to come
from to redeem the $50 600 600 of 81
per cent bonds that will mature next
September. This statement caused
the new secretary to smile when his
atten ton was called to 10. The hold
srs of these bonds need not wait until
next September, as the treasury de-
partmeDt is ready now to redeem
them as fast as presented, paying the
'ull interest to date of maturity.
That's how embarrassed it is. The
is all In the minds OF
he democratic newspaper writers
who are compelled to furnish sensa-
tional political matter, at ali times,
,ven ii it has to be entirely manu-
as this was.
The return of the special train
which carried the remains of the lpte
Senator Hearst and the accompanying
committee to San Fran
cisco has been the signal for revival
Of all the gossip of several years past
extravaganza congressiona
funerals. There is 10 doubt that these
funerals have cost more money than
they should have cost, nor Is there
any doubt that reform is needed,
butthe man who can believe thatthey
have been the pleasure junkets that
some imaginative writers have de-
scribed must rate the congressman
who have attended them as a grade
lower than brutes, and /, being rea.
sonably familiar with the characters
Of the senators and representatives,
do it.
There was a rumor here . day or
two ago that the Canadian govern
ment, under instructions from Great
had requested Attorney Gen.
eral to agree to the withdrawal of the
Sayward case (Behring seal from the