The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-11-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Should Remember the
Fate Of James G..
Blaine.
Tawney Showed His Good Sense
in Not Voting for
Repeal.
Off1ce-HOlders Read
the Handwriting on
the Wall.
From the Unions Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l3.-It really
does look as if the people had enough
of the proposed tariff reform that we
have heard so much about, or rather as
if they wish they hadn't done it year
ago. Old Abe said that you might be.
able to fool all the people some of the
time, and some of the people all the
time, but you could not fool all the
people all the time. That is the way
with the Democratic party. It prom
ised that if it was given full power it
would remedy all evils. It lied, and
humbugged the people. The people
have found it out. .
How about Mckinley for president?
He would make a good one. But it is
to be feared that the politicians will
combine against him as they have COM
bined against Blaine in the past, and
prevent his nomination. u. William Nc
Kinley would sweep the country in 1896.
Don't you believe that silver had
anything to do with it. There have
always been more Republicans in favor
OF sound money than Democrats.
There were more Republicans voting
a financial wave. 1t was a protest
against free trade or slaughter of the
tariff. And the Democrats here are
already hedging. They will materi-
ally modify the bill since the election.
Representative Tawney, of the First
district, always was somewhat doubtful
about the proper policy to pursue on
the silver question, and he got around
it nicely on the last vote. He had him
self paired with Lawson of Georgia,
who was already paired with Taylor
of Tennessee. Jim is shrewd enough
to catch them either way. Those law
yers make sharp politicians.
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The Democratic office-holders are
the bluest lot you ever saw. They all
have elaborate explanations OF how it
all happened. Local issues, they say,
and a dozen other things besides, but
none of them say it is because the peo-
pie are disguised with the Democratic
party. The ohice-holders would not be
blue if they did not know that it means
that their lease of official pap is not for
all time, but for only four years.
X X
I wonder if Commissioner Lochren
appreciates the fact that the old soldier
is alive, and that he resents the injuries
and insults Of a southern secretary and
his underlings against his old com
rades. There are a good many lessons
to be learned from the election.
A recent report of the engineer Of
fcers OF the army showed that the
navigation of the Mississippi was due
now to the system of reservoirs at the.
headwaters of the river. Commenting
on that fact the other day, an official
said that the location of the reservoirs
was due to the persistency and never
yielding efforts of Senator Washburn
while he was member of the house.
Senator Washburn has a number of
friends who are still in the house who
knew him when he was a member of
that body. They remember the hard
work he did for the reservoirs, and
also the persistent manner in which he
pursued anything he was after, until he
had secured it. I have often wondered
at the warm friendship existing be-
tween men who have served together
in congress. There is scarcely any
thing that members Of the house who
knew Washburn when he was mem
Der of that body would not do for him
now.