Show imis democratic OUTLOOK CLEV ELANDS TARIFF MESSAGE THE PEOPLE republican bring honor to the democrats of the washington has been the mecca towards which the eyes of all good democrats have been devoutly turned during the past few days here the first steps were taken towards the great victory which is to be won this year again by the party the democratic national committee which met in this city to select the time and place for holding the national nominating convention held a three days meeting of intense interest and every rival city worked its hardest for the prize the only other business of importance transacted by the committee was the election of sir wm steinway the piano manufacturer of new tork city to fill the vacancy on the committee caused by the death of hubert 0 thompson this selection was a great disappointment to the republicans who confidently expected a great row in the committee over it representative scott of pennsylvania was in favor of holding the convention before the republicans held theirs believing that havin possession of the government it was the proper thing for the democrats to take the initiatory steps in opening the presidential campaign senator german of maryland opposed an early convention maintaining that there was no reason wh the democrats should change their policy of following the republicans that with a late convention they could take advantage of any mistakes of their opponents whereas by preceding the republicans it would enable them to make capital out of any blunders that might be committed by the demo brats senator germans views were shared by nearly two thirds of the committee hence the selection at first ad the next day a reconsideration of this vote was secured and mr scotts views accepted by adopting june the ath as the date for the convention it waa not until near noon on thursday that st louis was fixed upon as the place up to that hour etwas believed that san francisco was sure to win mr mills chairman of the house committee on ways and means has returned from a flying trip to providence B I 1 he sarahe is de avith the spirit of the new england people in regard to the revenue question throughout the manufacturing districts the tariff for revenue theory L popular and they are pleased with the presidents tariff message itis now said that little phil sheri dans decimation of the nomination for president was a case of sour grapes he is not eligible even granting that he was bora as his mother says several months after the amyal of his parents in this country isaiaa naturalized citizen of this city that would make him an alien under the law as his father was not naturalized and no more eligible to the presidency than if ho was bom in ireland I 1 know because I 1 had a son bom several months after my ar rival in this country and ho was obliged before he was allowed to vote on reaching the age of twenty one to take the oath of allegiance as he was held to be alien bom the same law would apply to Sheri dans case charges having been repeatedly made in a number of republican that the commissioner of had given the soldiers of socratic cratic ao states an advantage over oso of republican states in the of pensions allowed them a table has been prepared at the pension office effectually disproves the silly charge another bad break is to bo charged up to the Republican leaders of the house they see it now but it is too lato to stop the deluge they proposed and passed a resolution to investigate vesti gate the government prin tin or rather to investigate mr benedict the first democratic public printer to show up many st artlin things the proposition was readily agreed to by the democrats after an amendment was added providing tatt the investigation should include the four years term of mr benedicts republican predecessor the committee appointed under this resolution has already begun work and enouch has been done to make the republican very sorry they started it and the indications are that their sorrow wil continue to increase here are some figures taken from the 1110 cemment printing th i mes in jan to under round there were 2 persons on tho rolls receiving and in jan 1888 under benedict rolls receiving the groat ro in the number of employed emp loyes over and the large saving in cash over in a month there was more work turned out of the office in jan 1888 than in jan 1886 comment is needless washington feb |