The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent


WASHINGTON, D. c., October II, 1894.
wTbe administration will be represented at
The Batavia, N. Y, celebration of the centen-
Nal of the Holland Land Office, which was
fhe beginning of the public land system OF
the IInited States, by no less than i've mem
hers of the Cabinet Secretary Carlisle Will
he the orator of the occasion, his subject be-
ing Robert Morris, slgner OF tne Declara-
tion of Independence, revolutionary Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and the originator OF
our public land system. The administration
party left here today, accompanied Dy the
ladies of their families, and will return early
next week. While there isnothlng political
ahont this trip the opportunity that it will
give the members of the CABINET 10 let the
6rominent New York democrats they will
meet understand how deeply interested the
administration is in the election OF Senator
Hill will certainly be fully taken aoVan-
tage OF. a,ao,,+ do,,,,
cratlc candidate for governor OF New York
has no supporters in the cabinet, and II there
ie a single democrat in Washington who does
not condemn the movement ne mas kept SC
on,et that nobody has heard OF him. Sena
tor Faulkner, Chairman of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign committee, who has
inst returned from New 1ork, says demo
cratic prospects are improving every day II
that state and that ne now regaros senator
Bilrs election as certain.
The annual renovation of the WhiteHouse
is complete and that portion OF the building
10 which visitors are admitted is open Tor the
first time since the latter part OF august
The date for the return OF President CleVe
land and his family has not Deen oennlteI.
6xed. but it will probably be within the mex
Ahove the roaring of the republican bluff
ars and calamity howlers is heard the cleal
notes of democratic pred1clons OF victory
Here's one sounded by Capt. j. L. Crutcher
Of which indicates
gain of a State and of U: s. Senator
1daho doesn' swing into the democratic col
nmn This year" said Capt. Crutcher, now II
Washington, 4" shall never more essay the
roll of prophet. believe the State is go
inc democratic all the way through, but al
70 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 mex
legislature, which means democrat as the
successor of Senator Shoup;
Ey-Secretary Whitney has always beer
-a-v nonular with democrats and he has be
come more popular than ever since ne wrote
the ringing letter in favor OF oemocIaIic mar
noony and the election OF Senator Hill 10 pe
governor of New York. Atthe neaoquarters
6f the democratic Congressional committee
Mr. Whitney's letter is regarded as rafting
campaign document. not only IN New ORR
hut everywhere else, as the arguments he
uses are in the main equally appncaple else
where. 1t is believed that II VIII e4ercise
sr-aa+ influence with those democrats who
Saye been making the mistake of allowing
their personal animosities to inJure the party
- which they belong and to which they are
still devoted. so tho ho1io4
There are several reasons Tor tne pene1 @
.hot recent cablegrams which nave peer
u,,h,ished tnat intimating that Germany intended
p puDlit retaliate upon the United States because
~ the discriminating duty that is placeo
non Oh on1 German sugar BY the lew tariff, by re-
Storing % the prohibitory regulations con concern ant
ttln1s.her tns se methods, are inspired by the repub
i;csn ~ nm managers of the Congressional cam
ns;en. nsin solely for present political use: AS
matter of fact, the conference committee on
% .%Hstsriff bill agreed without divisiont to strike
ont the discriminating duty on sugars IRON
sountries which pay an export ooun'y VI