The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-15
OUR FOREIGN POLICY
GROVER HAS A SURPRISE FOR
REPUBLICANS AND THE
COUNTRY.
AMI IS PREPARED FOR AN ATTACK


Z Hand to Certain Degree in his
Forth Coming Message, But the Sur
prise which will Restore his Popu-
Iarity will Come Later--The Infiu-
euce of Ex-sexator Fdmunds.
snecial to the News and Observer.
The Washington correspondent OF
the New York World telegraphs ms
naper the following details of Presl-
dent CJeveland's foreign policy, when
seems to be based upon such authorl-
tv as to make it almost Official:
president Cleveland is credited IN
certain quarters with having III re-
serve great surprise for the Repuo-
licans who expect to make more OF
loss familiar with the Administra-
TONS foreign policy. An inkling OF
the President position is furnished
Inv ex-senator Edmunds, who, while
a Republican, has been associated
with the Department OF Justice IN the
prosecution of important eases, ana
has become more or less familiar with
the Administrations views. Mr.. Ed
minds. in conversation with party
of Republican friends a night or two
ago. said that the Republicans might
fDd it a proftless experience to at
tack the President, whose foreign
policy he believed would be found to
be worthy of the support of the entire
country.
"A Cabinet officer, moreover, Is
known to have stated that when the
country had the despatch of Lord Sal
isbury On the Venezuelan question ana
the despatch to Canovas on the Cuban
question laid before it, it would be
discovered that the President had con-
founded his enemies and delighted his
friends.
THE fact is the Cabinet officer is
reported as saying, president CleVe-
land is tired of being credited with an
unpopular foreign policy, and he IS de-
termined to restore his popularity at
stroke
while it may be supposed that the
President will be compelled to ex-
pose his hand to large degree IN ms
forthcoming message to Congress, It
is believed that the surprise he has IN
store will be disclosed when the Re
publicans of the House and Senate at
tempt to draw the badger by asking
for the Venezuela and Spanish notes.
1.-THE Salisbury note, it is said, VIII
be found to be the most forclbie pre-
sentation of the principles of the Mon
roe doctrine since the days OF those
earlier Democratic Administrations
when the foundations of the policy OF
Hands off America were deeply laid.
.sAs to the Spanish note, the public
is still an ignorance both of its exist
ence and of its possible contents. 1t
is believed not poly that the note has
been sent, but that its contents were
calculated to send chill along the
Spanish spine.
1T would not be surprising If the
President and Secretary Olney made
as the basis of such a note: First, the
vast commercial interests which the
United States has in Cuba, and second,
the possession there by American cltl-
zens of many millions of dollars
worth of property, estimated at not
less than S75,000,000, and possibly
much more. On these two grounds it
is said that Secretary Olney has held
that the United States has right to
insist that Spain shall maintain sta
BILE government, and shall inaugurate
the reforms which she has often
promised. The natural sequel to such
a suggestion would be the placing of
a time limit within which Spain
should accomplish the purposes indi-
Gated, and an intimation that fall
,ire to achieve the desired results
would furnish ground for the Pres
ident to recognize the belligerency of
the Cuban revolutionists and for a pos
sibIe recommendation to Congress in
favor of more active intervention"
The views of ex-senator Edmunds
on our foreign policy are considered
of very great importance-of so much
importance, indeed, that Republicans
and Democrats alike expect to see
them more or less reflected in the
Presidents deliverance and position
when Congress meets. 1t is reInem-
bered how much influence the Yer
mont statesman, though a Republican,
has always had with Mr.. Cleveland.
In fact, there has been on more than
one occasion complaint about it in
Democratic circles. Mr.. Edmunds
about foreign and legal questions, and
Mr.. Sherman about financial questions,
have been thought to take precedence
at times of Democratic advisers at the
White House. The selection of E. j.
PHeaps 1of the l1HgifsH HiiSSioh tcl
years ago was accredited to Mr.. Ed
munds, an old neighbor and warm
personal friend. So, when the YER
mont man makes deliberate state
ment about the foreign relations of
the government, his words are thought
either to have come from the White
House or TO be sure of reaching the
President and making profound i'm
preston oa him.
Amos Cummings, the printer Con-
gresssnaa from New York, is said to
have told his friends that he will in
troduce a resolution as soon as Con-
gress meets to recognize the belliger-
ency of Cuba.
The following postmasters have
been appointed in North Carolina
G. G. Morton, at Flo, Montgomery
county, vice II. Il. Mum, resigned;
j. T. Coiciaugh, at Fishdam, Durham
county, vice j. W. Barbee, resigned;
NJ. H. Simmons, at Granite Hill, Iredell
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