Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
written and compiled for the HERALD.

WASHINGTON, October "a, 1S92.-Sena-
tor Quay is is Washington; he came to
look after some of his private business,
but he also looked after some political
matters. Everybody who knows the
Senator knows that he never talks for
publication on things political. During
the campaign of 1888 the only newspaper
interview he gave was on the night Of the
election. when rising from his desk at
Nationel Committee headquarters, and
turning to agroup of newspaper men SAID !:
"Well, boys, it's all over, except the
shouting, and victory IS Ours" lie IL
lust the same Quay now that he was then
ard the man who thinks be can find out
from him what he is doing or going to do
is doomed to disappointment. Neverthe-
less I can say upon good authority that
he will 90 to New York this week to as
sist in the election of Harrison and Reid,
in fact he has already been assisting very
materially, as the good work that is being
done to expose and prevent fraudulent
registration and voting in New York city
bv National Committeeman Martin, is the
result of Senator Quay's advice and sug
cestions. 1t can also he SAID that be
thinks the campaign is inexcellent shape
and only requires that the full republican
vote be brought ont to make the victory
so decisive that free trade and buncC
currency will never again be endorsed by
the national platform of political party
All the political news that comes tC
Washington, and 1t all comes here, tends
TO increase the confidence Of republicans
not only in the election of the nationa
ticket. but also in maintaining republican
ascendancy in the Senate, and IN largely
emitting down the democratic majority, II
not actually controlling the next House
of Representatives. The democrats are
whistling TO keep up their courage, but
they are feeling decidedly squeamish ovel
the outlook the latest news from Indiana
sent q SILVER down their backs, as it made
it plain to them that the Hoosier state
would give the President larger ma
iority next month than it did IN ISIS
For the first time in many years the
national democratic committee has had tC
send money into North Carolina, and wei
informed democrats admit that unless the
third party movement in that state can
be stampeded there is probability thai
its electoral votes will be cast for the re-
publican ticket Republican advices from
West Virginia gay that state is almost
certain to 60 republican, ard prominent
democrats openly class it as Doubtful
The republicans have done no Dragging
about Virginia, but the still hunt that
has boon conducted in tie state has al
ready placed it in the doubtful column.
It will cause little surprise In Washington
if Cleveland fails to receive a single
electoral vote outside of the South on
the contrary it will be a general surprise
to republicans and democrats alike If he
gets the entire vote of the South.
1t seems little hard to quote what a
man says when he is even slightly under
the influence of lil1or, but a few remarks
made in this city by a democrat OF
National prominence who had loosened
his tongue by getting too intimate with
that treacherous individual known as
John Barleycorn, are so pertinent to the
situation that it would be harder to sup
press them. The talking was in Wash
ington hotel where this democrat, just re-
turned from a stumping tour in New York
for Cleyeland, was, in company with hall
dozen other gentlemen, several of them
republicans. The direct cause of the
speech was little good natured guying
on the part of bis republican companion;
on the dismal democratic outlook. "Tht
fact of the matter is, said the democrat,
''the growing prosperity of the country
under the Mckinley tariff Law is what We
| find it the hardest to talk against
and what will elect Harrison. A BIC
mistake was made by the Chicago con
vention in not adopting the tariff straddlt
prepared for it by Whitney, instead Of
that internal free trade flank; 1t was
another big mistake to have inserted that
COMPOUNDED state bank plank. Were
Cleveland a saint, instead of very ordi-
nary man, almost entirely lacking in
tact, be could not be elected on such a
platform, and nine out of every ten men
on the stump for him know it as we'll as
do. We were licked the minute that plat
form was adopted; but, of course, we
shall fight to the end hoping that the
closing bours of the campaign may pro-
duce another Burchard, without whose
intervention Cleveland never would have
been President any way" 1t would not
be fair to print the name Of the democrat
who thus freely spoke his mind, as the
talk was entirely among personal friends
and not intended for publication.