The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-08-01

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Wade Hampton who performs the
light duties and draws the heavy
alary of Railroad Commissioners.
"a trying to escape responsibility
or an interview with him printed
N = North Carolina paper, which
quoted him as saying that he had
personal knowledge of Mr.. C'eve-
lands Intention to be candidate
again, the old gentleman has got
hlmself:hopelessly tangled up. He
acknowledges having expressed his
oppini0n that If the financial ques-
ton should result in party splits
the gold democrats would insist
npon running Mr.. Cleveland again.
But why this lodging? If Mr..
Cleveland is not scheming to cap
ture the democratic nomination
again, why do such close friends of
his as Secretaries Carlisle and
Lamont neglect such good opportu-
mites as they have both recently
had to stop the discussion by the
authoritative announcement that
Mr.. Cleveland is not a candidate
for nomination And why does
Mr.. Cleveland himself not say
something about the subject He
has found it easy to lay aside pres
idential dignity and say other
things which would better have
been left unsaid. There IS but one
explanation of all this lodging.
Mr.. Cleveland is candidate, but is
not ready to avow his candidacy,
believing that he can so manipu-
late things as to make it appear
that his party forces him to run
again. Mistaken judgement, both
in belief and in being willing to be
a candidate to certain defeat.
By patient search of musty
documents relating to the early
government it was discovered that
the Comptroller had in certain
instances assumed the authority
without question to pass upon the
constitu tionality of acts of Con-
gress carrying appropriations. Fol
weeks the administration has been
trying to find an excuse to keep
the more than five and a quarter
million dollars appropriated at the
last session of Congress to pay
sugar bounties in the Treasury
Comptroller Bowler, a little mar
with head easily swelled, required
no persuation to attempt to follow
in the autocratic footsteps of som!
! of the earlier comptrolIers. II.
notified the parties in whose fayol
the first voucher against that sugal
appropriation was drawn that h,
had doubts about the Constitution
ality of the sugar bounty, forgetting
the millions paid out for that pur
pose with his approval, and would
next month, hear arguments as t
why the money should be held up
The arguing will be useless, unles
Bowler gets frightened and refuse
to play the part assigned to him
There is likely to he music in tn,
air on this subject. In fact, Their
is already. The Louisiana Sen
atOrs and one or two of the Repre-
sentatives are now in Washington
the greater part of that appropri
alton would go to their constituent
-and they tried to read the rio
act to. Secretary Carlisle, but h,
sneaked out by telling them he ha,
no authority over the Comptroller
The Louisianians think they hav,
been buncoe1, and when Bowe
decides that appropriation to b
unconstitutional, as he will If HI
does not weaken, they may hav'
something to say to the public
The administration doesn't car
whether Bcwler's decision shall
afterwards be upset by the court
or not; all it wants is to hold on Il
that money for a time.
Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky
who has been in Washington, CAV
the newspaper men a shock the.
ill not recover from for some TIM
by refusing to talk. Think of Jo'
Blackburn's refusing to talk. /
Senator Stewart should refuse to b.
interviewed on the silver question
it would not be more surprising. l
is known, however, that Blackburn
is very bitter towards the admins
tration and especially toward
Secretary Carlisle and from an offe
to wage money made by one of hi
friends who is a sort Of sporting
character it seems that he talked t,
somahodv. if not to the neWsnane