The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-11-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Flom our regular corresponaent.
WASHINGTON, Nov


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 1894.
The key to Mr.. Clevelapd's rather
queer actions has, thanks to the wagging
tongue of a Cleveland worshipper, been
found. Instead of his being engaged in
going through period of old-fashioned
sulks with his party, he actually thinks
himself to be playing deep political
game that will result in making his own
the only name that will be seriously
mentioned for the democratic nomina-
ton in SO. He believed for a long time
before the adjournment of congress that
democratic defeat was probable this
year, and after adjournment and the
summing up Of the blunders made by
his party he became certain that the
republicans would control the next
house, but it was not until his most
hated personal enemy, Senator Hill,
was nominated for governor of New
York that he fully made up his mind
that neither himself nor any member of
his cabinet would take any part in the
campaign. It was then also sthat the
possibilities of the game which had
been floating through his mind for some
time began to look to him like proba-
bilities. His idea is that the democratic
defeat will impress 1t on the democratic
party that it is only when Grover Cleve-
land is inter ested or is candidate that
it can win. His game is in short re-
vival of the imam of destiny racket.
He will point out that it was the failure
of the democrats in congress to follow
his advice that made the party unpopu-
lar, ignoring the fact that following of
his advice on the tariff question would
have made it still more unpopular, and
will bend all his energies for the rest of
his term to posing as the only democrat
who will have even a fighting chance to
win two years hence, not forgetting to
work the patronage at his disposal in
the interest of the Cleveland party. All
of which is decidedly amusing to repub-
licans.
Chairman Babcock, of the republican
congressional campaign committee, re-
turned to Washington this week from a
ten days stay in Wisconsin. When
asked whether he cared to revise his
estimate made more than two weeks ago,
that the republicans would elect 100
members of the next house, he said: "I
can see no reason to change my state
ment in one particular, with this posi-
BILE exception: The latest returns show
that districts that were considered as
hopelessly democratic when left Wash
ington are now felt to be probably re-
publican, and districts where we felt we
felt we had q lighting chance are now
almost certain republican. There has
been no diminution in the trend towards
our success, and the republican wave,
instead of receding, is growing higher
every day." Speaking of the claim of
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the dem
ocratic campaign committee, that the
democrats would carry Wisconsin, Mr..
Babcock said: SIT is a novelty to come
away from home to get news from there.
That is news indeed, that the democrats
are going to carry the state ticket and a
majority of the congressional delegation.
If Mr.. Faulkner's information on gen.
eral matters is no better than that from
Wisconsin, upon which he based his
claim, then his campaign must indeed
be wholly hopeless. If I were not GER
tain that this claim is a great bluff, 1
should think it huge joke, directed at
me. cannot understand how Mr..
Faulkner should have been so badly
misled in his estimate about the ticket.