The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-04-21
CAPITAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Special Correspondence ]

WASHINGTON, April IS, 1892.
 The public men and politicians of Washington, and all those who come here, are just now most interested in figuring out the probabilities of the two National Conventions and the chances of election which follows. Within short time the situation, with reference to both party nominations, has changed somewhat. In the Re- publican ranks the opposition to the renomination of President Harrison, which few weeks ago seemed suili- ciently formidable to make combina- ton against him possible, is gradually melting away as the convention ap- breaches, and, there is now hardly n doubt that he will be renominated on he first ballot, if indeed, it is not done by exclamation. That at least is the present outlook from this point of ob- servation, though of course great changes are always possible in this country, even in the short time that now remaius. Mir, Harrison has given the country wise, safe, and patriotic administration and has won the esteem of all the people. MT. Blaine aside, there is probably no man in the party who would command larger vote or whose title to the nomination is better.
 In the Democratic camp 1t now looks like Cleveland again, About the time of D. B. Hills midwinter convention, Albany, things looked little squally for ''the stuffed prophet, as Brother Dana so playfully terms him, but he is, after all, the great brass-mounted idol of the Democratic party outside of New York, and Hill having made a dismal failure of his personal hunt for votes it begins to look once more as though his royal obesity would be nominated. Just why the innocent Democratic heart out in the rural districts yearus so intensely for Cleveland it would be hard to explain. Those who came most in contact with him while he was President do not admire him and op- pose his further aspirations, but it is the rank and file who have never seen him that worship him from afar. Mir, Cleveland is not great man, except in the sense that he weighs 300 pounds. nor has he any of the elements of a popular man. He has always held himself better than iis party--iit only to associate with high-minded and blue-blooded mugwumps--and today he believes that he is the only man in the party good enough to be President that if they don't take him they are not in it. And some of the party think likewise. Hence the present diagnosis of the situation Is that we shall have the old campaign of Harri- son ys. Cleveland ovet again, with probably the same result. It will be a case of history repeating itself.
 The unanimity with which Hon. Roger c. Slills has recovered average health immediately after the 'vindica- tion" he received from the Texas Leg l islature is one of the most remarkable instances of faith-cure of the present decade When his credentials arpiyad here he marched over to the Senate Chamber, like Fitz James on the crags, when seeking the best blood Of Roder- ick Dhu, "with step erect and ear awake as if he had never been sick an hour in his life. Mir, Mills may well thank his lucky stars, if he has any, for being defeated in his attempt to be Speaker, He has now a position better fitted for his peculiar abilities, his temper, and his health than he would have had had he been elected Speaker. Sympathy for him in unex- .pectcd defeat made him Senator The idea is still alive in Texas that his de- feat was accomplished by ring-a base combination of Hill, Tammany, Springer, and possibly tho arch enemy of human souls. The idea that he had not qualification for that position has never grown there. Mills was simply a victim of an outrageous political con spiracy, and Senator Hill is held re- spousible for the defeat, though he had no more to do with it than the Governor of Texas, nor half af much.
 Senator Mills now comes into close relations with thp mgp who has long been his mentor, ex-Speaker Carlisle.