The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-10-28
WASHINGTON LETTER
WAsHINGToN, Oct. 81, 1902.


ended, for the purpose of aiding Mr..
Carter in the work which Mr.. Harri.
son has necessarily been compelled
to give up. But Quay did not so to
New York, and just as Mr. Harrlson's
friends were wondering what his
illeged illness meant he turned up in
Washington to tell them that he
would not 20 to New YORK unless he
was given certain assurances by words
of mouth in the presence of at least
two witnesses, from Mr.. Harrison.
He was told that it would be impossi
bic for Mr.. Harrison to meet him,
owing to the condition of Mrs.
Harrison. He still insisted, and said
he would go back home to remain
until after election il these promises
were not made The meeting was thea
arranged and Mr.. Quay had a few
minutes conversation with Mr.
Harrison in the presence of three
other gentlemen. Whether Mr..
Harrison made the promises demand.
ed of him cannot be stated with any
degree OF certainty at this time, but
if Quay turns up IN New YORK this
week, as I believe he will, it may be
set down as certain that he did. So
much for hitch number one
The other hitch concerned Mr..
Blaine. The men who have for
three years devoted their time and
study to belittlng everything done by
Mr.. Blaine and to showing that he
was merely a. humble instrument in
the hands of the master statesman.
Benjamin Harrison, suddenly woke
up the other day to the necessity of
obtaining the help of Mr. Blaine in
the campaign. Then a scheme was
hatched up to get Mr.. Blaine to seem
to take an active part In the cam
paign. Whitelaw Reid, Pat Egan and
other personal friends of Mr.. Blaine
being utilized to persuade him into it.
The first part of the scheme is now
political history; Mr.. Blaine was got
ten to Whteaw Reds hous. and
there made short "impromptu"
speech, from carefully prepared type
written copy. Having succeeded SO
we'll the schemers then decided that
Mr.. Blaine must be kept in New York
for the remainder of the campaign, in
order that the impression might 60
out that he was aiding the republican
national committee by his advice.
There is where hitch number two
came in. Mr.. Blaine's Washington
residence is already for the occupancy
of himself and family, and his original
intention was to have returned to 1t
the middle of last week, but he has
been persuaded under one OF another
pretext to remain in New York. He
has advised his Washington friends
that he will be here early this week,
but Mr.. Harrison's friends are de
termined to keep him in New York
if it can possibly be done. His
whereabouts for this and next week
will show whether this hitch has been
overcome or not.
Democratic confidence in the
election of Cleveland and Stevenson
and a democratic Congress increases
every day, just as republican, defeat
increases For nearly week
local sporting man has advertised the
fact that he had deposited $4,000
with a we'll known banking house
with instructions to wager the whole or
any part of it on the election of
Cleveland, and that he was prepared
to duplicate the amount as soon as
this deposit was covered. Up to
this writing not dollar has been put
against his money; no republican has
sufficient courage to back his opinions
with his money.
The loss of the control of the Sen
ate in just beginning to be fully real
lied by the republicans. The latest
democratic figures make the Senate
stand after March 4, 1892, democrats
43, republicans 40, peoples party ?,
leaving the legislatures of oM'nnesota,
Nebraska and Kansas, which are a.
present controlled by the peoples par.
ty, in doubt. If the peoples party
can retain control of these legislatures
or of any one of them, the number of
peoples party Senators will be in
creased but even granting what few
believe to be possible that the republi-
cans will elect a majority of the legis-
lures in those three states and get the
Senators, that would only give them
total of 4s, against the same number
of democrats, so that in any event the
republicans are doomed to loose con
troll of the Senate, unless they can
capture thu Legislatures OF some of the
States now regarded as certainly dem
ocratic. This is very important, as it
makes possible, after the election of
Cleveland and Stevenson, an inmedi
ate revision of the tariff, as on that
question the peoples party senators