San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. 49,

democratic conspiracy since the days
of those concocted for the perpetual
ton and extension of human slavery
is now Well under way. It's chief
manipulation is Senator German, and
the poodle" end Is Deing lookd after
by Senator Brice, whose relations
with wealthy monOpolies gives him
control of all the money that may be
needed. It was TO blind the people
to the object of this conspiracy that
German, Brice and Company raised
the senseless cry that the repu bllcans
were trying to rob the democIats
of the Senators to be elected
by the Legislatures of California,
North Dakota, Montana, Wyom-
ing and Nebraska; as though that
party could be robbed of what it does
not possess-a majority in the legis-
lature OF either of these states. The
democratic conspirators do not hope
to elect democrats from any of these
states to the Senate; but they do hope
and expect to make deals with the
populists by which men will be sent
to the Senate who will aid the con-
spiracy by voting as directed by chief
cons pirator German.
1t might be supposed that the leg
islation for which these votes are de.
sired was in some way connected
with the socalled reforming of the
tariff, or with the financial policy of
the Cleveland administrations; but 1T
has nothing to do with either-Gor-
man and Brice are both at heart, be-
levers in q protective tariff, and
neither of them takes any stock in
the idea, that the democratic party
is going to make radical changes in
the tariff policy. The legislation for
which the votes Of popul list senators
is wanted has for it's object the per-
petuation of democratic control of the
National Government, and In order to
obtain pledges from them that they
will vote for the repeal of the laws
providing for supervision of n ational
elections by Deputy United States
marshals and United States super
visors of election cash and big prom-
ises OF patronage, some ssy, even to
the extent OF a cabinet position, are
being used.
With the laws providing for even
the partial federal supervision of fed
eral elections (Which the present stat
utes do) out of the way the democratic
conspirators see nothing to prevent
the democratic party retaining power
for all indefinite period. They figure
that they could then be absolutely
certain of the 1853 electoral votes of the
solid south beside those OF New York
New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and
the democratic districts of Michigan,
thus making democratic pOmi-
nation for president equivalent
to an election. This scheme is
entirely in Keeping with the his
tory of the democratic party. For
tunately for the country at large, ir-
respective of political parties, the re-
pub lean leaders have known of this
conspiracy from its beginning, and
they have been uDtiring In their eff
forts to defeat 1t, which they are now
hopeful, although not yet certain, of
doing. Should they fail to defeat it
they will be in a position to make
such an exposure as will raise awaive
of Indignation from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Representative Antony, of Texas,
is one of the democrats who is anX.
ious to hurry up the Introduction OF
democratic ideas. He has introduced
a hill IN the House providing that no
more pensions be granted under the
dependent pension OF 1890, and that
the payment OF all pensions which
have been granted under that law
shall be stopped. Mr.. Antony's DEM
ocratic colleagues are real angry with
him for having been so precipitate.
The democrats of the House were
almighty glad to vote for the
two weeks holiday recess, dating
from Thursday Of this week, as IL well
prevent their having to work 80 hard
to kill time and to keep from doing
something that might displease boss
Cleveland.
Another set of people who warmly
welcome the Christmas recess are the
tatives of the European
Steamship Co.'s who have been strug-
ling hard to stem the strong cons
gressional current in favor of q tenn
porary suspension OF immig ration.
They hope to be able to convince"
some congressman before the end of
the recess that o suspension of i'm
migration would be quite as bad for
the country as it will be for the
Steamship Companies.
President Jas. F. Burke, of the
League OF College Clubs, who became
SO widely known through his activity
in the late campaign. had q con-
ference with the president day or
two ago concerning the future work of
this valuable auxiliary of the repub-
lican party, and the president agreed
with Mr.. Burke that the proper thing
to do was to ontinue the work of the
league, increasing its membership
and extending its influence.
= If such prominent democrats as
Representative Hatch, chairman OF
the House committee on Agriculture,
know the future intentions Of their
party. 1t is certain that one of the
first things the next democratic