The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, ID. c. Oct, 24th, 1891.
Senator Faulkner, who was one OF the
Democratic missionary party which re-
Gently travelled through the northwest,
is now in Washington. He Is not a man
who allows his enthusiasm to run away
with his judgment; therefore his i'm
pressions of the political situation In
that section are worthy of the most care
full consideration. He says: Zone of
the most encouraging things for the
Democracy in the west is that the young,
active, go-headed men, many of whom
have been raised as Republicans and
whose family associations have all been
with that party, are becoming Demo-
Gratis on the tariff issue. Heretofore
they have been too busy developing new
regions and attending to their business
enterprises to devote much time to poll
| tics Now they are taking hold of poll
tics and it is the principle of tariff re-
| form that they believe in and will work
| for. The Mckinley law was construct
| ed against the interests of the great
northwest, and the active men, with lit
! tie regard to what their former political
| affiliations may have been, want relief
! from the burdens imposed by the Repub-
! lican tariff policy. On the silver ques-
ton the people of the west are divided
| in opinion, as are we of the east, but
| they all agree on the tariff question.
| The Democrats all over the country are
! of one mind on this; therefore it is the
| national issue The Democrats in that
section have not had good working or
ganizatlon long enough to warrant us in
| expecting that we can carry In 1892 all
! those States which are naturally coming
into the Democratic column. We shall
probably carry two of the new States in
1892, and we will gradually become the
dominant party of the northwest. One
disadvantage we labor under in that sec
| ton is that the Republicans have most of
/ the leading morning papers. That Will
be overcome in time, sbut in spite of 1t
the tariff question is rapidly recruiting
the Democratic party"
Senator EustiS, who has Just returned
from Massachusetts, thinks the Demo-
Gratis are certain to re-elect Gov. Russell
and that there is a bright prospect of
Senator Dawes being succeeded by DEM
ocrat when his term expires IN 1898.
Whether Commissioner of Pensions
Raum has resigned or not continues to
be mooted question, although the ma
friends, believe that he has, but that ii
will not be announced nor accepted un-
til after the State elections. Raum con-
tinues to deny that he has resigned and
to assert that he enjoys the confidence
of Secretary Noble and Mr.. Harrison
meanwhile it is worthy of note that
neither of the three Pension Office en-
ployes whose dismissal Raum asked for,
has been dismissed, although one of
them has resigned, it is stated, volun-
tarily. The man who resigned was not
one of those who furnished Secretary
Noble with affidavits charging young
Mr.. Raum with having offered to get
them promotions for a cash considera-
ton. Everybody here is sick and tired
of this whole Raum business, and Re-
publicans do not hesitate to say public
ly that they wish the administration
would kick Raum out.
The bit of ''jingoism" displayed by
the administration on alleged private
information that England was about to
gobble up the Hawaiian Islands with the
consent of the present rulers of the
islands, was Unexpectedly but effectually
settled by a gentleman who visited
Washington this week. This gentleman
was Mr.. A. S. Cleghorn, the Collector
General of Customs of the Hawaiian
Islands, and father of the heir apparent
to the Hawaiian throne, who said: ''I
have assured the President and the State
Department that no government is SO
close to Hawaii as the United States,
in spite of our trade with you being
somewhat damaged by your new tariff law
; and that there Is no thought among oul
, people, who are perfectly satisfied with
r present status, of anything even look.
k ng toward British supremacy on the
iS-ands.'
Numerous prominent Government OF
ficials are on the anxious bench, because
of an underlined sort of an understand
ing which exists here that there is to be
! a general reorganization of the admin.
istration soon after the State elections,
and that all of those who have not
proved themselves efficient political
workers, are to be made to walk the
plank In order that Mr. Harrison NAV
take care of the workers upon whom he
relies for a denomination. EVERYTHING
Is to be politics from this on, and the
hustlers who left Washington in dis
gust IN 1889 because they were not rec
ognized by Mr.. Harrison, are to be re