The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-10-07
WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 1892.

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private Office swings obligingly open to
The willy republican politician, and in
side the just AS willy dispenser Of
patronage smiles upon his visitors and
makes the attempt of his life to thaw
into something like geniality. There
will be no new boss Of the republican
machine, Mr.. Harrison will steer the
old and worm eaten craft into the
most crushing collision of its existence,
unless another change for the worse
should take place in Mrs. Harrson's
condition, and that every body sin
cerely hopes will not occur.
Mr.. Harrison realizes much more
fully than do some Of his associates
and would be advisers that he is
managing the most desperate fight in
to which his party ever started that
the drift of intelligent public senti-
ment is against the very keystone of
the republican structure-high pro-
tective tariff, and that the task he has
undertaken is herculean in its pro-
portions, but he is lighting for political
life, and he proposes making the best
of bad cause with the hope small
and faint though it be, that he may win
by scratch. Mr.. Harrison's ability
as a political manager has never been
properly appreciated by democrats,
outside Of the state Of Indiana, where
so many of his fights have been made
OF course it is undignhed, unusual
and all that sort of thing, but all the
same it is fact that his Office in the
White House is now republican head
quarters and from it will go the orders
upon which he most relies Tor sue
cess, while the unimportant orders
will be sent out from New York by
Tom Carter. Democrats will do
well to keep careful watch upon the
republicans in their neighborhoods
known to he in touch with Mr.. Harri-
son. Checkmate them, and YOU defeat
him.
A handsome Cleveland and Steven
son banner now swings above the
heads of passers by on Pennsylvania
Avenue, a square below the Treasury
Department. 1t was hung out by the
District Of Columbia democrats central
committee, the headquarters Of which
are opposite. The pictures on the
banner are really good ones, con-
they have attracted more
than the usual attention given to such
things.
Door keeper Turner, of the House
OF Representatives, who when he was
elected member Of the House in
1888 became widely known as "Tur.
ner, the ice-man," is credited with be.
ing always we'll posted on the con.
di,ion of political feeling in New York
city, especially among the rank and
file OF the various organizations which
support Tammany Hall in city
politics, therefore his opinion was
eagerly sought when he ran over to
Washington for few hours rest. He
said Of tie situation; "There is a good
feeling in our ranks about New York
The only cloud visible is the threat of
the Grace faction to run an independ-
ent ticket, and we are not much wor.
ried over that. We are not solicit
ing any but straight democratic votes
N New York. If any republicans
want to vote our ticket they can do so,
but they are not being run after.
TammAny is solid for Cleveland and
he will be elected by the stalwart
democracy of the empire state, and his
majority will be somewhere between
I2,ooo and 20, 900" Just before he re-
turned to New York Mr.. Turner said
perhaps you may think am a chaser
OF ralnbows when say that our
chances are good for carrying New
Hampshire, but all the same it is true.
The republicans have got to do some
lively work to get New Hamshire
electoral votes, and ! predict tha: they
will be cast for Cleveland"
''Drowning men catch at straws"
The republican party is, fguratively
speaking, a drowning man, and it is
frantically catching at every straw that
comes along hoping thereby to keep
afloat Indeed. it is manufacturing
straws to catch at. One Of these
Manufactured is the Treasury state
ment just made which shows an in
crease in the Treasury balance of
about, $2,ooo,ooo, sence the last
statement, Sept. I. This statement
will be caught at by republican speak. |
ers and editors and enlarged upon, as
showing the prosperous condition of
the Treasury. AS matter of fact it
shows no such thing If all of the
matured claims against the Treasury
which we've properly payable in Sept
ember had been paid during that
month the statement would have shown
a decrease in the balance. 1t is well
known that it has been the policy of
the Treasury for months to defer all
large payments as long as possible