Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Special Correspondents
WASHINGTON, d. c., June, IA, '05.

being more general in Washington
than 1t was ever before known to be.
This is especially true in the residence
section of the city, nearly every house
showing the stars and stripes. If the
sons of the American Revolution and
kindred organizations had never done
anything else their work in encour-
aging the people to love and revere our
flag would entitle them to the ever.
lasting thanks Of every patriot. The
man who truly loves his country's
flag will never be lacking in patriotism
at a time of need, and it would be
worse than folly to imagine that a
time of need will never come again.
The two meetings of the cabinet held
this week, which were probably the
last that will be held for several
months, were largely devoted to a dis.
cussion of politics. Mr.. Cleveland is
thoroughly alarmed at the silver re-
volt in the Democratic party, although
his friends pretend to make light of it
and to think that it is already losing
ground. A considerable part of these
discussions were devoted to the situa.
ton in Ohio. 1t is now clear that Mr..
Cleveland selected Judge Harmon to
be Attorney General with q special
view to its effect upon the Ohio Demo-
Gratis, and that he actually INDUCES
the hope that the State will go Demo-
cratic this year. Attorney General
Harmon is a friend of ex-Gov. Camp
bell, whom Mr.. Cleveland wishes to
accept the Democratic nomination for
Governor this year, and when he re-
turns to Ohio to straighten out his
private business he will carry certain
confidential messages to Mr.. Campbell,
calculated to start the Presidential bee
to buzzing around his head.
Frankness is "a virtue which some
times tells more than is intended. For
instance, Representative Wilson, of
South Carolina, who is now in Wash
ington, is discussing the reversal of
Judge Colts decision concerning the
South Carolina registration law, said:
There is great need OF a new constitu-
ton in place of the one fastened on us
by the carpet baggers in reconstruc-
ton days. 1t is desirable to restrict
the right of voting in ONE way, 30 as
to prevent its exercise by the ignorant
and poverty stricken class"
Verify, it is difficult to account for
some of the acts of Democratic officials.
While patriotic Marylanders are asking
contributions for the erection of a
monument to the memory of Francis
Scott Key, the author of the Star
Spangled Banner" Commissioner of
Pensions Lochran dismissss Miss Eliza
beth N. Key, a grand daughter of
Francis Scott Key, and the sole sup
port Of a blind mother, from q petty
clerkship in the Pension Bureau, and
this too, Notwithstanding Miss Keys
good record as an efficient clerk during
the fourteen years she has been in the
bureau. Unless the effort to get Miss
Key reinstated, which is now being
made, shall succeed, her case will
prove the truth of the adage ''Repub,
lies are ungrateful, " and should stand
as an everlasting disgrace to the Dem.
ocratic administration which allowed
Miss Key to be dismissed by Commits
sioner Lochran.
More or less amusement was felt
among the knowing ones in Washing
ton when that interview with ex.Sec.
rotary Whitney, in which he said he
was not a candidate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination, was publish
ed. No n expected Mr.. Whitney to
avow himself q candidate for that
nomination more than a year before
the nominating convention meets. He
is too smart for that. He is known to
be a very rich man, and if he an.
nounced himself to be a candidate
now, he would either have to allow
himself to be victimized by the army
of impecuneous Democratic strikers in
every Stale in the Union or make
enemies by refusing to put up money
for them that would make his nomina-
ton impossible. Whitney will bear
watching. He can control a larger cor.
ruption fund than any man who has
any chance of the Democratic nomina-
ton, and if he wants that nomination
he will get it. But, unless he concludes
that his election a be bought be will
not want the nomination.
Secretary Olney will have an oppor-
tunity very soon to show what sort of
a Secretary of State he will make. 1t
is certain that Chinese mobs have de-
stroyed much property belonging to
American missionaries in China, and
feared that they have also taken the
lives of American citizens. Mr.. Olney's
handling of this case will be very care.
fully watched. The people will demand
prompt and vigorous action and il they
don't get it 80 much the worse for Mr..
Olney.
Mr.. Cleveland's proclamation warn
ing Americans against assisting Cuban
revolutionists is merely a precaution
against demands for indemnity that
may be made by Spain.
Newport, Tenn. June 16.-Meager
details of q serious, and 1t is feared
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