Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-10-26
IS STEVENSON NON 0RATAa
Col. rlosby's Opinion Trying to Buy
the CoIored Vote.
[From our regular correspondent.l

decide the time ana place LOT Aoidlng
the next National Convention. Chair
man Carter, who was in Washington
today, says he has asked the opinion
of every member of the Committee by
letter, and has within the last few days
had personal conferences with num-
Der of them. 1t is an inviolable rule
that thecommittee meeting which de-
cides the time and place for the con-
vention must be held six months pre-
vious to the date upon which the con-
vention meets. There is difference
Of opinion, both in and out Of the conf
niittee, as to whether the convention
should be as early as May or whether
it should be held after the Democratic
convention. In other words, whether
the Presidential campaign shall be a
long or a short one. The decision
lies entirely with the National Com
mittee. although the action of its
members will, of course, be largely
influenced by the opinion of other
leading Republicans. Should ma
jority of the committee indicate their
preference for holding the convention
in May, the committee meeting will
have to be held sometime next month.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, was 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, asking Mr.. Cleveland to Sc
cure the liberation of ex-Consul Wal
Ter, now unjustly confined in French
prison. Mr.. Cullom escorted the law
yer to the White House and introduced
him to Mr.. Cleveland, who referred to
them to Secretary Olney, who, he said,
was conducting the diplomatic nego-
tiations. Mrs. Waller, wife of the
ex-consul, and her children, arrived
in Washington today and will remain
until she finds out whether the admin
istration really intends to do anything
for her husband, Shespeak hopefully;
she is afraid to speak any other way,
lest it might make the administration
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 announcement was made
that Mr.. Stevenson, 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 Mr.. Cleveland and his
Cabinet left Washington for Atlanta.
Whether the two officials are on speak
ing terms is more than l can positively
say-they probably are when they
can't help themselves-butt this is not
the first time, by several, 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
well known in Washington that
neither of the men likes the other,
and that no man in public life has had
less infiunce with this administration
than Mr.. Stevenson. 1t has always
been understood that this question of
influence was at the bottom of the
trouble between 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.. Steven
son refused to ride roughshod over the
rules and customs of the Senate at
Mr.. Cleveland's command, when the
extra session was considering the sill
yer repeal bill.
Col. John S. Mosby, of Virginia,
who was one of the first prominent ex-
Confederates to become Republican,
is in Washington again after a long
absence-hew was appointed U. S. Con-
sui to China by President Grant and
retained the position for many years.
Although not young man his talk
indicates that he has half a mind to
go into Virginia politics. He said of
national politics: 1.-The next cam
paign will show some remarkable
changes in the political sentiments of
the different sections, and if the Re-
publicans would give the second place
on their ticket to an Confederate
they would make some inroads into
the South that would be surprising.
l should like to see Gen. James A.
Walker, of Virginia, nominated for
Vice President, and Ibelieve if it were
done. the Republicans would carry
Virginia and several other Southern
States Col. Mosby expressed the
belief that Gen. Walker would succeed
the late Malone as leader of the Vir-
ginia Republicans.
The German ring has succeeded in
raising corruption fund far beyond
its expectations in amount, and its
members are boasting of their ability
to buy enough votes to carry Mary
land next month. According to
published report, one Baltimore DEM
ocrat openly said: 1--WE have now
money enough to buy up the whole
Republican party in Maryland and we
are going to VIM The Republican
leaders of the State are wide awake.
They knowthe German ring has plenty
OF money, and that prominent colored
Republicans have been corruptly APP
j preached, and they are determined
either to stop the bribery or to send
some of the bribed and bribers to
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