The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-05-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular @ RE srondent.l

ton an uiannounced visit this week,
which started no end Of stories about
his having been sent for in come ction
with the calling OF an extra session OF
Congress and his candidacy for the Re.
publican Presidential nomination None
of these things had any connection with
Mr.. Reeds visit. He was brought to
Washington by one Of the most holy
ties which bind men together-fiiend-
ship. The condition of Representative
Hit, of Ill who has been dangerously
i'll and who is not yet entirely out OF
danger, was the magnet which drew
Mr.. Reed to Washington. They have
been for years the closest of friends,
personal and political, and Mr.. Reed
wanted to see if his presence would not
help his friend. That's the whole story,
but Washington news is not over plen.
tiful just now and the correspondents
are working this highly praiseworthy
visit of one friend to another for all it's
worth, not bothering about facts, but
giving their Imagination free rein. MIR.
Reed only remained in Washington a
few hours.
1t is given out by those connected
with the administration that the reason
the idea OF communicating Admiral
Meade for his recent criticism Of the un.
American policy OF the administration
was abandoned was that Admiral Meade
declined to answer questions as to his
responsibility for the newspaper inter.
view in which the criticism appeared,
and the absence Of any law to compel
the newspaper man who interviewed
the Admiral to testify before naval
court martial. But that was not the
reason at all it was merely a pretence.
The real reason was the fear of public
opinion, which was quick to see that
Admiral Meade was goaded into making
the remarks which constituted tech.
cal violation of the naval regulations,
but reflected the sentiments OF seven.
tenths of the American people, and
would have been equally as quick to
resent any attempt to punish him by the
use OF packed court martial. Admiral
Meade has given the country forty years
of gallant service, having record un.
surpassed by any living officer of our
navy, and the administration will do
we'll to make the reprimand which it
proposes to give him as mild as possible.
There is little doubt that the presiden.
cy of the Pullman car company has been
rendered to Secretary Gresham. A
gentleman whose relations with several
directors of that company are close, ex-
presses the opinion that if Mr.. Gresham
declines the position it will be offered
to ex.Secretary Robert T, Lincoln.
An open rupture between Mr.. Cleve.
land and Vice President Stevenson is in
the opinion of many, certain to occur in
the near future. Ali of the news re.
ceived in Washington points to the
probable capture of the Democratic
} arty of Illinois by the silver men, and
it is no longer denied in any quarter
that the entire silver movement in that
state has been from the first in the in
terest of Mr.. Stevenson's candidacy for
the Democratic Presidential nomination,
and Mr. Cleveland thinks that Mr.,
Stevenson was the moving spirit in the
whole business and does not hesitate
when talking with his friends to call
him "a traitor to the administration of
which he is part" and other uncom.
plimentary things. Should the two
men meet it is believed that quarrel is
certain.
Some people seem determined to drag
silver into everything. A proposition
has been made to the Governor of Della.
ware to appoint a Democratic silver
man Senator, to contest the seat to which
Republicans claim Col. Dupont was
elected, and if the Governor agrees an
attempt is to be made to get enough
Populist votes to make when combined
with the solid vote of the Democratic
Senators majority of the Senate, and
to seat the man appointed by the Gov
ernor, regardless of the report that will
be made by the committee on elections,
not because they will believe him en-.
titled to the seat, but because the man
can be counted upon to vote for silver
at all times. 1t is difficult to believe
that such scheme as this can be put
through, and your correspondent is con.
fdent that should Gov. Watson give his
consent it will be found that somebody
has been trying to dispose of what they
did not control. The Senate is control
led by the silver men anyway, and the
shrewd silver Senators will be quick to
see that such scheme would be certain
to injure the cause OF silver with the
public at large, while the vote that
would be gained in the Senate would
not be of the slightest assistance. The
next Senator from Delaware will be Col.
Dupont, II he lives.