Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-18
CALL FOR CLEVELAND.
District of Columbia Business Men
Not at All Unfavcrable
TO ANOTHER TERN OF GROVER.
They Prefer People Who Spend Their Money
in a Lively Way,
LIKE THE WHITNETS AND FRIENDS
TO ANOTHER TERN OF GROVER.
LIKE THE WHITNEYS AND FRIENDS

rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, June T7.-Interest in the
Chicago Convention, thermometer at 81
in the shade and the everlasting Sibley tent
claim bill conspired to knock out the House
this morning soon after it convened. With
a full House this Sibley claim has brought
that body to a standstill and speedy ad.
journment every Friday, which is private
bill day, since it was reached on the calen-
dar. 1t was the fifth private claim taken
up, and has stood in the way of scores Of
claims back of it. Those Democrats who
follow Mr. Holman in opposition to private
bills are numerous enough to make this
claim an every Friday rock on which to
split and 60 to pieces, and on account of a
depleted House the wreck came earlier and
easier than usual to-day.
The extreme heat of the last two or three
DAYS has sent many members of both Houses
to mountain or seashore. Many others have
gone, or are about to go, to Chicago, to swelter
there for ten davs. Business drags as it
has not dragged previously during this
dragging session, and it is evident that If
the heat continues it, with the interruption
of the convention. will carry the session a
month or so beyond the dates predicted for
final adjournment, which usually has been
from the 1st to the 18th of August.
Heat Can't Knock Out Politics.
But if legislation and Congressman
languish in the heat no temperature is hot
enough to put check on the speculation In
regard to the outcome at Chicago. The
Democrats entertain genuine hope OF sue
cess next November. With most of them
it is hope which amounts to an absolute
conviction, and they have the encourage
ment of the private, agreeing expressions OF
many Republicans. Therefore the specula-
tiOn and excitement are far more intense
than if there were a grave doubt in their
minds in regard to the November contest.
II the men nominated are to be elected, they
q mean the best element of the Democrats
here in Washington want them to be the
sort of men who will give high-toned and
clean administration, They don't want
either the Hills or the Germans to have a
show. No one will suit them who has done
any stunning in home politics, especially
such as has been done in Baltimore by Cor
man and in New York by Hill.
l made hurried tour of the Democratic
side of the House to-day, after diourn ment,
catching as many as remained to be caught,
and judging from the expressions briefly
elected 1 should saw that Cleveland is the
first choice of 10 of every 90 of the Demo-
Gratis in Congress, and of the many employed
about the House; and the employees probably
come nearer to speaking the voice of 'the
people" than the Congressman do.
Tammanyites the Only Kfckers.
Some of these are affected by local con-
sideratlonS A few are appointees through
the influence of Tammany, and utter the
conventional Tammanv curse against Cleve-
land, but aside from this the almost unani-
nous sentiment is for the eI-President, and,
leaving party out of the question, may
say that the sentiment in all the District is
pretty near unanimous for Cleveland
II Democrat is to be elected even the
Republicans would rather have Cleveland
than any one else. They believe he was
more careful about removals except for
cause than other Democrat would be. They
liked him for that, and they liked him per
sonallv. While he made no scandal, he
was no bigot he had world of charity
for the mistakes of others, having made his
own share of mistakes in other wears.
One of the things quoted as meanest about
Harrison is that he thinks everybody is
made of his own frigid fiber, and that all
should be able to hold themselves in hand
with the ordinary check-rein and snaff1e-bit
which he has always found sufficient for his
own discipline.
Business men and "people in society,""
would also welcome Cleveland back with
open arms. How much was due to admins
traiiOn influences, or how much 10 pros
porous and easy feeling in business and
capitalist circles, cannot say, but there are
two administrations, those of Arthur and of
Cleveland, that are POINTED oIt here as
having been livelier in action and expendi-
ture than any others of recent years.
Society and Business Combined.
Social liveliness, not to say real reckless
ness, is a great boon to Washington "busi-
ness" in hotels, restaurants and general
merchandise shops, and to hear some of the
keen observers in their callings describe the
flooding and ebbing waves of social expen-
dIture which they attribute to subtle and al
most occult or psychological personal in
fuence, suggests curious phenomena of
Washington life which is vet an unknown
field for the student of human affairs.
Arthur was a widowed man, handsome,
marriageable, with the air OF the club
always about him, and he infused into his
administration the palpitating atmosphere
OF club life. Cleveland came here bach
elor, and soon welded young and beauti-
tul wife, than whom there never was
more popular mistress of the White House.
The sound of wedding bells rippled all
through the term. and every arm of the
administration seemed to catch the in
fection of youth, full blood, and desire for
social enjoyment to the fullest bounds of
reason, ard sometimes narrowly escaping a
reckless lavishness that came near being
bacchanalian.
dare say that the Naval Secretary and
Mrs Whitney spent vastly more on their
entertainments alone than has been spent
h,-+ ba of birh ols IL.
this administration.
CIevelandism Crayed Again.
Such pervasive spirit of liberalitv gave
things "a go'' that followed well the term
OF Arthur, and two such terms, succeeded
bva careful, quiet, old-fashioned, thrifty
like the current one, which
has had the added quiet and gloom result
ing from numerous deaths in Cabinet
families and has been overshadowed
almost from the beginning by the terrible |
to the household of Secretary
Tracy, form extremely remarkable con- |
trastS
For these reasons a new Cleveland ad- |
ministration would probably be welcomed |
here as none other would, Democrat or Re- |
publican, by the business people and per- |
residents of this city. These are |
however, that have little |
weight with such practical politicians as
make up the Democratic oficeholders in
and out of Congress. Believing anv Demo-
crat can win this year, as the majorities in
the States are now constituted, they want :,
the man who will be most certain to give a
strong administration, one so satisfactory
as to contribute TO a new success four years
hence.
Though Cleveland was defeated after one
term, and the logical conclusion is that he
rannot do better again than he did from 1884