The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-10-26
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, October 22.-President CIeve-
land will return to the White House this week
and it is presumed, although not yet certain,
that Mrs. Cleveland and the children will ac-
company him. The White House has been
cleaned from cellar to garnet, a force of men
having been working from the day the Presi-
dent and his family left until Saturday night,
to brighten up things for the winter season.
Secretary Carlisle has almost consented to
deliver several speeches in Indiana and New
York and the pressure is so great that there is
little doubt that he will in the end succumb.
1t was not because he had any objection to
making speeches or doing anything else that
is proper to aid the Democratic party that he
at first declined to make these speeches. but
because he is very busy and expects to con-
tinue so until after the meeting of Congress,
and because he was so modest as to be unable
to see the Importance that Democrats all over
the country will attach to his speeches. The
last is the hardest to overcome. By working
overtime he can make up for the time lost,
but it is difficult to convince man as free
from anything approaching the big head as
Secretary Carlisle is that anything he may say
or do will be powerful factor towards the
success of his party.
Secretary Gresham, who returned from Chi
cago II few days ago, says he found the Demo-
Gratis of Illinois in better shape than he expect
ed from newspaper accounts of the situation,
and that he thinks the party will hold its own
in the Congressional districts and will control
the Legislature, which will elect Senator Gull
lom's successor. Now for surprise. l have
just learned from a trustworthy source that
there is strong probability that Secretary
Gresham will speak, both in Illinois and lndl-
ana, before the close of the campaign.
Mr.. Il. o. Towles, u prominent official of the
House has just returned from his home in Mis-
souri,. He has carefully investigated the poll
teal situation in the State and his Judgment is
regarded good by all who know of the accu-
rucy of the predictions he has made in previous
contests He says that the Democrats are
now working tremendously all over the State
and are certain to hold their own in Congress
sionul districts. and have a good lighting chance
to send solid Democratic delegation to the
Nsa-, ,Vrt 10 nt fnfn in
which the Republican campaign committee
has been figuring, or at least claiming to figure,
on big gains.
Every prominent Democrat who has been in
Washington for the last two or three days en-
dorses the action OF Senator Hill, IN allowing
the Democratic State ticket to be printed on
the Union or anti-Tammany municipal ticket,
as well on the Tammany ticket, as not only
good politics, but under the circumstances, alb
solutely necessary Poil1tics. they dGei that
make the success of the State ticket dependent
upon the election OF the Tammany ticket, as it
would have been had the State ticket been
printed only upon the Tammany ticket. While
the reports from New York are far from suits
factory most Democrats are still confident that
Hill will win.
In view of the action of Judge Larcombe of
New York, in denying the application for i
writ of habeas corpus in the case of Mr.. Nor
tons English coachman, who has been ordered
deported for having come to America i'll viola
ton of the alien contract labor law, and deciding
that the Secretary of the Treasury alone had
made, that the man was Mr.. Morton's domestic
servant and therefore exempt from the law in
question, was valid, Secretary Carlisle has di-
rected that the immigration board of review at
Ellis Island make a thorough investigation,
and report to him, i'll order that he may finally
decide the case. There is no politics in it so
far as Secretary Carlisle is concerned. He re-
grets the decision of Judge Larcombe, beiev-
ing that it puts more aut hority in the hands of
the Secretary of the Treasury than the trainers
of the law intended that he should have, but
will. of course make the decision.
The Congressional campaign committee has
about completed its work, so far as the send
ing out of the Democratic literature is con-
cerned. From now until election its work Will
be mostly of an advisory nature, although it
will also keep the Democratic managers posted
as to any new schemes put out by Republicans
to catch votes. Members of the committee
think the Congressional situation in New York
city, which has been awfully complicated in
nearly all the districts because of there being
two Democratic candidates -Tammany. and
anti-Tammany in each, has been greatly help
ed by the withdrawal of StrauS and the substI-
tuition of ex-Mayor Grant as the Tammany
candidate for Mayor. The Congressional COM
mittee wants Democrats elected to Congress,
and doesn't care Il fig whether they are Tam
many or anti-Tammany. and it is working to
prevent the running of two Democratic candi-
dates in any one district believing that it is
foolish to thus give seats to Republicans which
rghtfully belong to Democrats. G. A. 5.