The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-05-04
FROM THE CAPITAL.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. April %. 1895.
With all due respect to the positions held
by Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Gresham positions
which hav" been honored by. and which
have honorrd a long line of patriots from
| George Washington TO Benjamin Harrison,
and from Thomas Jefferson to James q.
Blaine-there is only one word that tlttingly
characterizes the policy of this administrat-
ion in dealing with the dispute between Great
Britain and Nicaragua, which has now
reached the point at which Great Britain has
given the world II practical demonstration of
its belief that might makes right" by tie
occupancy of the principal port of entry Of
Nicaragua by an armed force, and that word
is double dealing. Herbert Spencer said
The affairs of the universe are not carried
on after Il system of benign double dealing, )
/ but Spencer wrote before Mr.. Cleveland was
President or Mr.. Gresham Secretary of
State
| 1t as certain as anything not officially
| promulgated can be that the administration
has had IN understanding with Great Britain
which included the acceptance by this govern
ment OF the British construction of the mean
ing, or rather lack Of meaning Of the Monroe
doctrine. which friends of the administration
have been saying for weeks past was to be
applied to Great Britians treatment of
Nicaragua, pointing out the fact that there
was a strong fleet of L. s. vessels in South
Atlantic waters for the express purpose of
compelling Great Britain to respect that
doctrine. Now the fact has leaked out that
the administration, probably fearing that the
patriotism Of Admiral Meade would be
stronger than his orders, took good pains to
have chat tleet away from Nicaraguan waters
when British sailors performed the brave
feat OF occupying the territory of helpless
and d, fencelcss country which had made
the mistake Of expecting that the United
States would see that it was fairly treated.
The Nicaraguan minister to the United
States is so placed that he cannot express his
opinion but it is an open secret that he was
led t. believe up to the last minute that this
country would prevent Great Britain carrying
out its threat of occupying Corinto, and that
he in turn had caused his government to
indulge in the same belief. Had it not been
for that belief there never would have been
any controversy. Nicaragua would have
agreed to the demands of Great Britain as
soon as they were made, knowing that with
out the protection of the United States she
would sooner or later have to do So Owing
to the impenetrable mystery which surrounds
everything done by the Department of State
it cannot be positively stated just what the
nature OF the agreement with Great Britain
is but enough is known to cause every pat
riotic American to wish that the whole dis
creditabe affair could be blotted out the
history of the United States.
There is Il rumor in circulation that II nOve-
mcnt is on foot to make Secretary Gresham
president OF the Pullman Car Co.. in place of
Mr. George Pullman, at the annul meeting of
the directors of that company, to be held next
July. IL is certainly to be hoped that the
movement will succeed 1t would prevent
Mr. Gresham sinking any lower in the est
nation of the people, who have tried so
hard to think well of him, and would give
him an annual salary of S25 900, which would
keep him out of public life.
From advices received in Washington from
Kentucky, it is regarded Ms probable that if
the fight now raging in that State between
the gold and silver wings of the Democratic
party is kept up until election, the State will
go Republican. The Republican party has
steadily gained in the State for sometime
past, and with its present organization, and
good leadership ii is believed that it will be
able to easily thrash the divided Democracy
The reception given that single gold STAN
dard interview of Secretary Mortons which
was published us a feeler of the public pulse,
has frightened Mr.. Cleveland and caused him
to 90 Il little slower in making his campaign
for the single gold standard The official
announcement that Secretary Carlisle had
accepted the invitation to deliver the principal
address at the Sound Money Convention"
which is to be held May %, at Memphis,
Tenn, was accompanied by statement that
the Secretary would in that speech endeavor
to point out the danger TO which the country
would be exposed should it attempt to estab-
fish the free and unlimited coinage of silver
independently of other nations. The ques-
ton is, will he dare to follow Secretary Nor
ton and openly declare single gold standard
to be the only sound money, or will he follow
the phraseoogy of Mr.. Cleyeland's Chic go
letter and talk meaningless platitudes about
"sound currency" and "honest money?