The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-07-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Firom our regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. July 10Th, 1895.

affairs, the libeled individual can APP
peal to the courts and hv proving the
libel have the libeler punished. But
the United States government has no
such redress. When an apparently
concerted attempt to injurc the credit
of tue government and bring on all
other financial pane, such as is o
being made by those republican news
papers which are printing sensational,
and in many instances entirely false,
accounts of the governments financial
affairs, the government can only ap-
peal to the common sense and fairness
of the people. There is nothing eth
Ell alarming or unexpected in the
present condition Of the governments
finances. AS was expected, the x
p%enGitnres during the first half OfJuly
were largely in excess of the receipts.
The reason is obvious. OF the $685.
100000 which have been paid out this
mouth, 81, O00, 900 has gone to pay
pensions. about 81. 0OO, 900 to pay in
terest on bonds, including those of the
Pacific railroads, and more than &c.
O0O, GOO has been paid out under the
appropriations made by the last Con-
gress, which became available on the
first ofJuly. Some republican papers,
in their anxiety to bring on another
financial panic, or at least stop the re-
vival of business nov sweeping over
the country, have gone so far as to say
that the OF the government
were falling off. Partisanship is no
excuse for such a willful misstatement
as that. On the contrary. the reve-
nues are increasing, those for the first
half of July being mnch larger than
the receipts for the same period last
year. The U. S. Treasury is all right,
and likely to remain SO us long rs it
is in charge of democrats.
Secretary Smith has gone to Georgia
to make some financial speeches, in
which he will tell his hearers why he
lost faith in the efficacy of the free
coinage of silver and became an advO- |
cate of sound money. He has accept
ed invitations to deliver three speech
es, but, as his mail was for some days
before his departure from Washington
filled with invitations to deliver
speeches in other parts of the State, it |
ia probable that he will make more
UildA ludu NIItC HC 10 dUOut III. |
Secretary Lamont very seldom con-
SCENTS to being interviewed for pnbli-
cation-he is an old newspaper man, |
which for his stunning noto-
riety-but he made an exception in
order to deny the silly story about his
western trip having beer in the inter-.
est of q third term for President Cleve-
land. He said Il was not hunting
ghosts, though | am told some were
about. My trip was purely a business
one, and / had neither inclination nor
opportunity to NEEDLE in politics.
About the only people l saw and talked
people. The lailload men whom
met told me that the outlook WIS very
favorable for great prosperity. They
are about the only ones had an OPP
pOrtunity to talk with on the subject.
and l presume that they are about the
best judges"
BY the way; speaking of this third
tern, business, which some republican
editors seem disposed to make a
standing nightmare out of, there is
nothing i'm it.. While an occasional
democrat of prominence has expressed
a Willingness to support President
Cleveland for a third term, no person
al friend of his has eve encouraged
such an idea, and it ear be stated on
excellent authority that he has never
made a suggestion to any member of
MS cabinet that could be construed,
even in the most indirect manner. to
mean that he desired another nomina-
ton. A gentleman who is known to
enjoy the Presidents confidence said
on this subject sit is too silly to be
seriously discussed. | am satisfied
that MIR. Cleveland would long ago
have said that he would under no
circumstances accept another nominal
ton had he not thought it to be en-.
ti:ely unnecessary to do so. You may
depend upon it that he will stop it
quick enough should it at any time !
between this and the holding of the
democratic National convention be-
come evident that a serious attempt
was being made to nominate him again.
He is proud, as he has a right to be,
of the three nominations given him by
the democratic party. bnt if he has any
ambition for a fourth nomination his
closest associates have never discnv-
cred the slightest evidence of it. You
cannot tihd a single man whose reia-
lions with him are close who believes
that he would allow his name to 60
before another national convention.'
Too Inquisltive: Young Rural lin a
local hotel, showing off before his girl) |
-:'Waiter, bring us a bottle of cham