The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent

with the administration? A gentle
man who is usually we'll informed
upon inside Democratic happenings
assured me that he had. The deal,
according to this gentlemen, pro-
vides that Blackburn shall not talk
free silver during the remainder of
che Kentucky cam paign, and in re-
turn for his assistance in keeping
the silver question IN the baekgroud
the administration promises that it
present no candidate for the Senate
against Black burn, if the Democrats
retain control of the legislature.
While not pretending to vouch for
the accuracy of the story, | will
say that many tips received from the
same source have proved to be
straight. There are also corrobora-
tive circumstances, as the lawyers
say. First, Blackburn's coming to
Washington in the midst of the
campaign; second his refusal to talk;
third, the talk of administration
Democrats about Blackburn being
reelected to the Senate, if the Dem
ocrats carry the legislature, because
of his personal popularity, regardless
of the silver question. 10 take in
the full significance of the last it
must be remembered that a few
weeks ago that these same admins
tration Democrats were shouting
"anybody to beat Blackburn" "
They do not love Blackburn now
any more than they did then, but
they fear Republican successln Ken
lucky more. Secretary Carlisle
wishes to have his name presented
to the Democratic convention as
KentuckY's candidate for President
and he knows his last chance would
go glimmering-h scarcely has one
out of possible one hundred, any
way-the day Kentucky was carried
by the Republicans. Some of Black
burns friends have not hesitated to
say that they would rather a Re-
publican be elected to succeed him
than Cleveland Democrat. Maybe
that was only a bluff, but it fright
ened the other fellows. 1t was evil
dent to Mr.. Carlisle, if not to the
rest of the administration, that with
Black burn and his friends doing
their level best, the Republicans
would have an even chance to win,
and that with Blackburn and his
friends Indifferent the Republican
success was certain; hence the nee
essity for making a deal of some
sort.
The Louisiana Senators having
failed in their appeals to Caesars
men, Carlisle and Bowler, to let
their sugar growing constituents
have the money Congress appropri-
ated for them, haYe taken their ap-
peal to Caesar Cleveland himself.
These Senators know just as well as
everybody else does that their ap-
peal will be useless, the holding up
of that sugar bounty money having
been sanctioned by Mr.. Cleyeland
long before little Bowler set himself
up as a sort of one-man Supreme
Court, to decide the constitutionality
of Acts of Congress appropriating
money; but having made Secretary
Carlisle put himself on record in
Bowler support they wish to compel
Mr.. Cleveland to do the same. Lit
tie Bowler's action is a foregone
conclusion, although he will, on
August 7th, go through the farcical
proceeding of listening to arguments
in favor of the constitutionality of
the sugar bounty law. He has been
ordered to hold up that money and
he will do it.
1t is somewhat difficult to under
stand Democratic ideas of economy.
One member of the Cabinet-Secre-
tary Morton-has, he says, as a
measure of economy abolished the
distribution of seeds to the farmers
of the country, in defiance of Con-
gress, which appropriated the money
to buy the seeds and to pay for
their distribution. Another men,
her of the Cabinet-Secretar Her.