Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-10-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Prom our rerular correspon denr.

Secretary Herbert has gone to Ala
bama, in obedience to Mr.. Cleveland's
' orders, to make stump speeches
against silver, and incidentally to
look after the control Of the dele
CATION which that state will send to
the next democratic national conven-
ton. The program as to the stump
speeches can be carried out easy
enough, but when it comes to con-
trolling the delegation, Secretary
: Herbert is likely to find that Secre-
tary Morgan will have something to
say about about it. Senator Morgan
is red hot silver man, and he knows
more about inside tricks of Albania
! politics than Herbert will ever know.
Still, it is probable that Herbert's
missionary efforts in Alabama will
be quite as productive of results as
those of Hoke Smith in Georgia.
Secretary Carlisle returned from
| Buzzard's Bay this week, but no one
seems to know whether the ten days
he spent there were devoted to the
study of acting. with Joe Jefferson
| for teacher, or to discussing finance
with Mr.. Cleveland between nibbles
and rebaiting. One thing can be
stated on the authority of one OF Mr..
Carlisle's personal friends, and that
is that Mr.. Cleveland did not say
| that he would not be candidate for
another nomination, although it
would have greatly pleased Mr.. Car
| Isle for him to have done so, as that
would have given him chance to
feel the democratic pulse as to his
own boom, in little more direct
manner then he feels at liberty to do
| under present circumstances. Secre-
tagy Carlisle isn't the only prominent
democrat who feels resentful towards
Mr.. Cleveland because of his contin-
ued silence on the subject of third
term. OF course, these men do not
speak their resentment openly, but
some of their friends do, that's how
its existence is known.
Elk. Congressman Kilgore, who
kicked himself into notoriety while
he was IA member Of the house, and
who at the expiration of the last con-
gress was appointed one OF the judges
of the new federal court in Indian
Territory, has lately had serious
charges filed aginst him by a lawyer
named Davis, who practices before
him. The first charge is that Kilgore
lacks the legal knowledge that Il
Judge ought to have, which doubt
less agrees with the opinion of May
of those who served in congress with
him. He was next charged with
originating some ineXcusable me-
thods of court procedure, and with
paying lawyer named Edy for legal
advice given the court by throwing
| judicial favors in his way and allow
| ing him eXorbitant fees for what he
does. The department Of justice has
| forwarded a copy of the charges to
kilgore, and asked him for an eX-
PLANTATION.
1t seems little hard that along
with the gossip about the intention
Of the administration to notify Great
Britain that the Monroe doctrine
will be violated at her peril III the
dispute with Venezuela about the
boundary line between that country
and British Guiana, comes that also
which says that Il number of promi-
nent democrats are financially
| Interested in the syndicate
/ which has obtained valuable conces-
sions from Venezuela in the terri
tory embraced in the dispute. Should
this be true, it would be desire to
put money in the pockets of his
friends, and not patriotism, that
would cause Mr.. Cleveland to use
the power Of this government to pre-
vent England interfering with the
concessions granted 10 that syndicate
| by Venezuela Representative liv-
ill., ston, of Georgia, who has already
been widely advertised Us the friend
Of Venezuela, and who proposes, SO
he saws, to advertise himself some
more along the same lines as soon as
congress meets, is credited with hav-
ing finger in those syndicate con-
cessions. These things are unfortu-
nate.
People in Washington smiled at
the announcement that Attorney
General Hafmon WAS preparing 70
attack the beef trust. such an
nouncements were quite frequent
when Mr.. Olney was at the head OF
the department of justice, but if any
trust Was ever seriously attacked Dy
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