The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-10-28
WASHINGTON LETTER

(from our Regular corrcspondent.)
WAsnlNGToN, ID. G., Oct. 20, 1898.
The republican bosses are hot af
ter the republican office holders in
Washington, both voters and non
voters. The voters have all b, en-
given to understand hat ii they do
not "a home and vote they will be
blacdlisted, and to remove their last
excuse, the republican Congression
al Committee is Offering to furnish
them with transportation when they
say they are unable to pay for il
themselves. But this transporta-
ton is not to be a gift. Every
voter who avails himself of the Com
mittee's offer is told that he must
make voluntary" contribution
within a given time to the Commit
tee, OF an amount equal to the cost
of his railroad ticket, or take the
consequence. Boss Quay's man il
sending letters to Washington to
bulldoze the Pennsylvania Office
holders into not only going home t.
vote but contributing $15 each 10
the campaign fund. In his letters
asking for the money he says, "un-
less vigorous and aggressive cam
paign is waged, we may lose three
or four DISTRICTS" Unless the re
ports made to Ex-Representative
Kerr, Secretary of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Commit
tee, are wrong, the republicans will
lose those Congressional Districts in
Pennsylvania, regardless OF what
sort of campaign they wage, ana
they stand to lose many districts in
other states "a well.
1t is little bit pulling why the
administration allows time to be
wasted by the Peace Commission,
at Paris, in discussing various pro-
positions Of the Spanish Commits
sioners concerning our paying OF
guaranteeing the payment of any
portion of the Spanish bonds
charged against Cuba, if it be true
as has been claimed right along,
that the American Commissioners
had positive instructions before they
left Washington, to the effect that
this government would under nc
either pay or guar
antee the payment of one dollar o.
Spanish bonded indebtedness OF
any kind. 1t seems as though ever
Spaniards could have been made to
clearly understand tina. position
without wasting nearly four week:
discussing it, if that really be the
position of the administration.
Young Jim" Blaine, who by
grace of pull holds captains com
mission in the volunteer service
has gall, if he has nothing else
The whole country knows that h
was ordered home from Manila
whittier he went as a staff officer
because he was fonder of intoxi
cants than OF duty, and the opin
ion has been frankly expressed by
officers that he ought to be court
martialed and dishoLorably dis
missed from the army, in the inter
est OF dicipline. That being the
situation, it was thought that fav'
oritism of the rankest kind wa:
shown when the War Department
ordered that Capt. James g. Blaine
should be honorably discharged be
cause there was "no further neet
for his services" and that "Jim'
would Jump at the chance of being
let down so easily. Not he. A
soon as he arrived in Washington,
he succeeded in having the order OF
the War Department held up until
he could see whether Mr.. Mckinley
will consent to his remaining in the
army.
Col. Ike Hill, whose long con
nection with the House has made
his judgment good on Congression-
al politics, said: eve have got the
republicans sure. Nothing short o.
a miracle can save them. Why,
believe that we will gain four Con-
gressmen right in the President i
own state" Col. Hill says that
General Grosvenor's recent offer to
bet $4,000 that the democrats
would not gain Congressional
District in Ohio was only a bluff,
and that he will gladly undertake
to make Gen. Grosvenor present
of $1,000, if he will put up the
money to back his offer.
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