The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-19
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

The administration will be repre-.
sented at the Batavia, N. Y, cele.
bration of the centennial of the Hol-
land land Office, which was the begin.
ming of the public land system of the
United States, by no less than five
members of the cabinet. Secretary
Carlisle will be the orator Of the oc
casion, his subject being Robert
Morris, signer of the Declaration of
Independence, revolutionary Secre.
tary of the Treasury, and the origi.
nator Of our public land system. The
administration party left here today.
accompanied by the ladies of their
families, and will return carly next
week. While there is nothing political
about this trip the opportunity that it
will give the members of the cabinet
to let the prominent New York Demo-
Gratis they will meet understand how
deeply interested the administration
is in the election of Senator Hill will
certainly be fully taken advantage Of
The nomination of an independent
Democratic candidate for governor Of
New York has no supporter in the
cabinet, and if there is a single Demo.
crat in Washington who does not
condemn the movement he has kept
SO quiet that nobody has heard of him.
Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign
committee, who has just returned from
New York, says Democratic prospects
are improving every day in that State
and that he now regards Senator Hills
election as certainty.
The annual renovation Of the White
House is complete and that portion
of the building to which visitors are
admitted is open for the first time
since the latter part of August. The
date for the return of President Cleve-
land and his family has not been def
nitely fixed, but it will probably be
within the next ten days.
Above the roaring OF the Republi
can buffers and calamity howlers is
heard the clear notes of Democratic
predictions of victory. Here's one,
sounded by Capt. J. |. Crutcher, U. S.
Marshal Of Idaho, which indicates the
gain of State and of a U. S. Senator {:
eff Idaho doesn't swing into the
Democratic column this year." said
Capt. Crutcher, now in Washington,
shall never more essay the role Of
apoltical prophet. believe the State
is going Democratic all the way
through, but as to the election of the
Democratic candidate for governor
there is hardly any doubt. There is
more than an even chance that the
Democrats and Populists will control
the next legislature, which means a
Democrat as the successor of Senator
Shoup."
Ex Secretary Whitney has always
been very popular with Democrats
and he has become more popular than
ever since he wrote that ringing letter
in favor of Democratic harmony and
the election of Senator Hill to be
governor of New York. At the head
quarters of the Democratic Congress.
lonal committee MIR. Whitneys letter
is regarded as rafting campaign
document, not only in New York but
everywhere else, as the arguments he
uses are in the main equally applica-
bic elsewhere. 1t is believed that it
will exercise great influence with those
Democrats who have been making the
mistake Of allowing their personal
anlmoslties to injure the party to
which they belong and to which they
are still devoted.
There are several reasons for the
belief that the recent cablegrams
which have been published intimating
that Germany intended to retaliate
upon the United States because of
the discriminating duty that is placed
upon German sugar by the new tariff,
by restoring the prohibitory regulations
concerning the importation of Ameri,
can pork and by other methods, are
inspired by the Republican managers
OF the Congressional campaign, solely
for present political use. AS matter
of fact, the conference committee on
the tariff bill agreed without division
to strike out the discriminating duty
on sugars from countries which pay an
export bounty on sugar, and it was
only because of the peculiar circum-
stances which caused the bill as it
passed the Senate to become law
that the clause was not struck out in
accordance with the committee agree
ment. 1t is generally conceded that
the discriminating duty is unjust, both
to Austria and to Germany, and is
generally believed that il will be re-
pealed at the coming session of Con-
gress These things are as well known
10 the German government as to our
own; hence it is folly to suppose that
1t is thinking Of retaliation for what is