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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Etgular Correspondent
Mr. Harrison has succeed
ed by iteminsion, bull-dozing
and promise of patronage in
getting the republican Sen
ators to make a last desper
ate effort to perpetuate the
power of the republican par
ty by passing the Force bill,
and the fight is now on
which is to result either in
striking a deadly blow at
the liberty of the American
citizen, by the passage of a
measure without a parallel
in American .-ninals. in the
final defeat of the bill.
Finding it. impossible to
unite the republican Sena
tors in support of the revolu
tionary gag rule proposed
by Senator Aldrich the re
publicans have adopted the
firing out process, and hope
by a continuous night and
day session ofjthe Senate to
succeed in compelling the
democrats to accede to a vote
on the bill. This, it is not
believed, they can do. The
session which began last Fii
day morning has been in
continuous session every
since, except on Sunday, and
is to continue util the
republicans tire of it or suc
ceed. The democrats are
making a grand fightin talk
ing against time and express
confidence of being able to
win.
How the democratic Sena
tors feel in this matter may
be judged from the following
extract from a speech of Sen
ator Reagan, which reflects
the sentiments of his demo
cratic colleagues, and shows
that they will never willing
ly surrender: "As dear as my
life is to me, as (Jod is my
.Judge, if I could save the
American people from the
pending measure by giving
up my life, I would surrender
it as freely as I ever perfor
med any act of my life". It
was an imposing sight to see
Senator Reagan as he stood,
every feature showing his
earnestness and sinceiity,
and spoke these words, and
it was not surprising that
they were greeted by an out
burst of deafening applause
from the galleries, which Mr.
Morton was quick to reprove
Ly threatening to have the
galleries cleared.
Senator Stewart on Satur
day gave notice of a motion
to recomment the election
bill with instructions to the
committee to report it back
with a provision for the elec
tion of members of Congress
on days when no other elec
tions are held in the several
states; aud this motion may
be made the excuse for get
ting rid of the bill quietly
when the republicans discov
er their inability to pass it,
for if it is recommitted to the
committee it will never get
before the Senate again.
Notwithstanding their hav
ing made speeches against
the Force bill Senators Tel
ler, Wolcott and Stewart are
now acting with and voting
with their republican collea
gues in their efforts to pass
the bill. This is significant,
in as much as it shows that
the democrats need expect
no help from republicans in
defeating the bill.
Mr. Harrison's henchmen
are now trying to prevent
the passage of Senator Vest V
free coinage bill, which was
adopted last week by the
Semite as n mi hsinuie ion
that hodge-podge of absur
dities known as the republi
can caucus financial bill, by
the House by talking veto.
Th1 bill, which is now before
the House committee on
t'oinage, is in far more dan
ger from Speaker Reed's op
position than it is from a
Presidential veto. Reed has
the audacity and the nerve
to resort to any methods to
defeat it, and if . he doesn't
attempt to do so, it will only
be because he prefers seeing
Mr. Harrison, whom ho dis
likes very much, weaken and
sign it, as I believe he will, if
it passes the House. Mr. Har
rison has made threats be
fore, but his spinal column
has always wilted when the
time came to carry them out.
Another erstwhile promi
nent republican is in the toils
of the law. W. P. Canaday;
who for many years, because
of his ability to control the
North Carolina delegation
to republican national con
ventions, held the position
of Sergeant-at-Arms of the
United States Senate, has
been arrested for obtaining
money under false pretenses.
And ye gods, how cheap he
sold his character. Tin; a
mount he obtained on a
worthless check was just .f 35.
Some starring exposures
will shortiy be made by the
House committee which is
investigating the silver pool
charges, unless the witnesses
among whom are Senator
Stewart and .Journal Clerk
Smith of the House, shall re
fuse to tell the committee
what they are alleged to
have told to private parties.
The democratic leaders of
the House are carefully wa tch
ingthe proceedings in the
Senate and should the Force
bill pass that body they are
prepared to make a desperate
fight on it in the House when
it goes there for concurrence
in the Senate amendments.
George Brancroft, the his
torian, who was Secretary of
the Navy during the Polk
administration, when he es
tablished the Naval academy
at Annapolis, died here Sat
urday afternoon in his ninety
first year.
Senator Quay has taken
the trouble to deny the ru
mor that he intended resign
ing his seat in the Senate. It
vas entirely unnecessary.
Everybody knows that he
isn't one of the resigning
kind.
The House committee on
the world's Fair think the
officials connected with that
concern aie drawing too
much money and recom
mends a cut in saleries.
The First Woman to Hold office.
Mrs. E. Wilson was 'elected
superintendent of p u b 1 i c
schools for Carter county at
Elizabethton. Monday. She
is the first lady to hold office
in Carter county, and is said
to be fully capable of dis
charging the duties of the
position. She is a widow
and dependent upon her own
resources for a living. Bris
tol Courier.
XAJ0E-4'ESLRAL B. I. HITLER.
lie Will KMari lothrS.wtli for the
1 1 rut liuir tinrr the War.
It seems hardly necessary
to say anything of the histo
ry of "(Jen.' It. F. Butler. No
man in the whole nation has
been more constantly in the
public eye for the last four
decades than he. As a suc
cessful lawyer and influen
tial politician before the war,
as a patriot who was first to
respond to the country's call
at the tiring upon Fort Sum
ter, as the man who gave
New Orleans the best govern
ment the city ever had, as
Commander of the Army
of the James, as a Represen
tative in Congress and a lead
ing politician since the war,
he has had public attention
constantly heaped upon him.
No man in the country has
received more praise or more
abuse than he, and no man
has more warm, personal
friends and admiiers. Many
of the people of the South
have been particularly bitter
against him, and have tried
to make his name a synonim
for all that was detestable.
He is now about to return
good for evil, and heap coals
of fire upon the heads of his
detractors by a great enter
prise to help restore prosper
ity to the region which suffer
ed so severely irom the rava
ges of the war. He is at the
head of the great Georgia
Alabama Investmsnt Compa
ny, which is made up of
capitalists whom he has as
sociated with himself in a
scheme to build and develop
large portions of Dixie. Ear
ly next month he intends to
make a tour of the South,
visiting that section for the
first time since the close of
the war twenty-six years a--go.
He will go to New Or
leans, and to all other prom
inent points, and survey the
field of operation of this com
pany carefully, to inform him
self personally as to the pos
sibility of each locality. There
is something phenomenal in
such a tour by a General
whose first visit was sword
in hand, but who now goes
as a restorer. It will be watch
ed with great interest by all
sections of the country. Na
tional Tribune.
The News and Observer
says: the United States is to
have a factory for the manu
facture of Dr. Koch's cele
brated lymph, and it is to be
undei the charge of Dr. .Jo.
seph Kinyoun, a nephew of
Mrs. II. C. Eccles, of Char
lotte. Dr. Hamilton, Surgeon-General
of the United
States Army, says that the
factory will be established at
the Marine Hospital, at Sta
pletou, as soon as Dr. Kin
youn returns from Barlin,
last December. Says Dr.
Hamilton: "He was to re
turn in March next, but now
that Dr. Koch has made his
important disclosure as to
the formula of making the
lymph it is possible that he
may be ordered home sooner
than was first anticipated.
If Congress does what we an
ticipated it will do appro
priate .fl0,000 in the sundry
civil bill at this session we
will commence the erection
of a lahorntnrv in tin's eif,v
and manufacture lymph here
aiso.
TRIEEEIOCHACY.
The scech of ex-Prexident
Clevelad at the gathering of
Jacksoninu democrats in Phil
adelphia Thursday evening,
says the Baltimore Sun was;
in his best cin. Responding!
to a toast eulogizing "the!
principles of true democracy,'
the ex President undertook to
demonstrate the proposition
that "they are endiiringle
cause they are right, and in
vincible because they aire
just." Much wonder is ex
pressed at times by students
of our political history nt the
staying qualities of the demo
crati'r party. Its record goes
back almost to the founda
tion of the federal govern
ment. It hasoui.lived a num
ber of its competitors and
promises to outlive its pres
ent competitors. Its oppo
nents have several times pro
nounced it dead. But adver
sity seems to quicken it. Af
ter defeat, it soon re-appears
in the field, hopeful and vig
orous to renew the fight aud
down its adversary. What
is the secret of this perenial
vitality and spirit? Mr.Cleve
land finds it in the identity
of the traditional principles
of the democratic party with
the interests of the masses of
the people. As understood by
the ex-President, "these com
prise equal and exact justice
to all men; peace, com mersce
and honest friendship with
all nations entangling the
alliance with none; the sup
port of the State govern
ments in all their rights; the
preservation of the general
government in its whole con
stitutional vigor; the jealous
care of the right of election
by the people; absolute acqui
escenee in the decissionof the
majority; the supremacy of
the civil over the military an
thority; economy in the pub
lic expenses; the honest pay
ment of our debts and sacred
preservation of the public
faith; the encouragement. of
agriculture, and commerce as
its hand maid, and freedom
of religion, freedom of the
press and freedom of the per
son." Tne party tenet, "jus
tice to all, favor to none,"
is at the bottom of its oppo
sition to the present protec
tive tariff. Its respect for the
constitution as a sacred com
pact explains its opposition
to many fanciful schemes
which are advocated by per
sons indifferent, to the funda
ment law. Mr. Cleveland sees
in his party the true friend
of the farmer, whose interest
lies in just and economical
government. The Force bill
and debauchery of the ballot
spring, in his view, from one
and the same vicious politi
cal source. It is the duty of
good democrats to fight both
The recent election in Mr.
Cleveland's view, demons
trates the fact that the pub
lic concience is now awrake.
Right and justice today have
a hearing the land. Sophistry
and chicane areat adiscount.
The democracy, as the part3T
of right and justice hasevery.
reason, he thinks, to rejoice
that such is now the case.
"Vance, Voorhees, Vestand
Vilas This is a straight
tlusli of v s and is hard to
handle.
WHERE WILL IT ESDI
It would be well for the peo
pie of this country, and es
tecially those of them who
still support the policy of the
republican party, says the
Philadelphia Tunes, to pause
and consider what is likely
to become of our free institu
tions if the theory that might
gives right to continue to
prevail. The spec tacle presen
ted yesterday in New Hamp
shire, where the defeated par
ty has taken possession of
the government of the State
by a flagrant usurpation of
political power, is an npplica
tion of the same policy em
bodied in Speaker Reed's con
trol of the House of Represen
tatives in the Federal elec
tion bill that was approved
by a caucus resolution at Har
risburg the other day. It
was the same policy that
stole two United States Sena
tors from Montana and has
lend to the present scandal
of a double organization of
the Assembly of that State
and threats of revolutionary
action in three or four other
States in the West.
It has come to be almost
an accepted fact that itisnot
the votes of the people but
the degree of daring of those
in power that determines the
result of an election. The peo
pie of New Hampshire elec
ted a majority of demo
crats Representatives; the
Clerk of the House deliberate
ly nullifies the election by ma
king up the roll upon a pure
ly arbitrary basis, excluding
democrats unquestionably e-
lected and adding republicans
elected only conditionally, if
at all, in such manner as to
give the republicans a major
ity. And partisans will ap
plaud this revolutionary
sharp practice, without stop
ping to consider that such
action is destructive of all
constitutional security.
If people knew that they
are living under a Czar or
Dictator or a revolutionary
committee, in the South A-
merican style, they can ar
range their affairs according
ly; but if they expect and a
gree to live under a govern
ment of law they must insist
upon maintaining the law or
they cannot expet to main
tain their government.
The meanest manonearth,
say 8 the Jackson Whig,i8 the
fellow who gets behind a year
or two with his county paper
and then declines to take it
out of the postoffice. Al
though the publisher trusted
him, he never writes, never
drops in and pays or prom
ises to pay what he justly
owes, but he takes advan
tage of his distance and the
smnllness of the sum involv
ed and coolly pockets what
he knows belongs;toanotner.
Burns had this very fellow in
view when he said:
"Ah Tam, ah Tam thou'lt get
thyfarin.
In hell they'll roast thee like a
herin."
If you want to discontinue
a paper, do it like a man.
"Honesty is the best policy"
in every line of life, whether
applied to your grocery bill
or your news paper.
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