The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-07-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent.

battle ships and torpedo boats %autilo-
r'2ed by the last Congress and other
important business, that he has been
compelled to postpone his vacation for
a time. He hopes to have things in
such shape that lie eau leave about
the last of the i.oEii,.
Everybody is Iaueliing at the Span
i>h minister. who has been sent on ii
FOOLS Grand by his government. H..
has gone To Secretary Olneys sumnl~
residence in Massachusetts. To ask an
explanation and an official statement
concerning that silly fake p%urpoitin.
10 be az Interview with Ambassador
Eustis. which vas published i'll u Paris
paper ea,ly this week and cabled 10
this country. and which was promptly
followed by a denial from Ambassador
Eustis. No denial was needed. Ev-
erybody knew that the thing was Il
fake. hut the Spanish government
seems 10 nave taken it seriously. or. it
is so pretending for some purpose of
its W Secretary Olney viii dispose
Of the Spanish minister and his silly
request in short order.
According to Col. Harvey. of the
New York Worlds editoria! staff, who
i iii Washington, .'Teddy" Roosevelt
has given Tammany d "cinch' on the
next municipal election, by his strict
enforcement of the excise law. Col.
Harvey said The result will he far
reaching III il political way, and will
beyond doubt damage the republicans
materially in New York CITY. have
DO idea that they will be able tn elect
a single As>emblyman or Senator from
the city or from Brooklyn this fall.
Every Tammany candidate will win.
People who live ut !; distance can't be
gin 10 appreciate the local feeling that
has been aroused by this affair. and 1t
is not Il feeling that will die away in
IA little while. The administration has
gone too far now to recede: it must
carry ont its policy. and the mere
rgidiy that policy is adhered to. the
more certain and sweeping will be the
victory of the democrats
Evidently Mr.. Benjamin Harrison is
becoming fri lltened at the hammering
Mckinley is setting at the hands of
the friends of the other candidates. as
IA result Of his efforts to keep himself
prominently before his party as IA
Presidential candidate. Mr.. Harrison
is tender aud he never liked hammer
inc. so he has adopted another course.
1t has been said before, but fearing
l that it might Lave been forgotten. he
arranged to have Mr.. John w. Foster,
? who was once charged with being Mr..
Harrison's spy upon Secretary Blaine.
and who became Secretary of State
himself when Mr.. Blaine retired from
the Harrison Administrations. to say
again that he was not Il candidate
was doing nothing t" get the nomina-
ton, but would not, of course. decline
should the party insist upon nominat-
ing him. These statements are ab-
surd, and they fool nobody.
Attorney General Harmon isn't sat
listed with the decision against the
government III the suit against the
Stanford estate. and he this week di-
rscted the u S. District Attorney at
San Francisco TO appeal the ease to
the L. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for
the Pacific Coast District. 1t is no
NIOIutltu vi toililuCIlSC W tuu TIA
should the Court of Appeals decide
against the government the case will
be carried to the U. S. Supreme Court.
This suit. whicE, is for S15, O00, 900. is
only against the Stanford estate. but
if the government wins the estates of
all of Stanford's Pacific railroad asso.
ciates who, like him, became rich by
their manipulations of a company that
has always pleaded its inability to re-
pay money loaned it by the L. 5. gov
eminent. will have to disgorge to the
amount Of their stock holdings in the
road. if to no further extent.
The White House mail gives evil
dence of the rapiditv with which the
news OF the birth of President Clcye-
lands third baby has been disseminate
ed. but it also gives evidence of the
careless manner iii which many peo-
pie read the news. 1t would be nata-
raj to suppose that every man, woman
and child who reads the newspapers
knows that President Cleveland and
his wife and children are 1t their sum
mel residence. Gray Gables. on Bnz-
Yards Bay. Well. there are thousands
who have read OF heard of the birth of
that third girl who believe that the
baby was born III the White House
and that Mrs. Cleveland is there now,
ami every mail brings hundreds of
letters addressed 10 her at the White
HoI,~e. This is lust rs well. however,
as / re are more clerks at the White
House To 20 Y e these letters and
select such Is are worthy Of Mrs.
Clevclands attention than there are
at Gray Gables. Still their coming to
the White House is queer.