Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondent


Britain, has been cajoled or bulldozed
it matters not which-into keeping
its hands off while England forcibly
compels the little republic to do just
what is demanded by the British. Sen.
tor Hill was right when he said the
Monroe doctrine was meaningless. But
it is only when interpreted by a Demo
cratic administration that 1t is mean
ingless. 1t has always meant just
what it purports to mean-European
hands off American countries-when
Republican Presidents were in office,
and 1t has been 80 understood by all
European governments. An instance,
was the tottering and fall of the Max
MILAN government in Mexico, which
the Third Napoleon tried to establish
while the United States was busy
fighting the civil war, at a few words
from President Lincoln.
Mr.. Cleveland now realizes that if
he attempts to carry out his announced
program OF compelling every FEEDER
al Office holder, large and small, to
take an active part in the fight against
silver which he has started inside the
Democratic party, he will have an
open revolt on his hands. Prominent
silver Democrats are giving Mr.. Cleve-
land a chance to back down, publicly
stating their belief that Mr.. Cleveland
has been misrepresented, and that he
neve had any such intention. OF
course they know that he did have that
intention, and they fear that he still
has it. 1t is we'll known that a large
majority of the Federal officials in the
South and West are silver men. A
Democratic Senator says Mr.. Cleve-
land will find himself formally read
out OF the Democratic party, if he per.
sists in trying to carry out that pro-
gramme.
Mrs. U. s, Grant, her daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris and her grand
daughter, Miss Rose Sartoris, have
gone to Chicago, whore they will at
tend the celebration of Gen. Grants
birthday, under the auspices of the
Chicago Press Club.
Civil Service reform will lose one of
it's most courageous advocates by the
resignation of Civil Servic Commits.
sioner Roosevelt to become Police
Commissioner of New York City. This
stepping from the head of a national
commission to become a member of q
municipal commission, even of the
the great city of New York, is not a
promotion in any sense of the word for
Mr.. Roosevelt; but he is a New Yorker
and was unable to stand the home
pressure brought to bear to secure his
help in the reformation of the abuses
in New York police circles which have
scandalized that city. The people of
New York are to be congratulated on
the change, but there are no reasons
for extending the congratulations to
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Representative Tawneny, of Mime
sofa, at present in Washington, says
he hasn't been able to see the increase
in the sentiment in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, re,
gardless of other nations. which he has
heard about since he came to Wash
ington. Referring to a published inter.
view in which Secretary Mosley, of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
declared that everything in Minnesota
vas going towards silver. Mr.. Tawney
said 1t reminded him of a story about
q man, who after walking about the
swamps which used 10 surround the
city of Duluth, approached a hotel
keeper with a proposition to sell him a
a load of frogs legs. The hotel man
didn't want so many, but agreed to
buy a bushel. The next day the seller
turned up with four pairs of frogs
legs, and when the hotel keeper indig-
nantly said to him: why, 1 thought
you said you could get q car load, he
replied, II did; I thought from the
noise they made that the swamps were
full of 'em, but these were all l could
catch"
Two members of President Harrison s
cabinet-Senator Proctor and ex.At-
torney General Miller-haye declared
most positively their ignorance of any
intention on the part of Gen. Harrison
to become a candidate for renomina-
ton by the next Republican National
Convention, and Senator Proctor added
that he was not committed to any can
didate, and that any Republican would
be satisfactory to him.
Mr.. Cleveland's implied rebuke to
Secretary Morton for having come out
fiat footed for a single gold standard
was about the same sort of a rebuke
that q certain class of merchants are
in the habit of giving their clerks in
the presence of some customer who
complains of having been duped by
Misrepresentation. 1t will be noticed
that Mr.. Cleveland did not once say in
the interview he furnished the press
that he did not agree with Secretary
Morton. He contented himself by say
ing that Mr.. Morton had not been
authorized to speak for him. The only
mistake made by Secretary Morton
was in s~upposing that Mr.. Cleveland
was willing to have his opinions ex-
Drpssed tn the nuhlic inst as ha had ex-