San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. y. 1854.


every time any one approaches
group Of Democrats of sufficient
prominence to be taken into the
confidence OF their party campaign
managers. They do not wish to be
overheard admitting defeat, al
though they freely do so among
themselves, and are already look
ing around for scapegoat upon
whom they can pack all the blame.
Mr.. Cleveland and Senator Faux
ner, chairman Of the Democratic
campaign committee, are running
neck race for this very undesir-
able position, although Senators
Hill and German are frequently
mentioned in the same connection,
likewise Representative Wilson, of
West Virginia.
At Republican Congressional
headquarters all the news indicates
that the Republican majority in
the next House will be between
twenty and thirty, and il the DEM
ocrats cannot do something to ar
rest the wholesale desertion of men
who have heretofore acted with
that party the Republican party
may go as high as fifty. Various
causes are responsible for these de-
sertions, principal among which
may be mentioned the assertions of
such Democratic leaders as Mr..
Cleveland and Mr.. Wilson, that
tariff tinkering must go on the at
tempt to make nationality of Mr..
Morton's domestic servants an is
sue in the New York campaign,
and the attempt to stir up relig-
ious prejudice for campaign use.
| There is one Senator who ap-
parently takes no great interest in
the campaign in his state. That
is Roach, of North Dakota. He
only left Washington Saturday
night, having been here since Con-
gress adjourned. The reason for
his apathy may perhaps be found
in the fact that from his point Of
view very little is at stake in his
state. Mr.. Roach, like the rest Of
his party, recognizes the "cinch"
that Representative 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 Re-
publican 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 will 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 $. Wise, formerly of
Va, now of New York, can be as
caustic 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 81
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
consciousness to evolve a secretary
who suggested neither the ice
cream of the frozen north nor the
mint julep Of the sunny south, the
sort Of creation they pickle in al
cohol, strange, nameless Hoky-
poky. Elected as the opponent of
the trusts, he selected trust
lawyer as attorney general, and
made secretary OF the treasury
Democratic statesman who never
owned an unmOrtgaged dollar in
his life.
There have been rumorsk that
big scandal would be unearthed In
connection with the stealing of
postage stamps froml the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, ever
since the arrest Of two of the thiev-
ing employees of that bureau, and
those rumors have been strength
ened since the assistant chief OF
the bureau stated under oath, at
the prelimin airy hearing, that the
only stamps stolen were those
which had been printed by the
New York concern that had the
contract previous to the first of