The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-11-02
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WashingtOn Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, October % That the continu-
ed silence of President Cleveland, concerning
the New York campaign, is not pleasing to the
average Democrat lI is useless to deny. True
il is not too late for him TO say good word for
the plucky fight that Senator NH is making,
but nothing that he can now say will, i'll the
opinion of expert need campdlgners, do as
much good to the party in that State as u few
words spoken earlier III the campaign would
have done. Under ordinary circumstances il
would not be considered necessary for the
President to say that he wishes to see the ticket
nominated by his party III any state elected,
but in New York, even aside from the known
personal relations existing between the Presi-
dent and Senator Hill, there are peculiar cir
cumstauces which made such an expression of
opinion desirable, not only for its elect upon
the vote cast for the State ticket but to aid the
Democratic candidates in the Congressional
districts.
Although no stock is taken here in the claim
of the government of Germany that its decree
prohibiting the importation of American cat
tie and dressed beef was issued because there
was Texas fever in two cargoes OF American
cattle, lately carried to that country, the De-
partment of Agriculture has taken steps to in
vestigate the claim. If it be true, as believed,
that Gernanys real reason is to retaliate, be-
cause of the differentiul duty on her sugar i'm
posed by the new tariff, somebody has Olunder-
ed and the blunder may defeat the intention,
coming session of Congress.
Representative Davey, of LOUISIANA, who was
in Washington on business several days ago,
saws tie talk about electing several hepuDllCan
Congressman from that State, which Republi-
cans are indulging i'll, strikes him as being very
absurd. He thinks the only district in which
the revolving sugar planters are numerous and
influential enough to have even hghtlng
chance of defeating the Democratic candidate
for Congress is the Second, and that the Demo-
Gratis will carry that by very small margin.
The other five Congressional districts. he says,
will be certain to go Democratic, as usual.
1t is difficult to see where the Republicans are
to make the gains necessary to deprive the
naF1 re nj fhn
House, when the returns of the careful canvass
made by Democrats i'll every section OF the
country, now being received by the Democrat
ic Congressional campaign committee, are
studied. From Indiana, where the Republi-
cans have been claiming everything. comes the
news that the Democrats will certainly carry
ten of the eleven Congressional districts carried
by them in 1892, and have good chance to car
ry the eleventh from Wisconsin, where ride
ulous claims have also been made by kepubli-
cans comes the declaration that the Demo-
Gratis will be certain to carry five of the six
districts they carried in '92, with fighting
chance i'll two other districts, and from North
Carolina, where the Republicans and Populists
have formed Il fusion which at one time did
look dangerous, comes the assurance that the
legislature which will elect two U. s. Senators,
will certainly be Democratic, and that the Con-
greSsiOnal delegation will be solidly Democrat
ic, Il gain of one member.
Senator Faulkner, who, in addition to the
knowledge he has acquired as chairman of the
Congressional campaign committee, knows the
district, as well as the voters personally and
tnOrOugnly. says he fcRaruS w llSOu 3
reelection to Congress as being well-nlgh GER
tain, and he would regard it as absolutely GER
tan were it not for the fear that large sums
of money, which report says have been contri-
buted by the protected manufacturers, who
are anxious to defeat Mr.. Wilson, will be
spent in the outright purchase of votes. There
is no law providing for a registration of voters
in West Virginia, consequently there is some
opportunity for the manipulation of a large
crooked floating vote. However, Senator
Faulkner says this danger will be minimized
by the vigilance of the Democrats. Of course
no amount of vigilance can prevent legal
voter selling his vote, if he be so disposed,
but they can be detected and both they and
their bribers punished, and they will be, where
ever possible.
IF were asked, +" said Democrat of nation
al reputation, Ito criticiSe the work done by
the Democratic Congressional campaign COM
mittee, this year, | know but of one thing with
which | would find fault. / don't think the
committee has made the fusion of the Republi-
known in some sections of the country rs it
should. / think Democratic votes would have
been made in the Middle and Eastern States, il
in no other section, by widely advertising the
fact that the Republicans were supporting
Populist candidates for Congress in Virginia.
North Carolina, Georgia. Alabama, Arkansas
and Texas, while members of the same party
were asking the votes of the business men of
other states on the ground that it was the only
party which believed in an honest and sound
financial system. The American people do
not believe in hypocracy, in politics or in any
thing else. and it would have paid the Demo
Gratis to have shown up this Republican duplic.
ity." c. A. S.