Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-20
FROM H CAPITAL.
The Spring Elections Bring Gen
eral Satisfaction to theRe-
publicans.
Who Backed Ezra Miller is a
Question Still Undecided
Adjournment.


publicans are saying: "We feel very
well, thank you"-and give these rea
sons for their comfortable condition
/. All Of the western elections are
favorable to them. Kansas has
tripped away from its strange gods
and is hurrying into the G.. o. p. fold.
The Michigan election indicates that
that state will stay in the republican
column, from which it temporarily
departed two years ago. st. Louis
city election is a splendid victory for
them. Carter Harrisou's election in
Chicago by 10000 is 1000 less than
the city gave Cleveland last Novem-
Der. The result in Rhode Island is
owing to the prohibitionists polling
a larger vote than was expected. The
~by-elections 10 be held this week may
yet result In a republican victory.
2. Cleveland's course. He angered
the old stayers by picking out men
nearly unknown outside of their
states for most of the cabinet offices.
He refuses to make appointments to
office on the recommendation of con-
gressmen or Of united congressional
delegations. He distinctly snubbed
Tammany last Saturday by giving
only six minutes of an interview to
1t. Gov. Sheehan of New York, a
member Of the national committee
and one Of Tammany's leading lights.
Sheehan came all the way from New
York for the purpose indicated, but
the president put him off with only
this brief talk. This only Anglers
Tammany and makes a creaking in
the running gear Of the machinery,
a point that your readers will appre-
ciate.
When Bartlett Trip was nomin-
ated to Austria it was amusing to
hear the old stayers inquire: "Who's
Tripp?" The scorning M%innesotians
were the chief inquirers along this
line. Baker of the St. Paul Globe.
who was formerly a republican, gets
the office Of minister to Guatemala at
slo,O0O-in a volcanic and sickly coun-
try; while Trip gets one of the easiest
and most agreeable berths in the for
eign corps at Sl2, 900 a year.
These and other causes make the
republicans smile as they see that
their own party is intact-was not
destroyed by the November elections
and that the curse Of ofice-seeking
and office-giying is weakening their
opponents as it always weakens
every political party.
who backed Ezra Miller" is a
leading question in South Dakota,
and it is repeated here. If any one
knows, he won't tell. 1t wasn't Kyle,
he wanted an Edmunds county
friend. Trip is not known to have
taken any hand in the selection for
he was looking after Trips interest
in Austria. OF course the republican
members of the states congressional
delegation have no influence at the
White House: so the mysterious
question recurs with added mystery,
"who backed Ezra Miller" l think
his old-time Alabama friends MAJ
have helped him through.
Mr.. Trips friends certainly have
occasion to congratulate themselves
on his appointment-the first foreign
minister ever appointed from Dakota
or the Dakotas. The democracy of
your state should feel very highly
honored by having such a repre-
%sentation in the diplomatic corps. !
suppose it is a reward for his service
in the battle of Pierre In 1891. So,
after all, it is more of a personal
honor to him than a party reward.
1t is erroneous to say that Mr.. Kyle
did not favor this appointment. 1t
is a case Of
Tickle me, Barty; tickle me do;
You tickle me and I'll tickle you."
He visited the president in Janu-
airy in Mr.. Trips interest, and mas
steadily done all he could to bring
the result reached. But Of course he
couldn't do much. South Dakota
democrats can hardly expect any
further favors, outside of their state.
One such plum must suffice for a
state that gave Cleveland 9,0Sl votes;
Weaver, 26, 544; Harrison, 34,8S8.
The end of this extra session of the
senate is believed to be nearly in
sight. Their committee has notified
the president that they are ready to
adjourn, if he has no further business
for them to attend to. They will
probably scatter before next Sunday.
In truth, there is not voting quorum
here to day, has there been for a
week. Forty-seven is the highest
number present for two weeks, and
so many are paired that several OF
those present cannot vote on any
political question. So the democrats