The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-12-20
NO.. I
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. Ii, 1895.
incidentally with the meeting of :
the National Committee crowd of
enthusiastic McKinleyites have de-
scended upon Washington and opened
headquarters for the purpose of push
ing along the boom of Ohio's favorite
son, which they consider not only n
good thing but the best thing of its kind
now on the road. They found plenty
of sympathizers in Washington, as few
men have more personal friends in
Congress than Gov. Mckinley, and few
Of those friends have warmer feelings
for him than the big man-in every
sense of the worldwide presides over
the House and who is one of his rivals
for the presidential nomination. The
two men worked side by side in the
House for long period and fully un
derstand each others worth, and, while
neither would probably say as much
for publication, it would be good
guess to say that each of them is the
others second choice for President;
but it must not be inferred from such
a guess that either would sulk should
the National Convention in its assem-
bled wisdom decide to nominate one
of the other capable and popular gen.
tlemen who have been mentioned.
They are both republicans of the tried
and true kind, who always work their
hardest for party success regardless of
who may head the ticket.
For man who lays claim to more
than an average share of courage, Mr..
Cleveland has queer-nOt to put q
worse construction upon it-wav of
acting. Although he knew that Con-
gress and the country were deeply in
terested in the answer to the admins
tration's request to know whether Great
Britain intended to submit the Vene-
zuelan boundary dispute to arbitration,
and that the answer would be in Sec
retary Olney's hands on Saturday, he
skunk off on a duck hunting trip,
aboard of q Government Lighthouse
tender, without even settling time
for his return, leaving Congress and
the country to await his august
pleasure before being permitted to see
that answer, which is known to be ~
satisfactory. He may not -
afraid to face the music raised
unexpected stand in favor of the M
roe doctrine, but there are people who
believe he is, and> that he went away
hoping that Congress would take the
bit in its teeth, demand the correspond
ence of Secretary OIney, and dictate
reply to Lord Salisbury before he re-
turned to Washington. That may be
putting the case little too strong,
but there can be no doubt that Mr..
absence at this time is
to Congress and to the
American people and unjustifiable
from any point of view.
While it is probable that the repub-
licans of the House will hold caucns
after the committees are announced
before definitely deciding what shall
he done to furnish the Treasury with
the money which Mr.. Cleveland would
not ask for, although he and everybody
else knows how badly it is needed, the
,xpression of members make it practi-
,ally certain that the money will be
raised by increasing the tariff on a
n umber of articles.
It is regarded as probable that the
claims of the Western senators for the
ehairmanships of the Senate commit
tees which have to do exclusively with
Western affairs will be almost if not
entirely granted by the caucus COM
mittee of republican senators now en-
gagged in selecting republicans for the
vacant committee places; hence there
are no believers of the silly story of an
intended revolt on the part OF Western
In offering the resolution asking for
Ill the correspondence in the Waller
case, Representative Miller, of Kansas,
was acting for the entire congress
onal delegation of his state. This
s the first step in the fight that is to
,e made in Congress to secure for
Waller what the administration has
allied to get for him--justice.
The wife of Mr.. d. Robinson,