Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-09-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(ouR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. }

point SO strongly to. lie directed
Secretary Carlisle to get him the
opinions of those democrats who
think they know something. Ac-
cordingly Mr.. Carlisle dropped
the tariff, Notwithstanding the
presence in Washington of a COM
mittee representing the manu-
featuring, chemist and druggists
who are waiting at heavy expense
for decision as to the free ad-
mission of alcohol for use in the
arts, and devoted his last day in
Washinton to interviews with Don
NJ. Dickinson, chief democratic
rainbowchaser, Mr.. Harrity, the
German of Pennsylvania politics
and incidentally chairman of the
democratic national committee;
Senator Faulkner, who is chairman
of the democratic Congressio nal
campaign committee, and who pos
sesses enormous vitality or he
would not have survived the dole
full news which has recently come
to his committee, and Represeta-
tive Price and several other Louis
lana democrats. That Mr.. Carlisle
did not carry any cheering assur-
ance to Mr.. Cleveland is certain,
but it is expected here that his
visit will result in some action by
the administration looking to-
wards a sessation of the democra
tic stampede now going on, but
even the most sapguine democrats
do not expect it to succeed. Dem
ocratic doom has been pronounc-
ed.
Mr.. Jerimiah O'RCurke, who
was compelled by secretary Car
Isle to turn loose one of the best
paying offices under the Treasury
department-supervising architect
said before leaving Washington
that Logan Carlisle, chief clerk of
the Treasury was at the bottom of
all his woes. Logan wanted to
dictate all the appointments, de-
clsionS, contracts etc., in the super
vising Architects office, just as he
does in all the other Treasury
Bureaus, and Mr.. O'Rourke OBJ
jected. Secretary Carlisle stood
by his son Logan, as he usually
does, and Mr.. o Rourke added the
prefix sex" to his name. While
this would seem to be merely a
democratic family row, it is in re-
ality something much more impor-
tant. The supervising architect is
charged with the duty of letting
all contracts for the construction or
repair of public buildings through
out the country, and there is much
ugly talk about contractors being
favored by order of Logan Carlisle.
IO'Rourke openly threatened to
make sensational disclosures con-
cerning the business of the archi-
tect's office, and did say that had
he favored the contractors his res
ignation would never have been
asked for. But just then some in
tiuence was brought to bear upoL
him and he suddenly became as
dumb as clam. Still, it will sur
prise nobody hereabouts to find
the architects office the center o;
a sensational rcandal in the neal
future. Others besides Mr..
IO'Rourke are in possession of the
facts, and they may not be so easi-
ly muZzled.
Senator Henderson will this
week go to Nebraska to take an
active part in the campaign. The
statement that he would not be a
candidate for reelection was made
with his authority, and probably
merely with the hope that it would
help the demo-pop combine in
that State by leaving the impress
sion that Senator Henderson did
not wish to become candidate
because he did not believe re-
publican legislature would be elect
ed. AS a matter of fact, the Sena-
tor says he feels absolutely certain
that the republicans will control
the legislature. AS to his own
candidacy he did not care to talk
further than to say that he had
not authorized the statement re-
ferred to above. But his close