Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-08-03


cockade, and are continually led into
revolution.
| congratulate you, my countrymen,
that it has become our settled habit
to give our love to institutions-to
the institutions for which that beau
tiful emblem stands. From an ad.
dress by Ex-President Harrison at
Old Forge. N. Y.
BLACKBURN MAKES A DEAL.
Appealing to CRsar-Democratic
Economy-Ex-consuI Waller.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 28.-Has Joe
Blackburn made deal with the adj
ministration? A gentleman who is
usually we'll informed upon inside
Democratic happenings assured me
that he had. The deal, according to
this gentleman, provides that Black
burn shall not talk free silver during
the remainder of the Kentucky CAM
paign, and in return for his assistance
in keeping the silver question in the
background the administration prom
Uses that it will present no candidate
for the Senate, against Blackburn, il
the Democrats retain control of the
legislature. While not pretending to
vouch for the accuracy of this story,
will say that many tips received
from the same source have proven to
be straight. There are also corrobor-
alive circumstances, as the lawyers
say. First, Blackburn's coming to
Washington in the midst of the CAM
paign; second, his refusal to talk
| third, the talk OF administration Dem
ocrats about Blackburn being re-elect-
ed to the Senate, if the Democrats
carry the legislature, because of his
personal popularity, regardless of the
silver question. To take in the full
significance Of the last it must be re-
| membered that few weeks ago these
same administration Democrats were
shouting anybody to beat Black
burn" They do not love Blackburn
now any more than they did then,
but they fear Republican success in
Kentucky more. Secretary Carlisle
wishes to have his name presented to
the Democratic convention as Ken
tucky's candidate for President, and
he knows his last chance would go
glimmering-he scarcely has one out
of possible one hundred, anyway
the day Kentucky was carried by the
Republicans. Some of Blackburn S
friends have not hesitated to say that
they would rather a Republican be
elected to succeed him than a Cleve-
land Democrat Maybe that was only
bluff. but it frightened the other fell
lows. 1t was evident to Mr.. Carlisle,
If not to the rest of the administra-
ton, that with Blackburn and his
friends doing their level best, the Re-
publicans would have an even chance
to win, and that with Blackburn and
his friends Indifferent the Republican
success was certain; hence the me-
cessity for making a deal of some
sort.
The Louisiana Senators having fail
ed in their appeals to Caesars men,
Carlisle and Bowler. to let their sugar
growing constituents have the money
Congress appropriated for them. have
taken their appeal to Caesar Cleve-
land himself. These Senators know
just as well as everybody else does
that their appeal will be useless, the
holding up of that sugar-bounty mon
ey having been sanctioned by Mr..
Cleveland long before little Bowler
set himself up as sort of a one-man
Supreme Court, to decide the constitu-
tionality of acts of Congress appropri-
ating money; but having made Sec
rotary Carlisle put himself on record
in Bowler's support they wish to COM
pei Mr.. Cleveland to do the same.
Little Bowler's action is a foregone
conclusion, although he will, on
August 7, go through the farcial pro-
ceedings of listening to arguments in
favor of the constitutionality of the
sugar-bounty law. He has been or
dered to hold up that money and he
will do it.
1t is somewhat difficult to under
stand Democratic ideas of economy.
One member of the Cabinet-Secre-
tary Morton-has, he says, as a
measure of economy abolished the
distribution of seeds to the farmers
of the country, in defiance of Congress,
which appropriated the money to buy
the seeds and to pay for their distri-
button. Another member of the Cab
inet-Secretary Herbert-has started
on a six weeks tour of the Atlantic
Coast summer resorts, on board of the
U. S. Dispatch Boat Dolphin, at pub
lie expense. He didn't say that his
pleasure trip was also measure Of
economy, but he tries to disguise its
real nature by pretending that it is
made for the purpose of inspecting
the Government navy yards on the
Atlantic.
The nations OF the world seem to
know the timid nature of the Cleve-
land administration quite as we'll as
Americans do. Months ago France
was asked to furnish a copy of the
papers in the case of Ex-Consul Wall
er, who is now in a French prison,
and it refused, an unprecedented thing
to do Another demand has since
been made for the papers, and State De-
partment officials express the opinion
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