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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Trem v Xfxdar. Cormpendat.
For the"l)emocra t :
President Harmon isnbout
a road a man aa it would be
possible to find in a days
travel. He has become fully
satisfied "that at least two
men, prominently connected
with the administration As
sistant Posmnster General
Clarkson and U. S. Treasurer
Huston have been abusing
him at every opportnnity
and telling otherfriends that
theyinlended to resign justas
they could find an opportu
nity to embarrass him by so
doing. He also has under
suspicion several other high
officials nndit would not be
at all surprising .if several
resignations were perempto
rily demanded by him in the
near future.
Balloting for the selection
of a location for the World's
Fair will begin in the House
l ite this afternoon or tomor
row and be kept up until the
question is settled. Chicago
will start in the lead, but
your correspondent has the
best of reasons to Lelieve
that no World's Fair will be
held at either Chicago or New
York, even if one of them
should be!selected. The Sen
ate will kill any measure that
does not locate the. I air at
Washington, because they
fear that its location at Chi
cago would mean the loss of
Illinois, or at New York City,
the loss of New York in the
next Presidential campaign
This is in accordance with
boss Quay's orders before he
trio. Mr. Mills, of Texas,
will make a strong effort to
defeat the Fair bill in the
House, but he will fail.
The new styles of postage
stamps were placed on sale
Saturday by the Post-office
department. The improve
ment, if there is any, is hard
!v visible to the naked eye.
For many years one of the
regular Congressional jobs
has been the proposition to
have the Government buy all
the real estate south of Penn
sylvania avenue between the
Treasury and the Capitol. It
" Wh hnen knocked out so ofl
ten that it was thought to
have been entirely abandon
ed, but it is again on deck,
and a bill has been in trod uc
ed in Congress. Only a few
montha ago, when there was
a freshet in the Potomac riv
er, the greater portion of this
ground was under from six
inches to lour feet of wa
ter. Nice sort of property
to ask Congress to buy to
put public buildings upon
isn't it?
Notice has been given that
as soon as the House finish
es with the World's Fair the
contested election cases are
to be called up. There are
four cases ready. Three of
which the committee have,
by a party vote, reported in
favor of the republican con
testants, and one, by a unan
imous vote, in favor of the
democrats now occupying
the seat.
The investigation of the
Civil Service commission,
whi chwas begun last week.
will be resumed this week. Ex
Commissioner Oberly is to be
one of the witnesses examin
ed. ,
The chairman of the New
York anti-monopoly league,
madenn nrgument against
Mr. Wanamaker's ostal
telegraph bill lefore the
House Postofnce committee
Friday. He opposed the bill
leeause it proposed to give
the business of the country
to a private corporation.
He said he represented the
working people who sent few
telegrams and who would get
little if anv benefiit from the
law, and that the Postoffice
department had more busi
ness now than it could man
age satisfactorily without
adding this exjeriment.
Twelve bids have been
made to theTreasury depart
ment for the exclusive privi
lege of taking seals in the wa
ters contingent to Alaska for
twenty years, and in every
one of them the price named
is much higher than the Gov
ernment now receives. No
award has yet been made.
, It is hinted in inside repub
lican circles that Mr. Harri
son's trip to Pennsylvania
last week was- really for a po
litical purpose; he is trying
to capture the State delega
tion to the next republican
national convention, and
while Quay was in Honda
he thought it a good time to
visit the State, and the open
ing of the free library at Alle
ghany City furnished the op
nortunitv.
The Senators, or rather
some of them, are growling
Hhmit. the nevspnier men
finding out everything the.y
Ho in secret session, and are
trying to devise means to
prevent it. If they would
have their ordinary execu
tive sessions open, the trou
ble would be encjed.
The regular war on lotter-
... 1 - ! 1 ..
ies which is maaem euny
davs of every session of Con
gress, by the introduction of
bills, has begun. It'safarce.
Whv not enforce some of the
laws we now have on the sub
ject, instead of wasting time
enacting?
The House and vV ays and
Means committee aie.practi-
cally at a stand- still in the
preparation of a tariff bill.
The financecommitteeof the
Senate have decided to re
port the bill for increasing
the coinage of silver dollars
to $4,000,000 a month.
Ex-secretary Whitney is
here with the New York
Word's Fair delegation.
Washington, Feb. 24.
The Knights of Honor paid
over to Mrs. Henry Grady
$2,000, the amount of her
husband, 8 life insurance pol
icy while a member of that
order. He had several life
policies, but the -Knights
of Honor was the first to
make payment. This order
has a large membership here.
Reidsville Review. .
There are many accidents and
diseases which effect Stock and
cause serious inconvenience and
loss to the farmer in his work,
which mav be quickly remedied
by the use"of Dr. J. II. McLean's
volcanic oil Liniment
EEimsciKcrs, coamnoss
UD HEWS ITEMS.
NUMBER IX.
For the Democrat.
Carson Lake, a versatile
writer in ji New York daily,
" The Vivss," fills n column of
that pnjer several times each
week with reminiscences sim
ilar to the following:
J. J. r.iiiu ne of Snokane Fulls.
Wawh. in a tending Democrat of
the new State. He has the est
ern relinh for a good story, even
when it hitx one ot his own uartv
friends, and he told me one yes
terday. Karlyin the seventies
Ohio Democrats carried that
State for Governor, their cani-
dat6 Iteii'g n ulian Allen, a veter
an who had sat in the United
States Senate before half of the
voters of the day were born.
He was variously dubbed "Old
Hill Allen" from his age. "Fog
horn Allen" because of his tie
mendos voice, with which he was
said once to have drowned the
the shrill whistling of a locomo
tive, and "Iliae up, Bill Allen,"
liecnnse he was literallv draertred
out of obscurity into the fied of
modern politics, uo tne morn
ing alter the Ohio election Mr.
Browne was on a railroad train
nnnroarhiner Chicasro. where he
saw in the morning pajM?r the a
nouncment that Allen was elec
ted. Stepping off the tra'n, he
met an old Democratic friend,
named Dousrlns. when this con
versation took place:
"I sav. Douirlas. have vou
heard the news from Ohio? Allen
is elected."
"Is that so? No.it can't be
true. Are you in earnest?"
"Certanlv. Here are the head
lines of the news in the morning
paper. See, Allen elected. '
. "We . thnt. H a hiesHiner inaeea
God must have stufled the ballot
boxes for In in. 1
The political success and
career of William Allen was
curious.
About 1802 three young
men hailing from the same
neighborhood, left the Shen
andoah valley in Virginia and
emigrated to Ohio because
they desired to escape from
the blighting curse of slavery
with which the Old Dominion
had been afflicted since the
landing of the pilgrims in
Massachusetts in 1620. One
was named McArthur, an
other Lucas; the'name of the
third has escaped my mem
ory so completely that lean-
not recall it. All these young
men became governors of
their adopted State. Mc-
Aruthr was particularly con-
spiekms in the early history
of Ohio. Hehad already been
governor when the said Win.
Allen, (also a native of Vir
ginia and uncle to Allan G.
Thurman, who ran for Vice
President on the ticket with
Grover Cleveland in 1888,)
married his daughter.
Young Win. Allen studied
law with Gov. McArthur, and
was well thought of by him
as well as by most if not all
his acquaintances.
Till 834 or '36. Gov. Mc
Arthur was nominated by
the Whigs for Congress. Win.
Allen was always a Democrat.
It was universally supposed
that McArthur had a walk
over in his district, so no
Democrat ot distinction car
ried to contest with aim for
the honors of representative
n Conerress. This beinc the
n -
case Wm. Allen easily won
the nomination in opposit
ion to his father-in-law. He
took a curious position in
the canvass, which was to
represent himself as filling a
j. i i j .i.:i.
gap in uie cou test wiuuu uu
other Democrat cared to oc
cupy because McArthur was
so sure of leing elected, but
he wanted to get as many
voteH ns possible, so as to, in
some measure, approximate
the old mans vote. He was
popular with the young
Whig lawyers and also with
hundreds of young Whigs
who were not lawyers. So
he appealed to them to vote
for him, since McArthur was
sure to elected, and ob
tained a promise from ns
manj'of them us possible.
In the meantime he incited
the Democrats to work as
though .success was possible
if not probable. The result
was that when the polls
closed and the votes were
counted Wm. Allen received
one more vote than his pop
ular opponent, to the great
disapointment and chagrin
of the lug party. A great
many of those young Whigs
who pledged themselves to
vote for Mr. Allen and did so
regretted their action exced
ingly.
The Whigs accused Mi. Al
len of having used unfair
means to induce miuors and
repeaters to vote for him,
which was realy and infact
the truth, but McArthur re
fused for family reasons,
though urged thereto by
many of his supporters.
I remember coming across
an elderly man in 1807 who
assured me that he voted for!
Wm! Allan on that occasion,
though he was but 19 years
of age the time. He also
said that many voted for
Mr. Allan who had .no right
to vote.
I was in Ohio in 1839. The
Whigs had an overwhelming
majority in the c unty in
which I then was. But for
some reason, the Whigs were
attacked by General Apathy
and lost their representative
by one vote. It was brought
about by two many stay-at-
homes and one man who
dearly loved the sweets of
life. This latter was a young
farmer who remained at
home at work on his farm
till after dinner and then
started for his polling place.
He lived six miles from it.
On his way by a short cut
through the woods he dis
covered a bee tree and deter
mined to regale himself with
some nice honey, lie was
a long ways from any house
At the first one he came to
he borrowed an axe, return
ed and cut down the tree and
stuffed himself to satiety. He
then resumed his journey to
the polls to" hear, before he
fairly reached the polling
place, the unwelcome sound
of the judges voice, "polls
closod." A Democrat was e
lected to the legislature by
one majority. His vote
would have tied the candi
dates. The legislature was
Democratic by one majority
a joint ballot, or by one ma
jority in each house, I forget
which. At any rate, Win. Al
len was elected U. S. Senator
for sixjyears in the whiter of
1839-40, by one vote. Mr.
Allen took his seat in the
U. S. Senate in due time. And
he made the "welkin ring"
when he rose to speak. Hen
ry Clay once said that if Mr.
Allen could plant one foot on "about seven millions of ne
the Rocky Mountainsnnd the groet in the State, and the
other on the Alleghnnies he negro question has lierome a
could U; heard from tl;e At-
lan tic to the Pacific.
Mr. Allen was elected gov
ernor of Ohio ill the early
seventies bv less than
yOO'
majority, to be beaten by
Rutherford It. Hayes in the
the nex,t two yen; by a very
much larger majority, for it
reached to the thousand.
J.S. W.
L'mville Fvb. 'J.'.
A Dying Statesman.
It is usless to conceal the
mournful fact that Samuel J.
Randall is slowly sinking-
dying by inches.
The brave heart bears up,
and the clear eyes look cheer
fully into the anxious faces
about him, but the grand
face bears the seal of death.
Talk about the will power of
rwilitml Richelieu 1 I his
man has it, with more than
the old Frenchman'scourage
and integrity back of it.
Sam. Randal belongs to
the old race of statesmen the
,y ovt a rt tbtt better davs of
the republic. More than once
he has shown the country
that he would rather be l ight
than be President. His ca-
1 A-
reer almost leaas one iu
think that some old Roman
has stepped out of the pages
of Plutarch into our com
monplace American life.
When Sam. Randall dies
we must build him a mighty
and massive shaft of granite.
Nothing else will so fitly rep
resenthim and commemorate
his glorious virtues. As the
leader of a forlorn hope he
was matchless. When hestood
between the stricken South
and her enemies he was as a
stone wall. When the little
mp of his nartv wanted to
move him he stood for right
as he understood it, ready to
be sacrificed, but as far as
ever from the swarm of huck
stering politicians below hira.
No one misjudges him now.
His enemies are silent. His
mistaken friends in late re-
pentence whisper with bated
breath, "What shall we do
without him?"
Does no echo of this reach
our stainless knight, as his
stout heart flutters and his
stalwart arm falls nervously
by his side? Does he not
know as he closes his eyes
and goes to pleasant dreams
that his countrymen are
dreading that fatal flash a-
loni? the wire that shall an-
o
nounce Sam Randall dead.
Atlanta Constitution.
Cardinal Gibbons on the N?ro.
Baltimore. Md. Feb. 24.
Before beginning his sermon
yesterday at High, Mass
Cardinal Gibbons made an
appeal to the congregation
in behalf of negro and Indian
missions. His Eminence re
minded his hearers that, in
compliance with the decreeof
the last Plenary Council ot
Baltimore, an annual collec
tion was taken up in behalf
of those missions on the first
in Lent in all the churches o
the country. "There are
now," said His Eminence,
serious problem to tlieAmer
ican iieople. The beist solu
tion of this problem, in my
judgment, will bo found in
christianizing the neToe.
In some sections of the coun
try, if reports are true, their
religion has degenerated into
a kind of fetishism and is
entirely emotional,- devoid of
all rcliiriou restraint and
obligations." K
"The negro race is natu
rally a religiou s jeople. They
are kind, affectionate and
grateful, submissive to au
thority, and their conduct
towards the close of the late
war, when they had power to
do mischief, was above all
praise. By proper religious
and christian instruction
they are sure to become a
most useful element in any
community."
TALHAGE ON GRADY.
Dr. Talmage has preached
a funeral sermon on Grady
from which we make the fol
lowing extract:
"Mr. Grady might have
had any political reward in
the gift of his State, said Mr.
Talmage, but he wanted none
and remained "plain Mr. Gra
dy." Ho stood for the new
South, "and was just what
we want to meet three oth
er men, one to speak for the
new North, another for the
new East, and another for
the new West. The bravest
seech made for the last
quarter of a century was that
made by Mr. Grady at the
New England dinner in New
York about two or three
years ago. I sat with him
that evening and know som
thing of his anxieties, for he
was to tread on dangerous
iround and might by one
misspoken word have antag
onized forever both sections.
lis speech was a victory
that thrilled all of us who
heard him and all who read
him.
"Who will in conspicuous
action represent the new
North as he did the new
South? Who shall come forth
or the new Easi and who
for the new -West? Let old
political issues be buried ; let
old grudges die., Let now
theories be launched."
In conclusion Mr. Talmage
said: "And now, thou great
and magnificent soul of edit
tor and orator I under bright
er skies we shall meet again.
r rom iroa tnau comesi ana
to God thou hast returned.
Not broken down, but as
cended. Not collapsed, but
irradiated. Enthroned one!
Coronated! Sceptered onel
Emivirndised one! Hn.il and
well. News and Observer.
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