Middletown transcript., 1895-08-17

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EA5S7lEGNv Democrats ar
ISAMkA once more sayin
/SSSYxS cuss- ords i
N@JNH connection wit
MHI what they cal
u "Cle elan,
w luck" They sa
S%@S that the death o
A9s3 Justice jackson
has given Mr.
Cleveland another lever to pull in hi
efforts to control the next Democratic
National Convention, and every mai
at all familiar with national polite
knows what powerful lever vacanc.
upon the U. S. Supreme Court can b.
made by an ambitious president, ant
Nap oleon was never more ambitious O
obtaining personal power for himsel
than is Mr.. Cleveland. There is logic
too, in the rawlings of these mad Dem
ocrats. OF course it isn't either righ
or decent to use the word ''luck" il
connection with the death of an emf
nent jurist like Justice Jackson; bu,
th' re can be no denial that this vacancy
in the Supreme Court has added to Mr.
Cleveland's power; nor that he will
make use of it, as he does of everything
else, to help him control the Demo
cratic Convention. Circumstances will
favor him, too. Nobody will expect
the vacancy to be filled until after
Congress meets, although the next
term of the Supreme Court begins in
October, because the nomination could
not be acted upon by the Senate until
then, and there is an unwritten law,
which has very seldom been ignored,
against a justice taking his seat upon
the bench of the Supreme Court before
his nomination has been confirmed by
the Senate. This being the situation,
Mr.. Cleveland is at liberty to dangle
this tempting bait in front of every
Democrat he wishes to control, and be
will not fail to do so, although in the
end the place will probably 60 to some
one of his creatures like Wilson, ,Olney,
or Bissell. 1t is not surprising under
the circumstances that the anti-Cleve-
land Democrats should be hot in the
collar from other causes than the
sweltering weather.
Washington's G. A. r. men are
making preparations for sending big
delegation to the coming National En-
campment at Louisville, Kentucky,
lib. Corporal Tanner is
very enthusiastic about it. He says:
Everything conspires to make the
one Of the largest and most
ever gathered together in
this country. 1t will be held at point |
that may be said to be central, so far |
IS veteran organizations, both Union
and Confederate are concerned. On |
,he South will bs Knoxville, Chatta-
nooga, Atlanta, New Orleans and |
,ther cities, and on the North and
West are Illinois, Indiana, Ohio other
States which are just alive with Union
Veterans. In addition to all these
favorable circumstances the dedication
# the battle field Of Chattanooga,
which takes place only d day or two
,efore the opening of the encampment,
will tend to greatly increase the at
endance at the latter"
Public opinion can affect even
Democratic administration. After
aging that this government had no
und from which money could be taken
O help the wife and children of ex-U.
!. Consul Waller (who is in prison in
france under a court-martial sentence
elieved to be unjust) who are stranded
t Port Louis, Maurltius, the State
changed front, after learn
ng from the newspapers what the
ublic thought of such inhumanity,
nd directed the u. S. Consul at the
lace named to secure transportation
or Mrs. Waller and her children on
he French steamer which sails for
France, on August 20.
The same power may eventually COM
ell the administration to do something
or Waller even though he be only a
olored man. He is an American
itiZen.
It is regarded as significant that the
,anipnlators of the Whitney boom
hould have passed the word around to
be Whitney Democrats not to allow
Ir. Whitney to be spoken of as
cleveland candidate without contra
letting it. This means, if it means
nything, that Whitney's managers,
rho are among the shrewdest Demo
rats in the country, consider Mr..
'leveland's friendship a detriment
ather than help. Another significant
ling was the statement of a close l
riend of Senator Hill, that Whitney
7ould not be able to get the New York
elegation to the nominating conven-
ion. He said that Hill had never for J
iven Whitney for nominating Cleve-
Ind in '92, and would use his influence
gainst him. 1t is we'll known that t
ILL controls the Democratic machinery 9
I New York, but it has heretofore !
cen claimed that he would support G
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