Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-06-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[seBoIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR ]
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1895.

Washington, June 3, 1895.
Those who watch the undercurrents
rather than the surface of politics are
beginning to see that Mr.. Cleveland
IS far shrewder manipulation of wires
than he is generally credited with
being. For instance, his object in
promising that he would support the
candidacy of Secretary Whitney
for the democratic presidential nomi-
nation, if Mr.. Whitney would consent
to the use of his name in that connec-
ton, has now become apparent to
those who know the game of politics.
Instead of being a remuneration of his
own desire for another nomination, as
many first supposed to be, that pro-
mise of Mr.. Cleveland's is a very clev-
er move by which he expects to re-
tain control of the democratic nomi-
nation, whatever the result of the
contest now going on between the
gold democrats and the silver demo
Gratis may be. If the gold democrats
can control the next national conven-
ton Mr.. Cleveland will take the nomi
nation himself, and if the silver dem
ocrats control it then nomination will
go to exSecretary Whitney, thus MAX
ing it certain that no anti Cleveland
silver democrat can carry off the
empty honor of the nomination.
Senator Carter of Montana who is
chairman of the Republican National
Committee, is in Washington. He
says the National Executive Commit
tee will probably meet the latter part
of October or very early in November
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 former month strong and
growing. In reply to question Sen
ator Carter said: "The National Com
mittee as 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 questions.
That task is left to the party when as
sembled in National convention.
There is rumor, too good to be
true, that Mr.. Cleveland will, in filling
the vacancy left in the Cabinet by the
death of Secretary Gresham, endeav-
or to get a democrat whose Ameri-
canism is robust enough and sufi
GENTLY well known to the public to
reinspire confidence in the foreign
be good thing for Mr.. Cleveland to
make the attempt to do this, but I'M
less the tenor of public opinion has
been misunderstood, there is only one
thing that will make the public be-
lieve in the Americanism of the adj
ministration, and that is the election
of republican president.
Lots of republicans from the great
northwest, who drop into Washington
from time to time, put in a good word
for Senator Dubois, and lots of re-
publicans from all other sections meet
them with earnest "arnens." Mr.. W..
G. Leonard of Butte, Montana, speak
ing on this subject said: cit would
please our people not only in Idaho
but in the northwest generally, if the
republican convention should see it's
way to nominate Senator Dubois for
the Vice Presidency. He would make
great run. Personally, he is the
strongest man in his State, if not in
the entire northwest, and if he is not
Vice President when the time comes
he will not have the slightest difficulty
in being rejected to the Senate"
OF course everyone realizes that the
selection of President must be made
before that of his running mate, and
that the section from which one COM
es virtually decides that from which
the other must be taken, but there is
no harm in expressing liking for so
good a man as Senator Dubois, who
could have anything he desired, if the
election were to be made by the votes
of his republican colleagues in the
Senate.