The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1898-10-29
Washington, u. C.. News.



y a>hipgton, both voters and non
voters. The voters have all been
given to understand that if they do
not 20 home an" vote they will be
blacIiistcd. and to remove their
last eXcnse. the Republican Con
9rcssional Committee is offering to
furnish them with transportation
when they SAY they are unable to
pay for it themselves. But this
transportation is not to be Il gift.
Every yotUr who ayails himself OF
the Committees offer is told that he
must make u ''voluntary" contrihu-
ton within a given time to the
Committee. OF IN amount equal to
the cost of his railroad ticket, or
take he consequences. Boss
.luaN's ulan in sending letters to
Washington to buldoze the Pennsyl-
vanian office holders into not only
going home to vote but cOntrlbut-
ing : Is each to the campaign fund.
In his letter asking for the money
he says. "unleSS u vigorous and
aggressive campaign is waged, we
may lose three or four DISTRICTS
Unless the reports made to EX-
Representative Kerr, Secretary of
the Democrutic Congressional Com
mittee. are wrong, the republicans
will lose those Congressional Dis
tricts in Pennsylvania, regardless
Of What sort OF n campaign they
wage. and they stand to lose many
districts in other States as we'll.
t is II little bit puzzling why the
administration allows time to be
wasted by the Peace Commission,
at Paris. in discussing vprious pro
positions of the Spanish Commits
sloners concerning our paying or
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 etfct
that this Government would ander
no circumstances either pay or
guarantee the payment Of one dol
lar OF Spanish bonded indebted
ness OF any kind. 1t seems us
though even Spaniarls could have
been made to clearly understand
that position without wasting near
~ four weeks discussing it, if thrt
really be the position OF the admin
istration.
Young ".jim'' Blaine, who by
grace Of pull holds u captald's com
mission in the volunteer service,
has gall. if he has nothing else.
Tne whole country knows that he
was ordered home from Manila,
whittier he went as a staff officer,
because he was tonder of intoXi
cants than OF duty, and the opinion
has been frankly expressed by OF.
tiicers that he ought to be court
martlaled and dishonorably dis
missed from the army in the interest
OF discipline. That being the situa
ton, 1t was thought that favorit-
ism OF the rankast kind was shown
when the War Department ordered
that Caps. James G. Blaine should
be honorabIy discharged because
there was .'no further need for his
services, Jim would Jump at the
chance of being let down SO easily.
Not he. US soon rs he arrived III
Washington. he succeeded III having 9
the order of the War Department
held up until he conld see Mr.. Nc
I<inIev and try to have it withdrawn
entirely. Great as Jim's pull un-
Ioubte,!Iv is, it is doubtful whether
Mr.. Mckinley will consent to his
remaining III the army.
col. Ike Hill, whose long connec-
ton with the house has made his
Judgment good on Congressional
politics. said: I'VE have got the
republicans sure. Nothing short OF
Il miracle can save them. Why |
believe that we will gain four Con
gressmen right in the Presidents
own state" Col. Hill says that
General Grosyenor's recent offer to
bet $4,000 that the democrats
would not gain Congressional Dis
trict in Ohio was only bluff, and
that he will gladly undertake tt
make Gen. Grosvenor q present o
$1,000, if he will put up the money
to back his offer.
There is a wide gulf between the
civil service commission and Perry
Heath, First Assistant Postmastel
GenaraI Perry issued notice th'
other day to all Federal office hold
ers that there was nothing i'll th'
Civil Service law to prevent thel
iumping-in and whooplng up thlng'
for republican candidates, and tha
| the administration expected then
to do it, or words to that effect.
The Civi, Service Commission
has issued q circular to the member
of the seven hundred boards OF eS
aminers throughout the country
warning them against ''pernlclou
political activity, under penalty o
removal from the Boards. lnas
much as the members Of these EA
anining Boards are. in almost ever
instance. Federal office holders an
that their removal from the board
would not effect their offices, th
penalty is not a severe one by an
means.