The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-07
TALK OF THE WEEK.

The announcement that Senator Cameron
has friends who seriously contemplate putting
him into training for the Presidency will cause
most people to smile. Whether these friends
Will carry out their alleged intention or not
remains to be seen. The probability is that
the published statements on the question are
entirely speculative or are put out by Cam
eron's friends for effecton President Harrison
The latter is naturally very anxious to secure
the pennsylvania delegation to the national
convention next year, and although Cameron
is intensely unpopular with the Republican
masses and even with the workers of his State
his great wealth would probably enable him
to divide the delegates IL he could not con-
troll them all in his own interest, If he set out
with determination to do so. Cameron will.
OF course, in any event. have much to saw
about the delegates who so to the National
republican Convention from Pennsylvania
out IL they should be pledged to himself in
advance it would place him in a much
stronger position to make terms with the
man who got the nomination. But IL
is probable the present talk was started
Tor the purpose of worrying the President and
making him feel that it will not be well to
continue his present boycott against the
Senator, which was started when Cameron
voted against the Force bill. A curious thing
about this whole matter is that Cameron is
said to really have the Presidential bee in his
bonnet. A Democratic Senator, who knows
Cameron intimately, declared the other day
that the latter has a well-defined hankering
after the Presidency and believes himself an
available man. In view Of Cameron's success
In getting himself elected to the Senate,
Notwithstanding his great personal unpopular
lty IN pennsylvania, it is not to be wondered at
that he fails to see why he might not gain the
Presidency as well.
The Farmers Alliance movement is making
itself felt in the South in indirect ways that
give the politicians pause and cause them to
feel serious Members of Congress from the
strongest and most reliable Southern districts
no longer affect to treat the movement lightly
They admit confidentially that their constitu-
ents are doing heap of thinking on their own
account these days. Thisis an admission poll
ticlans always make with reluctance, because
they realize that when the people begin to
think the politicians have got to hustle. Said
Southern member whose district gives him a
big majority every two years and who has prac-
tically no opposition: 'In the last campaign.
for the first time in my experience, l found
tnatthe old-tlme hlghfalutin speeches wouldn't
go. They didn't enthuse the people as they
used to do. They wanted serious talk, and,
what was more, they asked intelligent CUES
tons about matters of which in former wears
they knew nothing. This sort of thing non
plussed me at first. l didn't know what to
make of it. Twas unprepared for ANYTHING of
the Kind saw at once that they had been
reading and thinking, and that would have
to take new tack. l answered their uues-
uons as best | could and in the frankest man
ner possible. They were about the tariff,
Government finances, the expenditures of Con-
gress, and about my own course They cross
examined me like lawyers, but I stood up to
1t and came out all right. My majority was
larger than ever. But let me tell you the
Farmers Alliance movement is working out
results that will surprise some people. and it
doesn't do to underestimate its force'
Well-informed Democrats are hopeful that
compromise satisfactory to all conservative
men will be reached on the silver question
when Congress meets next winter. A Demo-
cratic Senator said the other day: ssSuch
compromise was on the point of being made
in the last Congress, just at the time when
CleVeland's silver letter appeared. We had
everything arranged with the exception of
two men, and we would have got them be-
yonda doubt. But Cleveland's letter knocked
everything endways, and the matter had to be
dropped right there The anti-silver men
WIZ udu pccu Oh Iue pOlQG OF making
cesslons, but that letter stiffened up their
backs again and they would yield nothing.
But think we will be able to reach com
promise next winter, and 1 believe that Har-
rison will sign the bill. l think he would
have signed the compromise measure, which
was In contemplation last winter. If we can
get bill through providing for the coinage
of the entire product of American mines it
will be satisfactory all around, and | think
the silver question will at once drop out of
sight as a settled issue"
X X X
"There are some of the greatest vandals in
these United States ever known in history,n
said a wel-known Irish-Amercan citizen.
"These people don't seem to have the capacity
to feel respect for objects which the masses
are accustomed to hold in reverence. The old
Libby Prison was torn down and carted away
to Chicago and reerected as catch-penny
show. Strange to say that neither the citizens
of Richmond nor the Union officers who were
there made any protest against
the desecration of historic object When I
read the other day that the agent of an At
lanta syndicate was negotiating with the
owners or what We're once the Old Capitol
Prison buildings for their purchase, that they
might be reconstructed and set up in Atlanta
l thought 1t was mere reportorial fake, but |
am credibly Informed by real estate dealer
that such negotiations are really In progress.
Ihis syndicate might just as well set up |
new Old Capitol Prison In Atlanta on their
own nook and with their own material, for the |
buildings occupying now the Old Capitol |
site neither In material nor appearance, inside |
IN fha nId htrfld L