Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-09-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Aug, 80, 90

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug, 30, 90
The confidence game that Mr.. Cleve.
land and Senator Brice are trying to
play upon each other is being watched
by the knowing ones, as it is bound to
be very interesting as it progresses.
These two Democrats have not worked
together heretofore, but now that each
thinks he can use the other they are to
form a ~copartnership. Mr.. Cleveland
wants friends in the Senate very badly.
and, although Senator Brice is not an
orator, his ways are very persuasive
when it is to his interest to make them
so-and he may be able to render Mr..
Cleveland valuable aid in the Senate
by siiencing Democrats who may be
disposed to make speeches criticizing
the administration, if in no other way.
Brice is not undertaking the task found
so burdensome during the last session
of Congress by Gray, of Delaware; Vi
las, of Wisconsin; and Mills, of Texas;
from a philanthrophic motive. He ism t
constructed that way. He thinks he
IA use Grover Cleveland or he would
never have agreed to become his cham
pion on the floor of the Senate. Brice
has developed Presidential aspirations.
He has had Campbell nominated for
Governor of Ohio by the Democrats in
order that his rwhelming defeat
may remove him from the field of
Presidential possibilities That will
leave the field clear for the presentation
of Brice's name as Ohio's candidate for
the Democratic Presidential nomina-
ton, and Brice believes the friendship
of Mr.. Cleveland will help his aspira.
tons. Perhaps SO. But will that friend
ship be given after Brice 8 purpose be.
comes known to Mr.. Cievelandp Keep
your eye on this Cleveland Brice part.
nership. Mark the moves of the part.
ners.
Hon Lloyd Lowndes, the Republican
nominee for Governor of Maryland,
passed through Washington this week.
He is very confident of his election, al.
though he frankly says that it will be
no child's play to GUST the Democrats
who have controlled the State Govern
ment for nearly thirty years without a
break. The Maryland campaign will
be fought on local issues exclusively.
The tariff and silver will not cut any
figure. At last years Congressional
elections the State went Republican by
about 5000, and this year with the Re.
publicans united and enthusiastic aud
the Democrats divided and difident it
is not surprising that the Republicans
should expect to carry the State. A
gentleman who has just returned from
a trip through the Bay shore section of
the State says if the feeling is the same
in other sections and the oystermen and
farmers vote as they talk the State will
give a Republican majority of 10000.
This gentleman says he did not meet a
single Democrat who expressed any
confidence of carrying the State, while
he met scores who said they thought
the State would go Republican and
that they did not care if it did.
1t is whispered in the most exclusive
cuckoo circles that the vacancy in the
U. S. Supreme Court has been placed
at the disposal of E. Ellery Anderson,
of New York, who is one of the origi.
nal cuckoos, and who is, like Mr.. Cleve-
land and 80 many of his appointees, a
corporation la wyer. According to
these cuckoo whisperings, if E. Ellery
wants the place he has only to say So
and it will become his, after Mr.. Cleve.
land has made all the use possible of
the vacancy as a p%ersuader, to make
prominent Democrats see the financial
and other questions as he sees them.
just now there is considerable talk
among those who are usually used BY
the administration when there is a de.
sire to ascertain how the public would
take anything about the intention of
Secretary Olney to give us a vigorous
and thoroughly American foreign pol
icy from this time on. This may or
may not be true about the future, but
there is certainly nothing either vigor.
GUS or American in the exasperatingly
slow n in which the case of poor
Waller is being handled by the Depart
ment of State. Perhaps things will get
a more rapid move on after Secretary
Olney returns from his vacation. One
thing may be set down as certain. If
Secretary Olney will take a bold stand
in our foreign policy he can count upon
the staunch support of the Republicans
in Congress.