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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 189? i' - r i SECOND - TKlpMT TALK. t-4, HOW CERTAIN 8e4aTOR8 VIEW HAR RISON'S RENOMINATION. "1trrllitH, Clmmlp from thi Cloakrooms. Wlirni L'ai.illdalrs Art Mad unit Un Marin and l'arty rnllrlra I'nrmnlateil. Discussing Hid Ucinocrallo Candidates. (Hclal CorrcKudcuce. Warhinoton, April 81. Tho kom)i of tlio senate cloakrooms. Hint Is what wc nil llko to Kot. Wo llko to hour what tlio senators nru talking about Among thcimclves while sitliiiK on tlit'lr easy chairs or reollnltiK on their luxu rious sofas In tlio privacy of tliulr senate retiring rooms. In these iiiinrttiiontH majority of tho senntor spend DKwt of their time. Tlio company there In con genial, tho stories good, tho cigars fra grant, tho gossip fresh and Interesting. Hero tho progress of legislation, tho movements of parties, tho ambition of mit;i ro dlsoussod us nowhoro olao in this countryby tW inon thomsolvos cuid by tho leaders nut I makers of part ion nil nominations. These cloakroom are tho nown center of tho United States. They aro a clearing house of In formation, of tittle-tattle. These son torn nro for tho most part big mon in their Btotcs. Each and overy ono of them linn hundreds of tho lient informed men in his part of tho country writing him lottorn till tho tinio or minding him hints as to tho state of public feeling and an to what is going on in tho grcnt world of tho iieoplo, Members of tlio houno, ns a pile, owe a certain sort of nlleginnco to tho sena torn from their states, and nro howern of fact and carrion of intelligence foi them. Naturally under these, circum stances tho senators who infest the cloakrooms hnvo a great many things to talk about. Republican Mutators mA Democratic senators mix togothor. . They do not have many secret one from another. lam told that tho poor est place in tho world to keep a secret to the cloakroom of tho senate. It may aot get beyond tho smoko tinted walls of these privato corridors, for there ia a senatorial tradition that what is uttered thero must not lie repented outsldo, but la on hour or two a now story or u fresh bit of gossip is known all over tH Mcnate. "A few day b ago I spent an ovoning with a prominent senator. "Tell mo omo of tho gossip of your cloakrooms," aid I. "For instanco, whom aro you MTaatorn nominating for president and rice president nowadays? And who is going to bo elected?" "You want to know too much," audi- Jgly replied my senatorial friend; "yon ant to know more than wo know. But I will tell you n few of tho things wo are tying up thero in the cloakrooms, when wo ait around and smoko and ozcluingo toriea and ideas. We hnvo come to tho conclusion that President Harrison will be renominated without opposition at Minneapolis. On this wo have no differ aces of opinion. Moreover, tho ticket. Will bo tho old ticket over again Hor rison and Morton. I supposo you know that Mr. Harrison is not popular in the ennte. Even among tho Republican senators there is a strong disposition to aay unkind nnd sharp things about him. Many of these sonators don't want Mr, Harrison renominated, and thoy have tried their best to rind a way to beat him. But thoy havo now given up all hopo of being able to do so. Dlaino was thoir hut chance. Had Dlaino consented to ran I can tell yon as a bit of insido new that President Harrison would not havo permitted hia namo to go lioforo tho con ventioa. The president is not nearly as ager for another term as some peoplo think he is. If there was any serious opposition to him I am told ho would aot take tho trouble to tight for a second peculiar characteristics. Ho hasn't nay faculty for doing things in a amoctli ntid pleasant way. Ho mnkes peoplo who mil on him nlmtit nptsvliittiiont feel uncomfortable. Ho Is a suspicious man. "I hnvo It'mrd n scoro of senators nay thnt whereas Arthur and other presi dents could deny n mini's request in such n way as to make tho man 11 friend, Mr. Harrison is so unfortunate ns not to bo nblo to grant n request in such n way as to attach tho benellclnry to him. Thla is n matter of temperament and noth ing else. Wo nil agree, Democrats as well ns Republicans, thnt Harrison has made n good president. Ho is a man of remarkable Insight and analysis. He has the power of sustained labor ami study. Ho has leen clean and Htrong. Ills chief weakness has been in his per sonal contact with men his strange In ability to get on smoothly with them, "Ono thing I ndmlro him for is his frank stubbornness ulmut this thing. Ho knows his weakness, but defies It. To those who havo advised him to make an effort to change ho has said that ho is too old n dog to lenrn now tricks, and thnt ns ho is so must ho continue. Ho said ho would despise himself if ho wore to try to change the habits of a lifetimo for tho sake of winning a few more friends. What sonat ;rs complain most of in the president is his abruptness. Ho has n way of dismissing them or mop ping u subject in which they nro very much interested so suddenly us to bo rather shocking. Ho doesn't menu to givo offense, but does just tho nnmo. Ho is just ns abrupt to members of his fam ily, but they know him. "An instance of this was told mo a dny or two ago by a friend of tho presi dent's who was nt dinner recently in tho White House. Two or three mom born of tho family had a littlo conversa tion about an otllcinl matter. Thoy had thoir opinions nliout it and wero not afraid to express them, though their opinions did not hnrmoulzo with thoso of tlio man who sat nt tho head of tho tnblo. The president evidently thought tho ladles of his household wero trying to givo him some advice, for ho snid, Tho iieoplo elected mo president, not my family.'" Thon the conversation was changed to another topic. "Filling tho offices Is tho bane of every man who occupies tho presidential chnlr," continued tho senntor, "and 1 will tell you thnt in tho sennto cloak rooms wo hnvo como to the conclusion that on account of tho friction mid trou ble arising from this source tho day U near at hand when tho presidency will bo a ono term office. Either tho count'. tutlon will bo changed so us to prohibit a second term, or it will become tho un written law thnt n man ia not to lmvf two terms, just ns it ia now the nnwi it ton law that thero shall not bo u third term." "lint yon haven't told mo whom the Democrats will nomlnato for preside:.! at Chicago?" "I can't tell you. In tho senntu cloak rooms, where wo presume to settle to many big questions, wo haven't any to. of an idea on this point. All the suvf.ici Indications point to Mr. Cleveland. B,;:t hero again comes in this saino thing .! friction nlxmt tho spoils. If Mr. Clow land wore as jwpular as ho is with tin masses ot his party, and had never been president, ho would surely bo nominated. No power on earth could stop it. Du' tho leading men of tho Democrat! party nro afraid ho has sor.ianyeneinle.". men who liccamo angered nt him while he was in the White House, that ho can not bo elected. Added to tills, they say, la tho bitterness between tho Hill mid Cleveland factions in Now York. As a result of theso conditions wo havo huge numbers of tho party throughout tho country crying for Cleveland, while th leaders in Washington are trying t AN ABLE JOURNALIST. urrpn tinon snmit other -nim. How it nomination. But when Blaine declined wiu Bn corae out Is more than finlto man it left the field so clear that all tho nresl dent bad to do was to sit still and take what came to him without effort on his part "Tho Republican senators who don't want Harrison nominated have been trying in every way In their power to et up a man who could beat him. They have discussed the strength and avail ability of about a score of possible rivals, but without reaching any agroo tavsat They have talked of Alger, of Oallom, of McKinley, of Gresham, of Allison, of Piatt, the senator from Con aecticut, and a lot more. But to every asaa proposed some objection has been arged, and they havo finally settled 4own into a feeling of hopelessness. Their last programme was to send word throughout the country that unin attracted delegates should be sent to tho Minneapolis convention; that conserva tive sien were to be chosen to represent the party ia the national convention. Their hope was that when tho conven tion met, If a majority of its members were unlnstructed and unpledged, ma nipulation and combination could bo de pended upon to And a way to boat tho president Even this plan has not worked; it is clear that a large ma jority of the delegates to the" Minne apolis convention will be for Harrison. Not one of tho senators of whom I speak has a hope any more that the president will be defeated." "What is tlie trouble between the president and these senators of his own party why have they uot got on well together?" "It all comes from tho friction inci daat to the distribution of patronage. That fa all there is to it. Thepresldont oae of the most stubborn and inde jsadent men we have ever had In the White House. He has bad his own way about everything. Sometimes he has dose what the senators wanted him to do and sometimes he hasn't. There is always trouble between a president and the senators of bis party about filling tha oAces. 1 have been in Washington aWeagh half a dosen administrations aad I never saw the time when the chief aaveattv and members of the senate war aot at loggerheads about some ap pointments or,, southing incidental to iHWWia.,. v-wur rnmuBui. a has bad snore trouble thaa (Of his prediosssats because of his can foresee." "Ono troublo nltout agreeing upon man to beat Cleveland with is that ia. many of tho men who want to defeat Cleveland want to be president them selves. As soon as ono of their number begins forging to the front tho other" begin tenriu; him down. In this way the field is kept divided up, with not much hope of uniting it anywhere. The mosses of tho party stop shouting for Cleveland long enough to hear the lead ers tell them Cleveland can't bo elected. Then they nk who can. And when a Babel of voices answer them that this man can, and this muu can't, they be come confused and go back to thoir idol. mat is mo way 11 is going now. in me cloakrooms I hear Democratic senators shaking their heads and saying it looks much llko Cloveland. "Senntor Hill's friends are not nearly so hopeful us thoy were, and I hear thnt tho Hill strength will bo thrown to Sen ator Palmer, of Illinois. Senator. Brice. of Ohio, says Palmer can bo elected. But just as soon as the Palmer move ment begins to make headway Oorman, Morrison, Cnrlislo and othors go over to Cloveland in order to head Pa'mor off. The tickot most talked about In Wash ington just now, in opposition to Cleve land, Is Palmer and Flower. Tho cham pions of this ticket arguo that it could carry Indiana and New York if any ticket could, and fiossibly Illinois. It Is also said that Senator Hill has deter ullned todefeut the nomination of Clove land at any cost, and that it he can't du it with Palmer he will try a new combi nation. "Until recently ex-Secretary Whitney has uot been very warm for Cloveland, but he has recently announced a return to his old allegiance. Washington ob servers take this as meaning that (lie New Yorkers who are not followers ot Hill have concluded that tho nomination of the ex-president is Inevitable, and that while some of them question the wisdom ot it they have decided to ac cept that which they can't prevent and make tho most of It If amid all these perplexities and complications it is pos sible to have a belief as to what tho out come will be, 1 should say the beltcl most oftn expressed in the senate cloak rooms is that Cloveland will be nominal. e4 aad that the fight of 18W will be tin fight of leftover again." Walter Wbixmav. John C. Itrld linn Unit an Interesting mill tUrfnl Career. IHpeclnl t'orresiilonco.l Nkw H.vvk.4, April SI. Mr. John 0. Reld, who has recently nasuincd tho management of tho Now Huron Palla dium, was for many years sji Important figure In tho nownpniwr life of Now York city. For a long wlillo Reld was regarded as in somo respects tho ablest news and managing editor in tho me tropolis, nnd when the New York Times was under his management In Its news department It was regarded unlivery great newspaper. Mr. Reld came from tho west to the office of The Times, ns so many other men who havo iniulu successes in New York iournnllsin havo done. Ho wan a soldier in tho Union army during tho war, and had learned tho printers' trade, no that nfter tho war ended ho was nblo to secure employment In tho office of Tho Times while Henry J. Raymond, tho founder of that paimr, was living. Mr. Reid's ability was very soon recog nized, and ho was made tho assistant of Louis J. Jennings, now a memlier of tho British parliament, but for several years the editor of Tho Times after Mr. Ray mond's death. It was Mr. Jennings, nlded by Mr. Reld, who made tho ex posures which resulted in tho nrrost nnd imprisonment of Willlnm M.Tweed nnd tho downfall of tho Tammany to- clety, ns It was controlled by Mr. Tweed and his associates. After Mr. Jennings retired from the Now York Times Mr. Reld liccumd the executive manager of that paper. He was responsible for nown, nnd his re sponsibility wnn ndmlrnbly fulfilled. Perhaps tho most conspicuous achieve ment, looking at It purely from tho jour nalistic point of view, wns his announce ment in The Times on tho morning nfter the November election of 1870 thnt Mr. Tiltlon wns not elected, but thnt Mr. Hayes would have a majority of one voto in tho electoral college. Every other nownpnper in tho country had con ceded the election of Tildon. Tho ex citement which followed tho announce ment of The Times is a mutter of his- ,tory, nnd without going Into tho merits of thnt disputed election It Is sufficient to sny thnt Mr. Hayes was seated. This was n great journalistic triumph for The Times. In 1880, nfter Garfield becamo presi dent, ho ottered to Mr. Reld tho iost of United States marshal for tho district in which Now York is Included, but ho de clined tho honor. Mr. Reid was nlwnys an ardent Republican In politics, and when Tlio Times deemed it best to sup port the candidate of the Democratic party in 1884, Mr. Reld submitted to the views of his employers, but ho felt that his usefulness wns very greatly im paired, nnd nfter awhile resigned from tho paper. Ho was employed by James Gordon Bennett to tako charge of the London edition of tho Now York Herald, and when that venture proved to lie a failure for Mr. Bennett, Mr. Reid re turned to Now York and for a time was employed in executive capacities by the Now York Recorder and The World. His political lxdicfs nro so strong, howover, that he did uot find congenial relations, nnd wlillo ho wus offered a numlxir of imixirtnut posts ho would not accept them. In Connecticut the feel ing has lieen that tho party in which Mr. Reld has given such dovoted service needed a uewspnper organ, and when Tho Palladium changed hands Mr. Reid wus at once offered tho post of editorial manager. That pnper had been fov many years ono of tho two lending organs in the state of the party, the Hartford Courant being tho other. Able journalists havo been connected with it. James F. Babcock, who was a politician nnd editor of great influence, owned tho paper for many years. Cyrus Northrop, now president of the Minnesota State university, and for a number of yearn professor of English literature nt Yale, was Its editor for awhile. Win. H. Crof tut, tho well known nowspiipor corre spondent, wns nlso for u brief period editor of It, And Georgo C. Holt, ono of tho Ablest young lawyers of New York city, conducted it for a year or two. E. F. James. In llPRnr-l to Hf.uiti.fr. A middle axed man with a complexion like n parsley omelet wandered Into a Dunne street restaurant altotit 2 p. in., se lected a sent, and plutiKed Into a bill of fare m If It had Ix-eu a dime novel. After pro longed nttciilliijuro tlio catalogue of till Lies he lieckotu-il to a waiter " 'Bpt-Hu you've everything tlint's down on the list, hain't yerf" "Reckon we lint, 1ks)." "Ain't cold or dried up, are they?" "No, sab. What's yo' order?" "I see you've ko 'country siuisuger down here In big type." "Yes, will." "Good At NisMiiKe?" "Flint rate." ".Jersey metHiige, perhaps?" "Diiuiio, sah. Make the order sausage!' "What makes oii call It 'country?" pursued the customer, disregarding tin oucrv. "Iteekou localise- 'taln't made la New York," rejoined the waiter Impatiently. "Well, I don't place no order fer sassag tell I git a toler'lilegrlpnu the place it mi built In. There's Hank 1'vters up in Greene county where I live, runs a sasmigi mill three miles from me, and the fellei that had eat some of that sassage, anil then seed the Inside of the mill, would swoller three times nnd die. When 1 lo cute where your sassages was milled I'll order, but your line of sassage may Iw hls'u, nnd I hain't traveled all the way from Greene county to load up on Hank Peters' snssages." "I reckon wc don't use his, sah," said the waiter soothingly. "Don't hey? Will yer make nn afl'er davit?" "Sah?" "I say, will you swear? I was a trustiu, quiet man till I seed Hank Peters' machine workln, and now when you say 'sassage' I can rip and snort and paw. Hear me?" New York Tribune. IN IT ALONE. Now We Cut Profits in Two Having purchased the interest of Mr. Sanderson in the late firm of Parker & Sanderson, which ended with the old I have decided to offer year, in al SPECIAL BARGAINS lines of goods for the next Thirty days. Ladies will do well to look up our bargains Street Wear and Party Goods. Remember the old at the old stand. BARE? PARKER, iooo O SIR RET. in Fine reliable Ihicoimt'lniiftly Committed. Tho htishaud stood before tho mirror with his face screwed Into a horrible gri mace. He was shaving himself. The wife lingered nt the opposite side of the room with her mouth full of pins. She wns just finishing her toilet. "M-iii-m-ump," observed she. "Wah-'nw-nh-oo, in-in," he replied. The husband took n new twist in his lips In order to stretch taut his cheek and facil itate the work on hand. Tho wife removed one pin from her mouth and put live more In Its place. "lloe-r-soo-r-r, m-uinp," she proceeded, with n careless air. "lt-nt-nt. m-uinp," ho promptly rejoined. There was a moment's silence, during which time the tire crackled In the grate nnd the lace curtains rustled gently. The wife was the first to speak again. "Er-ah-in-m-in," she remarked with some animation; "pnh-ow-m-ump." "M-uinp," quietly answered he. The lady, standing there in her statu esque iR'iuity, hastily ejected the pins upon the table and stared In evident astonish ment. "And you consent without n murmur," she exclaimed at last, and her eyes swam with tears of joy. The gentleman, proud in the conscious ness of strength, suddenly pulled his face Into shape and stared likewise. "Consent to what?" he weakly demand ed, ns if with a foreboding of evil. "To my having a new sealskin. 1 had no Idea you would say yes so soon. Oh, you dear old darling." She threw herself upon his bosom ami got some soap on her nose. He silently acquiesced, but remained in a fitful, moody abstraction for hours, like one who has sustained a great and unexpected blow through no fault of his own. Detroit Tribune Tllf- Newly KugaKeri. G. A. RAYMER &CO. COAI CANON, ROCK-SPRINGS, PERFECTION, DUQUOIN, JACKSON, HICKORY BLOCK, tttt A COLOR. NEWCA m BEST GRADE OF HARD COAL. Telephone 390. Office 1 134 O Strttt. EXPERTS CLAIM THEY ARE THE BEST "THE RAMBLER" "MS THEM ALL Wichita. Kn , Feb. 15, 1KM.--Durlw- Inst fall nml this winter I exam ined into the comtructlon nnd principles of the different inakei of wheals with tlio Intention or buying ono. nnd ns I urn sonit-u lint Urge, welghlnr 230 pounds the merhunlciil Mrueture. innteilHl nnd strength of a wheal hits been a series of features which t hitve reirnrded carefully. The reiult of, my Investigation Is simply this! I hnvo found so many mpcrlor points In the mcchnnlcallconstrucllon of the Humbler (asldo iriim Its superior beauty, nrnmizenient or wheels nnd tho n miner nf milking frame) that I nm lully convinced thnt It Is thn very best wheel on tho market, nnd tha only tnnko I desire to trust under my weight I bnck this statement up by plnclngmy ordor with yon for n No. 1 Inflated 'lire ltnmbler: desiring this tire In somo respects, over the pniiemiitlc; but think the ntmcniatlo the best In tho class made. I nm. yours very truly. Wit. J. Hutohims. E. I?. GUTHRIE, Sole Agent In Lincoln. 1545 O Street. rue Hoatl tc Health GREATEST TOWN ON EARTH. Wpi',' Thla Designation Applies to Very Many Northwest Cltlea. LSpeclnl Correspondence. Tacoma, Wash., April 16. Ono of the things which strikes a stranger wit' great force on his first visit to Pug. sound Is the very decided and positive way in which tlio inhabitants of each town declare that their city is the largest and best, Is possessed uot only of all the natural advantages, hut that they hold u monopoly of all the favors of Divine Providence. Tho strangor Is a little mystified and bewildered at first and wonders how naturo anil I'rovidenco camo to bo so prodigal of gifts at this point. Very soon, however, tho story becomes an old and oft repeated one, the only change and variation being tho namo of tho town under discussion and the per son of tho narrator. Each towu Insists that It has the best harlwr, Is tho most advantageously situ ated to shorten the land or sea distance to some k.iown or unknown part of the world, that it lies under tlio softest shadow oil tho Olympic range; that it has the uost gorgeous bunbets; that from no other point can so good a view of tho coJcudes be obtained: that it hau had the most phenomenal growth; that it has done a larger banking business and more shipping in a month than any other, and so oii ud infinitum. When tho people in one city aro told that their neighbors in a sister city lay claim to the same natural and acquired advantages with perhaps a few addi tional ones, they not only accuse their neighbors of lying, but deelaro that they know thoy nro lying, their neighbors In turn, saying tho same thing of them. It makes on) wonder If tho people hero are not a little like those of southern France, of whoiu Daudet said, "Thoy feel an honest necessity for lying of which the people living in temperate climutw know nothing." Li ura D. Stahr. She There's no poetry in a kiss. It's like a trunk. Hi I.Ike a trunk She You can always find a man to ex press It, and it's wiser to check it if you don't want it to go too far. Life. BRONZE Oxfords and Slippers Are Correct for all Party and Dress Occasions - See Them at ED. G. YKTES, 1129 O STREET llesmii Knoiigli. Sunday School Superintendent Now will some little boy tell me what is meant in the lesson by the words "filthy lucre" Alderman's Hoy Money. Superintendent Yes, money Is one form of lucre. Why Is It called filthy Prairie Avenue Hoy 'Cause lots of It li bandied by people that ain't nice. Chlca go Tribune. A Helping Hand. Mrs. Wangle You must have been quite 111 to be visited by your doctor twice a day. Mrs. Polkadot Oh, no. Hut ho is a friend of ours just starting out and I wanted to encourage him all I could. Harper's Hazar. Saint and Sinner. Half hidden In tho pew, alio sits. A truant sunbeam softly lilts Across her modest, snlntllko face. As If tlio nnuels thought to trace Upon thosu features that they love An Kaster blessing from above. Demure, with modest e)es downcast, Sly angel sits. Ah, I would fust For forty days for just one look - From those sweet o)es bout on tho book; And If she'd givo mo three or four, I'd be content to out no more. :in TiiotmiiTs. Those hoi rid nlsles (that dress Is brown), I wish those ople would sit down. Now, where could she have got that fan Oh, I supposo some silly man. Dear. dear, that choir boy baa u rold. How that man stares He's really bold. My bounelt Can it havo a crook? I wish I'd taken ono more look. Umphl who Is that with the 1'ratts? What sights they are In thoso new hats) There's Percy won't ho bo enraged When Clara tells him she's engaged? My I what a fright Ilcss is In bluet It cost her ninety dollars ton. Well. I paid eighty ( hut a muss! But then pa iiIwujb makes n fuss). Oh, my! (hero's 8mitby-such a face! (Those horrid inlins! I've lot my place.) I hope his sermon won't be long; ' ' The poor, dear fellow Isn't strong. Why, there Is Fred! Dear me, what uext? I hope 1 won't forget the text. Tom Mumn In Ufa. I 1892-:-SPRING-:-1892 Next week our new line of beautiful effects In SPBIM IILLHEEY Will be open for jour inspection and we invite every lady In Lincoln to call and see the goods ON FANCY PRICES Hut the sain: low figures will prevail as does In nil our other departments. Come and sec for yourself. THE LEADER, Great Cheap More 1211 0 Street H. W. BROWN DRUGGISTHIBOOKSELLER Has the New Books soon ns issued. A choice line of Perfumes and Fancy Goods. 127 South Eleventh Street. I -