The Coconino sun., 1891-07-04
Washington Letter.
WAsHINGToN, June 20, 1891. lFrom our kernlar Correspondentl

' lengthy Cabinet meeting, at which financial matters were the principal subject of consideration. Very little has so far leaked out, but it is proba. ble that the course of the administra. tion during the fiscal year beginning July was mapped out, and a sort of general agreement made as to ways and means of making both ends meet and making as creditable financial showing as possible in the Presidential year. Neither Mir. Harrison nor his advisers are idiots, therefore the Democrat who thinks his party can get an issue out of the condition of the United States Treasury next year is doomed to disappointment MT. liar. rison is Q far shrewder politician than many of his opponents, both in and out of his party, give him credit for being some of them have already found this out, and more will do so before No. vember of next year, and there are few, if any, abler political managers than Secretary Foster, to say nothing of Secretaries Blaine and Tracy, These men know that bankrupt Treasury would make a Republican defeat a certainty next year, and they will see that there is no Lankrupt Treasury. See if they don't.
 The newspaper men here are all agog to find out what Col. Robt. c. Inger- soil and Bonanza J. w. Mackay paid mysterious visit to the White House for, but as yet no one has succeeded. Itis more or less amusing, to those who have no personal interest in tho outcome, to see how closely the candi- dates for Speaker of the House watch each other, particularly when in Wash ington. Mir Springer first came here, few weeks ago. and proceeded to get a little advertising for his boom by means of interviews witl the Wash ington correspondents; then MT. Mills came on, ostensibly to engage in liter, ary work, and got some advertising by refusing to be interviewed and by pro- nouncing all recently published inter views with him to have been fraud ulenti next Mir. Bynum dropped in, 'just to look after little department business for my constituents" as he puts it. Mir. Wilson, of West Vir- ginia, who, while not an avowed can. didate, is regarded as one of the nu. merous dark horses" is also favoring Washington with visit, and it is stated that it is here that he will write the tariff reform editorials for which the St. Louis Republic has agreed to pay him S4,000 year. Mr. Wilson has gotten considerable advertising by means of his statements that the rank and file of his party in the northwest ern states, through which he has re. gently travelled, are for Cleveland. The last Speakership candidate to arrive is Mir. McMillin. who is now credited with being backed by Mr. Cleveland. He says he is here simply for recrea tion. To believe what these gentle men say, not one of them is here for the purpose of obtaining votes for themselves. Of course they ought to know better than other people why they are here, but it nevertheless seems little queer that they should have all happened to come here at this season.
 Representative Oates, of Alabama, has the Farmers Alliance nightmare very bad. It stays by him sleeping or waking He wants his party to fight the Alliance in the South, as he has been doing in his district Alliance men convorsant with affairs in his district say that Mr Oates will never be elected again to Congress, and that he knows it, and that is why he is SO rabidly opposed to the Alliance. His ideas have not been openly endorsed by any Democrat of prominence. Southern Democrats, as rule, would much prefer joining hands with the Alliance to fighting it.
 The self.launched Presidential boom of Senator Collum is not seriously re. garded here. His record in the Sen ate, while clean and on the whole cred. itable. has never even approached bril- liance. One gentleman said in speak. ing of him. "If Cullom resembled Abraham Lincoln as much inside of his head as he does in his face, he might stand chance of being nomi- I mated for President"
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