The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-11-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. Nov. %, 1S


attacked many men elected to tH
Presidency. This disease has matT
names, but is most popularity a&f
comprehensibly known as the HAht
head" One of the indications shoH
ing that Mai. Mckinley has happily
escaped an attack of the big head
is that he has engaged Inauguration
quarters for himself and family at t DE
same Washington hotel in which be
and Mrs. Mckinley made their home
during his entire congressional career,
instead Of at the more fashionable
hotel which has been the inaugura
ton stopping place Of the Presidents
elect and their families for a loag
period This is a little thing in Vt
self, but it means much. 1t MEANS
in the first place that he conside.s
what was good enough for Represe'l-
tative Mckinley is good enough fpr
President-elect Mckinley, and it IA
cidentally make known to all that his
elevation to the highest place in the
! gift of the American people has yot
caused and will not cause him to Ar
get the friends he had when he aegtex,
the more modest position of one of
three hundred-odd members of the
House. This little incident serves to
emphasize one of the strongest traits
in Mai. McKinley's character, 10y
alty-loyalty to country, loyalty to
party and loyalty to friends-a trait
of which any man should be proud.
! All the indications are that Mr.
Cleveland is going to have hard sled
ding all this winter. The silver
Democrats blame him for Bryan's de
feat and they are determined to get
all the revenge they can in every way
they can. Some Of them want to
! hang up every nomination sent to the
Senate by Mr.. Cleveland, and that
proposition will be made and advo
Gated at a caucus of silver senators to
| be held as soon as congress assemblies.
! Under the circumstances, the Repub.
lican Senators cannot be expected to
aid Mr.. Cleveland i'll any fight that
he may have with the silver Senators,
even if they would not be helping
Mr. Cleveland to get his nominations
confirmed be depriving President Me
KinIey and themselves of patronage.
There will be another and a stronger
reason for his not getting any assis-
lance from Republican Senators. 1t
is generally understood that Mr..
Cleveland will recommend in his an
nual message to congress and will en-
deavor to get through at this session
internal revenue legislation which
will furnish enough money to make
up the deficit in government revenue.
This ne will do solely for the purpose
OF trying to place obstacles -ia the
way OF tariff legislation on protec-
| ton lines by the extra session of Con
gress which Republicans nearly all
expect President Nc kinney to call as
soon as he is inaugurated. 1t is Mr..
| Cleveland's idea that if the needed
revenue can be provided for by in
| ternal revenue taxation at the present
session of Congress, the Republicans
viii be deprived of one of the strong
est arguments in favor of tariff revi-
sion and that business pressure can
then be brought to bare upon Presi-
dent Mckinley against calling an eX-
ira session. Needless to say, that
| this idea is not shared by Republicans,
who, as rule, believe that President
Mckinley and Republican Congress
were elected to give the country
| perity which has always been en-
| jOyed when our industries were pro-
tected, and that a protective tariff
law which will incidentally furnish
the revenue needed to operate the
government will be the leading fea-
ture of the Mckinley administration
and of the fifty-fifth Congress.
The most pronounced spoilsmen
among the Democratic office holders
have suddenly become the most ar
dent advocates of the civil service re-
form law. Even Logan Carlisle, Chief
Clerk of the Treasury department,
who has been directly instrumental
in the discharge or reduction of more
Republicans than any other one man
connected with the administration,
has turned civil service reform.
Logan does not probably hope to re-
main in Office himself, but he has a
large number of Democratic friends
whom he had promoted to places
taken from Republicans and who are
drawing salaries in excess of their
merits as clerks whom he hopes to
see keep their office. But the Re
| publicans, who, notwithstanding
their good records, were reduced to
make higher places for Democrats
are not without influential friends,
and while no Democrats in the CLASH
fled service are likely to be dismissed