Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-02
DoINGs AT WASHINGTON.
What Regular Correspondent Says
about the Capitol and its People.
Washington, April 26, 1895

No democrat should ever say ssMon-
roe doctrine again. The administra-
ton, after having allowed poor little
Nicaragua to suppose that it would be
protected against the rapacity of
Great Britain, has been caioled or
bulldozed-it matters not which-into
keeping its hands oil while England
foreibly compels the little republic to
do just what is demanded by the Brit
ISL. Senator Hill was right when he
said the Monroe doctrine was mean
ingless. But it is only when inter-
preted by democratic administra-
ton that il is meaningless. 1t has
always meant just what it purportS to
mean-European hands off American
countries-wh republican Presi-
dents were in office. and it has been
so understood by all European gov
ernments. An instance, was the tot
tering and fall of the Maximillian
government in Mexico, which the
Third Napoleon tried to establish
while the {. S was busy fighting the
civil war, at few words from Presi-
dent Lincoln
Mr.. Cleveland now realizes that if
he attempts to carry out his announ-
ced programme of compelling every
Federal ofice-hoder, large and small,
to take IN active part in the fight
against silver which he has started
inside the democratic party, he will
have an open revolt on his hand ;.
Prominent silver democrats are Civ
ing Mr. Cleveland chance to back
down by publicly stating their belief
that Mr.. Cleveland has been misrep-
resented. and that he never had any
such intention. OF course they know
that he had that intention, and they
fear that he still has it 1t is we'll
known that large majority of the
Federal officials in the south and west
are silver men, A democratic SEN
ator SAYS Mr.. Cleveland will find HIM
self formally read out of the demo
cratic party, if he persists in trying
to carry out that programme.
Mrs. Z. 5. Grant, her daughter,
Mrs. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and
her granddaughter, Miss Rose Sar-
toris, have gone to Chicago, where
they viii attend the celebration OF
Gen. Grants birthday, under the aus
pieces of the Chicago Press Club.
Civil Service reform will lose one of
its most courageous advocates by the
resignation of Civil Service Commits
sioaee. i.o0aofei, ~ become Police
Commissioner OF New York CITY, This
stepping from the head of national
commission to become a member of a
municipal commission, even of the
great city OF New York, is not pro-
motion in any sense of the word for
Mr.. Rosevelt but he is New Yorker
and was unable to stand the home
pressure brought to bear to secure his
/ help in the reformation of the abuses
| in New York police circles which have
scandalized the city. The people of
New York are to be congratulated on
the change but there are no reasons
for extending the congratulations to
| Mr.. Roosevelt.
Representative Tawney, of Mime
sofa, at present in Washington, says
he hasn't been able TO see the increase
in the sentiment in favor of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, re-
CARELESS of other nations. which ne
has heard about since he came q
Washington. Referring to publish
ed interview in which Secretary
Mosely. OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission, declared that everything
in Minnesota was going towards sill
yer, Mr.. Tawney said it reminded him
of story about man. who after
walking about the swamps which used
to surround the city of Duluth. APP
preached a hotel-keeper with a prop
osition to sell carload of frogs legs.
The hotel man didn't want so many,
but agreed to buy a bushel. The
next day the seller turned up with
four pairs of frogs legs, and when
the hotel keeper indignantly said to
him: why thought you said you
could get car load he replied II
did; thought from the noise they
made that the swamps were full OF
| 'em, but these were all / could
catch.
Two members of President Hari.i-
sons cabinet Senator Proctor and
ex-Attorney General Miller-have de-
ciared most positively their ignorance
of any intention on the part of Gen.
Harrison to become a candidate for
denomination by the next republican
National convention, and Senator
Proctor added that he was not com
mitted to any candidate, and that any
republican would be satisfactory to
him.
Mr. Cleveland's implied rebuke to
Secretary Morton for having come
out flat-footed for single gold
standard was about the same sort OF
a rebuke that certain class of mer-
chants are in the habit of giving
their clerks in the presence Of some
customer who complains of having
been duped by misrepresentation. 1t
will be noticed that Mr.. Cleveland did
not once say in the interview he fur
nished the press that he did not agree
with Secretary Morton He content.