San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent. I
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. 1894

| WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. 1894.
The more the administration
crowd thinks of the nomination o.
Senator Hill for Governor Of New
York the less they like it. Pub
licly it is difficult to get them tt
talk about it, further than to uttel
the usual platitudes about their
being in favor of the nominee, anC
peculiar circumstance surrounding
the case which are not understood
outside OF the State, but privately
they do not hesitate to say that
the whole business was a put UP
job, for the purpose Of making
Hill, who was only short time
ago in danger Of being publicly
| read out of the democratic party
by his fellow democratic Senators
because of his opposition to the
tariff bill, the leader of the demo-
cratic party. His nomination has
already proved decidedly en-
barassing to the managers of the
democratic Compression al cam
paign. They have been sending
out literature in defense of the
tariff bill, and especially the in
come tax clause Of it, and here is
Hill, who voted against the tariff
bill, nominated for Governor of the
great State of New York, on a
platform that specifically con-
dennis the income tax. They don't
know what to do. If they shout
for Hill they offend Mr.. Cleveland,
who will control the Federal pat
rOnage until March 4, 1897, and if
they don't they offend Hill, who
may be the democratic nominee
for the Presidency two years hence.
Tie Republicans, while conceding
the truth of Dan. Lamont's
comment, that Chill is a vote. get
ter" are pleased with nomination,
because they are confident that it
will result in the election of Mr..
Morton and in making the cleo
toral vote Of New York certain
for the Republican nominees in
1896. They fully agree with the
administration men in believing
that Hills nomination was put
up job, and that its author was
David B. Hill, but they think the
administration ought to be glad
of it, as Hill will be defeated and
in time ell minated as fac TORN nat
ional politics. The administration
men would be glad enough Of the
10 assist in the elm
mating process were it not for their
knowledge that if New York elects
a Republican Governor this year it
will almost certainly 60 Republi-
can in the Presidential election.
About the smallest piece of
political work ever done by any
administration was the resump-
ton in small way of the coinage
of silver dollers, in order that the
coins might be used by stump
speakers and personal workers
among the more ignorant voters
of the south and west to convince
them that the Cleveland admins
tration was so friendly to silver
that it was still coming silver dol
lars. or course this little trick will
not fool intelligent newspaper
readers, who know that Mr.. Cleve-
land is the most bitter opponent of
silver who ever sat in the Presi-
dents chair, but from information
received here these few 1894 silver
dollars are fooling some voters.
However, they are mostly in Sec
tions where the populists, not re-
publiCans, are injured. Still, it is
a piece of dirty work.
Secretary Carlisle evidently did
not greatly enjoy his visit to Mr..
Cleveland. Perhaps the bad news
he carried of the Democratic Con-
gressional outlook was not we'll
received. At any rate, the Secre-
tary, who is ordinarily a man of
even temper and pleasant DISPOSE
ton, has been in a terribly bad
humor ever since his return. 1t
is said that Mr.. Cleveland vetoed
several propositions submitted to
him by Mr.. Carlisle concerning
Treasury business, and that one of
them was the proposed formula
ton of rules for the payment of a
rebate upon imported alcohol used
in the arts. Whether this be true
or not your correspondent does not
undertake to say, BUTT is born out
by the unofficial announcement
that the Treasury Department
will not undertake to put into eff
feet the clause of the tariff law
authorizing such rebate, without
furGher Congressional legi Station.
The democratic Congressional
campaign committee contained a