The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1891-10-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent. |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25th, 1891.

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Editor Adpertiscr:
Mr.. Harrison has once more hum
, bly, bowed down to the will Of State
boss, aud what made, it rall the more
humiliating was that he had virtually
snubbed the same boss in the early
days OF his administration, by ignoring
all OF his suggestions in the making
OF important appointments. but that
was before Mr.. Harrison was attacked
with the second term nightmare,
which has made him truckle to men,
such as Senator Quay, for whom he
must naturally feel. the utmost con-
tempt. The boss who has won the
l,test victory is Mr.. M. Fl. DeYoung,
OF California who demanded a place
in the Cabinet for his friend, Mr.. NJ.
M. Estee, as the price Of the Califor-
MIA delegation to the Republican Ma
tural convention next year. His de-
mand was granted and Mr.. Estee was
promised place in the Cabinet when
the grand shake-up, which is to put
Secretary Proctor in the Senate and
Attorney General Miller on the bench
takes place. 1t is believed that Mr..
De4 oung also insisted upon naming
the successor of the late Mr.. Swift,
who was appointed minister to Japan
against the wishes Of Mr. Estee and
of boss DeToung, but it is not certain
that he succeeded.
Mr.. Wanamaker summoned the
4 District Superintendents Of the. Rail
way mail Service to meet here this
week in order that they might have a
chance to answer the numerous COM
fplaints which have been made against
| the service and to devise some way of
lettering the same, and he will not
forget to give each Of them confden-
tial Instructions before they leave for
their stations concerning the part that
the clerks in the Railway Mail Service
are expected to take in electing or
helping to elect Harrison delegates to
to the neutrality-suspicious..
The failure Of the wealthy Repub-
lican ex- Representative, S. v. White
of New York, better known as s'Dea-
con" White, has been much talked of
here, where he is well known as
Congressman and later as a lobbyist
for Wall street interests. He was at
the head Of the lobby that
defeated Ben. Butterwortll's bill
against dealing in options on agrieul-
tural products during the last days Of
the last session and as his failure was
brought about by his attempting to
corner the supply Of September corn
it will be seen that if the bill which
he went to so much trouble, and spent
so much money to defeat had become
law he would still be millionaire.
When he came to Congress he put
tstockticker" in the corridor of the
House end Of the Capitol building,
and for few days he actually ran a
branch Of his New York brokers office
in the Capitol building, but as soon as
Senator Carlisle, who was then Speak
er of the House heard about it he had
the whole business cleaned out in
short. order.
SGlator Ransom, of North Carolina,
looking as handsome as ever, dropped
into washington this week, and as he
he Was just from home he was eager
ly questioned about the reported rise
Of third party in his State. "There
is not" the Senator said, land in my
Judgment there will not be a third
party in North Carolina. The great
body Of the Farmers Alliance are true
consistent and patriotic Democrats,
who will faithfully stand by their par
ty. There are few demagogues in
the Alliance who would persuade the
Others to embrace a third party, or,
failing in that, will try to get control
of the Democratic party for their own
purposes, but be this as it may the
Democratic party of North Carolina
/ is solid and will remain So" This
does not tally with the reports of the
speeches made by Col. Polk of the
| National Farmers Alliance, but that
is SO much the worse for Polk.
/ Secretary Foster is preparing to go
to Ohio, where he proposes to take the
stump for the Republican ticket and
to assist in the political juggling with
which he hopes to pull Mckinley and
a Republican legislature through in
spite of the real sentiments of major
ity Of the Ohio voters. It is only un-
/ der Civil Service reform administra-
tions that members of the Cabinet are
allowed to leave their duties to go
upon the stump in a State campaign.
! The plums are dropping mighty
slowly from the White House tree,
and the impatience Of those standing
with uplifted faces and open mouths
is getting worse and worse, and those
Of them who have no votes to offer in
Exchange are beginning to see that
/ they are not in it. !"