Middletown transcript., 1895-10-19
Washington
......Letter

A LID Man Mystery
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NHy upon him on ac-
sf wv = count of his
Ma ~, growing liking
~. 80 for mystifying
the public as to
his comings and goings. His
manner of returning to Washington
after his long absence emphasizes the
correctness of the new appellation.
None of his friends have ever succeed
ed in giving a satisfactory explanation
of this desire to keep his movements
secret, especially when going upon or
returning from trip, although some
of them have made ingenious attempts
in that line. There is some curiosity
expressed as to whether when he takes
his cabinet down to Atlanta he will
try to smuggle himself and them out
of the city. If anybody knows when
the party is to start they are keeping
the knowledge to themselves. All
that is known in Washington is that ar.
rangements are being made in Atlanta
to have the the Preside ntial party at
the Exposition on the 22d inst.
While no Senator has made posi-
tive statement to that effect, enough
has been said by senators to make it
wellnigh certain that there will be no
general reorganization of the Senate
when Congress meets, owing to neither
party having clear majority in that
body and to neither Republicans or
Democrats desiring to allow the Popu-
lists 10 dictate the organization by
making deal for their votes. By this
it is not meant that there will be no
changes among the officials and com.
mittee chairmen of the Senate, for
there is likely to he a number. but they
will be only such as shall be agreed
upon by both Republican and Dem
ocratic senators, and will be of the
give and take order. In other words,
instead of all the Senate committee
chairman and officials Democrats, as
at present, they will be divided be-
teen Democrats and Republicans,
with the chances in favor of the Popu-
lists being entirely left out in the
cold.
Few Americans, no matter what
may be their opinions Of the Cuban
revolution, will agree with Attorney
General Harmon's assertion that ex-
pressions of sympathy by citizens of
this country for struggling Cubans are
"discourteous in the highest degree to
a friendly power and tend to embarass
and obstruct the government in carry
ing out its determination faithfully
TO execute the laws and fulfill its
treaty obligations. The Constitu-
tion of the United Statet guarantees
the freedom of speech, and Mr.. Har-
mon is probably the first member of q
Presidents cabinet to officially declare
its exercise to be discourteous to a
foreign government or embarrassing to
our own. Mr.. Harmon may speak for
this Administration, which has not at
any time during its existence reflected
public sentiment upon any question Of
importance, but he certainly does not
speak for the American people, who
will continue to exercise their consti-
tution-given rights by publicity ex-
pressing their opinions and sympathies,
just as they have always done. If it
be discourteous for Americans to ex-
press sympathy for the Cuban revolu-
tions it was also discourtesy for the
French to have expressed symprthy ror
the American revolutionists of '76. The
very corner stone of this nation is
fIeedom, and if the time ever comes
when our people do not 81 mpathize
with, aye and express their sympathy,
too, for those in other countries who
are STRUGGLING for freedom, our own
freedom will be in great danger. What
adds to the incongruity, not TO say
absurdi,y, of the Attorney Generals
position is the fact that Spain did not
stop to consider whether 1T was dis
courteous 10 the United States or not
hen she recognized the belligenency
of The late Confederate states very
early in tn. late civil war.
Mr.. PETER, 1.-The bewhiskeitd gentle
man who partly represents Kansas in
tie Senate, brings his cpini, lis to
Washington little ahead uf Congress.
probably to escape the rush. Several
years ,go he was cocksure that the
Populists would elect the next Presi-
dent, but since then he has been keep
ing tab Oh public sentiment, and now
he gravely announces that he hasn't
any doubt that the Republicans will
elect the next President as well as
majority Of the House, and that the
Populists will not come into power be-
fore 1900, and maybe not until later.
Now isn't that really kind of the old
gentleman? He postpones the coming
of the P0pulists into power solely to
give the Republicans another four or
eight years control Of the country,
but warns them that their manage