The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-25
WASHINGTON.
ssom our Regular Correspondent.

Mrs Cleveland and the ladies OF the
cabinet will probably accompany
President Cleveland and his entire
cabinet when they leave Washington
tor the Atlanta Exposition, next Mon
day. Mrs. Cleveland did not intend
TO go, but when she learned how dis
appointed the thousands who had
never seen her but hoped to do so at
the exposition and en- route would be
if she did not, she, with her usual
good nature and oblieing disposition,
has been almost persuaded to change
her mind and go.
President Cleveland and all the
members of his Cabinet met for the
first time in several months at the
regular cabinet meeting this week.
The meeting was more in the nature
Of friendly social gathering than one
of business, although there was some
exchange of opinions and informal
discussion of important matters bear
ing upon the session Of Congress.
Sympathy for the Cuban revolution
lists is a perfectly natural feeling in the
hearts of Amencans, but the zeal of
an enterprlsing 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 a public call
for a mass meeting to be held in
Washington for the purpose of public.
E expressing sympathy for the revol.
utionists. The meeting will be he d,
and the resolutions Of sympathy adopt
ed but under existing circumstances
it is an ill-advised affair, implying an
entirely unnecessary and uncaled for
lack Of confidence in the administra-
ton to deal properly with the Cuban
affair. The aforesaid enterprisipg
publisher has been seconded in this
scheme by republicans, who hope
thereby to embarrass the administra-
ton. President Cleveland 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 expedite mat
tiers. 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 a clever fellow. a good lawyer
and a good democrat, notwithstand-
ing that long title-in his annual re-
port to Postmaster General Wilson
leaves no doubt of his opinion of
those business concerns 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 de-
ciares has sounded the death.knell of
lotteries in this country, Mr.. Thomas
in his report says: "But many bust
ness men think they must, in order to
succeed, resort to schemes that appeal
10 the gambling spirit of the people,
and they accordingly sugar-coat their
legitimate enterprises with lottery ad-
vertisemeuss. These fascinating and
apparently innocent 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
e<,,,,a hucipecc concerns
Mr.. Harrison's managers are losing
their shrewdness, if they approve of or
are responsible for a political fairy
story that was circulated in Washing
ton this week. Talk about a 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 Platt and his wicked anti
Harrison associates, and not the i'm
maculate Benjamin, who stabbed Gov.
Morton in the back at the Minneapo-
lis convention Of 90 and gave the
vice ce-presidential nomination to White
law Reid. And as if that were not a
sufficient perversion of facts for a
single story, it proceeds to tell that
Mr.. Harrison doesn't want next years
nomination to 60 to Reid, Mckinley
or Allison, but to his bosom friend
and one.time running mate, Gov.
Morton. Gov. Morton has not prov
ed himself to be as good politician
as he is business man, but nobody
In Washington believes that he can be
fooled by any such story as this. He
knows that Mr. Harrison was in tele-
graphic communication with the men
who controlled the Minneapolis con.
vention, and that one word from him
TO John e. New would have prevented
the Whitelaw Reid deal being carried
out. He also knows that the friend
ship 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