The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-06-25

FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
/ Democrats Well Satisfied with the
Republican Nominations.
MIR. REID OBNOXIOUS TO THE
SOUTH.
A Very Poor Selection ON a Number oil
GYounds-Politfcians at the White
House Patronage to Be Disp0s.
ed OF by the President
Pensions Issued.
WASHINGTON, June 1S.-Democrats
! in Washington are disposed to be
very well satisfied with the nomina.
tions made at Minneapolis. The
placing of Mr.. Reid on the ticket is
particularly satisfactory to the men
from the South, where it had been
feared the Farmers Alliance move
ment might attract votes from the
democratic party, and where the re-
publicans were talking about the
possibility of certain States being
carried for the third party ticket.
Since the announcement of the re-
publican nominations there has been
no more talk of this kind However,
a Southern democrat, speaking of
the effect of the nominations, said
today: fit had been the intention
of the republican managers to break
up the alliance movement in national
politics in all the Southern States
they could not have done so more
thoroughly. In the first place, they
adopted strong force bill plank in
their platform, and then they put up
to run on it Mr.. Harrison, who is
looked upon in the South as the
special advocate u that measure, and
gave him as his running mate White
law Reid, of New York, the man who
is responsible for the publication in
the New York Tribune OF all the
most malignant untrue and unjust
things that have been printed about
the South since the war. Harsison
with any other man would have been
bad enough, but Harrison with
Whitelaw Reid will make the South
so solid that there will be no hope of
diyerting a single electoral vote from
the democratic column" Some of
the democrats in Congress are recall
ing the fact that while the force bill
was under consideration in the Sen
ate there was considerable dou BIT
among republicans as to whether the
Vice President, Mr.. Morton, could
be relied upon to make the necessary
arbitrary rulings that would be re-
CURED to carry it through that body.
1t was feared that his sense of fair
ness and justice would stand in the
way of his following blindly the die
tates of the party leaders, and it
was owing to the delay occasioned
by this lack of confidence in Mr..
Morton that the opponents of the
bill were enabled to make the COM
bination that defeated it. There
can be no doubt what would have
been the result if Whitetaw Reid had
been in the chair. He would have
shown the same disregard for par.
liamentary law and the rights of the
majority as characterized the rulings
of Speaker Reed in the House. The
force bill would have been passed if
it had been necessary TO violate all
the established precedents of the
Senate.
VERY POOR SELECTION ON MANY
GROUNDS.
In the gossip at the Capitol Mr.
Reid is generally regarded as very
poor selection on number of grounds.
1t is not believed be will be able to
convince the laboring men that he is
a friend of organized labor, when,
after fighting the printers union for
years, he gave in on the very eve of
his nomination, and was apparently
careful not to have the agreement |
signed even then, so that he could
back out of it the next day if the
plan for his denomination miscarried |
The printers are recalling that on
the eve of the presidential election
in 1884, when the attitude of the
Tribune toward the printers was
damaging the cause of Mr.. Blaine
in the State of New York, at the
last moments the Office, was made a
union office, but only remained so I'M
til after the election. They say
there is no assurance be will not fol |
low the same course this year, and |
after the election in November again
turn the Tribune into non-union
office.
TURNING THEIR THOUGHTS TO CHICAGO. |
From discussing the Minneapolis
convention the politicians are be-
ginning to turn their thoughts to-
ward Chicago and are discussing the
probabilities there. The general be-
lief is that Mr.. Cleveland will be
nominated, though there is some
question as to whether he will win
on the first ballot. 1t is conceded
by all that he will have large ma
jority of the votes ON that ballot, but
as the rules usually adopted by dem
ocratic conventions require two
thirds vote, there is question as to
whether it will not require second
ballot to put him in nomination
Some of his friends have. hepn max