The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-06-21
washington Letter.

Washington. June Is, lS95--No
member OF the cabinet ever mace a
more favorable appearance IN "slilils
ton than Attorney General II laT'loh HAS
T,,-,.r,, ,.r7a yybsr has had the pleasure 81
tsISiu. with ham mas been AT once S'iooE
I.,- his tearseab.e manner, quick grasp /
II subjects discussed, and general broad /
niucdncs-. If he does not make /
model attorney genera. those who have |
met him viii he greatly surprised, par 7
ucu.aIly the newspaper men. VINO quick (
" size a public man up, and express /
their opinions OF him to each other, Ii (
they do not always send them TO their /
papers. Judge Harmon Will return 90 /
Cincinnati for a few days, TO put his
private business in order The tnancla.
! opinion expressed 10y him l. sound
| enough to be adopted by every good
| Democrat. said he. Il want the
| American dollar to be just as good as
/ ANYBODY cIse's dollar, and. with that
/ qualification, don tCare what l. Is hlaue
! Of"
Speaking Of ex~Secretary Whitney ;
/ published interview Mr.. Ira VI. Davis,
Of Albany, y. Y, says: 1t Was HOra-
ito Seymour who wrote to his friends
nectiOu with the presidential uomIua
| ton, but your candidate / cannot oe
Now comes Mr.. Whitney and tells the
! Democrats that he cannot stand az their
candidate in 1896. Mr.. Whitney means
every word he says, but II New YORK
| sends a delegation 10 the convention, IN
structed to cast her - votes for him, he
Will not then say nay. There never was
I rr- Es fr 20
refused to obey MS party's call He
viii not do so next year. l have the
most implicit faith in Whitney, and be-
lieve that If nominated ne Will be elected
He is the strongest Democrat IN the
country today" Lots of Democrats are
talking ike Mr.. Davis
According to Hon +. W. Durant, a
Democratic state senator Of Minnesota,
now visiting Washington, the party tnat
comes out the strongest for sound money
IS the party that viii elect the next presl-
dent Discussing the subject he said:
Sound money viii be the slogan IN
| 1896 If the Republicans should nOmI-
nate a candidate on the free silver plat
form to be followed later by tine Demo
Gratis with a sound money platform and
candidate, the latter would win over
| whelmingly, and vice versa. / am
Democrat and yet | would vote the Op-
pOsItio ticket if our party were to de
| clare for free coinage. Thousands OF
Republicans would vote against the
nominee Of their party were he to stand
as a champion OF silver. If Mr.. CIeve-
land were to run again hG would get
! Republican votes by the thousands for
the people have tried him and know
| where he stands. This Il purely a busI-
ness proposition, and the business men
of the country are going TO look after It,
without regard to political afhiiation-
Mr.. Durant Is himself a successful buSI,
ness man.
The Georgia delegation which visited
, Washington for the purpose Of inviting
President Cleveland and the cabinet to
attend the Atlanta Exposition returned
2 home in very good humOr. President
= Cleveland and every member Of the
cabinet who was II Washington accepted
: the invitation and viii visit the exposI.
tion during the latter part of October,
unless important public business shall
E prevent. President Cleveland c0mplI-
mented the GeorgIans very highly ON
= the energy they nave displayed Ia work
-. ing for the success of the exposition.
Secretary O-ncy's first move as Secre
e tary Of state was an important one. He
Il believes that the United States should dc
> Just as it would insist that other coun
tries should do under similar circum
stances. Therefore on account OF repre-
sentations made 10y the spanish miniSte
If he ordered the cruiser Raleigh to proceed
-. to Florida waters and 90 remain thei
= until further orders for the purpose O
e preventing fiibusteriug parties goin.
d over to Cuba. Ii Is altogether probabI,
= that Secretary Olney, ike most othe
q Americans, sympathizes with the at
tempt of the Cuban revolutiOnists t
10 throw off the yoke OF Spain, but hi
"a personal Sympathies have nothing TO d,
lie with his otiicia, duties The Unite,
T States Is at peace with Spain and il /
the duty OF Its government to exercise al
; due diligence to prevent the departure o
z armed bodies Of men from Its port Il
r make war upon Spain; hence the presi
N dents proclamation.
j; President Cleveland has cleared hi
= desk and Will, probably before this lette
ID Is printed join his wife and children a
Or Gray Gables, where he Will spend tn
ut hot weather. He Will be in telegraph
;c communication with Washington an
viii attend to all public business rcqun
q ing his personal attention, just the sam
T as If he remained at the White House