Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-08-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From Our Special CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. Q, ,95.

President, but merely to have the
honor Of declining the nomination af.
ter it has been rendered by the Demo.
cratic National Convention. Inasmuch
as the Democratic Administration and
Congress buncoed the voters of the
country it would be only a case of
poetic justice for Mr.. Cleveland and
the cuckoos to bunco the Democratic
party. If the Democratic convention
falls into the trap set for it and nomi-
mates Mr.. Cleveland with the expecta.
ton that he will decline it will be the
most disappointed body ever seen, as it
is just as certain as any future event
can be that if nominated Mr.. Cleve-
land will accept. In view of the gen.
orally recognized fact that the Demo.
cratic nomination will next year be a
very empty honor it is difficult to un.
derstGnd the efforts that Mr.. Cleveland
and his cuckoos are making to get it.
These efforts can only be accounted for
by the inordinate egotism of Mr.. Cleve
land, which causes him to believe, i'm.
probable rs it appears to everybody
else, that he could be elected again.
1t has been known for quite a while
in Administration circles that, failing
to get the nomination himself, Mr..
Cleveland desired to throw the entire
Administration influence to Secretary
Carlisle. 1t has now leaked out that
there is a revolt against this program
from an unexpected direction. Mr..
Cleveland's man, Dan Lamont, heads
the revolt. Dan is grateful to Mr..
Cleveland for the political favors he
has received from him, and, although
he doesn't like the idea of q third term
for anybody, he is willing to help Mr..
Cleveland try to get another nomina.
ton, but he owes nothing to Secretary
Carlisle, and he declines to have his
allegiance transferred to him when
Mr.. Cleveland sees that he has no show.
There is another man, who has done
financially for Dan Lamont what Mr..
Cleveland has done politically for him,
That man is ex Secretary Whitney
and Dan proposes to show his gratitude
by making Mr., Whitney his second
choice, instead of Secretary Carlisle
Mr.. Cleveland has only one objection
to Whitney, but tina. is a serious one
He is the only man in either OF hi
cabinets that he failed to completely
dominate.
The force of example is one of thu
strongest known to man. Mr.. Cleve
lands use of a government light house
tender for his hunting and fishing
trips was the natural forerunner of Sec
rotary Carlisle's intended use of a gov
eminent light house tender to make
tour of the Great Lakes. Not only viii
the Secretary and his wife be carried
on this junket at public expense, blu
his son and his wife will 90 along, anC
others may be added. The junket is tt
last five or six weeks, and if Uncl,
Sam wasn't to foot the bills it would
be quite costly for the two Carlisle fam
lilies. Still, you occasionally find
Democrat willing to quote "Puhli,
office is a public trust' at you, in thu
face of the private snap the member
of the present administration havI
made of it.
Nothing more CALLING to the Cleve
land Democrats has occurred for a lon
time than Senator Gorman'snew cincl
on the control Of the Maryland Demo
cratic organization, and the astut
German rubbed it in on them by hav
ing his convention endorse the ''abl
and patriotic administration of Presi
dent Cleveland" and the tariff law tina
President Cleveland refused to sign
Mr.. Germans resolution declared tn
tariff to be the best we have had TO
thirty five years, which ism t strang
when it is remembered that Mr.. Coz
man was n of the principal author
of the Senate tariff bill, which took tn
place of the Wilson bill and became
law without the Presidents signature
German may not capture the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination mex
year for himself, but it is not unlikel,
that the man who does must first dicke
with him, and he will be more exact
ing than he was when he allowed Nj
Cleveland to be nominated in 90.
Fear may do for the sugar planter
what right and justice would not dc
Finding that Comptroller Bowler we
determined, regardless of the argu
ments which will be presented to hin
next week to refuse payment of tn
money appropriated by Congress 70
sugar %bounties, on the ground that tn
original sugar bounty law was uncon
stitutional, the Louisiana Congressiona
delegation put a new phase on the mat
ter by informing members Of the cab
net that tae Withholding of this none
will certainly put Louisiana perma
nently in the Republican column
Word has been sent to Mr.. Cleveland
and Bowler's orders may be change,
before his decision is made.
PLEASANT VALLEY,