Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-13
GORMAN's FINE ITALIAN HAND.
Cleveland Proposes to Fight-Cuban
Affairs Rudyard Kipling.
From our regular correspondent.

Affairs Rudyard Kipling.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Apr. S.-Senator Cor
mans friends played one of their
highest trumps when they started
that demand for a southern man at
the head of the next Democratic ma
tional ticket Needless to say, it was
played against Mr.. Cleveland; and so
cleverly was it played that it caught
the immediate endorsement of Senator
Hill, who apparently forgot in his
anxiety to thwart Mr.. Cleveland S
hopes that he was practically commit
ting himself to the German BOOM
The manner in which this demand
was first made public was calculated
to blind a great many ordinarily
shrewd people to the fact that Senator
German was pulling the wires. 1t
was on the editorial page of the Wash
ington Post, an alleged independent
paper, that the demand first saw the
light, in all the conspicuousness of
double-leaded type. 1t did not require
a Pinkerton to connect that demand
with recent conferences in Washing
ton of prominent Democrats who are
opposed to any furthur party fayors
being granted to Mr. Cleveland, al
though few of them are actually COM
mitted to Senator German S candida
cy. The making of the connection
was aided by the knowledge that the
Post is controlled by Democrat-ex-
Congressman Beriah Wilkins, of
Ohio, who has the Ohio mans natur-
al love for political deal and no spe-
cial liking for Mr.. Cleveland
Senator German was far too smart
to have this demand for southern
candidate have any outward appear
ance of German boom. Yet that is
exactly what is. While the demand
is calculated-in fact, was intended
to! tickle the ambitions of scores of
southern Democrats, should it grow
into power great enough to control
the next Democratic nominating con-
vention, there is only one man who is
big enough and smart enough to take
advantage of it, and his name is Cor
man. There may be ADLER southern
Democrats than Mr.. German, but if
there are they have successfully hid
their ability, while Mr.. German has
forced the Democratic Senate to re-
strain him as leader against the wish
es of Democratic President
Mr.. Cleveland recognizes this de-
mand for southern man as very
shrewd move, and he knows the source
from whence it emanates. He is
afraid of Mr. German, not having for
gotten the humiliating defeat he suf-
fered at his hands during the late Con-
gress, but he proposes to fight, not
only for himself but to prevent the
nomination of Mr.. German. These
contests for the empty honor of the
Democratic nomination are decidedly
amusing to Republicans, who regard
the election of Democratic Presi-
dent in 1896 as an impossibility. But
they are interesting all the same
The exceptions to the income tax
made by the Supreme Court decision,
are calculated to add to the unpopular
ity of the tax, which will, it is believ-
ed, be repealed at the next session of
Congress.
Cuban affairs are attracting much
attention in Washington just now. II
is clear that the revolution is a much
more serious affair than it was at first
supposed to be, and speculation is rife
as to what will be the position of the
administration should the Cubans
succeed in setting up government |
of their own. Without the moral
support of this government, or some
other, it will be physical impossible
ity for the Cubans to maintain their |
independence of Spain, even should
they succeed in establishing a tenn
porary government Will this gov
eminent extend its moral supports
That is the question.
The administration must have,
through some of its subordinates, been
doing something disagreable to Rud- I
yard Kipling, the talented but eccen-
trict English author who blackguards
everything American and still lives
in America through choice. Mr.. 7
Kipling has been in Washington for
a month or SO, and is credited with
the intention to write political story
in which Mr. Cleveland and all the
members of his cabinet are to figure.
Whatever his intentions may be Mr..
kipling succeeded in getting himself
passed by the sentry boxes, which, by
the way, have since been removed, and
the Gordon of White House detectives
and into the Cabinet room, while his
majesty Grover and his ministers of
State were holding acouncil-perhaps