The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-07-27
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FROM THE CAPITAL.
From our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 20. 1895.
Wonders never cease. Although Mr.. Reed
probably has as yet given little attention to-,
and has certainly not made up his mind ON
any particular policy to be followed when he
becomes Speaker of the House, a democratic
newspaper published in Washington has
found out all about it and has taken the
public into its confidence. If there ever was
more gall displayed, even in these DAYS of
contemplating newspapers it has escaped
your correspondents attention, and he de-
votes his entire time to trying to keep up
with the procession. 1t is unnecessary to
mention the programme outlined by this
! knowing newspaper further than to say that
it begins with the absurd statement that the
Republicans will be afraid to touch the tariff.
That is false enough, as time will show, to
stamp the whole story as a Democratic office
made fake. 1t is the Democrats who are
afraid. One of the certainties of the next
session of Congress is that the House will
revise the tariff in Il number Of important
particulars, and it is probable that the
revision will be accepted by the Senate
although that body will not have Repub!'.
can majority. As Josh Billings used to saw,
''Tis better to be ignorant than to know so
darn much that amt so.''
1t has leaked out that Mr.. Cleveland would
like to remove Ambassador Eustis for his
recent indiscretions in the way of lingo
speeches and newspaper interviews, but is
afraid that if he does so he will make Eustis
the Democratic candidate for president. He
recognizes that however ndiscreet the
utterances of Mr. Eustis may have been in a
diplomat, his opinions have voiced the senti-
ments of many Americans and that his
removal from office for such an offence would
make him very popular. That being the case
it is probable that Mr. Eustis will remain in
Paris unless he gets mad at being reprim-
anded and resigns, as he may do. 1t has
been whispered ever since that London
speech that Mr.. Eustis has presidential
aspirations.
Oh humbug. one of thy other names is
certainly Hoke Smith. A New York news
paper has started popular subscription for
the benefit of Miss Elizebeth Key, grandaugh-
ter OF the author of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner'', who was on the first of July dismissed
without cause from the petty clerical position
she had filled for fourteen years in the Pen
sion Bureau, and her aged and invalid
mother. Among the Washington contribu-
tors to this fund appears the name of Secre-
tary Hoke Smith, the man who has it in his
power to restore Miss Key to the position
from which she was so mercilessly and cruelty
dismissed with his approval, thus enabling
her and her crippled mother to live indepen-
IDENTIFY, instead of having to eat the bread of
charity. Mr.. Hoke Smith would find it diff
cult to convince any unprejudiced person that
any feeling accompanied his donation to the
Key charity fund; it was merely conscience
contribution. If he had either feeling for
the Keys or the patriotism which every
American should have, he would reinstate
Miss Key and save her the naturalization of
accepting support for herself and mother
from the newspaper charity fund donated by
the public.
Agricultural Department officials cannot
brush away the accusation, that spectators
officials crop report, by referring to them as
cold stories. Old or new it does seem
strange that certain big spectators should
always be able to lay their bets in the market
just before those reports are issued in a way
to make money and to make it appear to
other people that they were acting upon
actual knowledge. Perhaps these spectators
hut , 1
should always guess right, while others Just
as intelligent continue to guess wrong right
along
Members of the administration are having
difficult task to reconcile the promise that
Democratic tariff would open the markets
of the world to the producers and manufac-
Jurors of the United States with the cold
hard figures contained in the official report
of the Bureau Of Statistics figures complied
by Democratic officials. During the eleven
months ending May 81, 1895, exports from
the United States fell Off, as compared with
the same period ending May 81, 1894, when
the Mckinley law was in force, nearly
S75, 000, 900 in value-to be exact, the expor-
tations for eleven months under the Mckinley
tariff amounted to 1914, SAT ,s66, while the
expectations for the same period under the
Democratic tariff amounted only to $780,
651 1865. This is the sort OF facts which
have convinced those who control the great
business interests of the country that II is not
safe to have the Democratic party in control
of the national government. and which will
not soon be forgotten, but will stand like a
stone wall over which the Democratic party
cannot hope to get during the life OF the
present generation.