Nevada County picayune., 1891-12-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our special correspondent. l


 National Committee, as we'll as those who were here during the week with the delegations from various cities, are telling everybody that MT. Blaine is to be the candi- date of his party next year. MT. Harrison is mild-mannered, cold blooded sort of man, but this com mittee and delegate business was little more than he could patiently stand, so when the committee, after finally adjourning, called at the White House in body. its members met with a reception colder than Raum's patent Refrigerator could ever produce. MT. Harrison was offended, and he took special care to impress that fact upon the con- mittee. But the committee dld not seem to care much, for as it's mem- bers left White House on their way over to the State department, one of them remarked loud enough to be heard by all, "who is this man, Har' iioOhI "h.N 'eN A'
 ceived the committee in his most cordial manner, and made himself so pleasant that they remained in his office nearly an hour, and when they left they nearly paralyzed the staid and dignified employees of the State department by giving three cheers and tiger for Blaine.
 Maj. Mckinley also has the Blaine fever. He took advantage of his stay in the city thls week to call on MT. Blaine and to let him understand that he was willing to take the sec ond place on the ticket with him but with nobody else. Mir, Blaine is said to have been very demonstrative at thls meeting with Mckinley, in the way of placing his arm around his shoulder, etc., but he took par ticular care not to commit himself in favor of Mckinley for an associate on the ticket. This sort of thing can have but one ending-Mr. Blaine must retire from the Cabinet, unless Mir. Harrison will withdraw his claims for a renomination A bet was made last night Tn a prominent hotel that Mir. Blaine would resign before Jan. 10.
 S1OO,0OO is big money to pay for a political convention, but that is said to represent the price paid by Minneapolis for the advertising she will get out of the holding of the Republican NationalConyention there next June. and that amount, which is to be paid to Clarkson's committee does not include the price paid for the votes of two committeeman and the incidental expenses of the dele gation here.
 Much interest is already expressed in the meeting of the Democratic National Executive Committee, which will be held here December s, to fix time for the meeting of the full committee to select the time and place for holding the next Ma tionai Convention. Washington, Cincinnatti, Baltimore, Minneapolis, New York and Detroit re already in the field.
 The first applicant for loan un- der the Farmers Alliance sub-treas- ury scheme made hls appearance at the Treasury Department this week. He was from Hartford Co. Maryland, and was not very po-tiye that he wanted as much money as the SIS cash, which he said he had, would pay the interest on, and he told the clerk in the Fourth Auditors office, to whom tue appiicatiQn was made, that his farm would be security for the principal of the loan. He was very much disappointed when told that Uncle sam was at present him- self borrower instead of lender.
 If the statements made by Cali fornia and Sey York republicans to the National Committee of !hlt party be accepted, and there are good reasons for believing that they stated the situation just as it appeared to them, there is little chance for the electatal votes of either C. those States being east f,<r the republican nominee next year. And acDordin. to the same sources of information it will require herculean efforts on the part of the party managers to keep the northwest in line, notwithstand- ing the ho4dins Gf the convention at Minneapolis. These statemenls a.e but contirmatory of democratic in- formation, with the single exception of California. Although it had long ago been determined by the demo- cratic leaders to make hard fight for that State, it was done more on general principles than because of any specific knowledge Of q change in the sentiments of the people tG- ward tue republican high tariff. That the northwest, the great agri- cultural section, is slowly but surely adopting democratic ideas on the tariff, is as certain as that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and if there is no mistake made by the party leaders majority of the States in that section will become, in time, as reli ably democratic as Texas.
 Representative Bynum, siDcs hls has been working hard for Mills, whose friends now claim