Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-09-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
from orr Regular Correspondence

WA~HINGTON, ID. e., sept. >, 1892.
\ marked feature OF the present
campaign is the great difference be-
tween the way prominent Republicans
who come to Washington talk for pub
lication and the way they talk among
themselves. In published interviews
they all with one accord talk as
. though the campaign was already set
tied in their favor and the election
mere formality that must be gone
through with Just to keep up appear
ance, hut let two or three of them
meet privately, where they think
themselves safe from the sharp ears of
wicked and prying newspaper men,
and To hear them reminds one of the
line of the familiar song, ooh What
Ditleren in the Morning"
Two otiice-hollers, u. :. Treasurer
Nchekcr, and Assistant Secretary of |
the Treasury CrOunse, who is also the !
Republican candidate for Governor OF |
Nebraska, returned from visits to their |
respective States this week, and be.
fore they had shaken the dust OF
ildNtl lIpIl lIlCll NiOLllCS tIleN nOlll
gave out rose-colored interviews of Re- |
publican prospects in Indiana and |.
Nebraska, in which those States wer,
stated to be entirely out of the doubt; |
ful list. BY mere accident ! learned |
the real opinion of those two men.
Ncheker sent word to Mr.. Harrison
and to his man Carter that unless |
something was Immediately done to
satisfy the disatiected republicans in
the Fort Wayne district of Indiana all |
hope Of carrying the State might as
well be abandoned. So much for his
confidence. Mr. Crolnse feels so I'M |
certain about the result in his State
that he is 10th to resign his present
Office, and wants to fix it so that when !
he does resign his nay will run to the
ISt of October, and the place be kept
vacant until after the election, in |
order that he may be reappointed if he
gets defeated. He has appealed to
the National Committee for financial
assistance in his campaign, with the
statement that it is money or certain |
defeat.
1t may be that Secretary Tracy can
explain satisfactorily the charges
which the New York Herald daily re-
iterates, that the change in the armor
OF the new war vessels was made at
the request of the firms that make the |
amor, and that it will put several
hundred thousands of dollars in the
pockets Of the aforesaid firms, but the
ugly fact remains that up to the pre-
sent time he has not done so, and to
attempt to pooh-pooh, charges made
10y SO responsible a journal as the
HerdH will hardly go down with an
intelligent public. The charge of IA
voritism, not to call it by worse
name, has been specifically made and
nothing short OF an answer just as spe-
ciiic will satisfy the unprejudiced pub
lie. III Secretary Tracy can prove the
owes to the Administration, as well as
TO his own good name, to do so at
once
Secretary Tracy is coming in for
considerable criticism because of the
unprotected position of American in
terests in South America, which was
sharply brought to mind by the forcible
seizure of political refugees on pas
senger steamship carrying the Ameri.
can flag, the other day, by Venezue
lans, and the consequent hurried Or
dering of the gun-boat Concord from
the Atlantic coast to Venezuelan
waters. When the social influences OF
the officers of the navy were many |
months ago scheming to have the best !
ships in our navy spend the summer
on the Atlantic coast, to give the |
"dear ducks" who "dance so delight
fully. you know" an opportunity to
put in little time at all the fashion
able seaside resorts, Secretary Tracy
was begged by those interested to keep
one or two vessels in South American
waters to look after American interests
which are constantly jeopardized by
the unsettled condition of several OF
the countries over there, but he eeuld
not stand the social "pull"; hence
the present unsatisfactory condition of
affairs.
The possibility of an extra session of
Congress put Washington all in a
flutter this week, that is, if the rumor
prevalent about Mr.. Harrison intend
ing to call an extra session to pro-
hibit immigration, on account of
cholera in Europe may be said to
make possibility. Treasury depart
ment officials, who ought to know if
such a thing was contemplated, de-
cline to talk about it, although several
of them admitted that a suspension of
immigration would help very much in
keeping the cholera out of the United
States. Senator Cullum, of Illinois,
now in Washington, says he does not
believe there is any foundation for the
rumor, and that there is no necessity
at this time for any law absolutely |
prohibiting immigration, although he
admits that it may be become neces-
sary if the cholera continues TO increase
in Europe. Dem.
The Secretary Of the Interior has
decided the long-contested Roslyn |
town-site case in favor of the North |
Pacific Coal Co. Swan Nelson was
the contestant and the company once
offered him $4,000 to withdraw his
claim.