The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-07-06
Washington Letter.
WAsHIXaroN. June %, 1885,

Secretary Carlisle is probably
the best pleased man in Washing
ton. His friends and enemies alike
agree III giving him the credit for
the administration victory which
has been won in the election of
delegates to the Kentucky state
Democratic convention which met
last week, and he is being over
whelmed with congratulations, in
person and by mail and wire. His
friends declare that it means his
certain return to the Senate and
mades him a promising candidate
for the Presidential nomination of
the party.
This has been an anxious week
for the Republican brethren. AL
though every conceivable expedient
had been resorted to prevent the
preci ,itation of fright over the
rilyeI' question in the convention
of the Republican League at Cleve-
land, Ohio, they have been in a
state of dread every hour that the
convention was in session lest their
plans should miscarry and the
fight be started which would spread
like wildfre through the entire
party.
No member of the Cabinet ever
made a more favorable impression
upon his firstappearance in Wash
ington than Attorney General Har-
mon has. Every one who has had
the pleasure of talking with him
has been at once struck by his
agreeable manner quick grasp of
subject discussed, ind general
broadmindness. If he doesn't
make a model Attorney General
those who have met him will be
greatly surprised, particularly the
newspaper men, who quickly size
public man up, and express their
opinions of him to each other, if
they do not always send them to
their papers. Before buckling down
to business the business of the De-
partment of Justice, Judge Har-
mon will return to Cincinnati for
a few days to put his private bust
ness in order. The financial opin-
ion expressed by him is sound
enough to be adopted by every
good Democrat. Said he: II want
the American dollar to be just as
good as anybody else's dollar, and,
with that qualification, I don't care
what it is made of.
i Speaking of ex-Secretary Whit
ney's published interview, Mr.. Ira
M. Davis, of Albany, N. Y, says:
sit was Horatio Seymour who
wrote to his friends when his name
was mentioned in connection with
the Presidential nomination, but
your candidate / cannot be. Now
comes w. G. Whitney and tells the
Democrats that he cannot stand as
their candidate in 1896. Mr.. Whit
ney means every word he says, but
if New York sends a delegation to
i. the convention, instructed to cast
her ~ votes for him, he viii not
then say nay. There never was a
time in his life when w. C. Whit
ney refused to obey his party's call.
He will not do SO next year. /
have the most implicit faith in
J Whitney, and believe that it nomi-
mated he will be elected. He is
the strongest Democrat in the coun-
try to-day" Lots of Democrats
are talking like Mr.. Davis.
According to Hon. E. w. Durant,
a Democratic state Senator OF
! Minnesota, now visiting Washing.
ton, the party that comes out the
strongest for sound money is the
party that will elect the next Presi.
! dent. Discussing the subject he
said: Sound money will be the
slogan in 1896. If the Republi.
: cans should nominate q candidate
2 on free silver platform to be fol
I flowed later by the Democrats with
: a sound money platform and can,
didate, the latter would win over
9 whelmingly, and vice versa. l an
: a Democrat, and yet / would vott
the opposition ticket if our part,
were to declare for free coinage
e Thousands of Republicans woult
t vote against the nominee of thei
: party were be to stand as n cham
. pion of silver. If Mr.. CLEVELAND
j were to run again he'would get Re
J publican votes by the thousands
= for the people have tried him ant
: know where he stands. This i