Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-04-21


licans from the first to the last. The
Democratic managers of the bill are in
doubt as to the status of at least six
Democratic Senators, not to mention
the successor to the late Senator Vance,
of North Carolina, who died here Sat
urday night.
Senators Hill and Voorhees, no longer
speak when they pass each other. The
cause is the remarkable raking over
Hill gave Voorhees, in his speech.
They speak of each other to their per-
sonal friends in such endearing terms
as blatant demagogue" and traitor
and each refers sarcastically to the
gall in considering himself Presi-
dental possibility. Voorhees, calls
Hill traitor because, in Difference to
the almost unanimous sentiment of
his State, he refused to support the
tariff monstrosity. That refusal is the
one act of Hills since he became a
member of the Senate that was not
tainted with deInagogism. He was
sent to the Senate to care for the in
terests of the State of New York and
for once he did it, although he had to
oppose his OWL party to do it. Hill
hits the bulls eye when he calls Voor-
hees demagogue. He has never been
and never will be anything else II
any one doubts this let him read the
speech with which Voorhees, opened
the tariff debate.
One Democratic Congressman has
provided himself with shelter from the
great political cyclone of next Novem-
Der, and many more of them would
like to do the same. The man referred
to is Barnes Compton. who got into
the House in 90, by the skin of his
teeth, as the saying goes, from the
Fifth Maryland District, and who was
several days ago nominated by Mr..
Cleveland to be collector OF the port of
Baltimore. He knew he couldn't be
reelected SO he utilized his "pull' to
grab nice fat federal office which he
could keep until after the Inaugural
ton of a Republican President in 1897.
1t is charged here that Mr.. Cleve-
land was not only cognizant of the cor
rupt bargain said to have been made
by the heightened free-traders with
the sugar trust, whereby the trust is
to be allowed to fix the sugar schedule
of the tariff bill just as it wants it in
return for helping the free traders to
push the bill through the Senate, but
that he suggested the making of the
bargain.
No Washington jury ever rendered a
more popular verdict than that which
gave Miss Pollard SIS, 900 as damages
in the breach of promise of marriage
suit she brought against Representa-
tive Breckenridge. of Kentucky. 1t was.
taken all in all, perhaps the filthiest
case ever tried in the Washington
courts, and it was made worse by the
BLACKBOARD tactics adopted by some
of the Kentucky lawyers Breckenridge
brought here to defend him. It is not
because of any special sympathy the
people feel for Miss Pollard that thew
like the verdict, but because they be-
lieve it will result in retiring such a
hypocrite as Breckenridge has shown
himself to be from the seat in Con
gress he has disgraced by the double
life he led in their midst. If it does
not, then the voters in his district
must be queer breed of men. There
was never doubt of what the verdict
would be after Breckenridge own
testimony was heard, and it was not
that the jury did not take
an hour to decide, although it had
taken more than five weeks to hear
the case.