Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-27
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent
Washington Oct. 81. '92.

The White House mail bag grows
larger and larger as the election draws
nearer, and the news it brings grows
better and better for the republicans.
From far away California and Wash
ington comes assurances that in spite
OF local troubles the National ticket is
bound TO win; from Kansas comes the
death-knell of the mushroom olganiza-
ton which made the mistake of trying
to thrive by preaching calamity; from
the Presidents own state comes the
news that it is now only question of
how large his majority will be, and the
estimate that it will be between 10000
and 10000; from Wisconsin that the
state is certain to go republican; from
Illinois and Iowa ditto; from New Jer-
sey and Connecticut news of sufficient
gains among the Irish and the work
ingmen to make the republicans conf
dent to carry both states, and from
New York news of largely increased
republican registration and of great
work among the Irish-Americans
brought to realizing sense of the stu
alton by MIR. Blaine's recent speech.
All in all the signs now point to an
old fashioned republican victory on the
8, of November, victory that will put
an end to talk about free trade and
wildcat currency in this country for
many years to come.
Secretary Rusk is out of town, out
the other officials of the department of
Agriculture are indignant at the news
cabled from England that bullock
shipped from New York was suffering
with pleuro- pneumonia when it arrived
there. DR.. S. f. Salmon, chief of the
Bureau of animal industry, says the
cablegram was founded either upon the
ignorance or malice of somebody. He
has cable from the y. ). inspector in
London say ing that the bullock in ques-
ton was suffering from an old fashioned
case of catarrhal pneumonia, which any
one familiar with cattle knows to be
non contagious The doctor further
says. and he knows what he is talking
about, that there is not single case OF
pleuro- pneumonia in this country, and
had not been for six months before
Secretary Rusk issued his proclamation
announcing the fact.
As the result of consultation with
Judge I. j. Anderson, of the Supreme
Court of Utah, Attorney General Miller
requested that officials resignation,
and received it. Later Mr.. Anderson,
in published interview. said his risig-
nation was forced because he was
democrat. Now he probably wishes he
had kept quiet Acting Attorney Gen.
eral Aldrich SAYS: 1T is not usually
the practice of the department TO make
public the reasons inducing such action
as was taken in Judge Anderson's case.
Ii the Judge desires it, however, | pre-
sumo that the Attorney General will
consent to the publication of the letters
written by the Judge, and confessed by
him, as we'll as uther matters rejecting
upon his character, now on file. will
add, if there ever was case in our
history that called for the prompt re-
tirement OF q judicial officer that case,
10 my opinion, was Judge Anderson's.
Mr. George Baber, a democratic pro-
tectionist, and lately member of the
totrd of pension appeals OF the Depart
mcnt OF the interior, left Washington
this week to take the stump for Harri-
son and Red in New York and New
Jersey. The definition of Mr.. Baber's
politics "a democratic protectionist"
lis his own. To your correspondent,
in view OF the National platforms of the
two parties, a protectonist is necessar-
lily a republican, just as free trader is
democrat.
Mr.. Whtelaw Reds letter of accep-
lance is just the strong, argumentive
aud able document that might have
been expected of the practical news
paper man who won his way from
reporting on an interior paper to be
chief editor and owner of one of the
greatest AMI most influential American
newspapers 1t is worthy of place
beside the Presidents letter of accep-
lance. which IS conceded to be the
ablest Of its kind, just as its writer is
worthy of place on the ticket with
one Of the ab'est President the country
has ever had