The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1888-06-23
WASHINGTON IsEl'rER,
Washington. d. o.. June is. 1888.


Washington. 3. c., June 5, 1888.
Senator Sherman was asked ifle consid3
cred ex-senator Thurman strong man
before the people. His reply was NO, H
do not. The only elective Office that he
was ever candidate for was the Cover
norship of Ohio. and he was then badly
defeated by Rutherford B. Hayes This,
will doubtless be new to many people. |
For Il one may judge from the amount Of
gush printed about Thurman in some of
the Democratic newspapers many people
supposed him to be kind of popular idoi !
when the fact is that he has never held the
very smallest. elective Office. in fact never
received but one nomination, and was then
defeated. He would never have been pu
on the ticket with Cleveland if it had not
been found necessary to put him up to
head off Gray of Indiana. who was par
ticularly Objectionable 10 Cleveland.
A joint resolution has been passed by
Congress granting leave to all persons Id
Government employ who participated in
the BATHS of Gettysburg to attend the reun
ion in July.
Tho Senate has passed bill appropria>
ting $1,000 to place bust of the late
Chief Justice Waite in the Supreme Court
ROOM
On motion of Senator Stewart-a resolu
tion has been passed by the Senate instruct
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to report
to the Senate the names of all parties who
have offered to sell and the names of al
parties of whom bonds have been purchasI
ed since April 1st. 1885,
An attempt was made Friday night to
hold Cleveland and Thurman ratification
meeting in this city. The attendance was
very small. and the enthusiasm was entire
ly lacking. Notwithstanding the fact that
red bandannas were plentifuliy distributed
around the hall.
The Government printing Office investi-
cation is at last over. There will he two
more reports; the Democrats will condem
the methods of Benedict's Republican pre-
decessor and commend those of Benedict.
The Republican report will not waste any
space or time in defending dead man,
who was unable TO defend himself during
The investigation, and who is beyond pun
ishment no matter how guilty he might
have been, but will plunge at once into the
Encouragement of the present public prin-
ter, as proven by his own witnesses, and
rumor says, the report will recommend his
Impeachment.
About one-third of Congress is in Chi
cago. but the routine business is moving
quietly along. The regular appropriation
| bills are taking up most of the time. II
will require some quick work to get all
the regular appropriation bills through by
July /, the beginning of the new fiscal
year.
Mr.. Blaine will sail for thi country
July 8. fundamentally upon his arrival,
SO writes friend in this city, he will
take the stump for the nominee of the Chi
cago Convention. He will speak when
ever the National committee may think
his services most needed
Fu'hcr consideration of the Fuller nomi
nation has been postponed until the 3rd
inst. Likewise the fisheries treaty.
Ex-senator Mcdonald and VIM. H.
English, who was the Democratic nomi-
nee for Vice President in 1880 csl1nd on
Cleveland Friday, douS = his
congratulations On in
which they killed tlpSs y 5o5ni.
Senator Chandler proposes an investiga~
ton into the peculiar election methods in
vogue in the State OF Louisiana. The Sen.
ate has an opportunity before accepting
the credentials of Senator Gibson. who has
been reelected to the Senate by the Legis-
lature, TO get to the bottom of some things
that are certainly peculiar if nothing
worse.
The spot where John Quincy Adams fell
IN his fatal illness in the old hall of the
House OF Representatives, now known as
statuary hail. is to be marked by a bronze
tablet on which is inscribed John @
Adams, Feb. 81. 184s." This is around
the rim of the tablet, and in the centre is
the word there"
Chicago is the magnet toward which we
are all drawn this week, but the character
OF the members of that convention is such
that all Republicans are willing to trust
them, feeling sure that whatever is done
will be the proper thing, as well as the
best. and that vim, yigor and victory,
will be the result
General Sheridan. who has been slowly
improving for several days, is again worse
and fears of his death are once more ex-
Dresed on all sides