Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-11-08
Washington Letter.
CFrom our Regular correspondent.I
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 1894

queer act OBS hss, thsnks To the wag-
giDg tongue of Cleveland worshipper.
| peen found Inste al Of his being en-
gagged in going through period Uf old
fashioned sulks with his party he acIu-
ally thinks himself 10 be playing q d. ep
political gsme that will result IN max
| ing his own the only name that will be
seriously mentioned for the democr ATTIC
uomlnstion of '96. He believed for a
| long time before the Adjournment of
Congress that democratic defeat was
probable this yesr, and after adjourn
ment and the summing up of the tland-
efs made by his party be became Ger
tain that the Republicans would control
the next House, but II was not until his
most hated personal enemy. Senator
Hill. was nominated for governor Of
New York. that he fully made up his
mind that neither himself nor any
member of his CABINET would take any
part in the campaign 1t was then
also that the possiblnties of the game
which had been float ng through his
mind for some time began TO look to
| hlm like probabilities, His idea is that
the democratic defeat will impress it on
the democratic party that it is only
when Grover Cleveland is interested or
| is candidate that it can win. His
game is in short a revival of the man
of desiioy" racket. He will point out
thu & was the failure OF the democrats
in Congress to follow bis advice that
made the party unpopular, ignoring
the fact that the following of his adj
vice on the tariff question would have
made it still more unpopular, and will
bend all of his energies for the rest of
his term to posing as the only demo-
crat who will have even a fighting
chance to win two years hence, not
forgetting to work the patronage at his
disposal in the interest of the Cleyeland
party. All of which is decidedly anus
ing to republicans
Chairman Babcock, of the rep1bli-
can Congressional Campaign commit :
tee. returned to Washington this week
from ten days STAY in Wisconsin.
When asked whether he cared to re-
wise his estimate made more than two
weeks ago, that the republicans would
elect 1870 members of the next House,
be said: can see no reason TO change
my statement in one particular, with
this possible exception; the latest re-
turns show that districts that we're
considered as hopelessly democratic
when | left Washington are now felt
10 be probably republican, and districts
where we felt we had fighting chance
are now almost certain republican,
There has been no diminution in the
trend toward our success. aud the le-
nuhifaap xuaua instead ~ ~aonA;,,z. -
growing higher every day." Speak
Ing OF the claim of Senator Faulkner,
chairman OF the democratic campaign
committee. that the democrats would
carry Wisconsin, Mr. Babcock said: 1T
is novelty TO come away from home
To get news from there. That is news
indeed, that the democrats are going
to carry the state ticket and a majority
of the Congressional delegation. Ii
Mr.. Faulkner's information on general
matters is no better than that from
Wisconsin upon which he based his
claims, then his campaign must indeed.
be wholly hopeless II | were not GER
tain that this claim is great bluff,
should think it a huge joke, directed at
me | cannot understand how MIR.
Faulkner should have been so badly
misl sd in his estimate about the ticket.
There is no confidence among the DEM
ocrats of the sta.e and even the chair
mau of the democratic state committee,
Boss Wall, who owns the democratic
party of Wisconsin. has practically
given up the fight. just before left
heard that the best he could do towards
keeping up a bold front was TO offer to
bet $1,000 that the republican state
ticket would not be elected by more
than 10000 majority. L. is certain
that we shall elect more tban a major.
ity of the Congressmen."
Commissioner Lochren, of the Pom
sion Office, seems to regard anything
that stands in the way of his arbitrarily
suspending pensions as being against
the interests of the government. He
has the impudence to say in his annual
report that the provision of law pre-
venting the Comm ssioner suspendipg
pensions until fraud mas been actually
established, which the present Con
gresS, bad as il il, was accessory |
to check the wholesome suspension |
policy of the democratic administra- |
ton, does not work advantageouslv TO |
the Pension Bureau. Which is about |
equivalent to Judge reporting that the |
law which prohibits man being con-
demmed as a criminal before having |
been convicted of crime does not work |
advantageouslv to the court over which |
ne presides. The trouble with Com |
missioner Lochren and all the rest of
the democratic admin stration, is that
that they make the mistake of regard
ing the principal business of the PEN
sion Bureau to be- to suspend, reduce
and to cut off pensions, and regard al
interfering laws as objectional.
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RETURNS were received by a house
full OF enthusiastic republicans 10
Reeds Opera House But myi how
tired they all felt when dispatch
came saying that South Carolina had
gone dem ocratic by 10000. They
l. haR ~ eks, k..,.o