Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-15
At TEEiS WlTH END.
Washington Newspaper Correspondents suz-
zlsd to Find Demo cratic News.

One OF the most Unhappy men in Wash
ington is Chairman Wilson Of the waysaud
means committee. Mr. Wilson is polite,
quiet, scholarly and studious man. lie
has little love for the hurry burly OF poll
tics or for the rough and tumble debate
which is often INDUCED upon the floor Of
the house Fer many months he has worked
on she new tariff bill as man has rarely
worked before. lie has, rs he says, been Ii
slave to duty. Night and day, with al lis
strength and endurance, has he toiled. And
what does he get forit? Nothing but abuse
and misrepro sentatiOn. fault finding, opp0-
sition-not a little OF it from his own party
from the very men who in the nature Of
things would be expected to stand by him.
At one time Mr.. Wilson felt 20 badly
over the treatment accorded him by his Gel
low Democrats that he thought seriously
of resigning and escaping all the annoyance
and trial by q return to his books. Ia {
that would have been rather cowardly. AID
Mr. Wilson is not Il coward. So he stood
his ground, and in Washington i; is gen
orally believed he will fUd his X ward in
an appointment to thcaupr2me court benz Il
If 4 vacancy in the right circuit o2olrs dm"
ing Mr.. Cleveland STERN.
Awaiting II Turn of tho Tide.
The Washington manager Of one of tie
great telegraphic press associations received
tersa inquiry frora one Of his customers a
few days ago II wae why in thunder
don't Won give us 4 little Democratic stuff
out of Washington" His reply was equal
~ pointed There isn't any" be wired
back It is remarkable fact that for scv-
eral weeks the representatives ofthc pressas
n
wits ends to find news to send that would
not be discouraging to the Democratic
party The aim of these press associations
is to be- absolutely impartial, and if forced
to send bad news for one party to even it
up by sending bad news to the other party.
But Of lase it BIAS seemed that the only news
in town was news which only Republicans
would really enjoy, and it was not surprs-
in:s hat the Democratic editor finally broke
forth with his inquiry why some Of the
Democratic counties could not be heard
from once in awhile.
The remark has frequently been made in
Washington during the past six weeks that
the Democratic party has been in the slough
of despond. The elections went against il:
the tariff bill raised storm of opposition
in the ranks; the Hawaiian business turned
that parties are like individuals in that
they have their periods of i'll luck, At this
capital the Democrats are anXiously but
confidently awaiting Il turn of the tide.
The Pass u Of AR. Gresham.
During all this Hawaiian row the CORE.
spondcnt OF San francisco paper has been
in serious trouble. The san Francisco pa
pers naturally have been keenly interest
ed i'll everything pertaining to Hawaii.
They have instructed their correspondents
here to get up early and stay up late to
make sure of getting everything going. In
the case of this particular correspondent
the instructions have been followed so lit
orally that he scarcely goes to bed at all.
His paper has both n morning and an after.
noon edition. With the difference Of time
between san Francisco and Washington it
is possible to print afternoon news in
morning newspaper and morning news in
an afternoon newspaper if the correspond
eut is only on the alert early and late. This
unfortunate newsgatherer has thus been
kept on the jump about 20 hours out of the
p. If the Hawaiian business is not soon
settled, he will have to resign or go to a
hospital.
Politicians, like parties, have their psand
was the rising man of the Democratic party.
It was he who killed the silver compromise
scheme, and when that prettily laid plan
went TO pieces Senator German retired TO
his tent bitterly disappointed and badly
defeated man. Germans end of the teeter
board was way down and Grcsham's was
aloft Now the thing has swung the other
way 1t is Mr.. Gresham who is waiting for
the clouds to roll by, while the senator
whose little compromise bantling had its
head cut off by the big secretary of state
now takes keen delight in posing more or
less sincerely, and more or less in a Pick
wickian sense. rs the friend OF the admins
iraton in the upper branch of congress
Whenever Mr.. Hoar or some other Meme
sisiike Republican Introduces resolution
intended TO annoy President Cleveland or
his secretary of state, it is Mr. German who
! usually rises, and with that peculiar smile
which we all know so well suggests that
under the rules ii had better lie over, or
that it had better be referred to the appro-
subcommittee. 1t is as good as circus
TO watch the ups and downs OF great men
here.