The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-11-16
OIR WASHINGTON LETTER.

A>uINGToN. u. G.. November -
The democrats are rs Il rule standing up
! well under the load of defeat which has
] been piled upon the shoulders of the par
ty. Once in Il while Il democrat is found
/ who takes a gloomy view of the future of
the party. hut as Il whole they believe that
the setback is temporary and that it is
. traccahlc almost entirely to diesrnSion in
/ the party, which kept rood democrats
away from the polls, and that the defeat
, will result in hrin "in~ about action that
will remove the causes of democratic in
difference in time to present Il solid front
to the enemy in 1896 and to win back the
ground lost this year. Much will depend
upon the spirit in which the democratic
Senators and Representatives return to
Washington for the coming session of
Congress. they come with NindictivcneSS
in their hearts and revenge in their minds
on account of their personal wrongs, re
"ardless of its effect upon the future for
tunes of the democratic party. there will
be no harmony, but a repetition of the
examinations and denominations which
were a feature of the last session of Con
@resS and which dis guSted so many demo-
Gratis who had higher regard for the
principles and success of the party than
for the triumph of any individual or com
hination of individuals. As one democrat
very APPLY puts it: IF the present leaders
of the democratic party refuse to har-
monte they will find that the rank and
file of the party, who wish for harmony
and party success above evcrythin" else,
know how to select lcauer> who will
harmoniZc.
Senator Sherman, who WAS rs deep in
republican campaign secrets and eNpecta-
tions as any man, does not hesitate to rN-
press his surprise at the results of election.
He says that the most expected was that
the republicans would succeed in cectin "
a small majority of the house. If the
winners were surprised it is easy to ina "ine
that theloSers were more 50.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the demo
cratic campaign committees wishes it to
be distinctly understood that his ante
election claim. that the democrats would
retain control # the House Was bona
tide. made upon information obtained from
democrats who he had every reason to
suppose We're accurately posted upon the
situation in their respective st ateS. To
give an idea of the class Of democrats
upon whom he relied for information lie
cites Illinois, where Hon. William Il.
Morrison, has been Il prominent drm"rr.. t
since he was old enough to vote. Mr..
Morrison after hcily on the stump in that
, State for weeks informed Senator Faulk-
ncr that the State would certainly elect
twelve and probably fourteen democratic
congressman and that the legislature
would he democratic. Illinois did not
elect a single democratic Congressman,
and its legislature is republican, The
Senator does not mean by this to cast any
asperSion upon Mr.. Morrison and tie
other democrats who furnished the com
mittee the information upon which his
claims were based. Tut merely to show
that this was one of the years when the
| leaders of the party were not posted a> to
the intentions of the voters. He believes
| them to have been honest in their
reports as he was in his claim, but he
doesn't fancy being considered a rainbow
Secretary Carlisle says, and surely there
| can be no better authority. that there is
absolutely no foundation for the story sent
out from Wall street. that the Treasury
! Department was preparing to issue bonds
to strengthen the gold reserve And he
| adds that the story is merely a part of one
of the perio iical schemes started in Wall
Street for the express purpose of forcing
an issue of bonds There is no more
bonds than there has been fer three or
four months In fact there is less, as the
gold in the Treasury has been slowly in
creasing for sometime.
President Cleveland is now working up
on his annual message to Congress, which
is expected to be quite long this year.
While not caring to make the positive
statement, | have excellent reasons forthc
orouslv with tariff reform and will make
it perfectly plain that the President be
lieves the defeat of the democratic party
was not for what was done in that direc-
do, e. IN | will urge in no uncertain lam
guage that the omissions of the last SEES
SionS be partially made up at the coming
session. by the passing of the free raw
material bill by the Senate which were
passed by the House at the last session.
1t is not believed that anything that the
President can say will cause the Senate to
pass those bills because the democratic
Senators who struck the free raw mater
ial features, with the exception of wool.
out of the original Wilson bill will not vote
for them but the President can at least
put himself on record as still. believing.
in common with most democrats. that the
pledges upon which the party WAS put in
to power two wears ago ought to be kept
! before the party loses control of Congress,
and believe he will do it.
AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.
The growth and work of the prr> of
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
tionS in the United States was discussed
Tuesday at the initial session of the eighth
annual convention of the Association of
American \ Agricultural Colleges and En-