Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-08-17
uAioRR CLEVELAND LUCK 4
A. K. Encampment- Changed
Front Whitney's Boom.

ia. A. K. Encampment- Changed
Front Whitney's Boom.
From orr regular correspondent
WASHINGTON. Aug. a. The anti
Cleveland Democrats are once more
saying cuss-words in connection with
what they call cleveland luck.
They say that the death Of Justice
Jackson has given Mr.. Cleveland an
other lever to pull in his efforts to
control the next Democratic national
convention, and every man at all
familiar with national politics knows
what a powerful lever a vacancy upon
the U. S. Supreme Court can be made
by an ambitious President, and Ma
poleon was never more ambitious of
obtaining personal power for himself
than is Mr.. Cleveland. There is log
ic. too, in the rawlings of these mad
Democrats. OF course it isn't either
right or decent to use the word luck"
in connection with the death of an
eminent jurist like Justice Jackson;
but there 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 con-
troll the Democratic convention. Cir
cumstances will favor him, too No
body will expect the vacancy to be
filled until after Congress meets, al
though 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 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.. Cleve-
land is at liberty to bangle this tempt
ing bait in front of every Democrat
he wishes to control, and he will not
fail to do SO, although in the end the
place will probably go 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 G. A. R. men are
making preparations for sending a
big delegation to the coming National
Encampment at Louisville. KY, Sept.
1913. Corporal Tanner is very en-
thusiastic about it. He says Every
thing conspires to make the assem-
blage one of the largest and most in
spring ever gathered together in this
country. 1t will be held at a point
that may be said to be central, so far
as veteran organizations, both Union
and Confederate are concerned. On
the South will be Knoxville, Chatta-
nooga, Atlanta, New Orleans and other
cities, and on the North and West are
| Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and other
States which are just alive with Union
veterans. In addition to all these
favorable circumstances the dedica-
cation of the battlefield of Chattanoo-
ga, which takes place only day or
two before the opening of the encamp-
ment, will tend to greatly increase the
attendance at the latter"
Public opinion can affect even
| Democratic administration. After
saying that this government had no
fund from which money could be tax
en- to help the wife and children of ex-
U. S. Consul Waller (who is in prison
in France under court-martial SEN
tence believed to be unjusD. who are
stranded at Fort Louis, Mauritius, the
State Department changed front. after
learning from the newspapers what
the public thought of such inhumani-
ty, and directed the U. S. Consul at
the place named to secure transporta-
ton for Mrs. Waller and her children
on the French steamer which sails for
Marseilles, France, on August 20.
The same power may eventually CON-
pei the administration to do some
thing for Waller. Even though he is
only a colored man, he is an Amer
lean citizen.
1t is regarded as significant that
the manipulators of the Whitney boom
should have passed the word around
to the Whitney Democrats not to al
low Mr.. Whitney to be spoken of as
a Cleveland candidate without con-
tradicting it. This means, if it means
anything, that Whitney's managers,
who are among the shrewdest Demo-
Gratis in the country, consider Mr..
Cleveland friendship a detriment
rather than help. Another signih-
cant thing was the statement of
close friend of Senator Hill, that
Whitney would not be able to get the
New York delegation to the nomina-
ting convention. He said that Hill
had never forgiven Whitney for nom-
mating Cleveland in 90, and would
use his influence against him. 1t is
well known that Hill controls the
Democratic machinery Of New York,
but is has heretofore been claimed
that he would support Whitney.
Excursion to Atlantic City.
LAST OF THE SEASON VIA b. & o.
The last of the series of trips to the