The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-11
TALK OF THE WEEK.


Bad Lands and all through the region where
the disturbances are going on. Harries has bad
varied experience in the Northwest, from Ne
braska to the Arctic Circle He served some
years as a scout in the Army, and is well UP on
Indian ''cussedness." He has been a miner in
Idaho and served a term as a member of the
Idaho Territorial Legislature. AS fur trader
in Manitoba and an employe of the Hudson's
Bay Company he saw the Indians at close
range and became very familiar with their
habits Harries has also spent season or two
in Alaska, and, in fact, knows the whole North
western country probably as well as any man
OF his years in the newspaper business. He
probably never got an assignment that he took
with more pleasure than that of war correspond
ent for the ECeiling Star. He is an exception
ally bright writer with a tremendous capacity
for work, and nose for news as keen as need
be. Haries has been in Washington
number OF years, serving on the old Repub-
6cdn, the Post, and latterly on the Evenino
Star His detail on the last-named paper was
the Senate, and he has many warm friends
among the Senators who will watch with inter
est his dispatches from the seat of war. One of
tne brightest pieces of work he ever did was
shortly after his debut as member of the Starts
stalf There was some agitation at the time
about the way in which the Washington work
house was run, and he thought that it would be
a goou thing to give the people the inside facts.
SO he disguised himself as a tramp put n
bandage over his eye, pulled villainous-look-
ing old slouch hat down over his face, and one
dreary night took his station in the little park
in front of Providence Hospital he began to
solicit aims from passers-by and in a few
minutes secured the desired result. vigilant
policeman arrested him, locked him llp all nirbt
anc the next morning Judge Smell sent him
to the work-house for two weeks. Har-
ries spent four days in confinement without
being detected, when his fine was paid and he
was released. Then he sat down and wrote a
realistic and highly amusing account of his ex-
perences that filled page in the EUeni,,q Star
Inc story created sensation at the time, and
the revelations he made had good effect in
securing needed reforms in the management of
the worl1-house and the treatment of the in
mates.
The falsity of the claim that there is strong
demand among the Republican masses of the
country for the passage of the Force bill is
shown by the way in which some of the Sena-
tors who opposed the measure were treated by
their State legislatures when they went before
them asking for reelection. Senator Teller,
who made public speech in the Senate against
the Force bill, has had his course indorsed by
every Republican member of the Colorado
Legislature. Senator Cameron has not openly
opposed the bill, but there is no doubt what
ever that he has been and is hostile to it. 1t is
possible that, as party man, he would have
felt obliged to vote for it, if it had ever come to
vote, but there is little doubt that he quietly
did what he could to prevent such a result
being reached. Yet the Republican members
of the Pennsylvania Legislature are almost
solidly for him for reelection to the Senate,
although there was an organized movement to
down him in his own party. The Philadel-
phia Press, the leading Republican paper
of the State, has been abusing Game Game
ron for weeks, and in every way sought
to bring about his defeat. These efforts, how
ever, appear to have had absolutely no effect,
as Cameron's friends have stood firm as a rock
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to the Washington wing of the opposition,
which has its headquarters and holds its eau
cuses on the Riggs House lobby sofas, where
for two weeks bold and uncompromising decla-
rations were made that Cameron's defeat was
assured. There is good reason to believe that
the movement against Cameron had the hearty
Endorsement, If not the active support, of the
Administration. An effort seems to have been
made to bring Postmaster General Wanamaker
forward as the opposition candidate for Sena-
tor, but that gentleman is believed not to have
entered with any enthusiasm into the scheme.
ana the whole movement was a most absurd
failure.
Some OF the means employed in the hope of
stirring up feeling against Cameron were SO
small you could hardly see them with micro
scope. His opposition to the Force bill was of
course brought up against him, and he was
charged with being altogether too friendly with
the Democrats. In support of this his close
personal relations with Senator Butler were in
stanced, and it was declared generally that
Cameron was at heart more of Democrat than
Republican. There is this much truth in this
talk, that Cameron's frequent refusals to allow
partisan pressure to force him into extreme
courses against the Democrats has naturally
caused the latter to look on him with a kindly
eye.
''As long as we must have Republican Sen
ator from Pennsylvania" said ex-senator
Buckalew the other night, ''Cameron is certainly
as good man as any other, and better than
any of those named in opposition to him. The
fact that Cameron never has much to say in the
Senate has led to the charge that he is lazy and
neglects his duties. This is not true Cameron
does great deal OF committee work, for which
he never gets any credit, and of which the pub.
lie never hears. There are reports coming to
the House all the time from Cameron's commit
tees in the Senate which were written by him
self. Every Congressman knows that this
means great deal of work. A great many of
these reports are adopted by the House com
mlttees, and, OF course Cameron never gets any
credit for them. Besides this Cameron spends
great deal Of his time in the Departments
looking after claims and other matters for his
constituents. There are few men who
do more of this kind of work than
Cameron. He is thoroughly familiar with the
Departments, and If a new man came in here as
Senator instead of Cameron itwould be months
and even years before he could do as much as
Cameron does for Pennsylvania people in this
way. ! don't think any PennsylVanan ever
asked Cameron's help in case of this kind
who didn't get it, and he never makes any dis
elimination, whether the applicant is Demo