Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-25
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent.

kAhVAu Out AtkiiaF IOrrespOnQe1t-t
Washington, d, c., Oct. 10, 1894.
The democratic managers are still
very much at sea as to Mr.. Cleveland's
real attitude towards Senator Hill. 1t
may be true, as has been repeatedly
stated by MIR. Cleveland's friends that
he intends TO make a big contribution
to Hills campaign fund, to register
and to vote for Hill, but nobody has
been found willing to say that DIR.
Cleveland had made any such state
mtnt as to what he would or would d %
do, and it looks TO man unprelu-
diced that all these statements made
public by Cleveland democrats have
had but one object in view-to compel
Mr.. Cleveland 10 do as the party man.
ayers wish him TO do. That is. to in
dorse in some public way the can Ii
dacy of Hill. 1t may be that he will
eventually do so, but member of the
democratic campaign committee told
democrat yesterday that he wouldn't
bet nickel on il. And people in
Washington who know something
about the obstinacy of Mr.. Cleveland
are predicting that the methods which
have been adopted to force him to
speak will be more likely to make him
refuse to speak. The order of the At
torney General. that u. s. district at
torneys must take no active par in the
campaign, is regarded by some as a
slap at Hill, and by others as merely a
bluff TO please the mugwumps.
1t seems odd that the democrats have
one scheme that they invariably try to
work just before every nat'onal election
whether Congressional or Presidential
and Congressional combined. That is
to get it widely Published that their
campaign committee has its hands tied
for lack Of money. The story was
promptly started this year and every
newspaper man who calls at democrat.
ic headquarters is filed up with it. 1t
is quite as true this year as it ever was
The committee has had more money
than it could legitimately use, and at
the very time the committee is pretend
ing 20 be in trouble because il has no
money and caa get none, some of its
memoirs are making deals which in
volve the spending of large amounts OF
money illegitimately.
Vice President Stevenson's recen,
statement, that the sugar trust has
gone all 10 pieces and that sugar wa
| to be cheaper than ever as result OF
democratic tariff legis alton, was as,
tonishing news in Washington. wher,
il is known that the trust made dea
with certain proninent democrats
agreeing to wait until aftsr the election
before raising the wholesale price OF
sugar, in return for the promise that nc
changes would be made in the sugar
schedule of The tariff law at the coming
short session of Congress, Surely MIR,
Stevenson must have confounded the
sugar trust with the democratic party
when he spoke of its having gone nj
to pieces. The statement would hav,
been true il il had referred 10 the dem
ocratic party, but it isn't true of tht
trust, as sugar consumers will discover
when they have TO pay the higher pric'
for sugar, which will be within thirty
days from election day. just keeI
your eve on the price of sugar and sc,
il you don't find this assertion strictt
true.
Another democratic reform was thi
week ,mi-officiallY announced by thos
connected with the administration. /