The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Senator Jones Is Very Jubilant
 Over the Election.

w WASHINGTON LETTER. P Senator Jones Is Very Jubilan1 P Over the Election.
 From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON. November Is, 1897. Senator Jones of Arkansas. chairman of he Democratic National committee arrived in Washington m q decidedly
 juhilant state of mind over the results
 of last weeks elections. He said on the subject: Well, you bet Pm tickled Il
 makes me feel twenty-five years younger
 and n,akes me understand that the
 American people have not been bought
 or hlindt d this time. The results are
 an omen of coming and greater good. Ii
 just takes opposit on and sorrow to de.
 velop the full strength of the demo-
 cratic party. This result convinces me that the silver sentiment grows, grows
 and grows, and that hv the next presi-
 dential election, it will have grown to
 an Irresistible strength Just mark my
 words. Error dies from pin scratch,
 but truth survives the cyclone. The democratic party is Truth. When it
 comes to a lcng race and hard race, the democratic party gets there. l am very sorry because of the turn matters S have taken in Old Maryland, but hope 1 for her is not dead in my bosom yet. Oi course, it would have been more desir- ol,l, :.-,l aTo.l- uanre boar inhumed uaIa. au avalanche oi democratic votes uut when great rHaa saves l.7 -eaiu only hy the skin of his teeth, it IS vIrtu- ally defeat"
 One of the most interesting stories growing out of the Ono election is now being told on the quiet in Washington, and it finds believers, too. According to this story. Secretary SheI man has been approached ny Foraker republi- cans and offered an opportunity to get even with Boss Hanna and Mir. McKin- ley for the shabby treatment they have given him. not only by preventing Han- na's election to the senate. but by se curing his own return to that hody. MT. Sherman is too cid bird to gObble up everything tempting that is placed be- fore him. but he is said to have this pro- position under consideration and tC he making a quiet investigation, through trusted agents. as to the probability ot snccess should he consent to enter the anti Hanna combine The scheme, iii brief. is for the FOraker members oi the Ohio legislature to stay out of the repuh- liran caucus. which will, of course, nOm- iIate Hanna for the senate, and to nom- mate Governor Bushn Il or some other thick-aud- I|niaker man as the anti ca,tus candidate. The Fnrakerites claim to have members enough to bring about and keep up for an indefinite pe- riod, a deadlock in the legislature, and they argue that after Hanna sees his own election 10 be an impossihiliry, he will be willing to joln Bushnell in withdraw ing and in agreeing npon d compromise candidate who can get the entire repub- lican vote and be elected. That IS where the Forakp,ites tell Mir. sherman that he can come in. They say Lat .a.. vii .gsxrsf '.f~ as % rompro'a55e candidate for the senate, and that much as they would like to, neither Boss Han na nor Mr. Mckinley will dare to ob- feet Gle.s are too many Ifs in tii7 scheme, but it indicates how harmoni- ons tIIe Ohio republicans are.
 Consnl General Lee has received hls final instructions and will thls wpeK re- tulu to Cuba He iS as careful as ever about discussing Cuban matters put there are good reasons for saying that that he is confident that there will he reace in Cuba in few months. It was ho,.anse of this belief on his part that he agreed, when urgently requested 10 do so by Mir. Mckinley, to remain Tn Cuba until the trouble was over.
 The army of pensioners still steadily crows in numbers, notwithstanding the tba assertion of several commissioners of pensions that it had aeached high water mark and was about to start on the down grade The annual report Of Commissioner Evans shows that there were .336 more names on the rolls on Jnne 30, 1897, than tisere were one year hefor+ notwithstanding the dropping, dnring the fiscal year for death and oth- ercauses. of fl, ,122 names. There were o76 OI4 names on the roll at the close of the last fiscal year, and, unless death claims an unusually large number, 1t IS