The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-04-19
NO. Is
ashington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

one of their highest trumps when they
started that demand for southern
man at the head of the next DEM
ocratic national ticket. Needless to
say, it was played against Mr.. Cleve-
land and so cleverly was it played
that it caught the immediate endorse
ment of Senator Hill, who apparently
forgot in his anxiety to thwart Mr..
CGeland's hopes that he was practic-
ally committing himself to the German
boom. The manner in which this
demand was first made public was cal
culated to blind a great many ordinary
shrewd people to the fact that Senator
German was pulling the wires. 1t
was on the editorial page of the
Washington Post, an alleged indepen-
dent paper, that the demand first saw
the light, in all the conspicuousness OF
a double-leaded type. Now, 1t is
fact we'll known to those who keep
posted on such things that the
independence of the Washington Post
has been upon more than one occasion
made commercial commodity to be
exchanged for cash or personal favors.
That being the case it did not require
Pinkerton to connect that demand
with recent conferences in Washington
of prominent democrats who are
opposed to any further party favors
being granted to Mr.. Cleveland,
although few of them are actually
committed to Senator Germans can
didacy. The making of the cOnnec-
ton was aided by the knowledge that
the Post is controlled by a democrat
ex-Congressman Beriah Wilkins, of
Ohio, who has the Ohio mans natural
love for political deal and no especial
liking for Mr. Cleveland, although he
doesn't object to asking for and accept
ing executive favors.
Senator German was far too smart
to have this demand for southern
candidate have any outward appear
ance of German boom. Yet that is
exactly what it is. While the demand
is calculated-in fact, was intendad-
to tickle the ambitions of a score of
southern democrats, should it grow
into power great enough to control
the next democratic nominating con-
vention, there is only one man big
enough and smart enough to take adj
vantage of it, and his name is Cor
man. There may be abler southern
democrats than Mr.. German, but if
there are they have successfully hid
their ability, while Mr. German has
forced the democratic Senate to retain
him as leader against the wishes of a
democratic President.
Mr.. Cleveland recognizes this de-
mand for a southern man as a very
shrewd move, and he knows the source
from whence it emanates. He is
afraid of Mr.. German, not having for
gotten the humiliating defeat he suf-
fered at his hands during the late con-
gress, but he proposes to fight, not
only for himself but to prevent the
nomination of Mr.. German. These
contests for the empty honor OF the
democratic nomination are decidedly
amusing to republicans, who regard
the election of democratic President
in 1895 as an impossibility. But they
are interesting all the the same.
The exceptions to the income tax
made by the Supreme Court decision,
are calculated to add to the unpopu-
larity of the tax, which will, it is be-
lieved, be repealed at the next session
of Congress.
Cuban affairs are attracting much
attention in Washington just now.
It is clear that the revolution is
much more serious affair than it was
at first supposed to be, and speculation
is rife as to what will be the position
of the administration should the
Cubans succeed in setting mp gov
eminent of their own Without the
moral support of this government, or
some other, it will be a physical i'm
possibility for the Cubans to maintain
their independence of Spain, even
should they succeed in establishing a
temporary government. Will this
government extend its moral support?
That is the question.
The administration must have,
through some of its subordinates, been
doing something disagreeably to Rud-
yard Kipling, the talented but eccen-
trio English author who blackguards
everything American and still lives in
America through choice. Mr.. Kip
ling has been in Washington for
month or SO, and is credited with the
intention to write a political story in