Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1892-08-26
WASHINGTON LET.
TER.

AsHANGION, Aug. 10, 1882.
Capt. L. H. Mckee, Assistant Secre-
tary of the national republican commit
tee, is now quartered in the same build
ing with the congressional campaign
committee, and he has more than half a
hundred assistants hard ut work mail.
ing documents.
Secretary Mcpherson of the congress
si0nal committee, who is a veteran of
many campaigns, is at present acting
in an advisory capacity to Capt. Mckee
and the two '.Mc's" make 4 strong team
but little later OH he will give his in
dlvidual attention to the congressional
districts which are marked doubtful on
the little list he keeps. Mr.. Mcpherson
knows how to be silent in nineteen
languages about the work upon which
he is engaged, but he told your cores
pondent that he thong hit the prospect
for wrestling the house from the demo-
Gratis was good and improving all the
time.
Capt. Mckee says the following are
the documents which he is send out the
largest number of: Better Dead Than
Homeless" "Free Traders Unveiled"
"a Farmers Appeal to Farmers"
Farm Mortgages not an Evidence of
Distress, "Farm Implements Abroad"
"Thc A b G of the TARIFF ''How Pro-
lection Increases the Nations Wealth.
"The Tariff Riddle: A Key Thereto"
"Where l Spent my Molcy After ALL"
American Ideas Conquer, "Represen-
tative d. b. Henderson, On the False
Cry of a Billion Dollar Congress-" "a
Town Built up by Protection" and
Ingersoll's "Why l am a Republican"
Capt. Mckee also edits the national
bulletin Of which thousands are sent
out each week. The republican cam
paign text book will be ready about
September 1st, and alread orders for All
enormous number are booked
Gone thing was apparently overlook.
ed by those who started and those who
accepted as true the story that Judge
Walter w. Gresham would soon take
the stump for Weaver" said an old
member of the supreme court bar,
"and that is, that Gresham is at this
time judge of a United States court.
Until he resigns that position, and l
haven't heard that he had any intention
of resigning, there is not the slightest
probability that he will take the stump
for anybody. / do not remember to
have heard of Il United States Judge
making a political stump speech, and, I
think, know Walter Gresham's idea
of the dignity which should always be
maintained by the national judiciary
we'll enough to predict that he will
never make speech favoring Weaver
or anyone else for the presidency as
long rs hs remains United States
judge, and do not believe he would
support Weaver for president if he were
q private citizen"
The greed of the great Wells Fargo
Express Company compelled the gov.
ernment to make at its own risk the r..
cent shipment of $40, ,OOO, 600 in gold,
from San Francisco, and it may result
in transferring very profitable line of
business frsn, the express companies 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 s575O0 less than the Wells
Fargo Campany charged for doing it,
and it may be that the express connpan-
les viii not be asked to do such work
in the future. Not long ago the gov
ernment paid the United States Express
Company S., ,500-more than the cost of
bringing SEQ, 600 across the cont
nent-for carrying $1,000, 600 in gold
from Philadelphia to New York a job
that. was completed in little more
than two hours.
The change in the British administra-
ton has caused q delay in setting a
date fer the meeting of the Information
al monetary conference, but the state
department is advised unofficially that
it will be cine of the first matters to be
taken up and disposed of by the new
Gladstone Government, so that the de-
lay in fixing date is not likely to be a
long one. Only two Of those selected
by the president to be United States
Commissioners to the conference.Scn-
ators Allison and Jones-have formally
accepted their appointments. but there
are no reasons for expecting any of the
others to decline to serve, although the
point has been raised by an outsider
that neither senators or representatives
are iligitble to act as commissioners
at this conference, but nothing is
thought of this in official circles.
The G. A. r. encampment committee
bill spend about $4,000 in the erection
of Barrack for the accommodation of
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