Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-08-19
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Cleveland Disguised - Nothing
Being Done.

Gratis in Congress do not take kindly to
Mr.. Cleveland's departure. They do
not hesitate to say that it was as
much his duty to stay here and
help his party reach q desi2i9n on the
silver question as it Is the duty of mem
beers of Congress to stay. Before leaving
Mr.. Cleveland spoke his mind freely to
seySral prominent members of his party
He told them, among other things, that
unless something unexpected occurred TO
make him change his mind he did not in
tend making any moro appointments UNI
til Congress had acted upon the silver
question, and that he did not iptesd to
stay in Washington to listen to the men
Ybo are more anxious to get a few APP
pointhasats for their friends than to re-
lieye the financial qistFesg Of the 20
try.
Aside from Mr.. Cleveland's disgust at
tRs reception given his message by his
party in GsasFpss, his bad health and his
natural desire TO be near his wife just
now, there was another weighty reason
for biz departure, which can be fully ap-
preclated by GyGRy proud man. From the
time he arrived until his departure Ae was
almost completely ignored by the Sepa-
tors of his party, less than half O dozen
of them having paid him the courtesy of
even a formal call. This was so differ
ent from what he had been led to expect
by those who asse besH %Dglrposely mis-
representing things to him that he WIS al
first furious, and later humiliated. Those
Senators whom he saw carried no balm
for his wounded pride, as they were
practically unanimous in the belief that
it will lie Impossible 10 get a bill for the
repeal of the silver law through tho Sen
ate, unless it embodies a substitute that
meets the approval eff the conservative
silver men in that body. Truly Mr.,
Cleveland had reasons enough for ieay-
ing W ashington in a hurry, although none
Gf them were sufficient to excuse his de-
parture.
So far, the silver agi,t IN the House
has been mostly between Democrats, al,
though several Republicans, among them
GrosyeaeF, Of Ohio. and Henderson, of
Iowa, gave Representative HRrter, of
Ohio, a few disagfeeabie minEtes when
he asserted that the condition of the
workingmen in Ohio was as a berth IN
Heaven is to a cot in Purgatory. The free
silver Democrats also prodded Harter at
several points OF bic speech. Mr.. Harter
said that Senator Sherman, ilsieaq Of be-
ing abused for the Sherman law, ought
TO have the grateful thanks Of the whole
people. because he got the best there was
to be obtained for the country out of a
bad situation. But the portion of his
speech that was the most irritating TO the
silver men was where he said: 1.-THE :
w%orkingmen arc ~sppealing to Congress
for bread, and the silver men ere Offering
them not a stone but dynamite, and IN.
stead of n serpenta whole bundle of them
" SpiAStiAttCit u Htlttst1Ab. Hill IL
copperhead, all rolled into one In the
shspe of a financial system"
1t is plain to be seen that the speeches
in the House are fGF hGme consumption.
Since the first day there has hot been a
quorum present, and the same condition
is expected to continue during the four
teen days the debate ia to last. No votes
will be changed, and il the votes were
taken now Instead of at the close Of the
the results would be the m
The Senate has done nothing and it is
understood that at the last meeting OF
he finance committee the silver men
yho control that committe, made it plain
hat no Bill would be reported from the
committee for tbs repeal of the Sherman
aw, without a substitute iiiat wapld be
satisfactory to the silver men. A com.
of democratic Senators is now en-
ragged in trying to bring about a COM
promise. Republican Senators are wait
ng TO see what the Democrats D
LONG,
Representative Bseckinridge, of Ken.
lucky, is involved In q very ugly per-
scandal, by the filing of a suit
against him for $4,000 by Madaline q.
for breach of promise of mar
iage. She charges that he seduced her
when sha was seventeen years old and a
tudent at the esiye2n FemaleC ollege at
)incinnati, and says she had two children
II whom he was the father. That after
lis wife's death, in 1892, he promised to
aarry her, hut postponed it from time TO
ime, meanwhile continuing his relations
With her; and that on the 18th of July, .
1913, he married another woman. Breck- :
nridge brought Miss Pollard 10 Wash !
ngton and secured her a government :
osition, from which she was dismissed
Or having publicly made d~isgraceful re- '
iarks about Gen. Sherman at the time of
is death. Mr.. Breckenridge has his !,
ride here now. Nice state of affairs for
bride to be called apon to contemplate s
efore the end of her hoasymoon
BROWN IRON BITTERS :
pureS DvspApaia Tn