The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-11-19
PRESIDENTIAL NEIvLAgllNs,
OPINIONS ABUNDANT ~ TO WHO
THEY Will. BE
pha Psesideat licvste Time 20 His
Message. The u. A. u. Nation-
al bncam, neBt. Senator
lumb in Washington.
Mills Not Cleveland. The
ia, Mers Alliance Not In II.

The President is now devotng every
spare moment of his time to work upon
his annual message to Congress, much of
which he has already roughly prepared.
The financial part of the message, which
will be largely based upon the annual re-
port of Secretary of the Treasury, upon
which Secretary Foster is now hard at
work. will probably be the last that will
be finished. 1t may be mentioned, upon
good authority that the portion of the
message treating of the several foreign
complications which have recently oc-
cured will fairly bristlc with American
ism of the stalwart sort, the sort which
is calculated to make Americans resid-
ing of travelling abroad proud of the flag
which protects them wherever they go
and which has gained for that flag great.
er respect among the strong nations of
the world than it has ever before ever
enjoyed.
In few days the Speakership contest
will be transferred to this city. The
candidates will open their headquarters
here two weeks or more before the meet
ing at Congress. A very large number
/ of the members of the next House will
come to Washington unpledged, though
the majority of them have expressed
their preferences in one way or another
But it is an open fight yet. There has
been some talk of a protracted contest
in the caucus, but that does not seem
probable. The caucus will be held the
Saturday before Congress convenes and a
few ballots will be apt to settle the speak.
ership question. The candidates gene
rally express great confidence in their
own strength and in the weakness of
''the other fellows" AT one time it
looked as if there might be considerable
bitterness developed, but the unwisdom
of such course is apparent to those who
were at one time disposed to make the
campaign one Of personal attack rather
than argument, aud now the struggle
promises to be one of calculation and
reason, with strong element of enthus-
iasm.
Speculations as to Presidential nomi-
nees are as abundant in Washington as
elsewhere, and as uncertain. Cleveland,
Hill and Flower are each 20. .sibility on
the Democratic side; so, in fact are
others, including Mr.. German, who has
many admirers; probably Cleveland and
Boies for second place, are now oftenest
named. On the Republican side Harri
son and Mckinley seem to lead, though
Blaine would, no doubt, be nominated il
he so desired. The more prevalent
opinion probably is that he will not run
His health is good, so far as known here
and he is, apparently, fully recovered
from the exhaustion, sickness, infrmity
or whatever mysterious cause it was tina
kept him at the North during the sum
ner.
This week the date for holding tn
G. A. R. National encampment mex
year will be determined upon. At frs
it was thought that it would be in Octc
ber, but so many have objected to tina
month that it is now thought probabl
that September will be selected. TIL
objection to October is its cool nights
which it is feared might have bad effec
upon the several thousand veterans ths
q will be provided with free quarters
tents during the encampment.
u Senator Plumb is in Washington r,
J. ceiving the congratulations of his friend
on the result of the Kansas campaign
X which he took leading part. He sa,
that the result shows that the Kans,
ST. farmers will not be led by the nose /
ignorant demagogues whose only aim
ID life is to feather their own nests; the
r have their way Of doing their own thin
Il ing, which in the end brings them in Il
near neighborhood of what is right ar
d. proper.
D; 1t is generally supposed that the mt
r, who are fighting to make Mills Speak
Of the House are also working to NAL
N Cleveland the nominee of his party ne
year, but it is not true of all of them, t
ID one of the ablest and shrewdest of 4
a. men engaged in the management of L
" Mills campaign said on the subjet
es "No sir; the election Of Mills does n
's mean the nomination of Cleveland. If
he did should be working against inste
'ir Of for Mills. You know that am We
re much opposed to the election of Crisp
Speaker, and yet, assure you, that
de would thousand times rather see Cr
'at elected Speaker than to see Clevela
is. nominated for President"
he One notable effect OF the State elect
returns 10 that the officials of the Matte
m. al Farmers Alliance who make this C
their headquarters have stopped "clai
Die ing the EARTH" which they were dol
he right along before the election. N
nd they have nothing to say for publicat
Sie further than that the "Allance isn't
ch politics this year any way"
REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
for ~
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