Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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wAsH1NoroN, Aug, . 1895.

heDuDllc6ue WHO dIo tuOEOukuly
posted on the situation regard the
election OF q republican governor IN
Maryland as q certainty this year.
Senator German overreached himself,
az the smartest Of politician bosses
are apt to do sooner or later He
now has not only the Cleveland DEM
ocrats against the ticket he nomInat-
ed but number OF his old-time lieu
tenants have revolted because Of his
having deceived them at the recent
state convention German has made
a deal with Fan Lamont, whereby
that oily-tongued gentleman under
takes to get the Cleveland democrats
into line for the German ticket, but
those who ought to know say that he
cannot live up to his contract AS a
sample of the confidence Maryland re-
publicans feel this language used by
Mr.. A. p. McKisslck Is given "The
republicans are going to carry Mary
land this year as sure as fate. Mr..
German has alienated thousands OF
democratic voters by his cooperation
with Raisin to force the nomination
of Hurst for governor. Hayes was
promised the nomination, and WIS
dazed at the eleventh hour to find
out that the promise was not to be
kept. know Of hundreds of demo-
Gratis who will bolt the ticket, and all
the fine work of Arthur p. German
will not get them into line. Hun
dreds more will indirectly aid the re.
publicans by refraining from voting,
and consequence will be big repub.t-
can victory. II they do not win by at
least $4,000 majority, the best politi-
cal judges will be mistaken.
A significant political move Is the
action of certain prominent Cleveland
democrats in feeling the democratic
pulse by setting boom for Senator
Villas, of Wis, to going. Although
Mr.. Villas Is neither the first nor sec
ond choice of Mr.. Cleveland he is a
faithful cuckoo and would be far pref
cradle to ex-Secretary Whitney who
has a mind and will Of his own.
The politicians who come to Washing
ton do not consider that Villas would
have any show for the nomination,
even II backed by the administration,
He might in certain contingencies get
the support of Mr.. Cleveland and a
portion of his cabinet, but there are
at least two members of the cabinet
who would oppose with all the
strength at their command the NOM
nation of Villas. Republicans would
not object to his nomination; he
would be so easy to beat.
The Department Of State did a
very unfeeIing thing when it refused
to receive public contributions for
the wife and children of ex-U. s.
Consul Waller, who Is In prison In
France, on what is believed to be q
trumped up charge. This woman
and children are in Madagascar, in
want. The officials of the Depart
ment Of State informed the counsel
Of Waller, who are trying to get this
government to do something to get
him out OF prison, IL he is unjustly
there, that there was no public fund
from which money could be taken to
relieve the wife and children of this
American citizen, even though they
were starving in a foreign land. The
counsel then appealed through the
newspapers for public contributions,
asking that they be sent to the
Department of State, so that they
could at once be transmitted at once
to the U. s. Consul IN Madagascar.
The officials refused to either receive
or Observation-Disclosures, on the finn
sy ground that there was no law
authorizing them to do SO. There
may be no man-made law to cover
case of this sort, but there Is high
er law--That of Humanity-which
would have been sufficient and
the American people nor their repre-
sentatives ia Congress would ever
have questioned, had these democrat
ic officials used it.
The arguments for the payment of
the money appropriated by the last
Congress for deferred sugar bounties
were made this week before His Maj
esty Comptroller Bowler, according
to programme, ex-senator Henderson
leading of, for the Nebraska beet
sugar people, and the counsel for the
Louisiana men following. His Maj
esty has not made his decision, or
rather he has not announced it. /
understand that he will not attempt
to decide the question, but will mere
ly decline to approve the payment
OF the money until the courts haye
passed upon the constitutionality of
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