The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-11-25
WARRINGTON LETTER
WAsHINcroN, Nov. 21, 1902.

Mr.. Harrison has borne his defeat in
such a manly way that he has won
the respect and admiration of even
the staunchest democrats. The
members of his Cabinet have had
little to say. althoughit was well known
that more than one of them might
have said some very interesting things
had they been so disposed. This be-
ing the situation, a sensation was
created in high republican circles
when jovial Secretary Rusk opened
his ammunition box and fred a red hot
shot straight at the head of the man
who has been privately charged by
Mr.. Harrison's close personal friends
with having exerted his powerful in
fluence in the republican party to
lessen the vote for Mr.. Harrison.
| Although Secretary Rusk called no
name he made it as plain as though
he had spoken through the most
powerful trumpet ever made, that in
his opinion James G.. Blaine, the ex-
head of the Harrison Cabinet was the
traitor upon whose head the wrath Of
the republican party should DC poured.
It is learned from trustworthy
sources that Mr.. Harrison was averse
to such statement being made by
any member of his Cabinet. not be.
cause he believed it untrue, but be.
cause he thought it undignihei and
unnecessary; but Secretary Rusk who
had it in for Blaine, whom he once
admired SO much that he named his
son alter him, ever slice last summer
when Blaine tried to deprive him OF
the credit for restoring the European
privileges Of the American hog, and
later to use him to defeat Mr.. Harri-
sons denominations; in his own language
tried to make traitor of me-" He
might have held in until he was
out of Office, but for his accidental
discovery of inGisputable evidence that
Mr.. Blaine had much to do with the
loss of his own state, which he worked
so hard to keep in the republican
column. That settled it; he bad tc
have his say, and it was in pretty
close accord with what many members
of his party think without saying.
The question Of penslonsis one o
the most important that the comm!
administration and Congress will hav'
to deal with it directly affects ever
man, woman and child in the Unite,
: States 1t is now certain that ther
4 will be a deficiency of S35, 5000, oot
: for the current fiscal year, whicl
: must be appropriated at this session o
r Congress, and those who ought t
: know estimate the amount that Will b
l required for the fiscal year beginnin
n July I, 1895, which must also be al
II propriated at this session, as some
d where in the neighborhood of S2oo
100000. l, is difficult for human il
l. tellect to comprehend the immensit
r. Of the pile of money represented b
n those hgures. 1t represents NOR
! than S., for each inhabitant of th
o country, and Secretary Foster OF tn
n Treasury predicts that befofe ,h
: close OF Cleveland's administration
, will take Sage, 100000 ayear to pl
J. the pensions more than all the othC
y expenses Of the country added Il
c gether. Its scarcely to be wondere
r at that old idea, championed in til
# House some years ago by Hon. Wa
o r. Morrison of Illinois, ofraising tn
g money to pay pensions by impcs u
h an income tax, should be revived ;
this time. If pension expenditure
: are to keep growing some e&traord
= nary method of raising the money wi
|. certainly have to be restored 10.
a There is SO much rivalry anon
: Washington democrats to be member
S of the citizens committee which wi
e make the arrangement for the mos
l largely attended inauguration tn
/ country has ever had that it has
!. suited in more or less bitter wranal
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