Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-06-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

are beginning to see that Mr..
Cleveland is a far Shrewder manip-
ulator of wires than he is generally
credited with being. For instance
his object in promising that he
would support the candidacy OF ex-
Secretary Whitney for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination, if
Mr.. Whitney would consent to the
use of his name in that connection,
has become apparent to those who
know the game of politics. Instead
of being a remuneration of his own
desire for another nomination, as
many at first supposed it to be,
that promise of Mr.. Cleveland's
is a very clever move by which he
expects to retain control of the
Democratic nomination, whatever
the result of the contest now going
on between the gold democrats and
the silver Democrats may be. If
the gold Democrats can control
the next National convention Mr..
Cleveland will take the nomination
himself, and if the silver Demo
Gratis control it the nomination
will go to eX-Secretary Whitney,
thus making it certain that no
anti Cleveland silver Democrat
can carry off the empty honor of
the nomination.
That this move was taken by
Mr.. Cleveland with the knowledge
and consent of Mr.. Whitney was
proven by the fact that Mr.. Whit
ney had no sooner got back from
Europe than he gave out an au-
thentic interview statating his po-
Sition on the siver question. His
position is a straddle, if put to ac-
tual and immediate test, but it is
so interlarded with "taffy' for
silver and opinions as to its
speedy rehabilitation as money
metal by the great commercial ma
tions of the world, that it leaves
the impression that he is very
friendly to silver, which is just
the impression it was intended to
leave. 1t is Whitney's part of the
game begun by Mr.. Cleveland
when he promised to support
Whitney if he wanted the nomi-
nation is improbable, although he
would doubtless willingly chip in
four or five oil company's mill
ions to become President. But he
is too smart to believe that any
Democrat can be elected President
next year. His part of the game
lis being played just to please Mr.
Cleveland, whose friendship ha:
been valuable to the corporation il
which Whitney is interested, an(
may be again.
Senator Carter of Montana who
is chairman of the Republican Ma
ion committee, is in Washington
He says the National Executive
committee will meet the lat
ter part of October or early in No
vember to decide where and when
the next National Convention shall
be held, and that he would not be
surprised if it decided to hold it in
May, instead of June, which has
been the usual month, as he finds
the sentiment in favor of the form
er month strong and growing. In
reply to question Senator Garter
said: "rhe National committee a
an organization will not take any
position for or against silver. 1t
is no part of the business of the
committee to undertake to declare
party position on current ques-
tons. That task is left to the par,
ty when assembled in National
convention.
There is a rumor, too good to
be true, that Mr.. Cleveland will, in
filling the vacancy left in the Cabi-
net by the death of Secretary
Gresham, endeavor to get a Demo
crat whose Americanism is robust
enough and sufficiently well known
to the public to reinspire conf
dence in the foreign policy of the
administration. 1t would be a
good thing for Mr.. Cleveland to
make the attempt to do this, but
unless the tenor of public opinion
has been misunderstood, there is
only one thing that will make the