| Show HORE REAL REJOICING was caused at the rational Hat ional capital BY LAST WEEKS BIG VICTORY than anything that has happened since Clev elands election thanks correspondence 1 nov 8 1890 the great tidal wave of democratic success that swept over the country tuesday broucht more real rejoicing to washington than anything aich has occurred since tl e election of cleveland and II endricks in 1884 democratic faces are overspread with smiles and who has a better right to smile while the republicans who are frightened clean ot their bouab go around wilh wo beaune faces and make no attempt to explain the condemnation which the botera of the country have placed upon the administration and upon kepul acau majority in congress for its action in giving the people a batch of the most unpopular davs ever turned out at a sin lle of congress lumped ott anh the w of all alie mckinley tanal law the weight of which has been belt by everybody although it is only a month since it b became a law the democrats expected as had every reason to do to carry tho house of by a good working matonti maj onti but they w ere hardly prepared to see the party win buan in unprecedented ce victory in every section of the country electing more than two thirds of the house and carrying Ke publican t like new hampshire pennsylvania kansas michigan nebraska and wisconsin it ever anere was good reason for holding a democratic jubilee it certainly exists bov and it is not strange that the dem here are in the wildest stats of enthusiasm the returns proved to be too much for mr J S clarkson the gentleman who took hold of the Ite publican congressional committee with the announcement that he would win the fight and he haa gone to recuperate his shattered nerves he also wished to escape the impertinent questions of those lie persuaded to contribute considerable euina of money which was to purchase certain victory mr clarkson was also anxious to avoid an interview with mr benjaimin Benja inin until that gentle man haa time to smooth hia very much milled leathers clarkson ia responsible for much of the sull erin mr harrison is undergoing now last mr like a man of sense had m ado up his mind that the democrats would tha next house and al though deeply regretting the outlook he to worry to any estem averit then clarkson Clark bon came along and with rainbow stories convinced the old gentleman that the republicans were bound to win in the congressional elections and that it would be a great to have the idea passed along ane republican eliass that this election was to be national and a vindication di of mr harrison and the ad tiou it done and that ia eliy the heart of mr harrison is heavy he realizes that clarkson got him into a light that he might just as well have kept out of aud that the people have jumped on him and hid parly with ihma heaviest shod feet and he would like to talk to about it he has a suspicion that clarkson knowingly got him into this scrape lor the pur of having him knocked out BO as to help the presidential aspiration a of uen alier to whom clarkson was ltd mr wanamaker was asked what he thought of the but he declined to talk lurther than 10 bay he knew nothing about politics no cewa in that millionaire carnegie who is here looking alter bobu ol 01 liis fat contracts with the department says iu an interview eliat he re cards the results ot the election as the salvation ol 01 the republican party and that he ay iy glad of it mr carnegie la probably the largest individual under the mckin ley tariu lav in the country and necessarily a Ke publican and it ia the passage of that law and the ol 01 me election that haye become mixed in ins dmd hen he faaea he is alad ot it As if tho y U P 7 gets a few more cosea of the same kind as that administered last tuesday day it will need the services ot an undertaker noble and attorney general miller to be lor before tho break up which they see ahead and are botu breuing all the they can command to bear on ane man in the white bouse for the purpose of mccurin the vacant place on the bench ot the supreme court the democrat s are fortunate in having so much hotl material at hand to belech the next speaker of the house from among the names already mentioned are mills crisp mcalis lan breckenridge ky bynum and very lew members of con gressi are now in this city but somehow the idea seems general that the will go to the south in that event it ib almont certain that it will he one of tue lirot four gentlemen above mentioned Gli airman brice and flower are meeting anh praise on every hand for thy manner in which they managed the campaign and left the republicans under the impression that they were doieg little or nothing the republicans who went home to vote returned mostly ac night to escape the j eera of their friends the president lias issued a proclamation thursday lov as a day of thanksgiving following is the jay the grace and favor of Almi iny god the people of this nation have been led to the closing days of the passing year which have been full of the blessings of peace and the comforts of plenty corn sensation rensa tion has come to ts t s for the work of our minds and our hands in every departure of human industry now therefore I 1 benjamin harrison president of the united states of america do hereby appoint thursday the day af november to be ob served as a day of prayer and thanks giving and I 1 do invite the people upon that day to cease irom their labors to meet in their accustomed houses of worship audgo join in rendering gratitude and praise to our benefic bent creator for the rich blessings he has granted us as a nation and invoking a continuance of his protection and grrace tue commend to my the ot remember ins the poor tho homeless and sorrowful let us endeavor to merit the recompense of charity and alie gracious acceptance of our praise in testimony whereof I 1 have hereunto set mv hand and caused the seal of the unite d states to be affixed done at the city of washington this englith day of november in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety and of the independence of the united states the one hundred and fifteen BENJAMIN 3 I 1 seal by the president JAMES G BLAINE secretary 0 state |
