Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-08-13
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The News From the National Capital as it
Effects the Interests of the West
ern Farmers.
Our Correspondent Tells What Our Of
.fciais are Doing in the Capital

Our Correspondent Tells What Our Of
fciais are Doing in the Capital
City.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug, 8.-Specia!
Correspondence: Senator German has
gone to Saratoga but his presidential
boom is being very carefully groomed by
his friends, and the present programme
| is to push him to the front as COM
promise between Hill and Cleveland who
are both, according to the German
figures, already out of the race. The
programme as stated here is to straddle
everything except the tariff and even on
that issue there are many people who re-
member the time when German was
classed as ''protectionist" democrat,
but since the death Of Ex-Speaker Ran
dali there seems to be no recognized
protection" democrats, although during
the last session of congress Representa-
tive Flower, of New York, was several
times charged with voting with his re-
publican colleagues on the house COM
mittee on ways and means upon tariff
matters.
The silver people are to be referred to
Mr.. Germans herculean efforts to pass
the free coinage bill in the Senate last
winter, and the anti-slver people to the
mastery manner in which he manipu-
lated things at the recent Maryland
democratic convention so as to prevent
the placing of free silver plank in It's
=. platform. In short to borrow the ex.
pressive phraseology of Clones, he pays
the freight, Gormans boom is to be
worked on the ''get there" principle
There has been some quiet talk among
the visitors to the Farmers Alliance
headquarters here about the part MI
German took in keeping the free coinage
plank out of the Maryland platform
and unless they are mistaken SOM
awkward questions are to be asked whel
the attempt is made to start the boon
ADJOINING in the south, where the senti
ment for free coinage is PRACTICAL.
unanimous.
Ifall the designations from the cabine
: billed by the special correspondents 0
Washington during the last four day
! had really been handed in, Mr.. Harrison
e would find it difficult to get quorum o
5 his cabinet. Among the gentlemen re
= tired from public life without their con
sent are Secretaries Noble and Tracy
Postmaster General Wannamaker and AT
torney- General Miller. Denials direc
from all the gentlemen named excep
t Secretary Noble who is out of reach 0
:, the telegraph, were" obtained, and in hi
y case the denial of his assistant secretar
;, of private secretary Halford, but tn
h designations are still on; the able CORES
n pondents who are trying to earn thei
9 salaries maintaining that they knoN
u more about it than the officials them
o selves do, and one Of them goes so far a
O to state that no matter what anyone ma
d say to the contrary he has positive know
e ledge that Secretary Mobiles resignation
has been IN Mr.. Harrison's hands fo
v four months.
/ The reciprocity record may fairly
- said to have been broken when officis
It proclamations of two treaties, that wit
s. Spain for Cuba and Porto Rico and tha
70 with San Domingo are issued with
y forty EIGHT hours of each other and it
:. limited in State department circles tina
It there are more to come before long
September !, is the date the two mention
ed will go into effect
There is one amusing feature of til
unmistakable Blaine boom which tn
!, meeting of the republican national e,
!, ecutlve committee here last week preciI
= ltated on the country. 1t is known t
y those familiar with the undercurrents c
politics that the men who first starte
v the Blaine ball to rolling did not do S
r because they wished to see that gentle
man nominated, but because the
thought they saw in it an opportunity t
sidetrack Cr wreck the Harrison trai
for %, and now they are considerable
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