Milford chronicle., 1892-08-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. Aug IS, 1892.
Capt. T. H. Mckee, Assistant Secretaay
Of the National Republican Comrhittee IS
now quartered in the same BUILDING with the
campaign eouimittee, and ne
has more than half hundred assistants hard
at work mailing documents.
Secretary Mcpherson, Of the Congressional
who is veteran of many cam
Daigus rs at present acting in an advisory
to Capt. Mckee, and the two Mes
make strong team; but little later on he
will give his undivided attention to the
Congressional districts which are marked
" d lubtful 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 cor
respondent that he thought the prospect
for wrestling .he House from the democrats
was good and improving and the time
Capt. Mckee says the following are the
documents which he is sending ont the
largest number of Better Dead than Home
less. Free Traders Unveiled, ""A Farmers
Appeal to Farmers" Farm Mortgages
not an Evidence of Distress, EARN I'm
plements Abroad" 'The A, B, c, of the
Tariff" GLOW Protection Increases the
Nations Wealth" "The Tariff Riddle: A
Key Thereto" Where I spent my money
After ALL" american Ideas Conquer,"
Representative D. B. Henderson on the
False Cry of a Billion Dollar Congress, a
Town Built up By Protection, 'and Ingersoll's
"Why am a Republican," Capt. Mckee
also edits the "NafioRaE Bulletin" Of which
thousands are sent out each week. The
republican campaign text book will be ready
about Sept Ist, and already orders for an
enormous number are booked.
Zone thing was apparently overlooked by
those who started and those who accepted
as true the story that Judge Walter ..
Gresham would soon take the stump for
Weaver, y said an old member ofthe Supreme
Court Bar, and that is, that Greshem is at
this time a Judge ola United States Court.
Until he resigns that position, and haven't
heard that he had any intention Of resignine,
there is not the slightest PROBABILITY that he
will take the stump for anybody, do not re-
member to have heard of United States
Judge making political stump speech aud,
1 think, I know Waltor Greshams idea Of
the dignity which should always be main
tanned by the National Judiciary well enough
to predict that he will never make speech
favoring Weaver or anyone else for the Presi-
dency as long as lie remains United States
Judge, and do not believe he would sup
port Weaver for President if he were pri
vate citizen"
The greed Of the great Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Company compelled the government
to make at its own risk the recent shipment
Of $40. ooo, 600 in gold from San Francisco,
and it may result in transferring very pro-
ftable line of business from the express
companies to the government-the transpor-
tation Of large sums of government money
The United States made that shipment OF
gold from San Francisco to New York fol-
about $szsoo less than the Wells Fargo com
pany charged for doing it, and it may be
that the express companies will not be asked
to do such work in the future. Not long
ago the government paid the United States
express company ss,soO-more than the cost
of bringing $40, ooo, 600 across the continent
for carrying $1,000 900 in gold from Phiia-
delphia to New York, job that was com
pleted in a little more than Two hours.
The change in the British administration
has caused delay in setting date for the
meeting of the International monetary CON
ference, but the State department is advised
uuoficislly that it will be one OF the first
matters to be taken up and disposed of by
the new Gladstone government, so that the
delay in fixing a date is not likely to be a
long one. Only two Of those selected by the
President to be United States Commission
ers to the conference-Senators Allison and
Jones-have formally accepted their appoint
ments, put there are no reasons for expect
ing any Of the others to decline to serve, al
though the point has been raised by an out
slider that neither Senators nor Representa-
tives are eligible to act as commissioners at
this conference, but nothing is thought of
this in official circles.
The G. A. r. encampment committee will
spend about $4,000 in the erection of bar
racks for the accommodation Of the veter-
ans who do not engage their own sleeping
quarters, and while the committee does not
undertake to SUPPLY food, it proposes to make
arrangements that will result in good food
at reasonable prices for those who will &C.
cupy the barracks, and it will also provide
place of safe keeping for the baggage of the
old soldiers, which the committee hopes will
be confined to articles absolutely necessary.