Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.


roc ooctTtu6 again. lu0 aomlutstIe
ton. after having allowed poor little
Nicaragua to suppose that It would he
protected against the rapacity Of
Great Britain. has been cajoled OF
bulldozsd- Il matters not which--into
keeping its hands of while England
forcibly compels the little republic to
do just what Is demanded by the Brit
ish. Senator Hill was right when he
said the Monroe doctrine was mean
ingless. But IL 10 only when interpret.
ed by q democratic administration
that 1t Is meaningless. 1t has always
meant just what 1t purports to mean
European hands of Americsn coun-
tries-when Republican Presidents
were In Office, and 1t has been SO I'M
derstood by all European govern
ments. An instance, was the totter-
ing and fall of the Macmillan govern
ment in Mexico. which the Third Ma
poleon tried to establish while the u.
8. was busy Sighting the civil war, at a
few words from President Lincoln.
Mr.. Cleveland now realizes that II
he attempts to carry out his announc-
ed programme of compelling every
Federal office-holder, large or small,
to take an active part in the fight
against silver which he has started in
side the Democratic party. he will
have an open revolt on his hands.
Prominent silver democrats are giving
Mr. Cleveland a chance to back down
by publicly stating their belief that
Mr.. Cleveland has been misrepresent-
ed, and that he never had any such
intention. OF course they know that
he d ID have that intention, and they
fear that he still has it. 1t is we'll
known that a large majority Of the
Federal officials in the sonth and west
are silver men. A democratic Sena>
tor says Mr.. Cleveland will find him
self formally read out of the deiuo-
cratic party, If he persists in trying to
carry out the programme.
Mrs U. s. Grant. her daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris and her grand
daughter, Miss Rose Sartoris, have
gone to Chicago, where they will at
attend the celebration of Zen. Grants
birthday. under the auspices of the
Chicago Press Club.
Civil Service reform will lose one
of its most courageous advocates by
the resignation Of Civil Service Com
missioner Roosevelt to become Police
Commissioner of New York city.
This stepping from the head of a ma
tional commission to become a mem
Der of o. municipal commission, even
of the great city of New York. is not
promotion in any sense of the word
for Mr.. Roosevelt; but he is New
Yorker and was unable to stand the
home pressure brought to bear to
secure his help in the reformation of
the abuses in New York police circles
which have scandalized that city.
The people of New York are to be con-
graduated on the change. but there
are no reasons for extending the con-
TO Mr.. Roosevelt.
Representative Tawney, of Mime
sofa, at present in Washington. says
he hasn't been able to see the increase
in the sentiment in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, re-
CARELESS of other nations which he has
heard about since he came to Wash.
ington. Referring TO the published
IN which Secretary Mosely.
of the Interstate Comm cree Cominis-
sion, declared that everything in Min
nesota was going toward silver, MIR.
said it reminded him OF
story about man, who after walking
about the swalnps which used to sur
the city of Duluth. approached
n hotel-keeper with proposition to
sell him u car load of frogs legs. The
hotel man didn't want SO many, but
agreed to buy a bushel. The next
day the seller turned mp with four
pairs of frogs legs, and when the ho-
lei keeper Indignantly said:
"Why thought you said you could
get car load" he replied Il thought
from the noise they made that the
swamps were full of 'em. but these
were all could CATCH"
Two members of President Har-
rison's cabinet-Senator Proctor and
General Miller-have de-
clared most positively their Ignorance
of any intention on the part of Gen
Harrison to become a candidate for
by the next Republican
National convention, and Senator
Proctor added that he was not CON-
mitted to any candidate, and that any
republican would be satisfactory to
him.
Mr.. Clevsland's implied rebuke to
Secretary Morton for having come ont
fiat-footed for single gold standard
was about the same sort of q rebuke
that certain class of merchants are
in the habit o. giving their clerks In