San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

the death OF Justice Jackson has
given Mr.. Cleveland another lever
to pull in his efforts to control the
next Democratic national conven-
ton, and every man at all familiar
with national politics knows what a
powerful lever vacancy upon the
United States Supreme court can
be made by an ambitious president,
and Napoleon was never more am
bilious of obtaining personal power
for himself than is Mr.. Cleveland.
There is logic, too, in the rawlings
OF these mad Democrats. or course
it isn't either right or decent to use
the word "luck" in connection
with the death OF an emil
nent jurist like Justice Jackson;
but there can be no denial
that this vacancy in the Supreme
court has added to Mr.. Cleveland's
power; nor that he will make use
Of it, as he does of everything else,
to help him control the Democratic
convention. Circumstances will
favor him, too. Nobody will ex-
pect the vacancy to be filled until
after Congress meets, although the
next term of the Supreme court
begins in October, because the
nomination could not be acted up.
on by the Senate until then, and
there Is an unwritten law, which
has very seldom been ignored.
against a justice taking his seat
upon the bench of the Supreme
court before his nomination has
been confirmed by the Sem
ate. This being the situation,
Mr.. Cleveland is at liberty to
dangle this tempting bait in front
OF every Democrat he wishes to
control, and he will not fail to do
so, although in the end the plac
will probably go to some one Of his
creatures like Wilson, Olney, or
Bissell. 1t is not surprising under
the circumstances that the anti
Cleveland Democrats should be
hot in the collar from other causes
than the sweltering weather.
Washington's G.. A. r. men are
making preparations for sending
big delegation to the coming ma
tional encampment at Louisville,
KY, September IL to Is. Corporal
Tanner is very enthusiastic about
it. He says: Everything con-
spires to make the assemblage one
of the largest and most inspiring
ever gathered together in this
country. 1t will be held at point |
that may be said to be central, so
far as veteran organizations, both
Union and Confederate, are con-
cerned. On the south will be Knox |
vile, Chattanooga, Atlanta, New
Orleans and other cities, and on the
North and West are Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and other states, |
which are just alive with Union
veterans. In addition to allnnthese
favorable circumstances the dedi. |
cation Of the battle field Of Chat
tanooga, which takes place only a l
day or two before the opening Of |
the encampment, will tend to
greatly increase the attendance at |
the latter"
Public opinion can affect even a |
Democratic administration. After |
saying that this government had
no fund from which money could |
be taken to help the wife and chill
dren Of ex-United States Consul
Waller (who is in prison in France
under a court martial sentence, be.
lieved to be unjust), who are
stranded at Port Louis, Mauritius, |
the state department changed
front, after learning from the news.
papers what the public thought
OF such inhumanity, and directed
the United States consul at the
placed named to secure trans
portation for Mrs. Waller and her
children on the French steamer,
which sails for Marseilles, France,
on August 20. The same power
may eventually compel the ad-
ministration to do something for
Waller even though he be only a
colored man. He is an American
citizen.
1t is regarded as significant that
the manipulators OF the Whitne v
boom should have passed the word
around to the Whitney Democrats
not to allow Mr.. Whitney to be
spoken Of as Cleveland candidate
without contradicting it. This
means, IL 1t means anything, that
Whitney's managers, who are
among the shrewdest Democrats
in the country, consider Mr.. Cleve-
lands friendship detriment
rather than help. Another sig.
nificant thing was the state
ment of a close friend of
Senator Hill, that Whitney
would not be able to get the New