San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8, 1872.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 8, 1872.
The president will, If Mrs. Harri-
son continues to improve as she has
done during the past week, take part
In the Columbus celebrations in New
York, on the II, inst, and in Chicago
on the 2lst. inst, and, unless some-
thing not now anticipated shall pre-
vent he will be accompanied on both
trips by all of the mem bers of his
cabinet. Mrs. Harrison's improve
ment has had q most iuvigorating
effect upon him, the regular cabinet
meetings have been resumed and he
has taken hold of his official work
with all his old time energy, besides
giving considerable attention to the
state of the campaign, as shown by
trustworthy reports from every sec
ton which are constantly being sent
to him. The president has q great
head for politics, as he has shown
on numberless occasions. He never
allows his wishes to interfere in the
slightest manner with his judgment.
consequently his advance SUMMARY
of results have nearly always Tailed
with the actual results of election.
He Is absolutely confident of his re-
election and the popular vindication
of the great principles of the repub.
lican party which have been so con-
spiciously brought to the front dur
ing his administration.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
is always q welcome visitor at the
White House, but doubly so at this
time when he comes after careful in
vestigatiOn-he Is always thorough
in whatever he does-tO tell the pres
ident of the satisfactory condition OF
things political in the state of New
York. The senator is confident that
Harrison and Reid will carry that
state by considerably larger MAORI.
ty than it gave to Harrison and Nor
ton in 1888. The support of Gen.
Sickless will be worth many demo-
cratic soldier votes to the republican
ticket.
Democratic alarm over the South
is rapidly spreading, and they are
preparing to do what they have never
before considered necessary in q
national campaign-send their most
prominent speakers into the South.
1t is the peoples party that they are
afraid of in most of the southern
blatCb pup lOubcbSSc anu w tsI
Virginia it is the republicans who
are giving them uneasiness. Secreta-
ry Elkins expresses the greatest con-
fidence in the ability OF the repuoli-
cans to carry West Virginia for the
national ticket and to elect Q number
of congressman on the tariff recipro-
city and honest money Issue, while
Congressman HOuk, ofrennessee says
the .repub licans OF that state are In q
better condition and are more deter
min ed to win than ever before.
"Uncle Jerry" Rusk is happy over
the great big exhibit his department
Is going to make at the Worlds Fair,
an exhibit which will for the first
time present to the world q compre.
hensive idea of the greatest single
American industry agriculture, In
Guiding stock and cattle raising. He
devotes much OF his time overlooking
the preparations for this exhibit
which are now well under way. Only
two other bureaus of the government
the Smithsonian Institution and the
fish commission will have $3.50, 900,
which is the amount at the disposal
of the agriculture department., allow
ed them for the expense of their
exhibits. Secretary Rusk thinks the
exhibit Of his department will have
an educational value not to be COM
puted in dollars and cents 10 the
American farmers who will attend
the Worlds Fair, and that the COM
plete method of government inspec-
ton OF meats for export, which will
be shown, will result in largely
thu oolno Of
can meat abroad, because of the re-
ports of it which foreign visitors will
carry back home with them. The
ntire exhibit will be so arrangd that
the products OF every state and terri
tory of the Union will confront the
visitor; besides. the various bugs,
pests and diseases with which far
mers have to contend will be shown,
and the best way OF getting rid of
them will also be shown.
That bankruptcy of the U. 3. Trea.
sury which the democrats have been
talking about for several years still
refuses to materiallZe. On the con-
trary, the treasury statement shows
that after meeting all proper demands
during the past month there has
been an increase of $4,000, 600, in the
amount of available cash on hand,
since the first day of September.
Wonder If there is single democrat
who would object to personally going
through that sort of bankruptcy?
The democratic calamity walters now
so numerous on the stump will find
it convenient to say nothing about
THE little matter; they are not over
fond of the truth any way, as those
who have listened to them have long
ago ascertained.