Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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WARRINGTON, June 7, 1895.

EDITOR AVALANCHE
Had Mr. Cleveland tried he could
hardly have selected . Secretary OF
State who would have been moro dis
pleasing to the democratic leaders in
Congress than Attorney General
Olney. Mr.. Olney does not lack
ability, but the ability he has IL not
the kind which makes . successful
Secretary of State. He is utterly de-
void Of that spirit Of snability In
dealing with men which has always
been considered q prime necessity in
the makeup Of q diplomat He has
90 conducted the business OF the De-
partment of Justice that the average
Congressman prefers when he has
business with that department to
transact 1t In writing rather than to
take the chance OF being personally
snubbed by Mr.. Olney, as his present
colleague, Postmaster General Will
son, was, when he was chairman Of
the House Ways aud Means commit
tee and the recognized leader Of the
democrats In that body. BY the
way, speaking OF Wilson, II he had
not been Postmaster General he
might have been Secretary of State,
but since he joined the cabinet he
has shown himself to be too much of
Of narrow gauge man even for Mr..
Cleveland, who Is certainly far from
being broad-minded himself.
There Is more or less dissatisfac.
ton among democrats over Mr. Cleve-
lands method OF selecting Attorney
General Olney for Secretary of State.
Although there are q score OF men
prominent In democratic councils
near enough to Washington to have
been called into consul tation with
out delaying the filing OF the vacan-
cy or inconviencing them, no advice
was asked of any of them, and about
the only democrat outside Of the cab
met who has seen Mr.. Cleveland was
Senator Gray, Of Delaware, who Is
known as cuckoo, but not as q lead
er.
The convention of the Republican
National League, which will assem-
BILE at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 10th
inst, Is regarded by most republicans
as the virtual opening of the Presi-
Dental campaign. All reports
brought to Washington Indicate that
the attendance will be large and en-
thusiastic, including nearly every
man who is recognized as one of the
national leaders of the party. Elk
President Harrison, Gov. Morton and
Chauncey M. Depew have not yet ac-
cepted the invitations extended to
them, but it is probable that they
will Among those who have accept
ed invitations and who will attend
the convention, barring sickness or
accidents, are Ex.Speaker Reed, Gov.
Mckinley, exGov. Foraker, Gen.
Russell A. Alger. Senators Allison,
Dubois, Thruston, Carter, Lodge,
Nelson, Burrows and Patton. One OF
the features of the convention will be
the mammoth harmony dinner to be
given in the evening of the second
day. The dinner will be served on
the ground floor of the Arcade build
ing, and the tables will be set for
1000 guests and provided with the
best eatables to be obtained. The
galleries above the ground floor are
half mile In length and will &C. om-
modate more than 5000 republican
men and women who will naturally
want to see the gre atest harmony
dinner ever proposed eaten by the
delegates to the convention and their
guests Republicans are not alarmed
at democratic predictions of trouble
in the convention, because they know
that the basis of the predicted
trouble-the silver question and the
booming of some particular candidate
for the Presidential nominatio q lis
composed OF matters over which tn e
convention has no legitimate juris.
diction and with which it will not at
tempt to deal.
Retribution Is sometimes al mighty
slow, but it nearly always gets there
just the same. Charles B. Morton, q
Maine democrat who was made COM
missioner OF navigation by Mr.. Cleve-
land In his frst administration and
Auditor Of the Treasury for the navy
Department early in the present ad-
ministratlon as a reward for the
scavenger work he performed in the
campaign Of dirty personal abuse that
was waged against the late James G. |
Blaine In 1884, was this week sum.
marily dismissed from the latter office |
by Mr.. Cleveland, and to make the
delayed retribution all the more sat- |
isfactory to decent people, Morton |
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