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

WASHINGTON. d. c. Sept. End, 1892.
A marked feature of the present cam
paign is the great difference between
the way prominent Republicans who
come to Washington talk for publication
and the way they talk among themselves.
In published interviews they all with one
accord talk as though the campaign WAS
already settled in their favor and the
election mere formality that must be
gone through with just to keep up ap-
pearances; but let two or three of them
meet privately, where they think them
selves safe from the sharp ears of wicked
and prying newspaper men, and to hear
them reminds one of the line of the
familiar song-"Oh what a difference in
the morning.
Two office holders United States
Treasurer Nebeker, and Assistant Secre-
tsry of the Treasury Crounse, who is
also the Republican candidate for gov
ernor of Nebraska-returned from visits
to their respective states this week, and
before they had shaken the dust of travel
from their clothes they both gave out
rose-colOred interviews of Republican
prospects in Indiana and Nebraska, in
which those states were stated To be en-
| tirely out of the doubtful list. By a
mere accident learned the real opinions
| of those two men. Nebeker sent word
to Mr. Harrison and to his man Carter
that unless something was Immediately
| done to satisfy the disaffected Republi-
1 cans in the Fort Wayne district of
Indiana all hope of carrying the state
! might AS we'll be abandoned. So much
for his confidence! Mr.. Crounse feels so
uncertain about the result in his state
that he is loath to resign his present
office, and wants 10 fix 1t so that when
he does resign his pay will run to the
first of October, and the place be kept
vacant until after the election, in order
that he may be reappointed if he gets de-
feated. He has appealed to the nation
al committee for financial assistance in
his campaign, with the statement that ii
is money or certain defeat.
1t may be that Secretary Tracy can
explain satisfactorily the charges
which the New York Herald daily relt-
eraterates, that the change in the armor
of the new war vessels was made at the
request of the firms that make the ar
NOR, and that it will put several hun.
dred thousands of dollars in the pockets
of the aforesaid firms, but the ugly fact
remains, that up to the present time he
has not done so, and to attempt to pooh,
pooh, charges made by so responsible g
journal as the Herald, will hardly &C
down with an intelligent public. The
charge of favoritism, not to call it by q
worse name has been specifically made
and nothing short of an answer just as
specific will satisfy the unprejudiced
public. If secratary Tracy can prove
. the Herald to be wrong, it is a duty he
owes to the administration, as well as tC
his own good name, to do so at once.
Secretary Tracy is coming in fol
considerable criticism because of the I'M
protected position of American interests
in South America, which was sharply
brought to mind by the forcible seizure
of political refugees on n passenger
steamship carrying the American flag,
the other day, by Venezuelans, and the
consequent hurried ordering of the gun
boat Concord from the Atlantic coast to
Venezulan waters. When the social in
fiuences of the officers of the navy were
many months ago scheming to have the
best ships in our navy spend the sum
mer on the Atlantic coast, to give the
dear ducks who dance so delight
fully, you know" an opportunity to put
in little time at all the fashionabl,
seaside resorts. Secretary Tracy was
begged by those interested To keep one
! or two vessels in South American water
to look after American interests which
are constantly jeopardized by the un
settled condition of several of the cOun
tries over there, but he could not stanC
the social pull; hence the present un
satisfactory condition of affairs.
The possibility of an extra session o.
Congress put Washington all in fiuttel
this week, that is, if the rumor prev
alent about Mr.. Harrison intending tC
call All extra session to prohibit immi
, graf n, on account of the spread o
cholera in Europe may be said to make
possibility. Treasury department of
ticials, who ought to know if such thinl
WIS cont, plated, declined to talk abou
, it, although several of them admitted
that suspension of immigration woul,
help very much in keeping the choier'
out of the United States. Senstn- Cul
lom, of Illinois, now in Washington
/ says he docs not believe there il any
foundation for the rumor. and tina
there is no necessity at this time for an,
law absolutely prohibiting migration
although he admits that il may becom
necessary if the cholera continues to in
crease in Europe. NJ.