Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-11-01
SF'aslln0ton STANDARD
" ASllINGTON NOTES.
Mrs. Cleveland Will Witt t!,c A.
ianta Expedition tu",a sym
.ithy Death tn Lottery themes
Republican siscord.

WA<IIi>ulox. oct. 18TH. 1850.

CArfN tnc good news 10 llAlt: MIS-. !
Clcy, land and the ladies oi the cabinet
VIII probably accompany President
Cleveland and the entire cabinet when
they leave Washington iur the Allan
ia exposition, next Monday. Mrs.
Cleveland did not intend To 60, but
when she learned how disappointed
the thousands who had never seen her
but hoped to do 50 at the exposition
and en- route would be ii she did not,
she, with her usual good nature and
obliging disposition, has been almost
persuaded to change her mind and go.
Pr. ,ident Cleveland and all the
members Of the cabinet met for the
inst time in several months at the
regular cabinet meeting this week.
The meeting was more in the
nature Of 4 friendly social gathering
than one OF business, although there
was some exchange of opinions and
informal discussion OF important
matters bearing upon the coming ses-
sion OF Congress.
Sympathy for the Cuban revolu-
tionists is a perfectly natural feeling in
the hearts of Americans, but the zeal
OF an enterprising newspaper publisher
OF Washington, in pursuit Of popular
free advertising for his property, has
caused a number of more or less
prominent business men to allow their
sympathy to run away with their good
judgment and to join in public call
for mass meeting to be held in Wash
ington for the purpose OF publicly ex-
pressing sympathy for the revolution
lists. The meeting will be held, and
the revolutions adopted; but under ex-
listing circumstances it is an ill-advised
affair, implying an entirely unneces-
sary and uncalled for lack of confidence
in the administration to deal proper
ly with the Cuban affair. The afore-
said enterprising publisher has been
seconded in this scheme by Repub-
licans, who hope thereby to embarrass
the administration. President Cleve-
land is probably as fully conversant
with the present status of affairs in
Cuba as any man in the United States
and holding meetings in Washington
or elsewhere, will neither delay nor ex-
pedite matters. He will do his duty
regardless OF his own or the sympathy
OF others.
Assistant Attorney General for the
Post Office Department Thomas-he's
clever fellow, good lawyer and a
good Democrat, notwithstanding that
long title-in his annual report to Post.
master General Wilson leaves no doub,
OF his opinion Of those business con.
Germs which adopt lottery methods to
attract customers. After giving the
number OF lotteries which have been
shut out of the mails by the anti
lottery law, which he declares has
sounded the death-knell of lotteries in
this country, Mr.. Thomas in his re-
port says: "But many business men
think they must, in order to succeed,
resort to schemes that appeal to the
gambling spirit of the people, and they
accordingly sugar-coat their legitimate
enterprises with lottery advertisements.
These fascinating and apparently in
nocent schemes reach the boys and
girls Of the land and tend to make
them gamblers" The rebuke is sharp,
but no thoughtful newspaper reader
can deny that it is deserved, nor that
it is needed by some business concerns.
Mr.. Harrison's managers arc losin &
their shrewdness. if they approve of or
are responsible for political fairy
story that was circulated in Washing
ton this week. Talk about thing
making a horse laugh, If such thing
were possible, this story would do it.
The preface to the story sets out that
it was Tom Plat and his wicked anti
Harrison associates, and not the i'm
maculate Benjamin, who stabbed Gov.
Morton in the back at the Minneapolis
convention OF '92 and gave the vice.
presidential nomination to Whitelaw
Reid. And as if that were not suf-
ficient perversion OF facts for single
story, it proceeds to tell that Mr.. Har
rison doesn't want next years nomina-
ton to 60 to Reid, Mckinley or
Allison, but 10 his bosom friend and
one-time running mate, Gov. Morton.
Gov. Morton has not proved himself to
be az good politician as he is BUSH
ness man, but nobody in Washington
believes that he can be fooled by any
such story as this. He knows that Mr..
Harrison was in Geographic COM
munication with the men who con-
trolled the Minneapolis convention,
and that one word from him to John
C. New would have prevented the
Whitelaw Reid deal being carried out.
He also knows that the friendship now
so publicly proffered is but the Judas
like precursor of another stab in the
back, if the opportunity to administer
it occurs.
A great many cock-and-bull stories
are being told concerning bargains
made by the Democratic Senators with
the Republican Senators for reor.
ganization of the Senate and division
of the committee chairmanships, etc
No such bargain has been made. Just
before the last session OF Congress
closed there was an informal talk about