The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-07-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON Iuly I ,Q2


From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 1, '92.
The best evidence of the popularity of
the Presidents selection of Hon.. John
W. Foster, of In1iana, to be Secretary
of State was his unanimous confrma-
ton by the Senate, without the usual
iormality of referring the nomination to
a committee, within an hour of the time
the nomination was received. Thisis an
honor that is ordinarily reserved for
Senators and cx-Senators. but the emf
nent fitness of Mr.. Foster for the posi-
ton was so generally recognized that
every Senator was willing to accord 1t
to him.
The only possible objection that could
have been raised to the. appointment of
Secretary Foster was that Indiana al
ready has one representative in the
Cabinet, and under the circumstances
that does not hold good. 1t was abso-
lutely necessary that the new Secretary
OF State should be a man thoroughly
posted upon the numerous unsettled
foreign complications with which the
administration will have to deal between
now and the fourth of next March, as
well as with the reciprocity policy, and
as Mr.. Foster has been for more than
two years acting as sort OF general
assistant to Mr.. Blaine, besides having
almost exclusive control of all reciproci-
ty matters, he was, perhaps, the only
man in the country, with the possible
exception of Assistant Secretary Whar-
ton, who was prepared to take hold of
the State department with a thorough
knowledge of all it's business. A new
man no matter how able he might be
would have been compelled to have de-
voted months to study up the various
important matters with " hlch he would
haye to deal, and in the meantime the
President would have had to do much
extra work.
Representative Meredith, of Virginia,
should hang his headin shame everytlm
he meets man who fought on either
side during the late war and knows the
part played in that conflict by the noble
women who left comfortable homes to
go to ''the front" to Nurse the sick and
wounded soldiers Mr.. Meredith in his
efforts to defeat the bill pensioning army
nurses, which was finally passed in spite
of him by vote of LA to &c used lang
uage concerning men now OH the pension
rolls OF the government, some of whom
he called bounty jumpers, camp fol-
lowers" and 'bummers" and the army
nurses, whom he accused of having ell
tered the service solely for the pay they
received, which came with bad grace
from a man who fought against the
union. Mr.. Meredith at one point in the
debate dramatically exclaimed: II THANK
God that no woman south of Mason
and DiXon's line who served as nurse
has come here asking for pension.
The answer was prompt and pointed,
when Representative Caruth of Kentucky
another democrat, said: "My friend is
mistaken. l have TWO bills on the cal.
ander now. Then the House laughed,
and MIR. Meredith looked sfeepisll.
Judging from the disgust the demo-
Gratis have already expressed the selec-
ton of WI. Campbell of Chicago, by
the President and his election to be chair
man by the national committee was an
excellent thing for the republican party.
For many years it has been part OF the
policy of the democratic party to abuse
personally the man who becomes chair
man of the republican national commit
tee. Mr.. Campbell, who left most
excellent impression upon those who
met him for the first, time here this week
only smiles at the democratic abuse,
and he expects to continue smiling until
he has the pleasure of knowing that
Harrison and Reid haye been elected,
pleasure which he is very confident of
enjoying next November. Mr.. Campbell
has gone home for few DAYS, and the
announcement of the membership of the
executive committee, which will have
charge ofthe campaign, will not be made
until his return to Washington which
will be shortly.
Senator Hale, sounded the keynote of
the campaign in brilliant speech in
favor of his resolution setting forth the
difference between the republican policy
of protection and the democratic policy
OF tariff for revenue only, otherwise
free trade. He notified the democrats
that the fight would he fought by tie
republicans as an American fight, the
policy of the democratic party as shown
by its tariff plank, being British and not
American. Tariff for revenue only;
said Mr.. Hale. with protection de-
nounced as robbery, is British doctrine.
Senator Vest attempted to reply, but
the only important thing in his speech
was his acceptance for his party Of the
issue-protection against free trade.
The anti-Cleveiand democrats are
making frantic efforts to get together
and to hold the solid south together by
shouting in concert "force bill'' and '.ne-
gro domination" in the South. Repub-
licans smile at this revival of the "bloody
shirt.
A brief paper, by a new writer, on
"The Great American Safety Valve" will
be read with approval by American