Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-08-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Ou- Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Aug. Is, .

Capt. 7. Il. Mckee, assistant
Secretary of the National Repub-
lican Committee, Is now quarterei
in the same building with the
congressional campaign commit
tee, and he has more than half a
hundred assistants hard at work
mailing documents.
Secretary Mcpherson, OF the
congressional committee, who is e
veteran Of many campaigns, is at
present acting II an advisory. ca
pacity to Capt. Mckee. and the
two "Mcs'' make a strong team;
but little later on he will give
his undivided attention to the
congressional districts which are
marked doubtful on the little list
he keeps. Mr. Mcpherson knows
how to be silent in nineteen Ian
guages about the work upon which
he is engaged, but be told your
correspondent that lie thought the
prospect for Wrestling the House
from the Democrats was coed and
improving all the time.
Capt. Mckee says the following
are the documents which he is
sending out the largest number
Of: Better dead than homeless" "
Free traders unveiled" "a farm
er's appeal to farmers" Farm
mortgages not an evidence of dis
tress,' Farm implements abroad,
The a. B. c, OF the tariff" How
protection increases the natlon's s
wealth, The tariff riddle: key
thereto, Where l spent my mon
eY after all" American ideas
conquer, Representative D. B.
Henderson On the false cry OF a
billion dollar congress" a town
built up by protection" and In
gersolis "Why [ am Republi-
can Capt. Mckee also edits
the National Bulletin, OF which
thousands are sent out each week.
The Republican campaign text
book will be ready about Sept 1st,
and already orders for an enor-
nous number are booked.
zone thing was apparently ov-
erlooked by those who started and
those who accepted as true the
story that Judge Walter Q. Gresh-
am would soon take the stumu for
Weaver, " said an old member of
the supreme court bar, "and that
is, that Gresham is at this time g
Judge Of United States court.
Until he resigns that position, and
| haven't heard that he Lad any
Intention OF resigning, there is
not the slightest probability that
be will take the stump for any
body. | do not remember to have
heard of a United States Judge
making a political stump speech
and, L think, ! know Walter
Greshem's idea of the dignity
which should always be maintain
ed by the national judiciary well
enough TO predict that he will new
er make speech fevoring WeaY-
er or anyone else for the Presi-
dency es long as he remains q
United States Judge, and l do not
believe he would support Weaver
for President if he were private
citizen"
The greed of the great Wells
Fargo Express Company compell-
ed the Government to make at its
own risk the recent shipment of
S20,0o0,000 in gold from Sac
Francisco, and it may result in
transferring very profitable line
of business from the express COM
panies to the Government-the
transportation Of large sums of
Government money. The United
States made that shipment of gold
from San Francisco to New York
for about S57, 800 less than the
Wells Fargo company charged for
doing it, and it may be that the
express companies will not be ask
ed to do such work in the future.
Not long ago the Government