Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-10-07
CAIUS CESAR.
Closes the White House Doors
In Senators Faces.
COMPROMISE OR NOTHING
On the Silver Question-A Crazy Man
Creates Sensation-van Allen and
His $50, 900 Contribution.

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from our regular correspondent
Upon what meat doth this our Cesar feed,
That he is grown SO CREATE
Well may this question be asked con-
corning the man who at this moment
thinketh himself an American Caesar.
and whose dreams are doubtless filled
with pictures of his future greatness and
power. The most autocratic royalty of
Europe is not surrounded with more
rigid exclusiveness than Mr.. Cleveland
now cloaks his most august presence
with. He deems it beneath the dignity
of the American Caesar to touch the
hands of plebians; therefore he has abol-
ished the long established custom of
holding public receptions in the White
House. Being appiauded by the Fitz-
noodle press for that step towards royal
ty he has now gone further and issued a
ukase that no person, excepting mem
bers of his cabinet, shall be admitted to
his presence until they shall have stated
their business to his private secretary
and secured the consent of that function
airy. Think of dignified justice of the
Supreme Court, Senator; or Represen-
tative who was prominent before Grover
Cleveland was heard of outside the cir
Gle of his Buffalo chums having to state
the nature of his business to Mr. Thur,
Der and get his approval before being
allowed to enter the Office of the Presi-
dent. Could flunkeyism go farther un-
der a Republican form of government?
Some people say that this sudden exclu-
siveness on the part of Mr. Cleveland
arises from the morbid fear that he is in
danger of assassination. Fear is not
thing which Americans are in the habit
of attributing to their Presidents, nor is
it quality they admire in any man.
The intense excitement over the bill
for the repeal of all Federal supervision
of elections, which Democrats expected
to accompany the debate on the bill in
the House and relied upon TO unite the
factions of their demoralized party, has
not materialized, owing to the good
sense of the Republican leaders in the
House, who wisely decline to assist the
Democrats to "get together" contenting
themselves with opposing the bill upon
high legal and constitutional grounds,
and taking advantage of the debate to
visit the Worlds Fair
Senator Chandler made one of his
slashing speeches he isn't an orator,
but he is an almighty plain talker-in
favor of his resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for his author
ity for appointing the Fairchild commits
sion, now engaged in an alleged inyesti-
CATION of the appraisers Office of the
port of New York. After showing that
the appointment of this commission, as
well as numerous other acts of the
administration, was unconstitutional, Mr..
Chandler remarked that it was entirely
fitting that its members should receive
their pay-$10 day and expenses-from
what is known as the "fraud fund of the
Treasury"
The truce in the Senate over the Voor-
hees bill is to be Continued under the
present arrangement-seven hours talk
a day-for another week, unless a com
promise is sooner reached. Nearly
everybody has now settled down to the
belief that it must be compromise or
nothing, and if the compromise isn't
reached by the 18th of this month, that it
will be nothing, as it is regarded as
probable that Congress will take short
recess about that time.
No legislative body was ever more
sensitive TO anything having the appear
ance of outside dictation or even inter-
ference than the L. S. Senate Even if
the proposition of Wharton Barker,
which has been endorsed by many prom
inent Pennsylvania business men, TO
make combine between the friends of
silver and those of protection, met with
the approval of any considerable num-
Der of Senators, which it does not, the
manner in which it has been brought to
the attention of the Senate would almost
certainly have been fatal to its pros
poets of adoption. Mr.. Barker is a man
of wide political experience and it is
surprising that he did not proceed diff
ferently. Had the proposition come from
some Senator first and then been en-
dorsed by the Pennsylyanians, Mr.. Bar
kers trip to Washington might have
had a different result, although the
chances were against his proposition
anyway.
A poor crazy man was arrested in the
White House the other day and ever
since those who justify the employment
of private detectives to protect the Pres
dent have been "filling up gullible
newspaper correspondents with the de-
tails of the narrow escape of the Presi-
dent and the bloodthirstyness of the
would-be assassin. It's all poppy-coek; a
poor devil, who is hall witted, walked in
to the White House, and because of his
rambling talk was arrested. He had no
weapon of any kind and could not pos
sibly have hurt anybody had he been so
inclined.
The party whip is being brought into
use to force Democratic Senators into
voting to confirm the nomination of Mr..
VanAlen to be ambassad 10 Italy,
Notwithstanding the general belief of the
charge that he bought the nomination
with his $4,000 contribution to the
Cleveland campaign fund.