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Show Washington Letter. (J'icm Our ilrgut.tr Correspondent.) Tmo distinguished onicinls have during dur-ing the present week mudo stntenieats on the entile subject that are dillieult to reconcile. Senator I'aulkner, of Vest Virginia, who is chairman of tho Democratic Dem-ocratic Congressional Ciitnpaigu Committee, Com-mittee, said Hint theie never was a lime when it w ik so ditllcuRto get contributions contribu-tions f i oni Ftdcral ollienls, mid that about the only ones who hadcoiitributid ntint inljiit be considered their quota wt'ju tho einplo)OH nt the Capitol, lhert. is quite nn intcresiing little story about tho manner In which thp lontriliutiong of Hie Cajdtol employes, some 1,31)0 In iiumbcr, were fcecurcd. It U tnid that each ol them agreed to chip in gl'O, uud that the money nas paid with thu under standingth.it a joint u coin turn muiiuI be put through Cougiten ulluulnj; tlmii aucMra inoiilh's p.iy. Tin- resolution uasiutiodiicid nil lijht liioiiIi, hut owing to opposition in uncipicted quarters it failed to pa?, lint to I'.'luin to thoso oppot-ltu tt.iteinents; It a galhcicd from tliut of Senutur I'.iu'.l'.uer that tho government lhnploy-s ure not contributing. Koa', look nt Iho other sido- Civil Servlcij Coniiulssloncr Rosscveltsaid, In a published iiitcrvlo , that the Commission wns hai ing no end of trouble because of the political nescsr mctit of government employes nnd Hi it he did not cnll nny iiun-prcsldonii.il election year in which the commission mid hnd so much trouble from thr source. Onoor tho other must bo cithi badly misinformed or have wrongl slimed up the facts. The populists are, ns the paying 1 "Juki tickled to (Until" over Sicrttar. llol.i- Smith's t'xplanntlou of Hie fiillln, olfol thodemocrallcmiijority inOeorgla. They Bay Hint If Mr. Smith will only do a little more explaining of the same soit ho wilt make opullslB out ol thousands of democrats in tho Southern Etntcs. lie sajs In effect that tho ote In (leorgin hah convinced lit tit of tho necessity of the democratic parly standing up squarely for Cleveland silver policy. Mr, Smith is being roundly abused by the llcr democrats for what they call his "Impolitic utterances ngainrt silver" in tlio midst ofn campaign in whicu that party expects to elect two-thirds il the members It will lmvo in the next house witti the oteif of men who believe in tho free mid unlimited coinage of silver. It is hinted that il was tho in-discrvo in-discrvo nature of Secretary Smith's speeches that canard Prerideut Cleo-laud Cleo-laud to order thai members of the nil-ministration nil-ministration should not take active part In the campaign, A quorum of the Cabinet have gone to Hntnia, N. Y., ostensibly only to hear Secretary Carlisle dellier a carefully prepand address on the life mid character char-acter of his dlgtinKUtlixd predecessor of revolutionary fame, Robert Morrh, but it is regarded ns altogether probible Hint they will take udrnutni;e of the opHir-tuuity opHir-tuuity to put in n few licks that will help along the New York campaign, now just getting on a full head of stenm. The Mexican minister to the United States Is In a stato of mind, becauso of a publication stating Hint Moxico wot' plotting lo unnex nil the rcH of tho Central Ameiicnii republics, lie denies the story mid nays there wns no found, ation whatever therefore, If the minister min-ister is correct the man who furiiinhKl the dctnlla with which Hie nnuexutiuii story abounded is gifted witli an uxtia-ordinary uxtia-ordinary Imng W JXi- .- A gi)iillemadft'5j u'titul the democratic demo-cratic mid A; iJulhan Congrretioiir. committee Ija-junrlci a rays Hint ho re. calved 8iibManf.illy''lhe same miBw'cr at bo.h places to his question as to the present outlook and that stripped of al verbiage it was: "We nre certain to con trol the next House, it tiie populists h not elect enough members to hold the balance of power " Odd, wnsut it? |