Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From Our Special Correspondents
WASHINGTON, D. c., March s. ,95.

Whatever IN natlOnal p0lltlcS. Inc
executive committee of the Ri Metallic
League, which is sponsor for the new
party and author of the address which
announced its birth and the reason
therefor, attempted in turn to get the
consent of Senators Teller, of Colorado,
and Cameron, of Pennsylvania to allow
the announcement of their names as
the Presidential candidate Of the new
party and upon their refusal it was de-
cided not to nominate, but merely to
Suggest" a Presidential candidate.
The man suggested was Elk. Congress
MAI Sibley, of Pennsylvania, an &C.
centric millionaire who has been Re.
publican, Democrat and Populist all
within the last fifteen years, and who
is probably expected to put up the
money to maintain the headquarters
which are to be opened at once in Wash.
ington and kept open-if Sibley doesn't
get tired of paying the bills-until the
Presidential election. 1t was expected
by the originators of this party that
quite a number of influential Democrats
and a few Republicans would at once
announce their endorsement Of it, but
no such endorsement has been given.
On the contrary, v en those Democrats
who are supposed to have had a hand
in Matching the new party, such as
Bland and Bryan, fastened to give it a
black eye by publicly saying they could
see no necessity for the organization of
a silver party until the Democratic
national convention shall refuse to de-
clare for free coinage. If the new party
has any Republican endorsers they are
not known. So far al known the only
notable recruits have come from the
Populists, in the persons of Senators
Jones and Stewart, of Nevada, but
there are several obscure Southern
Democrats in the deal.
F. w. Bicknell, the Iowa member of
the executive committee of the Reput-
lican League of the United States,
which recently held a meeting in
Washington, says of the work of the
committee: "Our committee has de-.
cided to use every means to make the
National League Convention at Cleve.
land, June 10, n that shall not cause
any embarrassment to the party. We
believe the function of the league is to
execute rather than to legislate. and
that the convention should avoid any
attempt to commit the party in any d.
rection. The convention will last three
days, and we shall give the women all
we possibly AN. The league always
has had a tendency towards the ad-
mission of to some share in
politics, and this convention is likely
to be more liberal than the last one.
The details of the representation to be
given women have been left to Presi-
dent Tracy, Secretary Humphrey and
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, President of the
Woman's Republican Association
Every member of the Executive Com
mittee was emphatic in saying that the
league convention would not boom any
mans candidacy for the Republican
Presidential nomination.
1t would be difficult to find an angrier
set of men than were the Democratic
ex-Senators and Representatives, who
had hopes of executive ~favors, when
they learned that Mr.. Cleveland had
left them in the lurch and gone off in
search of a good time. Some of them
could not control their anger and used
words in the presence of private Sec
rotary Thurber which probably settled
the little chance they had FOR getting
official crumbs from the Presidential
table, but the most of them smiled and
hid their disappointment as far as pos.
sible, and will be on hand when Mr..
Cleveland returns.
The names of twenty five Democratic
members of the last House who signed
that manifesto pledging the Demo-
cratic party to the free coinage of sill
yer at a ratio of sixteen to one were
published this week, although no one
seems to know just why, as the num-
Der is SC ridiculously small when COM
pared with the total Democratic mem
bership of the Fifty Third Congress.
An amusing feature of it was that the
name of Representative McLaurin, of
South Carolina, one of the signers, was
published on the same day as one of a
committee to select the members of the
national committee of the new silver
party brought out this week by the Bi
Metallic League. Mr.. McLaurin s CON
stituents may o o be wanting to know
which party he belonged to, anyway.
The United States Supreme Court is
now listening to arguments in the case
involving the constitutionality of the
income tax, and it is expected that q
decision will soon be handed down in
the case. 1t has been a long time since
there was such an array of legal talent
engaged upon a single case. Among
the lawyers of national reputation are
ex-senator Edmunds, ex.Secretary Bris-
tow, Shellabarger and Wilson, Jos.
Choate, James G. Carter, Clarence A.
Seward, W. d. Guthrie and Charles
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