Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, June Is, 1891.
Representative Hayes, of Iowa, who
is wide-awake democrat, stopped in
Washington long enough to leave some
good news for his party friends. He
saws that Iowa can confidently be
counted In the democratic column for
1892. OF the third party, he said:
aThey could have done something ii
they had shown more judgment, but
they met there in Cincinnati and tried
to make q party that could stand on
every sort of crank theory that was
proposed. They merely got on the
platform and kissed each other and let
cranks run the convention. l do not
believe they can organize now so as to
have any influence on the elections in
Iowa, either this fall or in 1927 Being
asked who the Republicans would
nominate for President, Mr.. Hayes re-
piled: Harrison; 1 think he is the
only man mentioned who thinks there
is enough in the nomination to make it
worth fighting for, and the party has
got to take him. If Blaine wanted the
nomination all that Harrison or any
BODY else could do would not prevent
his getting it, but Blaine understands
the present condition of the Republi-
can party so well that he doesn't want
the nomination"
"Theres going to be some mighty
lively Democratic music before long"
said a close friend of Senator Gorma1
to-day, ''if a certain class of men who
are trying to dictate the next candidate
of the Democratic party, and who nev-
n cfr nopoooroti fiolyof
in their lives, do not let up in their un-
derhanded mud-throwing at Arthur
German. His friends have stood it
about as long as they intend to, and as
they know where it tall comes from they
will know where and how to hit back"
The Examiners in the Patent Office,
who have made a practice of rejecting
many applications for patents that
have been granted, in order to bleed
the inventors for an attorneys fee lit
tie later on, when they shall have ac-
cumulated sufficient number of these
unjustly rejected cases to- Justify them in
resigning and going into business as
Patent Attorneys, and the Ex-Examin-
ers who are already in business as Pat
ent attorneys, with clientage made
up almost entirely of the inventors
whose applications they had un-
justly rejected when Examiners, are in
a state of mind over ruling of Hon.
Charles F. Mitchell, Commissioner of
Patents, which prohibits the appear
ance before that office ofan ex-employe
as attorney or agent in any case upon
which he had passed while an employe.
Their little game, which had grown
into a mammoth abuse, is ended, and
the inventors of the country now have
reason to hope that their applications
will in the first place be honestly dealt
with, as they will be if Mr.. Mitchell's
new and excellent rules shall be as
strictly enforced by his successors as by
him.
Representative Mills will remain In
Washington the greater portion of the
summer, engaged it literary work. He
is not doing any talking for publication
on political subjects, and thinks that
the numerous fake interviews with him
that have recently appeared in promi-
nent newspapers, are part of a plan
to injure his prospects of being elected
Speaker of the House by making him
appear ridiculous. He wishes his
friends to know that any interview pur-
porting to give his opinions on the fit
ness of any candidate, either for the
Speakership or for the Presidency is
entirely spurious, as he has expressed
no such opinions.
Col. w. w. Dudley says the anti
Harrison republicans made fools Of
themselves by holding theif recent
conference at Indianapolis, and that
the conference amounted to nothing
except an attempt of Gresham's friends
o bring him out as candidate. This