Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-08-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WAxurSGroN Iuly RI tx.

lrrom Our Regular SorrespOnuent.I
WAsHISeroN. July 81, 1891.
Secretary Foster is at Cape May Point
with the president, but those who enjoy
his friendship and confidence, although dis
claiming any right to speak for him, appear
to be of the opinion that there is founda-
tion for the story which comes from Ohio
saying that in the event of Senator Sher-
mans withdrawal Mr.. Foster will become
a candidate for the senate. Secretary
Foster" said one gentleman, has, know,
long had a desire To represent Ohio in the
United States senate. He stood aside i'm
order that Garfield might be elected with
out opposition in his party when by max
ing a contest his ambition might have been
gratified and his relations with Senator
Sherman are such that he would under no
circumstances antagonize that gentleman 5
return to the senate but if Senator Sher-
man shall conclude to withdraw his name
name will be presented to the legislature.
Underst and me, l do not mean that Mr..
Foster would enter into a scramble for
this any other office, and 1 know tina t
he has nothing but the kindest feelings
towards Gov. Foraker, who would proba-
bly, be his rival before the Republican eau
GUS but think he feels that his services tn
the state and to the Republican party
have been sufficient to justify him in ask
ing the support of the party for any honor
al its disposal.
Having made a most dismal failure of
their attempt tn kill off Mr.. Blaine by some
one of the Thousand and one diseases they
were certain he had, ths sensa tional news
paper liars are now trying their hand upon
dastardly scheme intended to break up
the warm personal and political friendship
existing between the president and Secre-
tary Blaine by making it appear that some
OF the presidents friends newspaper men,
have been sending lying dispatches about
the condition of Mr.. Blaine. This last
scheme had just enough plausibIity in it's
origin to fool good many people into be-
lieving it to be true. A Washington spe-
cial appeared in several western papers
known to be represented here by man
whose relations were very close to private
secretary Halford, stating that MIR. Blaine's s
resignation ON account of ill-health had
been sent to the president. The conclu-
sion was jumped at that the special must
he true because Of its source. and for a
time the most was made Of it; but when an
investigation was made it was learned that
the special in question was not sent by the
man charged with sending it, but by a
substitute who was doing his work while
he was out of town. and that it had no
better basis than common street rumor.
No true friend of the president would know
ingly malign Mr.. Blaine, but of course
every public man has some fool friends" :"
The Democratic leaders here are getting
very uneasy over the news of the Alliance
encroachments upon their party in the
south, and there is a very strong minority
headed by Representative Oates, of Ala
bama, which favors a decided change of
tactics and the open fighting of the Alliance
and the ideas it advocates.
Sixth Auditor Coulter, who is president
of the Ohio Republican Association of this
city, talks with enthusiasm of the Ohio
campaign. He said: 1.-The Ohio Republi-
can Association proposes to do all that it
can honorably to assist in the election of
Maj. Mckinley. Because we happen to be
temporarily in Washington we do not lose
our interest or our enthusiasm in the po-
litics oil our state, and just because many
of Us happen to be in the government serv-
ice is no reason why we should fail to exer-
else our rights as citizens and endeavor to
encompass what we think will be for the
good Of our state and the country gener-
ally. ! think that Mckinley's majority
will be the greatest since the days when
John Brough defeated Clement l.. Vallan-
bingham during the war, and we propose
to do our part towards swelling it,"