The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-03-15
RANDOM POLITICAL NOTES.

all tied up in the back yard.
RANDOM POLITICAL NOTES.
Brick" Pomeroy once said that while
travelling to the national capital he
could always tell when the train was
nearing its destination by tlie feeling
which invariably came upon him that
he wanted 10 steal something. "Brick"
was Democrat from away back, and
when he made that remark there was
Republican administration, during
which there mad been some scandals.
That was long while ago. II pcme-
roy were writing newspaper letters
now from Washington he would change
his remark above quoted to suit the sen.
,iment so popular among Democrats
nowadays. He would probably say, in
his characteristic way. that when he mp
proached " ashington he could tell OF
its nearness by the feeling that came
over him that he wanted to kick him
self for voting the way he did in 1892.
The difference between the Republican
administration OF which Pomerov wrote
and tho prescn. Democratic times is
tina, the Republican party know how to
reform itself aud to competently run the
government, while it was inst the re-
verse with the Democratic party. Blu,
this is not news. Tho record is 80 70.
cent and the remembrance OF the late
Congress 80 painful that the least said
about it the better. The salvation"
that was to come to the country with
the advent OF iull Democratic power is
not in evidence, and everybody in the
country Is possessed OF feeling OF CRATE.
fulnc's .hata Congress which, from its
Dir; h to Its death, has been an aggraya.
ton to the country. has dispersed, leav.
ing only the memory OF its shame, and
the effects OF it's sins Of omission aud
sins OF commission in its wake.
few OF the stragglers are still here.
but even their ranks arc thinning out,
and about all the people OF Washington,
except, perhaps, the boarding house
and hotel keepers, are glad, Tor the cake
oil the remainder Of the country, that
there is reliei from tho suspension
and apprehension that was cons.au.
throughout the months OF uncertainty.
The statesmen still on the ground, for
want OF something better to do, are
specializing in presidential futures. A
peculiar and unusual fact in connection
with this pastimo 10 that tho attention
OF about everybody is conferred on the
Republican situation, the feeling being
general, among men OF oil parties, that
the Republican party will DO returned
to power. n feeling largely inspired aud
encouraged by tho national disgust
with tho utter and disgracciul failure OF
the Democracy. 1t seeIna strange to
hear Democrats in Washington, oven
some who ate parts OF the adminis,ra.
ton. admit in conversation that tho
outlook Tor their party is very gloomy,
and they engage in practically no dis.
cussion at all regarding Democratic
presidential timber. The people Of
Washington seem to regard il aq mat.
ter course that II Republican admins.
:,ation will be returned next wear, and
spcak OF the coming change with rs
much assurance rs though tho election
Ind already been held aud tho formal
verdict ngunst tho incompetent Demo.
cracy rendered. It Ia thu first ,imoin
tho memory OF tho prcscn: generation
that auch one-sidod state OF feel.
ing existed at such q time, but, then,
1t must be remembered that it is tho
first time in tho generation that tho
incompetent Democracy has had full
control OF matter. for even n brici
period, and. accordingly, it is tho first
opportunity tho people havo had to
judge it by its works. :n
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Ofcourse, thcro is timo yct for tho
Republicans to loso some OF this advnn.
tagc. Much depends upon the record
that will DO made by the now Congress-
next winter with reference to eur.
rcncy and revenue legislation, but
nobody, not oven Democrats, believe
otherwise than that 1t will be OF such
character aa will maintain, for tho Re.
publican party the confidence which
the pnoplo have ulways felt in it. Tue
feeling here at the national capital IL
pretty much rs IL is Gvorywhcro-
namely, that under pnst Republican
Congresses, tho country has mad long
periods Of confidence mud prosperity,
and. judging tho future by tho past,
there Is every ronsou to boliovo that
thore will bu no repetition Of tho maor-
nbln experience undcr the C0ngross juSL
closed. Thus 1t ID that not only is VOL
coined the return to legislative powGr
tho party nndnr which thc country proR.
prred aud under which MI the prosraga
OF thirty years was accomplished, but
mat tho dlecusslon oi tho presidential