The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Frcn cur Regular Corr espondent)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21st. 1895.

The Republican National Com
mittee will shortly decide the time
and place for' holding the next |
National Conyenuon. Chairman
Carter who was in Washington to-
day, says he has asked the opinion
of every member of the Committee
by letter, and has within the last
few days had personal conferences
with number or them. 1t is an
inyiolable rule that the committee
meeting which decides the time and
place for the convention must be
held six months previous to the
date upon which the convention
meets. There is a difference of
opinion, both in and ont of the
committee, as to whether the con
vention should be as early as May
or whether it should be held after
the Democratic convention. In
other words, whether the presiden
tial campaign shall be long one
or a short one. The decision lies
entirely with the National Com
mittee, although the action OF its
members will, of course, be largely
influenced by the opinion of other
leading Republicans. Should
majority of the committee indicate
their preference for holding the
convention in May, the committee
meeting will have to be held some
time next month.
Senator Cullom of Illinois, was
so much interested IN the Waller
case that ne came to Washington
with the Chicago colored lawyer who
brought petition signed by leading
citizens of that city, as Mr.. Cleye
land to secure the liberation of Ex-
Consul Waller, now uniu3tIy con-
fined in French prison. Mr..
Cullom escorted the lawyer to the
White House and introduced HIM
to Mr.. Cleveland. who referred them
to Secretary Olney, who, he said,
was conducting the diplomatic
negotiations. Mrs. Waller, wife of
the imprisoned ex-ConsnI and her
children, arrived in Washington
to-day and will remain until she
fuds out whether the administration
really intends to do anything for
her husband. She speaks hopefully;
she is afraid to speak in any other
way, less 1T might make the adj
mistratlon still slower, but what
she thinks is another matter.
The report that the President
and Vice President are not on speak
ing terms, which was started during
the last session of Congress, was re-
yived when the announcement was
made that Mr.. Stevenson, who has
been in Atlanta, doing the exposi-
ton since the middle of last week,
would start for his Illinois home to-
day, at about the same time that
Mr.. Cleveland and his Cabinet left
Washington for Atlanta. Whether
the two officials are on speaking
terms is more than | can positively
say-they probably are when they
can't help themselves-but this is
not the first time, by several, that
Mr.. Stevenson has by his actions
made it plain that he did not wish
to meet Mr.. Cleveland in public
and it is perfectly well known il
Washington that neither of the
men likes the other, and that ne
man IN public life has had less In
fuence with this administration
than Mr.. Stevenson. 1t has Away
been understood that this question
of influence was at the bottom O.
the trouble between the two men
Early in the administration Mr.
Stevenson was, it is said, given t.
understand that his recommends
ton of any man for Office was suffi
cient to keep the applicant out il
the cold, the matters were not i'm
proved when Mr.. Stevenson refused
TO ride rough shod over the rule
and customs of the Senate, at Mr.
Cleveland's command, when th
extra session was considering the sill
yer repeal bill.
Col. John S. Mosby, of Virginia