The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-04-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Democratic Party Badly split Up
Political Notes.
From our Regular Correspondent.

rum Jul IAe8uAfti correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 80, 1894.
If Mr.. Cleveland can enjoy the predic-
ament into which his disposition of the
Bland coinage bill has thrown the dem
ocrats in congress, he must be a pecu-
liarily constituted individual. In their
present Generalization many democrats
are saying things which they will regret
when they have had time for their cooler
second thoughts, and cool-headed repub-
licans will wait to see what the nature of
those second thoughts will be before
counting upon the otter disru ption of
the democratic party. The democrats
are not worse divided upon the silver
question than they have been upon
other national questions. Every ma
tional platform the party has had for
many years has been so constructed that
it could be interpreted tomean whatever
was desired by any of the numerous fac
tions of the party. When the democratic
party was out of power it never had any
difficulty in uniting upon one thing-an
an attempt to get into power. And
they will make a desperate at
tempt, not withstanding their differ
ences of opinion, to unite for the purpose
of retaining the power they have. Sem
ator Brice recently declared that he was
democrat for the same reason he has
red hair-he can't help it. It's the
same with the average democrat.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster is here in charge
of delegation of the female mill work
ers of New England who have come to
bill. They are representatives of the
Woman's Republican Association of the
| United States. They say that the bill in
its present shape means starvation for
the mill hands of New England.
| Members of Coxey's army may draw
their own conclusions as to the Wash
ington welcome they will get, from the
fate of seven men claiming to belong to
the advance guard of that body, who
were arrested this week while asleep in
an empty freight car, charged with va
Egrancy, and sentenced to thirty days
each in the work-house by the Judge of
the police court.
The checklist American ever born
isn't in it with Mr.. Theophilus H. Da-
vies, guardian of that young woman who
calls herself Princess Kaiulani, heir. to
the Hawaiian throne. Mr.. Davies is
again in Washington, he says tor the
purpose of demanding the intentions of
the administration towards Hawaii. 1t
will be remembered that he brought his
ward to Washington early in the present
administration and that by means of ju-
dicious "taffy" from the alleged Princess
to Mrs. G. he was enabled TO get the ear
of Mr.. Cleveland. It is generally be-
lieved that the misrepresentation of this
man Davies were largely responsible for
the ridiculous policy afterwards adopted
towards Hawaii by Mr.. Cleveland. At
4 ter the miserable failure of that policy
and the modification it has caused the
administration one would suppose that
| Washington would be about the last
place that Davies would wish to be, but
here he is as big as life and as full of
representation as ever After much
persistency Davies succeeded in getting
short interview with Secretary Gresham,
but he las not succeeded in getting be-
pond the private secretary's Office at
! the White House. Davies is not ma