The aegis & intelligencer., 1895-08-09

From Our Regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, August "a number of
prominent Democrats who recognize the dam
ger which cOnfrontS the party i'll Kentucky
and Maryland, because of the existence CT fac
working to bring those factions together in
both States, and they are hopeful OF success.
OF course everybody knows that with the
party united Kentucky and Maryland are as
reliably Democratic to-day as they have been
ut any time during the last % years. But it is
equally well known that if the factional fight
now going on among the Democrats in both
States is kept up until election day, the Repub-
licanS will stand Il good chance to carry them
both. To have those States go Republican this
year would be party calamity that would
jeopardize the election of Democratic Presi-
dent next year, Notwithstanding the present
bright prospects of the party. This calamity,
the gentlemen engaged i'll this movement wish
to prevent. They are not working either for
or against Senators Blackburn and German,
but for the benefit of the national Democratic
party They believe that the German Demo-
Gratis, the anti-G orman Democrats, the Black
burn Democrats and the anti-Black burn DEM
ocrats, are all alike solictous for the success OF
the national Democratic party, and upon that
belief they based their hope of succeeding in
putting an end to the factional strife in both
States. 1t would be impolitic to say at this
time what these gentlemen have done or what
they propose doing, besides, it would be vio-
lation of their confidence.
Those who expected the administration to
Immediately declare war against France be-
cause of the imprisonment of the negro, ex-
Consul Waller, who was found guilty by a
French Court Martial of having giving the ma
tives of Madagascar reasonable information
concerning the movements of French troops,
and who few days ago were going into daily
ministration had declined to do anything for
Waller, are now in condition of mind. The ad-
ministration has done in the case OF Waller
lust what it would have done in the case of any
other man claiming to be an American citizen
who had got into trouble, notwithstan ding the
report that Waller had become citizen of Mad
ugaScar before he was arrested by the French.
It has neither assumed his guilt nor his nno-
ceuce; has merely sought TO get at the facts in
his case but has not considered it necessary to
TINS of the progress made. When the first de-
mand was made ON the French Government
for the record of Walters trial and conviction
it was met by the reply that it had not been re-
ceived. Later demands was met with other
excuses. All this has taken time. Diplomatic
business is not conducted with the helter-skel-
ter rush OF a daily newspaper; But what is
what was being done have willfully misrepre-
sented the administration is the knowledge
that Ambassador Eustis has been instructed
TO make Il peremptory demand for that record,
accompanying it with the assertion that re-
tusal will be considered by this government
ment of Waller. When that record is examined
by Mr. Eustis he will have an opportunity to
determine whether Waller has right to eX-
pect anything from the U. 5. Government.
Ex-senator Ransom, now u. ). Minister to
Mexico, is in Washington. He has been spend
ing lew weeks in the mountains of North
Carolina Tor the Denellt OF his out
feeling much better, he does not yet feel well
enough to announce Il definite time for his re-
turn to Mexico. Although he has said nothing
To cause it, there is a belief among his friends
that he will not return to Mexico at all, AS the
climate does not agree with him. The preva-
lent opinion among his friends is that he will
not resign, but will be transferred to some
other post in the diplomatic service. He re-
ports politics quiet in North Carolina, and the
crops, with the exception of cotton, unusually
good.
There was Il rather heavy draft on gold re-
serve last week, but there was nothing about
it to cause any alarm. 1t was to meet Il legiti-
mate purpose. the settling of trade balances,
that this gold was shipped to Europe, and not
because of IL wild scramble instigated by fear
such as the gold raid on the Treasury last
winter. Treasury officials will not be surprised
if considerable more gold is drawn out for
shipment to Europe during the month of
August, but in September the tide will turn
and as much or more gold will come from Eu-
rope to to pay for our crops.
A local paper has interviewed number of
the more prominent members of the labor or
ganiZations, on SOvereign's proposed boycott
of national bank notes. The President of the
Fereration of Labor said: THE SCENE is IL
very wild and visionary one. L think if the
working pc rple act as they have been advised
by Mr.. Sovereign they will become the laugh
ing stock of the whole country. am strongly
opposed to the course suggested by Mr. SOver-
eIgn. ! thing it better for us to leave all such
matters alone :" That is about the tenor of the
talk of all of them. If MIR. Sovereign does not
know that he made great mistake he must be
very slow to comprehend anything. Every
body else knows il.