The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-06-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our:Regular Correspondent
WAsHINGTON, June s. 1883.

politics are beginning to see that
Mr.. Cleveland is a much shrewder
manipulation of wires than he is
generally credited with being. For
instance, his object in promising
that he would support the candidacy
of ex-Secretary whitney for the
Democratic Presidential nomlna-
ton, if Mr.. Whitney would consent
to the use of his name in that con-
nection, has now become apparent
to those who know the game of
politics. Instead of being renun-
citation of his own desire for an
other nomination, as many at first
supposed it to be, that promise of
Mr.. Cleveland's is very clever
move by which he expects to retain
control of the Democratic nomina-
ton, whatever the result of the
contest now going on between the
gold Democrats and the silver
Democrats may be. If the gold
Democrats can control the next
national convention, Mr.. Cleveland
will take the next nomination him
self, and if the silver Democrats
control it the nomination will go to
ex-Secretary Whitney, thus making
it certain that no Cleveland
silver Democrat can carry off the
empty honor of the nomination.
That this move was taken by Mr..
Cleveland with the knowledge and
consent of Mr.. Whitney was proven
by the fact that Mr.. Whitney had
no sooner got back from Europe
than he gave out an authentic
interview stating his position on the
silver question. His position is a
straddle, if put to actual and i'm
mediate test, but it is so interlaced
with F'taffy" for silver and opinions
as to its speedy rehabilitation as a
money metal by the great CONNER
cial nations of the world, that it
leaves the impression that he is
very friendly to silver, which is just
the impression it was intended to
leave. 1t is Whitney's part of the
game begun by Mr.. Cleveland when
he promised to support Whitney if
he wanted the nomination. That
Whitney really wants the nomina-
ton is improbable, although he
would doubtless willingly chip in
four or five of the Standard Oil
Company's millions to become Pres
ident. But he is too smart to be-
lieve that any Democrat can be
elected President next year. His
part of the game is being played
just to please Mr., Cleveland, whose
friendship has been valuable to cor
porations in which Whitney is inter
ested, and may be again.
Senator Carter of Montana who is
chairman ofthe Republican National
Committee, is In Washington. He
says the National Executive Com
mlttee will probably meet the latter
part of October or early in Novem-
Der to decide where and when the
next National Convention shall be
held, and that he would not be sur
prised if it decided to hold it in Nav,
instead of June, which has been the
usual month, as he finds the senti-
ment in favor of the former month
strong and growing, In reply to a
question Senator Garter said: "The
National Committee as an organiza-
ton will not take any position for
or against SILVER. 1t is no part of
the business of the committee to
undertake to declare party position
on current questions. That task is
left to the party when assembled in
national convention.
There is rumor, too good to be
true, that Mr.. Cleveland will, in
filing the vacancy left in the Cabi-
nent by the death of Secretary Ores
ham, endeavor to get a Democrat
whose Americanism is robust enough
and sufficiently well known to the
public to reinspire confidence in the
foreign policy OF the administration.
1t would be good thing for Mr..
Cleveland to make the attempt to
do this, but unless the tenor of