The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-10-27

stake in his State. Mr., Roach, like the
rest of his party, recognizes the ''cinch'
that Representative thomson has on his
seat, and the legislature to be elected this
year will not elect Senator. Still, his
apathy is an indication of his belief that
republican success is assured,
Mr. w. B. Thompson, treasurer of the
Republican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, has just returned from Michigan
where he made himself thoroughly
familiar with the political situation. He
says Michigan will certainly elect solid
republican delegation to the next House.
In 1892 Michigan elected five democratic
members of the House. but signs have not
been lacking that many of those who helped
to do it have become very much ashamed
of their votes.
Hon. John s. Wise, formerly of Va,
now of New York, can be as caustic in his
remarks as ever his father, one of Virgin
ians celebrated Governors, was in his most
savage humor. Witness what he said of
the present Cabinet: cleveland took his
Secretary of State out of the republican
party and has not vet been able to make
him say II am democrat He found an
old confederate weeping above the grave
of Jefferson Davis and made him Secretary
of the Navy. Over his old type writer he
waived his magic wand and transformed
him into a Secretary of War, while he went
into the interior of his own consciousness
to evolve Il Secretary who suggested neither
the ice cream of the frozen north nor the
mint iulep Of the SUNNY south-the sort
of Il creation they pickle in alcohol
strange, namelcss IIoky-poRy. Elected as
trust lawyer as attorney general, and made
Secretary of the Treasury a democratic
statesman who never owned an unmortgag-
dollar in his life
There have been rumors that big
scandal would be unearthcd in connection
with the stealing of postage stamps from
wv i'iiNth vi anu l Iiiitiii-'
ever since the arrest of two of the theving
employees of that Bureau, and those rumors
have been strengthened since the assistant
Chief of the Buaeau stated under oath, at
the preliminary hearing, that the only
stamps stolen where those which had been
printed by the New York concern that had
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July. That statement has been generally
accepted as proof that the method of handl-
ing stamps at the Bureau is radically
defective, as thousands of stamps with the
distinctive mark of the Bureau on them
were produced in court and proved to have
been purchased from the thieves or their
confederates and the Assistant Superintend
ent of the Bureau identified them as hay
ing been printed by the Bureau, although
he had previously sworn that the books Of
the Bureau showed that no stamps printed
by the Bureau had been stolen Either
his testimony was wrong, Or the books are
wrong. Evidently there is something
rotten somewhere in that Bureau, in con-
nection with the handling and distribution
OF postage stamps, else the Bureau would
have ascertaned that the stealing was GO
ing on before being notified by outside
parties. 1t is not clear why the same ex-
cellent system of checks by which paper
money has been handled by the Bureau
for many years without trouble Or loss was
not extended to cover stamps when the
Bureau began to print them.