The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-16
DIFFER ON THE TARIFF.
ARE FAR APART ON
THAT IMPORTANT ISSUE.
Josiah Quincy's Fall and How IL Game
About-Mahone in Washington After
Campaign Foods.
IIMys J UREAU, RAPLKY BUILDING, !
WAsHINGToN. October Is. 1894. (

stenographers. The letters rec iyed a.
headquarters are generally requests for
,ho ulohSy q; or puohc documents, or some Of
the literature, which is Manufactured 10
SUIT ali sections and conditions of the
voters. Another, and large class of
correspondents are those who write to
Know, how certain districts, States or the
country VIII go on November 9Th This
rs great waste OF anybody's time for
the parusahS thus employed, wo Id be
Dehieaded IN two hours IL he did not
| .IdAn everything In sight. and as a mat
Ter or fact. neither of the campaign com
Hlttees here have. nor can have, any
aUsoiute ae data upon which to base a
There is one thing. however. to-day,
wHhlch Is interesting the leaders OF both
| headquarters, and that is that the Re-
! Puoncans over the country are hopeless
! ~ divided as TO their treatment OF the
! tarir. The Mckinley and Harrison fol-
! lowers are as busy as their chiefs I'm pro-
! Gaining allegiance to the Mckinley tariff,
anu even in Virginia several of the
| speakers continue to declare that ultra
| protection Is the only salvation of the |
country, while Thomas b. Reed and
John sherman, two certain presidential |
candidates, are asserting that they would |
never advocate return of the v kinley |
tarin but would simply revise schedules |
alOnS the line of the present Democratic |
measure. Mr.. Reed declared in New York |
that the Democratic party was unable |
10 promulgate any great ecCnmic prop |
ositions yet affirms that the Senate bill |
was wiser than they knew, and Is pre- |
ferable to the Mckinley law There IS |
no doubt that there Is a widely different |
opinion In the Republican ranks on this |
subject but in the meanwhile the Vir- |
gina republican candidates continue TO
struggle for the offices without really |
knowing just to which horn of the di- |
lemma they are attached.
The fact Is. the Republican party holds
out nothing whatsoever to the people of |
the country this year. and it is scarcely
TO be credited that the sensible people Of
virginia would want Republican TO be
sent here now. with the present Admin
istration organized as it Is and the af-
fairs of the country moving smoothly |
along on toward a surer and safer desti-
ny than has been opened up to us for
over quarter of a century.
GE RGIA DELEGATION.
Congressman Livingston, of the Fifth
Georgia district, and who defeated Sam
Small two years ago. arrived i'm the city
this morning. He was accompanied by
Messrs. T.. w. Barrett and Albert How
ell, Jr., OF the Atlanta Constitution and
was joined here by Mr.. Archie Butt OF
the Augusta Chronicle, owned by Senator
Walsh. The object of the visit of these
gentlemen was to call upon the Post-Ofice |
Department i'm regard to ruling made a |
Few days ago by the department, under |
which these papers were excluded from |
the United States mails, on account Of
some advertising matter which they con- q
tained The decision was made here by
Mr. John l.. Thomas, Assistant Attorney |
General for the Post-Omce Department
and no notice was given the papers until
the post-otiice authorities were instruct
ed TO reject the papers containing the
Objectionable matter, which is reported to
have been lottery notices.
Hr re.,> u. or THrnE. ,
In speaking Of the political situation in '
Georgia. Mr.. Livingston said that the re- "A
cent elections I'm that state were not fair 7
aXpOnents Of the Democratic vote which [
would be pOlled next month. +
1T was a fight" he said between I
the old soldier element and the younger I
Democrats for the nomination OF Evans b
and Atkinson, and the latter winning, p
large number Of veterans cast their vote y
for Judge Hines who, though endorsed by T
the Populists. was really an Independent e.
Democrat" t'
When asked as to the complexion of the r
next Georgia delegation, he said on N
hey will all be Democrats. There are Il
hree close districts, now represented by GO
.1assrs Black. Moses and Tate, but we te
Will win in all Of them when the election
ONES"
MR.. QUINCY's WINDING SHEET. .,
The recent Democratic convention I'm
probably placed the wind
lg-sheet about the political corpse Of our
steemed friend. Mr.. Josiah Quincy, Of JC
;oston. There are scores OF NrginlanS | p'
,hO will remember IN the carry DAYS OF la
his administration, what comfort da
quincy was 20 the would-be diplomats and TT
tate Department fuhctiOnaries. lie came tn
with the administration, and, with a lie
smile and halo about his | De
zee like the luminous meteOrlc phenom- tn
non that bathed the hills or Bethlehem In
nd III up the valley Of Judea when tn
hrist was born. lie was aesthetc, ana clC
2 pranced along ahead Of the admins th
"A tfon ike one OF those harneSSed but | tn
rfiys 10 an egg-shell coupe that they Ole
rint for Easter cards. lie was prollHc'I yo
i'm promises and pregnant win pontlcal
srspicacity. He was q Sem piucked IRON
>. fustreless surroundings or Worldly m ,
and placed in the front row ar'
Jewels that bedVcAed the uIdd1In 0l 1,
nlomatic consequence. But 10, JOSIAH ~
in and he fell with a dun thud that IN
ndered his return matter or db5olute u
moteness. Josiah got tangled up IN seV, ~
al little business matters. Whlch thrlVed ~
'naonsaiv as long as he was Assistant tdi
.cretary OF State, but which went down ,a
10 n parachute unopened when ne was T(
ked TO resign; and now come other aD> aD>(
'.ias but they are all alike, ana 20 TO "'1
oyy how entirely unfit he was Tor asso- rcn
zion with the vulgar herd VINO strive al
nestlv for living. There are AT leasI Noi
If a dozen Virgnians who nave scehteI Spe
toe and other valuable memento-S or | pnI
sinh lie was ethereal; he was 'eauI- tba
but he Is a dead cock in the pit about ~
,se October days. tlor
c,rrs At n 'r'c",TrC HEADQrNPTFR'. NJ
Livingston. or Georgia a.
mn. OF New Jersey, and Colonel " ats, III III
West Virginia, were the onIy 3diitIs VI Drat
,minence at Democratic head4udI'eIs ri
8 morning. -
hose gentlemen were all very uncom- stor
nicative and professed to know little IiOi
mi the political situation III their uist
tes ,a l., wa
onrressman Dunn, whose influence Is Wh
nonsible for the appointment Of Mr.. Hlcl
In who Is charged with abstrdctng cau'
tage stamps from the packages made
for shipment at the Bureau Of Print left
and Engraving is very anxious 10 dTcl
,bIish the innocence OF his protege. and 90 I
lere for that purpose. TOT
he only visitor of prominence AZ Ke- WeeI
lican headuarters was judge Long. or loan
ri1a u,ho h a member Of the y nance | egnn
,mittee of the Republican National the
1mittee He had a long conference Nj
4 Chairman Babcock, He IS said 70 the
n rendering substantial assstarce 70 Com
~ Republican candidates for Congress 81
.ba Southern States, but the Con- hold
,sionaI Committee mere claim they are 1894,
in position 10 render financial aid the y
nyone. IL ~.
..,g0~ > 'PrFAL FoR prEpe addu
neral Malone. II Is said. made stocl
40 anneaI for "assistanoe" for several W.
Ijdates from Virginia, but he might as dry Z
related his tale OF woe" TO the 10 b.
or noliceman. The National Commit ticipi
has nor forgotten the assistance" 10 and
tune OF sixty thousand dollars trey hous
him when he ran for Governor Tne dredl
II aid not seem 10 Justify the eXpen- the
re on that ocCas ION, Dut IL taught the y Is
,h,ican National Committee thNt Nir- move
was a Democratic St4te, and at tranC
voters could not he purchased o. her
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