San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, '95.

so much interested in the Waller
case that he came to Washington
with the Chicago colored lawyer
who brought petition signed by
leading citizens of that city, ask
| ing Mr.. Cleveland to secure the
liberation OF Ex-Consul Waller,
now unjustly confined in French
prison. Mr.. Cullom escorted the
lawyer to the White House and
introduced him to Mr.. Cleveland,
who referred them to Secretary
Olney, who, he said, was conduct
ing the diplomatic negotiations.
Mrs. Waller, wife OF the imprison-
ed Ex-Comsul, and her children,
arrived in Washington today and
will remain until she finds out
whether the administration really
intends to do anything for her
husband. She speaks hopefully ;
she is afraid to speak in any other
way, lest 1t might make the adj
ministration still slower, but what
she thinks is another matter.
The report that the President
and Vice-President are not on
speaking terms, which was started
during the last session of Congress,
was revived when the announce
ment was made that Mr.. Steven
son, who has been in Atlanta
doing the exposition since the
middle Of last week, would start
for his Illinois home today, at
about the same time that Mr..
Gle veland and his cabinet left
ashington for Atlanta. Whether
the two officials are on speaking
terms is more than 1 can positively
say-they probably are when
they can't help themselves-but
this is not the first time by sever
al, that Mr.. Stevenson has by his
actions made it plain that he did
not wish to meet Mr.. Cleveland
in public, and it is perfectly we'll
known in Washington that
neither of the men likes the other,
and that no man in public life has
had less influence with this ad-
ministration than Mr.. Stevenson.
1t has always been understood
that this question of influence was
at the bottom of the trouble be-
tween the two men. Early in the
administration Mr.. Stevenson
was, it is said, given to understand
that his recommendation Of any
man for Office was sufficient to
keep the applicant out in the cold,
and matters were not improved
when Mr.. Stevenson refused to ride
rough shod over the rules and GUS
toms of the Senate, at Mr.. Cleve-
lands command, when the extra
session was considering the silver
repeal bill.
Col. John 8. Mosby, Of Virginia,
who was one of the first prominent
Ex-Confederates to become a re.
publican, is in Washington again
after long absence-he was ap-
pointed a U. S. Consul to China
by President Grant and retained
the position for many years. AL
though not a young man his talk
indicates that he has half a mind
to 60 into Virginia politics. He
said Of national politics: "The
next campaign will show some re-
markable changes in the political
sentiment of the different sections,
and II the republicans would give
the second place on their ticket
to an Ex-Confederate they would
make some inroads into the South
that would be surprising. should
like to see Gen. james A. Walker,
of Virginia, nominated for Vice
President, and l believe if it were
done, the republicans would carry
Virginia and several other South
ern states" Col. Mosby expressed
the belief that Gen. Walker would
succeed the late Gen. Malone as
leader of the Virginia republicans
The German ring has succeed
ed in raising a corruption fund far
beyond its expectations in amount
and its members are now Boosting
of their ability to buy enough votes
to carry Maryland next month
According to published report
one Baltimore democrat openly
said: 1--WE have now money
enough to buy up the whole re-
publican party in Maryland and
we are going to win" The repub,
4 lican leaders of the state are wide
awake. They know the German
ring has plenty of money, and
that prominent colored republicans
have been corruptly approached
and they are determined either
to stop the bribery or to send some
of the bribed and bribers to prison
If it can be done, and they are
satisfied that it can.
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