West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-07-18

Secretary Herbert finds himself
so busy with the plans for building
the battle ship and torpedo boats
authorized by the last Congress.
and other important business, that
he has been compelled to postpone
his vacation for a timc. lie hopes
to have things in such shape that
he can leave about the last of the
month.
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Everybody is laughing at the
Spanish minister, who has been
sent on FOOLS errand by his gov
erumeut. He has gone to Secretary
Olney's summer residence, in Mas
sachusetts, to ask an explanation
and an official statement concern
ing that silly fake purporting to
be an interview with Ambassador
Eustis, which was published in a
Paris paper early this week and
cabled to this country, and which
was promptly followed by a denial
from Ambassador Eustis. No de-
NAL was needed. Everybody knew
that the thing was fake, but the
Spanish government seems to have
taken it seriously, or, it is so pre-
tending for some purpose of its own.
Secretary Olney will dispose of the
Spanish minister aud his silly re-
quest in short order.
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According to Col. Harvey, of the
New York Worlds editorial staff
who is in Washington, Teddy
Roosevelt has given Tammany a
"cinch'' on the next municipal
election. by his strict enforcement
of the excise law. Col. Harvey
said : "The result will be far.
reaching in political way, and
will beyond doubt damage the Re
publicans materially in New York
City. have no idea that they
will be able to elect single Assem-
blyman or Senator from the city or
from Brooklyn this fall. Every
Tammany candidate will win.
People who live at a distance can't
begin to appreciate the local feel
ing that has been aroused by this
affair, and it is not feeling that
will die away in alittle while. The
administration has gone too far
now to recede it must carry out
its policy, and the more rigidly that
policy Is adhered to the more Ger.
tain and sweeping will be the vic.
tory Of the Democrats.
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Evidently Mr.. Benjamin Har-
rison is becoming frightened at the
hammering Mckinley is getting al
the hands of the friends of the
other candidates, as a result of his
efforts to keep himself prominently
before his party as a Presidential
candidate. Mr. Harrison is tender
and he never liked hammering, Sc
he has adopted another course. Ii
has been said before, but fearing
that il might have been forgotten
he arranged to have Dir. John w.
Foster. who was once charged with
being Nr. Harrison's spy upon Sec.
| rotary Blaine, and who became Sec
rotary OF State himsely when Mr..
Blaine retired from the Harrison
administration, to say again that
he was not candidate; was doing
nothing to get the nomination, but
would not, Of course, decline should
the party insist upon nominating
him. These statements are absurd
and they fool nobody.
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Attorney General Harmon ISM
satisfied with the decision against
the government in the suit agains
the Stanford estate, and he THU
week directed the u. s. Distric
Attorney at San Francisco to ap-
peal the case to the u. s. Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Paclf,
Coast district. 1t is no violation
Of confidence TO add that shoulC
the Court Of Appeals decide agains
the government the case will b,
carried to the U. S. Supreme Court
This suit, which is for SIS 900. 600
is only against the Stanford estate
but If the government wins tb,
estates Of all Of Stanford's Pacif,
railroad associates who, like him
became rich by their manipulation
OF company that has AWAY
pleaded its inability to repay none
loaned it by the u S. Government
will have to disgorge TO the amour
Of their stock holdings in the road
If TO no further extent.
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The White House mail oivs
evidence Of the rapidity with whicI
The news Of the birth OF Presiden
Cleveland's third baby has bee
disseminated, but it also give
evidence Of the careless manner il
which many people read the news
IL weuld be natural TO suppose tina
every man, woman and child VIII
reads the newspapers knows tina
President Cleveland and his vii
and children are 40 their summe
residence, Gray Gables, on Bnz