The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-10-19
Washington Letter.

Washington, D. c., Oct. IS, 1894 II
The administration will be represented
at the Batavia, Ny, celebration OF the
centennial of the Holland land offlce,
which was the beginning of the pubic
land system of the United States, by no
less than five members OF the cabinet
Secretary Carlisle will be the orator of
the occasion, his subject being Robert
Morris. a siguer of the Declaration OF
Independence, revolutlnary Secretary
of the Treasury, and the originator OF
our uublic land system The admins
tration party left here to-day, accom-
panied by the ladies of their families,
and will return early next week. While
there l. nothing political about this trip
the opportunity that it will give the
members of the cabinet to let the promi-
nent New TJ.H Democrats they will
meet understand how deeply interested
the administration is in the election of
Senator Hill Will certainly be fully taken
advantage of.
The nomination Of an independent
Democratic candidate for governor OF
New York has no supporter In the
cabinet, and # there Is "A single Democrat
in Washington who does not condemn
the movement he has kept so quiet that
nobody has heard of him. Senator
Faulkner, chairman OF the Democratic
Congressional Campaign committee, who
has Just returned from New York, says
Democratic prospects are improving
every day in that state and that he now
regards Senator Hills election as GER
tainty.
The annual renovation of the White
| House is complete and that portion OF
the building to which visitors are
admitted Is open for the first time since
the latter part of August. The date for
the return of Prsident Cleveland and his
family has not been definitely fixed, but
| 1t will probably be within the next ten
| days.
Above the roaring of the Republican
| buffers and calamity hoWer is heard the
| clear notes of Democratic predictions of
| victory. Here's one, sounded by Capt.
| J. l. Crutcher, L, 5. Marshal of Idaho,
| which indicates the gain of a state and
| of a L. ;. senator: ''If Idaho dOeSn' t
| swing into the Democratic column this
| year said Capt. Crutcher, now in
| Washington, / shall never more essay
the role of a political prophet. believe
| the state Il going Democratic all the
way through, but as to the election OF
| the Democratic candidate for governor
| there Is hardly any doubt. There Is
more than al even chance that the
| Democrats and POpulists will control
| the next Legislature, which means a
| Democrat as the successor of Senator
| Shoup.
Ex-Secretory Whitney has always
| been very popular with Democrats and
| he has become more popular than ever
| since he wrote that ringing letter in
favor of Democratic harmony and tine
election of Senator Hill to be governor
of New York
At the headquarters of the Democrat
ic congressional committee Mr.. Whit
| news letter Is regarded as a rattliB 9
| campaign document, not only In New
York but everywhere else, as the argu
ments ne uses are IN the main equally
applicable elsewhere. 1t Is believed
that II will exercise great influence with
those Democrats who have been making
the mistake of allowing their personal
animoSities to injure the party to which
they belong and to which they are still
devoted.
| There are several reasons for the belief
that the recent Cablegrams which have
been published intimating that Germany
intended to retaliate upon the United
states because of the discriminating
duty that Is placed upon German sugar
by the new tariff, by restoring the pro-
| hIbitOTy regulations concerning the
importation of American pork and by
other methods, are inspired by the Rep
ublican managers Of the congressional
campaign, solely for present political
use. As a matter of fact, the conference
committee on the tariff bill agreed with
out division to strike out the diScrimi-
mating duty on sugars from countries
which pay an export bounty on sugar.
and it was only because of the peculiar
circumstances which caused the bill "a
it passed the senate to became a law
that the clause twas not struck out in
accordance with the committee agree
ment. 1t is generally conceded that
the discriminating duty is unjust, both
to Austria and to Germany, and as gen
orally believed that it will be repealed
at the coming session of congress
These things are as well known to the
German government as to our own;
hence 1t is folly to suppose that it Is
thinking of retaliation for what is mere>
| y d liiEOl"lS SbJtOliOL. DuI llle puD-
lications show that the Republicans are
leaving no stone unturned in their eff
forts to bambOOzle the voters.
The news received by the congression-
al campaign committee, this week, has
been very favorable, some of it unex
pectedly so. The candidates in several
districts which for one or another rea-
son had been considered as certain to be
lost, have reported them as certain to
be carried by the Democrats.