Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-06-16

What q Friend Of Cleveland and
Carlisle says.

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What q Friend Of Cleveland and
Carlisle Says.
New York Press special.
President Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle deeply feel the ignominy Of
the Sugar-Trust IDEAL" The shame Of
it is becoming every day harder and
harder to bear. and the desperate eff
forts Of their closest friends to divert
the force Of the public condemnation
from the leaders to the followers in
the party shows how heavy the bur-
den OF it is.
A journalist. who is in the conf
dence both OF the President and secre-
tary, and who came from New York
to see if something could not be done
to break the force Of the personal
scandal, confessed that he could think
of nothing that would save the Ad-
ministration from lasting disgrace ex-
cept reputation ofthe already ratified
bargain. Headed:
1T was proved to Mr.. Cleveland
| mean he was convinced-that no
tariff bill could be passed until the
Sugar Trust consented. The trust
owned six Democratic Senator's
aud the editor mentioned them by
name-"who held up the party. Mr..
Cleveland sent for these men and
pleaded with them, but In vain. That
is why the Sugar Trust schedule was
accepted, and that is why Secretary
Carlisle wrote it SO that the Trust
would find a S5o, 900. 900 prize in it
before the Government derived a dol
lar of revenue from IT,
"Don'tyou think this explanation"
asked the reporter, docs Mr.. Cleve-
land an injustice? Do you think the
people will believe that hesurrendered
to FIVE corrupt Senators of his own
party and did not expose them? Don't
you think this explanation, if the true
one, gives Nj. Cleveland the greatest
opportunity Of his life to throw over
board the bribed Senators and the cor
rupt Tariff bill at the same time and
look to the people to right things? |
ask for information"
The wrath Of the New York editor
whose name is known everywhere in
the profession, boiled over at this sug-
gestion and his face flushed with an
ger as he said:
Don't you know that at least four
Senators cannot be exposed in this
way. They would give other excuses
for opposing the bill on final passage;
they have not been near the Presi-
dent; they cannot be pinned down
eitheron party grounds or on Sugar
Trust fiy-paper. They are too shrewd
for that. They have not put them
selves in Mr.. Cleveland's powerl'
"Whom did you meanH"
~ mean two Senators from the
Northwest, one from the far South"
and then the editor used the strong
est of invectives as he added. "And |
also mean Hill Of New York"
"WhySenator Hill was and is against
the Trust first and last. When he
happened to be / II the same house with
President Havemeyer Eat the residence
of Senator Brice), it is reported that
he even refused to meet him!" the re-
porter said.
Possibly" said the Cleveland edi-
tor, with angry sarcasm, "but | tell
you Hill is in this conspiracy. He is
accomplishing a diabolical revenge"
and more talk of the same kind.
"If Mr.. Cleveland did not sanction
this corrupt bargain, and if Mr.. Car
Isle did not write this sugar schedule
comforting unprecedented favors or
the richest of trusts, why do you not
deny it," asked the reporter,
"We can't! We can't" exclaimed
the Democrat holly, "but it is ;nfam-
Gus that Hill should pose as the most
virtuous of Senator's" and again the
fervid, inplacable hatred which ali
Mr.. Cleveland's close friends feel to.
ward Senator Hill was manifest.
What gals them most is that from
this burning scandal which is scorch-
ing so many fair regulations Senator
Hill should escape unscathed.
In wonderful contrast to the sullen
anger or moody reticence which the
close friends of the Administration
show in these dark days of the oleve-
land dynasty, is the jaunty air of con-
fidence and dissatisfaction of those
Senators who are understood to have
made large UNI of money in sugar
speculation. They seem perfectly
serene and unconcerned. They have
hard feelings toward no one. Most OF
them were fairly wealthy men before
they came to the Senate, and if the
Sugar Trust campaign has made them
richer still they show neither elation
nor surprise over their gains. They
act to a man as if their futures were
safe beyond the reach of financial
storms or political vicissitudes.
The New York editor said in con-
clusion that the Trust-made Tariff
bill would pass the Senate, he believ-
ed, by the goth, and would not be
long in conference committee of the
two houses, but he considered the
chances were even that the House
Democrats would refuse to ratify the
conference committee report, and that
it would be beaten. And now hope
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