The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-09-16
washIngtOn Letter.

Washington Letter.
WAsHISGToS- ID. G. Sept. 10Th, 1892.
Mr. HarriSon's letter oi acceptance was
a very decided Innovation in that line. IL |
breaks all precrdentS aud instead of be
ing n letter of acceptance pure and SIM
ple il Is in addition, CAREFUL and
skilifully prepared lawyers plea for the
Republican party in general and the
Harrison administration IN particular,
like other able lawyers pleas 1t is liable |
to impose on those who are not familiar, |
and who will not take the trouble TO IA
miliarize themselves with the other side |
Ii shows, too, that the StOri, which |
have from time to time been told of Mr.. |
Harrison : intention to individually boss |
the Republican side of the campaign |
were all founded on the solid truth. |
The intention has become fact, and to- |
dav Mr.. Harrison Is the acknowledged |
boss OF the Republican National com
mittee. which Is conducting he cam
paicn according to his o.ders. 1t l.
known here that the publ cation OF the
letter OF acceptance this was direct
| " against the wishes of Chairman Car
| ter and number of the working mem
berS of the committee; they wanted IL
| held back at least month, but boss
! Benjamin ordered it given out, and CIV
| en- out II was.
Mr.. HarrisOn's attempt to dodge the
| Force bill issue in such Il way as To leave
| the impression upon those who favor that
| outrage upon Constitutional liberty that
| he Is still with them-as he really Is,
heart and sOul-and at the same time
make those opposed to 1t believe that he
has abandoned it, is like most efforts Of
| Il similar nature-supremely ridiculous,
and meets only with meaning smiles In
every quarter. Democrats and Repub-
licans alike know just where Mr.. Harri-
son stands upon this question; if he be
reelected and the next House of Repre-
sentatives he controlled by the Republi
cans, he will IN his first message to the
Fifty third Congress ask that II bill simi
lar to the notorious Lodge bill of the
Fifty first Congress be passed. There Is
only one way for this country to escape
the horrors of the force bill, which in
one section of the country would be as
bad as "A visitation of the cholera, and
that is, to defeat Benjamin Harrison ami
the Republican party.
Mr. Blaines letter, made public the
day after that of Mr.. Harrison, felt like
) "A wet blanket upon the candidates pro-
nunciamento. 1t nullified about half of
Mr. Harrison's letter by advising the Re
publicans to ignore all issues, except
three, in the campaign, and worse than
all, for Benjamin, the great-in his own
estimation-it nowhere mentioned Mr..
Harrison's name. No Republican with
whom | have talked has doubt about
this slight TO the head of the RepublI-
can ticket being deliberate and inten-
tional on the part of Mr.. Blaine. 1t is
a slight too, that Mr.. Harrison dare not
resent at this time; but you may be sure
that he will try to ''get even" after the
election, whichever way 1t goes, by
jumping on the Blaine Republicans
, wherever he finds them.
The milk in the cocoanut, concerning
the application of the Inman Line
Steamship company for American regis
try for two of their best steamers, which
, was granted at the last session of Con-
8 gress, was exposed when the lids for
carrying ocean mails, under the mail
subsidy act of the billion dollar Congress,
were this week opened by Mr.. Wanama-
ker. The Inman Line, under Its
new American name-The international
Navigation Company, of Philadelphia
adopted, solely with the idea of getting
slice of this subsidy, was the
only company that put in a bid for the
European service, and the only com
pany that proposes to carry the mails in
vessels of the first class. 1t put in two
> bids, and Mr.. Wanamaker says that
they will both be accepted. Each OF
them is for weekly service and in each
the compensation asked Is 81 per mile.
Multiply the number of miles across the
' Atlantic by and the result by lO4 and
"A sum of money is piled up that fully
explains the desire of the stockholders
in this company to change the flag over
such Of their ships as they could get
r. subsidized 50 highly. Some people have
: said that Mr.. Wanawaker had some
, | very near friends who were allowed TO
purchase stock in the reorganized com
pany at a nominal price, but Of course
- that had no Influence in the deal.
: Representative Catchings, of Missis
sippi, is in Washington. He says th,
Democrats will not lose a single oiecto
! raj vote in the South, and that the peo
4 ! pies party will not have as many mem
: hers in the next as they have in the presen
- House He figures on a Democratic ma
r iority of between forty and fifty in tn,
next House. NJ.