The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1894

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overheard admitting defeat, al
though they freely do SO among
themselves, and are already looking
around for a scapegoat upon whom
they can pack all the blame. Mr..
Cleveland, and Senator Faulkner,
Chairman of the Democratic cam
paign committee are running neck
and neck race for this very unde-
desirable position, although Sena-
tors Hill and German are also fire.
quentIy mentioned in the same con-
necton; likewise Representative
Wilson, of ". Va.
At Republican Congressional
Headquarters all the news indicates
that the Republican majority in the
next House will be between twenty
and thirty, and if The Democrats
cannot do something TO arrest the
wholesale desertion of men who
have heretofore acted with that
party the Republican majority may
go as high as fifty. Various causes
are responsible for these assertions,
principal among which may be men
toned the assertions Of such Demo
cratic leaders as Mr.. Cleveland and
Mr.. Wilson, that tariff tinkering
must go or; the attempt to make
the nationality of Mr.. Morton's
domestic servants an issue in the
New York campaign, and the at,
tempt to stir up religious prejudice
for campaign use.
There is one Senator who appar-
emily takes no great interest in the
campaign in his State. That is
Roach, Of North Dakota. lie only
left Washington Saturday night,
haying been here since Congress ad
journed. Thereason for his apathy
may perhaps be found in the fact
that from his point of view very lit
tie is at stake in his State. MIR.
Roach, like the rest of his party,
recognizes the "cinch" that Repre-
sentative johnson has on his seat,
and the Legislature to be elected
this year will not elect a Senator.
Still, his apathy is an indication of
his belief that Republican success is
assured.
Mr.. W. B. Thompson, treasurer
of the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, has just re-
turned from Michigan, where he
made himself thoroughly familiar
with the political situation. He
says Michigan wall certainly elect a
solid Republican delegation to the
next House. In 1892 Michigan
elected five Democratic members Of
the House. but signs have not been
lacking that many of those who
helped to DO it have become very
much ashamed of their votes.
Hon. John S. Wise, formerly of
Virginia, how of New York, can be
as caustc in his remarks as ever his
father, one of Nirginia's celebrated
Governors, was in his most savage
humors. Witness what he said of
the present Cabinet: "Cleveland
took his Secretary of State out of
the Republican party and has not
yet been able to make HIM say I
am a Democrat He found an old
confederate weeping above the grave
of jefferson Davis and made him
Secretary of the Navy. Over his
old typewriter he waived his magic
wand and transformed him into a
Secretary Of War, while he went
into the interior Of his own con-
seriousness to evolve a Secretary who
suggested neither the ice cream of
the frozen north nor the mint JULIEN
of the sunny south-thc sort of a
creation they pickle in alcohol
strange, nameless HokY-poky.
Elected as the opponent of the
trusts, he selected a trust lawyer as
attorney general, and made Secre-
tary Of the Treasury a Democratic
statesman who never owned an un-
mortgaged dollar in his life.
There have been rumors that a
bis scandal would be unearthed in
connection with the stealing Of
postage stamps from the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing, ever since
the arrest Of two Of the thieving
employees of that Bureau, and those
rumors have been strengthened
since the assistant Chief Of the
Bureau stated under oath, at the
preliminary hearing, that the only
stamps stolen were those which mad
been printed by the New York con-
Germ that had the contract previous
to the first of last July. That
statement bias been generally ac-
cepted as proof that the method of
handling stamps at the Bureau is
radically defective, as thousands of
stamps with the distinctive mark of
the Bureau on them were produced
in court and proved to have been
purchased from the thieves or their
confederates. and the Assistant
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