The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-04-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., April. 10. 1891.
Mr.. Harrison's new chum and most potential
adviser is ex -Represen tative Mckinley. who bids
fair to become monomaniac on the tariff bill
enacted by the Billion dollar Congress, and which
bears his name. Mr.. Mckinley. who knows that
reciprocity. even of the limited kind proposed by
Mr.. Blaine. would eventually result in the death
of the doctrine of high protective tariff. by
ing its absurdities to shine even more conspicu-
ously than they do at the present time, has been
working on Mr.. Harrison for quite while to
convince him that he must stop Mr.. Blaine. even
it was necessary to force him out of the cabinet
Nothing would have suited Mr.. Harrison better.
but he was afraid of Blaine. and having obtained
his promise to stand off and let him get renomi-
mated. if he could he did not care to anger him.
but the indications now are that Mckinley has
fully succeeded. for no Cabinet officer ever got
more direct snubbing from the President than
Mr.. Blaine did when Mr.. Harrison positively for
bid his receiving any propositions. informal lily
otherwise. from the Can adian Commissioners who
had been invited here by Mr.. Blaine.
1t would not have injured Mr. Harrison in the
slightest or have helped Canadian reciprocity for
Mr.. Blaine to have kept his engagement with the
Canadians and heard their informal propositions.
but Mr.. Harrison was determined to snub the
Canadians as well as Mr.. Blaine. and in spite of
the diplomatic smiles with which tho Canadiens
received Mr.. Blaine's little ib, manufactured for
the occasion, apoutthe PRECEDENT wishing to be
present when thoir proposition was submitted,
they new that reciprocity with US was as dead as
adoor nail as long as Harrison is President and
that they would never be sent for to submit their
proposition to him:
He who thinks that Mr.. Blaine will tameIy
submit to being insulted does not know the man.
One of his close personal friends said to me
Owing to the incomplete condition of number
of diplomatic negotiations, Mr. Blaine's hands
are for the present tied but when he ge's things
in such shape that he can leave them without
dangering his own reputation. woe be unto Ben
jamin Harrison. if he shall not before then have
made his peace, and if Bill Mckinley isn't care
full he will discover that Mr.. Blaine wields con-
siderable influence in Ohio"
In resigning from the Senate Mr.. Edmunds did
not forget his lifelong thrifty habits. He makes
it take effect next November. which gives him an
opportunity to continue drawing the salary dur
ing the recess. without doing any work. There
is no doubt here that the whole thing is cut and
dried and that the Governor of Vermont will,
just before Congress meets, appoint Secretary
P.a0taE to G1l -EAaadsI 4snaa Il,
the Senate.
Secretar Foster has selected x-Representative
Grouse. of Nebraska, to be Assistan tSecretary of
the Treasury. and he is now wrestling with the
friends of several candidates to determine who
shall be Supervising Architect of the Treasury
in place of Mr.. Windrim, who resigned to accept
better place in Philadelphia. Added to this
task is the arduous duty Mr.. Foster has taken
upon himself of compelling the republican ma
chine in New York. through the federal offices.
to favor Harrison for denomination.
Inventors. big and little. rich and poor. have
been our honored guests for three days. while the
one hundredth anniversary of tina United States
patent system is being celebrated. There have
been meetings addressed by eminent gentlemen.
banquets have been eaten. Mount Vernon has
been visited. and after seeing a military review
this afternoon. our visitors will return to their
usual avocations.
Col L. L. Polk. president of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union. made
aspeech here last night at public meeting held
by the local Citizens Alliance that is said to have
been one of the strongest presentations of Alli
ance principles ever made here.
There is nothing bashful about Secretary Rusk.
who has cooly appropriated to himself all the
creditor getting the German embargo on Amer
ican meat removed, or rather the promise that it
will be soon removed.
The trial of C. A. Kincaid for the murder of ex-
Representative Taulbee resulted in a verdict of
not guilty"