Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-28
A WESTERN MAN.
Reagan States that it Must be a
Silver Platform.
MORE PENSION SCANDALS.
Serious Talk of Prosecuting Green 8. Raum,
IT,. for Gross MaIfeasance in Office.
Vessels Sail sor Alaska in Order to Pro-
tect the Seal Enthusiastically
for Governmental Supervision.
Patent Office Decision.
A Western Man for President.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, MAY 27.-Ex-Senator Rea-
gan of Texas. who is in Washington. says
When the Texas delegation goes to the
next Democratic nominating convention it
will want a Western man for president
''Whom do they desire!''
That is not definitely settled, but Gray of
Indiana would be good man, or Morrison,
or Don Dickinson. | would like to see Villas
nominated. if il We're not that he agrees
with Cleveland on the silver question. If
Cleveland is nominated I suppose he will
get the electoral vote Of Texas and Of Ar
kansas. but these are the only two states
west of the Mississippi that ne can carry.
II Eastern politicians 40 not know this now
they will find it out when they try the ex-
pertinent, aud the rank and file OF people in
Sthe West do not want Cleveland. They are
tired Of the domination Of Wall street and
viii see to it that this is q government of
the people and not of the mOnied interests
of the country
REVENUE CUTTER RUSH
received her sailing orders by telegraph
this morning and viii probably clear TODAY
for Behring sea. All that is at present
said about her is that she will convey three
regular treasury agents and Stanley Brown,
special agent, TO the Seal islands. This is
not regarded here as settling anything def
nitely concerning the policy of our govern
ment in the Behriug sea matter for the
coming season. Agents would be just as
necessary on the sealing ground whether
the regular catch was going to be made or
not. 1t case there was not to be an open
season it would still be necessary TO have
the seals protected from the natives, who
would be reduced to the capture of only as
many as would be needed for subsistence.
Browns mission, moreover, is of scien-
titic nature, and he would have the same
fp.. lN II,
as if hundred thousand were to be killed.
1t is understood in quarters where such
matters are pretty generally discussed that
final Instructions have not yet been pre-
pared for the seasons cruising, but that
they will be sent TO the Seal islands later.
If this report IS true, 1t strengthens the
theory that The contractors are not to have
full swing this summer at least that ne
gotiations with the British government are
still pending.
ALTHOUGH SCANDALS MULTIPLY
around the pension bureau, the prevalent
opinion among those who are in a posi-
ton to know is that the ground has
scarcely been scratched yet. The Office
is in thoroughly bad repute. and new
discoveries occasion scarcely a ripple of
surprise.
II begins to look as though young
Raum would not be prosecuted for his
misconduct while In the pension bureau.
The case has been in the hands of Dis
trict Attorney Cole since Saturday, but
no move has been made toward entering
suit. Cole is an honest but rather con-
servative official. He is moving slowly
in the matter and wants his grounds
established in case prosecution is entered.
There exists no doubt in the minds of those
acquainted with Young Raum sIactions that
morally he has broken the law, but it is
difficult 10 prove the fact legally. The
civil service commissioners were per-
fectly satisfied that Raum, together with
johnson, Smith and Strahan, the rest of the
quartette interested in the Office
brokerage, We're fit subjects for dismissal
They had broken the civil service law,
Johnson and Smith openly, while the
commission was satisfied that Raum and
Strahan benefited by the ofense of the
others.