Show POLITICAL mm talk at the nations capital NO FLEAS ON EDMUNDS ahe old senator knows how r to take advantage of the vacation I 1 C april 15 special mr harrison is ex representative mckiniry who bids fair to beckma a monomaniac on the tariff bill enacted uy the billion dollar congress and bears his name mr mckiniry aho knows that reciprocity ven of the limited kind proposed by mr blaine would eventually result in the death 0 alie doctrine of the high protective tariff by causing ita absurdities to shine even more conspicuously than they do at the present time has been working on mr li arrison for quite awhile to convince him that he must stop mr blaine eyen if t was necessary to force him out of the cabinet nothing would have suited mr harrison better but he was afraid of blaine and having obtained obtain ad bis promise to stand off and let him get mated if he could he did not care to anger him but the indications new are that mckiniry has fully succeeded for officer ever got a more direct snubbing from the president than mr blaine did when mr harrison positively forbid nis receiving rece ivine adv informally or otherwise from the canadian commissioners who had been invited here by mr blaine it would not have injured mr harrison in the slightest or have helped canadian reciprocity for mr blaine to have kept his engagement with the canadians and heard their informal propositions but mr harrison was ati ter mined to snub the canadians as well as mr blaine and in diplomatic smiles with which the can adiana received mr blaines little fib manufactured for tho occasion about the president wishing to be present when their proposition was submitted they knew that reciprocity with us was as dead as a door nail as long as mr harrison is president and that they would never bo sent for to submit their to him he who thinks that mr biarne will submit to being insulted does not know the man one of his close personal friends said tome Owin sto the condition of a number of most important diplomatic negotiations mr blaines hands are for the present tied but en he geta in naf isore anin ti ade hi s and if bill mckinley careful be will discover that mr blame wields considerable influence in ohio in resigning irm the senate mr edmunds did not forget his lifelong thrifty habits he makes it take effect next november which gives him an opportunity port unity to continue drawing the salary during the recess without doing any work there is no doubt here that the whole thing is cut and dried and that the governor of vermont will just before congress meets appoint secretary proctor to fill mr edmunds term in the senate |