Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-10-27
A sAcRIFIcIAL OFFERING.
S. III it be Cleveland or Senator
Faulkner?

one approaches a group OF Democrats
of sufficient prominence to be taken
into the confidence of their party CAM
paign managers. They do not wish
to be overheard admitting defeat. al
though they freely do SO among them
selves, and realready looking around
for scapegoat upon whom they can
pack all the blame. Mr.. Cleveland.
and Senator Faulkner, Chairman of
the Democratic Campaign Committee.
are running neck and neck race for
this very undesirable position, al
though Senator. Hill and German are
also frequently mentioned in the same
connection. likewise Representative
Wilson, Of West Virginia.
At Republican Congressional head
quarters all the news indicates that
the Republican majority in the next
House will be between twenty and
thirty, and if the Democrats cannot do
something to arrest the wholesale de-
sertion of men who have heretofore
acted with that party the Republican
majority may go as high as fifty. Va.
rious causes are responsible for these
assertions, principal among which
may be mentioned the assertions of
e,,ol Da.,,oo~,t,., IaaJa-e ~ NJ Cfax,a
land and Mr.. Wilson, that tariff tink
ering must go on; the attempt to make
the nationality of Mr.. Morton's do
mestic servants an issue in the New
York campaign, and the attempt to
STIR up religious prejudice for CAM
paign use.
There is one Senator who apparent
ly takes no great interest in his State.
That is Roach, Of North Dakota. He
only left Washington Saturday night.
having been here since Congress adj
journed. The reason for his apathy
may perhaps be found in the fact that
from his point Of view very little is at
stake i'll his State. Mr. Roach, like
the rest of his party, recognizes the
''cinch' that Representative Johnson
has on his seat, and the legislature to
be elected this year will not elect a
Senator. Still, his apathy is an indi
cation of his belief that Republican
success is assured.
Mr.. w. b. Thompson, treasure oft the
Republican Congressional Campaign
Committee, has just returned from
Michigan, where he made himself
thoroughly familiar with the political
situation. He says Michigan will GER
tainly elect solid Republican delega-
ton 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 Vir-
ginia, now of New York, can be as
caustic in his remarks as ever his faith
er. one of Nirginia's celebrated Gov
errors, was in his most savage hui
| nors. Witness what he said OF the
! present Cabinet: Cleveland took his
Secretary of State out Of the Republi-
can party and has not yet been able
to make him say i am Democrat.
He found an old confederate weeping
above the grave of Jefferson Davis and
made him Secretary of the Navy Ov-
er his old typewriter he waved his
| magic wand and transformed him into
Secretary of War, while he went into
the interior of his own consciousness
to evolve a Secretary who suggested
,either the ice cream Of the frozen north
lior the mint julep OF the sunny south
the sort Of a creation they pickle in
alcoh Ola strange. Iameless Hoky-
poky. Elected as the opponent Of the
trusts. he selected trust lawyer as
attorney general, and made Secretary
of the Treasury Democratic states
man who rever owned an unmortgag-
ed dollar in his life"
There have been rumors that big
scandal would be unearthed in connec-
ton with the stealing of postage
stamps from the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. ever since the arrest Of
two of the tnieving employees of that
Bureau, and those rumors have been
| strengthened since the assistant Chief
of the Bureau stated under oath, at the
preliminary hearing. that the only
| stamps stolen were those which had
been printed by the New York concern
that had the &C ntIact previous to the
ist OF last July That statement has
been generally accepted as proof that
the-method of ha 7diing stamps at the
| Bureau is radically defective as thou
sands Of stamps With the distinctive
mark of the Bureau on them were pro-
duced in court and proved to have been
] purchased from the thieves or their
c. ,nfederates, and the Assistant Super
intsndent of the Bureau identified
=
them as having been printed by the
Bureau, although he had previously
sworn that the books of the Bureau
showing that no stamps printed by
the bureau had been stolen. Either
his testimony was wrong or the books
are wrong. Evit emily there is some
thinf, rotten somewhere in that Bu-
rear. in connection with the handling
and distribution Of postage stamps,
else the Bureau would have ascertain
ed that the stealing was going on be-
fore being notified by outside parties.
It is not clear why the same excellent
sysl I'm OF checks by WI h paper mon
ev 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.