The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-09-23
TASH1NqTON LETTER.

one of the advance guard of the
congressional army which is COM
ing to Washington to help make
things pleasant for the old SOL
diers. He is utilizing the time be-
fore the encampment in attending
to some department business for
his constituents. After the en-
campment he will return to Ore
gon with the G. A. r. men from
that state, and take an aggressive
part in the campaign. Of the gen.
eral political outlook he says, ''ev-
erything hear makes the victory
OF Harrison and Reid more GER
tain. l am satisfied that New
York will give Harrison a larger
majority this year than in 1885,"
Asked about his own state, the
senator said: "Oh, Oregon is all
right; we shall carry the state, as
usual, Notwithstanding the activity
of the peoples party, which may
cast as many as 10000 votes in
the state"
Speaking of the peoples party,
if one may believe what is said by
members of that party who are
high up in its official councils, it
is rapidly going to pieces in the
South, where such great results
had been so confidently predicted
for it. Governor Tillman, of
South Carolina, whose recent
sweeping victory over the regular
democratic organization in that
state is fresh in the minds of the
public, is openly accused by the
editor of the peoples party ma
tional organ of being a traitor to
the peoples party, and of having
used the farmers alliance as a
club to thump a rival democratic
faction, intending all the while to
act with the national democratic
party himself. If this editor
knows what he is talking about,
similar state of affairs exists in
other states, where the bulk of the
so called peoples party are merely
~kicking" democrats who will at
the national election support
Cleveland and Stevenson. He
says there is a probability that
these democrats who are using the
alliance and the third party mere
Iy as stepping stones to enable
them to get into offices may find
themselves disappointed, as there
may be simon pure peoples party
tickets put up in every southern
state where the men now in con-
troll of that party are under sus-
picion, and this is the party that
was going to carry half of the
southern states. Hon. j. N. Hus-
ton, ex U. S. treasurer, who usually
knows everything worth knowing
about Indiana politics, is in Wash
ington. He says "both parties
are hard at work, with headquar-
ters wide open at Indianapolis,and
speakers busy stumping the state.
This week Gov. Mckinley will be-
gin a stumping tour of the nation
al gas region, and later we will
have other noted outside orators.
Republicans, with rare exceptions
which are becoming rarer, are con
fident of success, and if we succeed
in our suit now in court, in over
throwing the present unjust and
unconstitutional apportion m n t
law, we shall certainly sweep the
state"
Democrats heres'make on bones''
of saying publicly that MIR. Cleve-
land has got to recognize Senator
Hill, no matter how humiliating it
may be to him, if he wishes to
stand even the ghost of a chance
Of carrying New York, without
which he cannot possibly be elect
ed.
The national democratic COM
mittee has made "dicker" with
the alliance bosses in South Da-
kota, whereby the democrats of
that state are bound TO support
the alliance, or third party state
ticket and the four electors are to
be equally divided between Cleve-
land and Weaver. Senator Kyle
is to take the stump for the fusion
ticket and the national democratic
is to furnish all the