Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Ol- SuCCcSSIOu 10 IiooiOcA1 IdI iioOh,
while the latter is disposed to succeed
himself. There is very interesting
game between them for honors. The
Ohio statesman is said to have laid out
a campaign for himself which, unless he
is less sanguine than his close friends
are, he expects to lead to the White
House. He wants to be elected gov
ernor on the tariff issue and upon his
authorship Of that law to base his
claim upon the party for higher honors.
He is said to believe that he is strong
enough and great enough and that the
cause is good enough to overcome all
the prejudice the democrats have ex-
cited against the measure, and he is
going to set himself about doing it. He
is cOmplacent and sanguine. His speech
in Boston is but the first of a number
he expects to make wherever occasion
offers. He is a good speaker on the
tariff question and he may make some
impression, but it is very probable that
the democrats will send good speaker,
we'll Informed on the tariff question,
along either to speak from the same
platform with him in his state canvas
or to follow close behind him. If Nc
Kinley is not very careful he may be
defeated in Ohio for governor as he was
for congress. If the democrats can
cure the trouble they are in over the
board of public works business in Gin
cinnati they can beat him on the tariff
issue in his race for governor if he gets
the nomination The democrats are
glad that there is purpose to make
the Mckinley tariff idea the platform
of the republican party, and they are
particularly pleased that both of the
principal candidates are willing to
stand on that platform to make the
fight. President Harrison is said to be
not disposed to let Mckinley take all
| the credit for the tariff legislation of
the fifty first congress OF for the rest Of
it's work, but would give the world to
understand that the administration -
took very important part in making
that legislation possible. He is said to
| be determined to have his share of the
credit for the last congress, even at the
risk of having some of its heavy
responsibilities fall upon him.
The women of this country, who de-
sire The rights of the ballot box in addi-
tion to those they now have in the band
| box, saw In the resolutions of the re-
publican state league of Massachusetts
yesterday ray of hope as brilliant and
as pleasing as an Easter bonnet.
These resolutions were to the effect
that whereas in the late terrific cyclone,
which swept the republican party out
of congress and OH the deSOlate shores
of public disapproval, only in those
sections where women had some degree
Of suffrage, had the party been able tO
preserve semblance of itself, there
fore it was the duty of the party ''to
extend full municipal suffrage to quail
| fed women voters and inviting the
aid," &c, &C., Ito secure the future
ascendency OF the republican party, ,
&C.. sc. This looks somewhat as if the
republicans of Massachusetts had given
up hope of recovering except by the
gentle nursing Cf women, and that il
will soon be in order to run frill and
tuck around the grand old flag as
emblematic of the new order of things
|
Maj. Stonehill, formerly district
attorney of San Francisco, is stopping
at WelckerS. He left the Pacific slope
two weeks ago. stopped in New Ycrl
land and he is convinced that the ex
president is not out of the race. Mai
StOnehill is an ardent democrat, and ht
says that nothing would please hin
mated. "Why,'' he said. ''Clevelant
would have walk-over. He woult
carry California, and. believe, Ne
vada as against Harrison. Outside O
! the office-holders, Harrison has no fol
lowing in California. Cleveland ha
not burt himself by his anti-free silve
letter.
: Now the republican organs are talk
. ing about the mistakes of Mr.. Ingalls,
Before the farmers took him by th
, nape of the neck and dropped him out
side the senate walls. the same repub
lican organs never admitted the posi-
biliry of his making a mistake. Th
! republican brethren are like Russian
2 wolves; when one of the pack comes t
! grief, the others fall upon and tear bin
5 to pieces.
Nobility of Labor.
Nor is the title ..Seryant,' less renuo