The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-03-23
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHrSGros, March Is, 1898.

WAsHINGToS, March Is, 1898.
One Of the most difficult roles ever
attempted by q public man is that of
setting himself up as being better than
his party. This the friends Of Mr..
Cleveland have persistently done for him
ever since his entrance into National
politics, and the claims of his worshipers
about his having refused to make one
single promise during the last campaign
have been louder than ever since his last
Inauguration. Well, the idol has been
shattered, and in view Of the whole
world. One Of the most prominent
nominations to Office he has made-ex.
Governor Gray, Of Indiana, to be minister
to Mexico-was the result of a bargain
made at the Chicago convention, not, it
is true. by Mr.. Cleveland in person, but
by his personal representative at that
convention, Hon. w. c. Whitney, of
New York. The terms Of this bargain
were that Governor Gray was to with
draw as Presidential candidate and
throw the Indiana delegation to Mr..
Cleveland, and in return was either to
have place in the cabinet or first class
foreign mission, if Mr.. Cleveland were
nominated and elected. That bargain
has now been carried out by Mr.. Cleve.
land, Just as any other politician would
have carried it out, and it is about time
there was cessation of the talk about
his being better than his party.
Mr.. Cleveland's ingenious method of
knocking the army of Office seekers out
by sections. as it were, shows that he
is wiser man than when he was Presi.
dent before. and has furnished no end
OF amusement for those not after Office,
as well as for the Office seekers not in the
prescribed sections. First, he disposed
OF the section that were after the offices
held under four year commissions by
telling them that no official would be re.
moved until the expiration of his term,
except for cause. Next he jumped on
the section that held Office under his
first administration, nearly all of whom
were here ready and willing, not to say
anxious, to again afix their autographs
to the official pay roll. by telling them
that none Of them would receive an
appointment unless it were in some ex.
ceptional case where special qualifications
were demanded that were not possessed
by any new applicant.
The Democrats may not be inclined to
favor the makers Of "moonshine"
whiskey, but official figures show that
MIR. Cleyeland's first administration
collected $5l, O95, 6S2. O4 less from inter-
nal revenue than the administration of
President Arthur did, and $6l5, 1856, 524. :
70 less than was collected during Presi.
dent Harrisons administration. This
was a little queer, wasn't it.
There has been red-hot, although not
public fight, over the reorganization of
the Senate. 1t is not entirely over yet,
but it has gone far enough to show that
Mr.. Cleveland has been defeated in his
attempt to have the committee on finance
made up in the interest of his own finan.
cial ideas and against silver. Senator
VOORHEES,, pronounced silver man, will
be its chairman, and majority of its
members will be silver men.
Representative Henderson, of Iowa,
predicts that the Fifty-second Congress
will go down to posterity as "the know.
nothing and d. nothing Congress.