The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-06-21
ashingt0n Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

| The one thing not surprising about
Mr.. Cleveland's selection OF Mr.. Jud-
son Harmon, of Ohio, to be Attorney
General in place Of Mr.. Olney, who
has been made Secretary of State, is
that Mr.. Harmon is n corporation
llawyer. Mr.. Cleveland has made con-
siderable money as a corporation law
yer himself, and he doubtless expects
to resume that occupation after March
4th, 1897, which accounts, in II meas
ure, for his partiality for corporation
lawyers. 1t is understood that one OF
Mr. Cleveland's objects in taking Mr..
Harmon into the cabinet is the hope
of placating Senator Brice, who has
not been friendly towards the admin
istration since the tariff fight in the
the Senate.
The Cuckoo democrats praise the
new appointments, hut ex-Representa-
tive Conn, of Indiana, an anti-Cleve-
land democrat, voiced the opinion of
many democrats when he said of
them: "Both appointments are char
acteristic of the President. One is
the promotion of the most unpopular
man in the cabinet, and the other the
exaltation of comparatively obscure
attorney to one of the most impOr-
tant offices in the country. 1t goes
without saying that there will be no
change in the conduct of either the
State Department or the Attorney
Generals Office. Possibly, in the alb
sence of the President, the individual
lity of Mr.. Olney may make itself
manifest, as did chat of Secretary
Gresham in the Alliance affair, while
| The President was duck hunting. But
it may be expected that trusts VIII
thrive and jingoes will howl without
ia the least disturbing the compla-
cency of the administration which,
of course, distinctly and exclusively
means President Cleveland" After
all the personality of the cabinet
means nothing, as they are all merely
clerks to- carry out Mr.. Cleveland's
orders.
The big democrats are trying to
make the public realize that ex-Secre-
tary Whitney is playing his cards, not
as an assistant to Mr.. Cleveland, but
as an independent candidate for the
democratic presidential nomination.
Even Senator Smith, OF New Jersey,
who was Senator Germans lieutenant
in all the fights made upon the adj
ministration policy during the last
session of Congress by the Gorman-
Brice combination, seems 10 be III the
Ideal. At any rate he has taken &C
casion, while in Washington, to state
very positively that Whitney was out
for the nominations also to give
Whitney lot of "taff'y" Some peo-
pie are of the opinion that the promi-
nent aEti-Cleveland democrats are
going to make use of Whitney to beat
Mr.. Cleveland at his own game, and
that having bound him by II promise,
which he thought he was perfectly
safe in making, to support Whitney's
candidacy, they are now going to
work with the idea of nominating
Whitney on the first ballot.
Ex-Congressman Cadmus, of New
Jersey, doesn't take rosy view OF the
prospect of the democratic party in
his state, although he was demo-
cratic member of the last congress,
and candidate for reelection. Mr..
| Cadmus is a silk manufacturer and
believer in protection. He says: "Po-
litically the state is very quiet, al
though there will be an election for
governor this fall / have 10 doubt
the success of the republican ticket,
and the chances are that the demo-
cratic nominations will 60 begging"
The Kentucky Republicans are con-
fident Of their ability to elect their
candidate for governor, and hopeful
that they will elect majority OF the
Legislature, which would mean re-
publican successor to Senator Black
burn. They have written to Wash
i ington asking merely to be let alone,
in reply to offers of assistance from
outside speakers. "We don't want
any outside speakers" writes one OF
them, "or one dollar contributed by
anybody not residing in the state.
4 We have not the democratic party
Isplit and we are going to win, the
lgovernorship certain, and probably the
Legislature. The administration is
determined that Blackburn shall not
be returned to the Senate, if it can
possibly prevent it. Secretary Car
llisle when he returns to Kentucky
this week will go prepared to compel
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