The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-08
,GaMfd7 Chat.
Washington Gossip, Political and
Otherwise, for the Readers
of the Globe.

WASHINGTON. March 7-(Special. D.
The Republican. Democratic and Populist
leaders in Washington city are at this
time attempting to decide upon the city
from which they will conduct their can
VaSs for the various presidential tickets
for this campaign.
s The understanding now is that Presi-
dent Mckinley favors Chicago for the
main headquarters of the national Re-
publican committee for this year. The
president also believes it will be wise for
the Republican national committee to
nave branch headquarters in New York
city, as was the case In 1896.
The friends of Col. Bryan assert that
he again faVors Chicago for the head
quarters Of the committee which will
manage his campaign after the national
convention at Kansas City again places
MN at the head of the Democratic ticket
The Populists will probably not have a
presidential ticket of their own in 1900
but without doubt they will do as they
dld III 1886, viz, indorse Col. Bryan and
the man chosen to run with him on the
national ticket at the Kansas City con-
Ventlon In this event the headquarters
OF the PopuliSt party will be in Wash
ington, and the Democrats will join with
them In making an energetic campaign
In behalf Of their national ticket.
There is a bare possibility, some of the
Democrats declare, that Col. Bryan can
yet be convinced that it will be wise of
him to have branch headquarters of the
Democratic ratiOnaf committee opened in
New York city. These Democrats believe
that the work conducted from Eastern
Headquarters will be much more bene-
tcial in the Eastern and New England
states than If all the work in the interest
Of the national Democratic ticket is put
forth from the main headquarters In
Chicago.
There are other cities seeking to have
either the Democrats or Republicans es-
tablish headquarters outside of Chicago
believing that the national campaign can
Just AS we'll be conducted from a city
like Washington, for instance, as we'll as
from the Western metropolis. Columbus
o., has recently made a bid for the Re-
publican national committee. Up to the
present time the Ohio state capital has
been given little, if any, satisfaction by
President Mckinley or Senator Hanna
The other elites bidding for the headquar-
ters or any of the national committees
have receiVed'no consideration from the
men who will, be in charge of these COM
mittees in the coming national campaign.
The state of Oregon this year will, as
is the usual cases jim every presidential
campaign, indicate TO some extent which
OF the great parties VIII be successful In
the fight for the presidency. The fact
that oregon will choose its governor and
: It's tive congresSmensin June will draw the
attention of the people of the whole coun-
try to- the outcome Of the election in
that commonwealth. If it goes Republic
an the leaders of the dominant party
Will, of course, loudly proclaim that 1t
means the reelection of President Nc
Kinley and the election of a Republican
house Of representatives, next Novem-
Der.
If the Democrats should perchance win
in Oregon the believers. of that faith will
seize upon this fact as sure sign that
a Democrat will succeed in the White
house, and that the lower branch of con-
gress during the fifty=seventh session will
be Overwhelmingly Democratic.
1t can be seen from the above that
politicians Of all parties will watch the
coming campaign in the ''Webfoot' state
With intense interest.
The state department has received
letter from Mr.. Henry E. Gourd presi-
dent of the French Chamber of Com
merce in New York, calling attention to
certain statements made in. a. report of
Consul Tourgee. of Bordeaux, in regard
to adulteration Of French wines. Mr..
TOurgee, in the report referred to, said
that the consumption of wines in France
was decreasing, partly because the peo-
pie believed that the product Of the vine
was apt to be deleteriously adulterated
and he described a beverage called
'piquette," the use of which, he said,
was supersediQg that of wine, and stated
that 1t was prepared Of dried apples of
the lowest grade of windfallS, sliced, in
Guiding skins, cores and Inhabitants
without distinctions as to quality Or va
riety, except that the slices must be pre-
pared in certain way and that decayed
or over-ripe fruit should not be used.
These statements, Mr.. Gourd says, are in
direct contradiction with the official re-
turns of the French government, which
show that since 1888, when the consump-
ton of wine.sw 26,lU5,000 hectoliters
(6S9, ,694, ,OS6 galfons), it has continually in
creased until lit reached in 1898 34,937, 900
hectoliters 1923, ,729 gallons). Mr.. Gourd
cites/a report of United States Consul
Covert, of Lyons, which says that the
surplus production of 1899 over 1898 will
be absorbed IN the following manner:
% In home consumption, which Is
shown by the taxes levied at the city
gates upon wines entering the different
cities of France to be steadily Increasing
The increase for the first half of 1899
was $685. 470 hectolites Q4, ,234, 762 gallons).
1t Is believed that a moderate estimate
of the domestic consumption for 1899 In
the cities of France will be 1,000,0G0 hec-
to]iters 90, 700 gallons) in excess of
that in 1898.
(2) There will be larger consumption
in the country than in years of small
harvest.