Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-11-27
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
November %, 1891.

EDITOR REGISTER Late reports
from Indiana say that ex-President
Cleveland will secure the solid delega-
ton from that State i'm the next ma
tional convention. If this be true ex-
Governor Gray will hardly think that
the bargain he made, by which he
STAYED out of the contest for the Sen
atorship with Voorhees,, has been
properly carried out There is no
question but that Voorhees, and Gray,
united with Turpie, could control the
delegation for Gray, and their failure
to do so will be something of an indi-
cation that Mr.. Gray is not as popu-
lar as he thinks himself.
IT is said that Fir -Alarm Foraker
has agreed to retire from the senate
rial contest in Ohio upon the promise
that he will be supported in the Re-
publican convention as candidate
for Vice President. The Democratic
party will be very much delighted to
see MIR. Foraker on the Republican
ticket, as his methods are Of the kind
that the people of this country do not
readily endorse.
The collection of several hundred
prominent Republicans in Washing
ton CITY to try and secure for differ
ent points, extending from New York
to San Francisco, the location OF the
next National Republican Conven-
ton, convinces every one who has had
the opportunity OF talking with these
people, that unless Mr.. Blaine abso-
lutelv refuses to accept the nomina-
ton he will receive almost by accla-
nation the nomination for 1892. VI
course the office holders of the South,
the rotten boroughs Of the Republi-
can party, will be for Harrison, but
the States which have votes that may
be given to a Republican candidate
are almost universally for Blaine, and
this is true of all the States from Pas
samaquoddy Bay to the Golden Gate
of the Pacific.
The contest as to who shall be
Speaker is warm and is getting warm
ar Mr.. Mills friends claim that he
will have ninety votes on the first bal
lot and Mr.. Crisp's friends claim the
same thing, leaving nothing hardly
for the other candidates. But it so
happens that these gentlemen claim
votes from the same States which
both of them cannot possibly get,
and some of these votes will certainly
go TO other parties. The probabilities
are that Mills will lead on the first
ballot, but he has been so pronounced
in his advocacy of Cleveland, and
Cleveland is so pronounced with oil
his friends in his advocacy OF Mills,
that he is looked upon as the candi-
date put forward to bolster up Cleve-
lands nomination in the next conven-
ton, and that will lead to his defeat
if no other reason. On the other hand
Crisp is backed by Tammany, and
Tammany is supposed TO intend eth
er to put Hill or Flower to the front,
and it is more than probable that the
support of Tammany will be used to
such an extent against Mr.. Crisp,
though he isinfinitely better qualified
than Mills for the position, that he
will be knocked out As for Spring
er, his candidacy has always been a
Joke to the Democratic party, and he
will not be in the race. Of the re-
manning avowed candidates, Hatch
and Mcmillan are both well qualified.
Either of them would discharge the
duties we'll and there is nothing to be
said against either of them. They
have conducted their canvas in gen
tlemanly way and probably will con-
time to do so, not making antago-
nisms, but securing friends.
A great many of the newspapers OF
the country have held Comptroller
Lacy responsible to certain extent
for the heavy losses incurred by the
failure of the keystone Bank in Phil
adelphia and the Maverick Bank in
Boston. So far there has been no ad-
equate defense of Mr.. Lacy's conduct.
1t has been shown beyond dispute
that he knew the condition of the
Keystone Bank some time before he
closed it and that he delayed the ap-
pointment of a receiver at the request
of John Wanamaker, and so far as the
Maverick Bank, the same facts, with
the exception Of John Wanamaker,
have been established. The effort is
being made to put the blame upon
the dead bank examiner, but his pa
pers show that Mr.. Lacy was in
formed long before any damage was
done that the bank was in shaky
condition and the leaders were violat-
ing the law, and nothing was done by
Lacy. Congress ought to investigate
Mr.. Lacy very thoroughly.