Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-10-25
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular corresOoaaeo,

iais daMocratic managers ara II,
very much at sea as to NJ ~ uil
lands real attitude towards So e's-
Hill. 1t may be true, as has ~
repeatedly stated by Mr.. Clevala, NM
friends, that he intends to mata 4. :
contribution to Hills CAMPAIGN IL, I
to register and to vote for Nm ~
nobody has been found willing y ~ ~
that Mr. Cleveland had mad ~
such statement as to what ha -
or would not do, and it looks to i NJ
unprecedented that all of these ~.
ments made public by Cleval.ns
democrats have had but one obiect !
view--to compel Mr.. Cleveland 70 4
as the party managers wish him !.
do. That is, to endorse in soma MI
lie way the candidacy of Hin I.
may be that he will eventualIy,do :
but a member of the democraticcam
paign committee told democrat -.
day last week that he wouldn't h.
nickel on it. And people in Wash
ington who know something aho,,
the obstinacy of Mr. Cleveland a..
predicting that the methods which
hare deem adopted to force him !
speak will be more likely to NAL.
him refuse to speak. The order :,
the attorney general, that r. s. al.
trict attorneys must take no, aetiv.
part in the campaign, is regarded bv
some as a slap at Hill, and by,uther.
as merely bluff to please the rpuc.
wumps.
1t SCENE odd that the democrats
have one scheme that theyinvIia.
bly, try to work just before every ma.
tional election whether congressional
or presidential and congressional
combined. That is to get it widely
published that their campaign com.
mittee has its hands tied for lack Of
money. The story was promptly
started this year and every newspa.
per man who calls at democratic
headquarters is filed, npwith it. II
is quite as true this year as it ever
was. The committeesh has had more
money than it could legitimately use
and at the very timeethe committee
is pretending to be in trouble because
it has no money and can get none
some of its members. are making deals
which involve the spending of lara
amounts of money illegitimately.
Vice President Stavensons receni
statement, that the sugar trust had
gone all to pieces and that sugar was
to be cheaper than ever as result
of democratic tariff Legislation, was
astonishing news IN Washington
where it is known that the trust made
deal with certain prominent demo-
Gratis, agreeing. TO wait until after
the election before raising the whole
sale price OF. sugar, in return for thu
promise that no changes would b
made in the sugar schedule Of tbs
tariff law at the coming short sessisG
of congress. Surely Mr.. StevensoE
must have eonfornded the sugaI
trust with the democratic party
when he spoke of its having gone al
to pieces. The statement wouldhayf
been tgue ii it had referred to the
democratic party, but it isn't true o
the trust, as sugar consumers VII
discover when they have to pay tha
higher price for sugar, which will
within thirty days from election day
Just keep your eye on the price
sugar and see if you don't find TN
assertion strictly true.
Another democratic REFORM wa
last week semi-officialty announceS
by those connected with adminlstra
ton. 1t is that the excellent p0Ic
inaugurated by the republicans,
detailing army officers to serve
Indian agents, is to be abollsheO
and the positions to be filled by IN
appointments of politicians. The az
legged reason given is that the arm
officers are needed by the army ID
real reason is that lucrative place
may be found for few more huhSl
democrats. This matter VIII PRIV
ably bring about some h'ei
talk in congress, which will MOI 'e
the step taken to set aside its act p'O
viding for the detail Of army ofiicti
for this duty without some Suite
protests.
Much has been said by democfa
about the great reduction In saiai'
paid by the government when W.T.
made by the democratic congrs
According to the book Of congf
sional appropriations, an officlai p''
LEGATION, compiled by the CLERKS
the house and senate committees
appropriations, the number O 'a
ries reduced by congress was oa'
annual saving being s26,soO, whiie"
number of salaries increased was W
tho animal increase being $33,I4L