The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-07-21
WASHING TON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, July ll.--If the House
committee which started for Homestead,
Ps,. to-day to investigate the recent kill.
ing Of the locked.out workmen of the
Carnegie establishment by Pinkerton
men, is as determined to turn that de-
plorable incident to the political advan.
tage of the democratic party, as members
of that party in the House and Senate
have shown themselves to be, no good TO.
suits can possibly follow anything it may
do.
The democratic party has many sins,
great and small, to answer for, but none
of them are more hienous than the at
tempt of the democratic Senators and
Representatives to make political capital
out Of the blood shed by Pennsylvania
labor It shows, as nothing else could,
the desperation of that party, and is
bound to prove a boomerang, for no SEN
sible man can, after cody considering the
matter, endorse this bloody issue which
these democrats are trying to make. 1t
is little short of idiocy to charge the pro.
tective tariff with being responsible for
the shooting down Of workingmen by
| Pinkerton's hired murderers. and the
democrats who have made the charge
| will live to regret having done So
The Senate conferees succeeded in COM
pelling the House conferees to agree to
all of the Senate amendments to the pen.
sion appropriation bill, except the one
adding $4,000 for the employment of
additional clerks. The bill now carries q
total Of SAG, 1877, $50.
Mr.. cut-it-down Holman is temporarily
happy. After being knocked down a
score of times he has at last succeeded in
getting a majority Of the House to vote
to reject the report of the conference
committee on the naval appropriation
bill, and to instruct the new conferees tc
insist upon striking out the Senate
amendment providing for the construc
ton of new battle ship; also that ap
propriating $50, 900 towards the expenses
of the proposed international naval dis
play.
The democratic managers are alarmed
about Louisiana, as the news from tina
State indicates that its electoral vot
will be cast for Harrison and Reid. Elk
Governor Yarmouth, Of that State i
now in Washington, and, being asked +
give his views, said: "Our people wan
. protection for their sugar, rice and lum
Der, and the free trade plank in the den
ocratic platform is a little too hard a dos
for them to swallow; they are not read
for free trade. The peoples party wi
y, poll at low estimate $4,000 votei
which will reduce the democratic strengt
: Just that much; the republicans wi
stand solidly, and if we can only get
" fair count we are bound to win, and it
not believed that Governor Foster W
countenance frauds on the ballot.
/. The makeup of the republican natioI
- al executive committee, which will MAI
age the campaign, is highly commende
% by republicans in Congress. Five men
bers of the old executive commi ted
!. Young of California, vice-chairmal
q Clarkson, of Iowa; Hobart, of New Je
h sey; Fessenden Of Coz ne ,ticut, and Payr
n Of Wisconsin, occupy places upon tt
n new committee, all Of the tried an
;, true" sort; and the new men-Manley,
Maine; Kerns, Of Missouri; Bradley,
Kentucky; Sutherland, Of New Yorl
It aud Tanner, of Illinois, need no intr
r. duction to the republicans Of Il
d country. 1t only RENAME for the Pres
Is dent to finally decide upon the success
a to chairman Campbell, and he will pro
q. ably do so during the present week,
10 put the committee in position to beg
s, the active work Of the campaign, whi'
a promises to be aggressive from the star
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