Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-08-08
DoINGs AT WASHINGTON.
Washington. Aug. :. Sc.

the democrats believe that MIR. CIeYe-
land doesn't wish to be again nomi-
mated for president but merely to
have the honor OF declining the nom
i~nation after it has been rendered by
the democratic rational convention.
lnasmuch a. the democratic admin
~stration and Congress buncoed the
voters Of the roGnfrY it would be onlv
2 ease Of poetic justice for Mr.. Cleye-
land and the cuckoos to bunco the
democratic party. Ii the democratic
convention falls into the trap set for
It and dominates Mr.. Cleveland with
the expectation that he will decline il
will be the most disappointed body
II ever seen. a it Is just a certain as
any future event can be that If nomi-
mated Mr.. Cleveland viii accept. In
View Of the generally recognized fact
that the democratic nomination will
next year be a very empty honor it Is
difficult to understand the efforts that
Mr.. Cleveland and his cuckoos are
making to get it. These efforts can
only be accounted for by the inordi-
nate egotislG of Mr.. Cleveland. which
causes him to believe. improbable as
it appears to everybody else. that he
could be elected again.
1t has been known for quite a while
in administration circles that. failing
to get the nomination himself. Mr..
Cleveland desires to throw the entire
administration influence to Secretary
Carlisle. 1t has now leaked out that
there is a revolt against this program
from al unexpected direction. Mr..
Cleveland's man, Dan Lamont. heads
the revolt. Dan is grateful TO Mr..
Cleveland for the political favors he
has received from him, and, although
he doesn't like the idea of a third term
for ANYBODY, he is willing to help Mr..
G. try to get another nomination. but
he owes nothing to Secretary Carlisle,
and he declines to have his allegiance
transferred to him when Mr.. G. sees
that he has no show. There is anoth-
er man. who has done financially for
Dan Lamont what Mr.. Cleveland has
done politically for him. That man
is eX-Secretary Whitney. and Dan pro-
poses to show his gratitude by max
ing Mr.. Whitney his second choice in
stead of Secretary Carlisle: Mr..
Cleveland has only one objection to
Whitney but hat is a serious one.
He is the only man in either of his
cabinets that he failed to completely
dominate.
The force Of example is one Of the
strongest known to man. Mr.. Cleye-
lands use of a government light
house tender for his hunting and fish
ing trips was the natural %forerunner
of Secretary Carlisle's intended use of
a government light house tender to
make a tour of the Great Lakes. Not
only will the secretary and his wife
be carried on this iunket at public
expense, but his son and his wife will
90 along and others may be added
The iunket is to last five or six weeks.
and ii Uncle Sam wasn't to foot the
bills it would be quite costly for the
two Carlisle families. Sill. YOU oc-
c%asionally find a democrat willing to
quote Public office is a public trust
at you in the face OF the private snap
the members Of the present admin
stration have made of it.
Nothing more CALLING to the Cleye-
land democrats has occurred for a
long time than senator Germans new
cinch on the control of the Maryland
democratic organization, aud the
astute German rubbed it on them by
having his convention endorse the
able and patriotic administration of
I resident Cleveland and the tariff
law that President Cleveland refused
to sign. Mr.. Germans resolution de-
clared the tariff to be the best we
have had for thirty-five years, which
isn't strange when it is remembered
that Mr.. German was one of the prin-
eipal authors of the senate tariff bill. |
which took the place of the Wilson
bill and became a law without the
president signature. German may
not capture the democratic presiden-
tial nomination next year for himself.
but it is not unlikely that the man
who does must first dicker with him. |
and he will be more eXacting than he
was when he allowed Mr.. Cleveland
to be nominated in 80.
Fear may do for the sugar planters
what right and justice would not do.
Finding that Comptroller Bowler was
determined, regardless of the argu-
ments which will be presented to him
next week to refuse payment OF the
money appropriated by Congress for
sugar bounties, on the ground that
the original bounty law was uncon-
stituti0nal, the Louisiana Congress
sional delegation put a new phase on
the matter by informing members of
the cabinet that the withholding of
this money will certainly put Louisi-
ana permanently in the republican
column. Word has been sent to Mr..
Cleveland. and Bowler's orders NAV !,
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