Middletown transcript., 1895-11-02
Washington
......Letter

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@ HE Rep u b C a 4
N TN NationalConven.
Il Se tion will not bt
M ! held earlier than
WA the tenth of next
IN \NlN June, That was
EEM made certain
w HIIA\ when Chairman
IM IN Carter of the
" IA W National Com.
/! ~ ] mittee issued his
call for the committee 10 assemble in
Washington on the tenth Of December
to select the time and place for hold
ing the National Convention. From
the talk of National Committee men
and other prominent Republicans who
have been in Washington within the
last three or four days, the honor OF
being the Convention city next year
lies between Chicago and Plttsburg,
with the chances slightly favoring the
former. San Francisco has some
earnest friends OH The committee, but
should they succeed in getting the
convention held there 1t would sur
prise great many people, themselves
among the number.
The talk about there being serio IS
dissension between Mr.. Cleveland and
Secretary Olney and other members of
the Cabinet over the maintenance of
the Monroe doctrine by Great Britain
in its dealings with Venezuela Coli
tinues, notw iths' aIdng u positive
denial made several days ag, by A
tnrney General Harmon. Thnse who
insist that the iissrnsi exists say
that the denial ta have carried any
weight should have been male either
by Mr.. Cleveland or Seoselaiy Oiney
the two men who are reported t, be at
loggerheads. A semi ef1icial sta' ement
has been made 10 the effect that the
administration does not regard a crisis
requiring either back down OF IA fight
possible between this time and the as
sembing of Congress, and that Mr..
Cleveland intends sending a special
message to Congress accompanied by
all the correspondence with Great Brit
ain, asking for advice as to The next
move on the part of this government,
unless Great Britain meanwhile con-
cedes our right to the application of
the Monroe doctrine. IL he does there
isn't semblanes1 Of a doubt about
what will be done-ihe Monroe doctrine
will be upheld, by force if Ut cessary.
That has always been the position of
the Republican party.
1t is an open secret among Mr.. Clev
lands few personal friends that he re-
grets having gone to Atlanta. The
reason for his regret is the lack of en-
thusiasm over his visit among the
masses. His reception by the Exposi-
tion and other officials, not ouly at
Atlanta but everywhere he stopped,
was all that could have been asked for,
but the crowds which turned out to see
him seemed actuated mainly by Curl
osity and displayed none Of the spon-
taneous all-absorhing enthusiasm for
which pleased Southern crowds have
long been famous. That was blow
to Mr.. Cleveland's egotisn, and
the more he thinks about it the more
he regrets that he didn't stay away
from Atlanta.
Ex-Congressman Brady,of Virginia,
who was for many years an able lieu
tenant of the late Gen. Malone, says
that Mr.. Reed is the present favorite
Of the Virginia Republicans for the
nomination, but that he
will not undertake to say what the SELL
timent will be when the time comes
for selecting delegates to the nomina-
ting convention. Speaking of how the
the South will vote next year, Mr..
Brady said: 1.-THE South j., for prot &C.
tion. The issue is sometimes obscured
and sometimes adroitly forced into the
background by the Democratic leaders
but when it is fully and vigorously pre-
sented to her, the South, as we'll as the
North, will vote for the further build
ing up of this country"
No man in this country knows bel
ter how to keep his own counsel than
does Hon. Thomas Bracket Reed, who
will be speaker of the nexr House.
Although the meeting Of Congress is
little more than month off
be has kept his own counsel so
well THAT the best info, med political
writers can do no more than gaess at
the names of those who will be Chair
men of such import ant House commit
lees as those on ways and Means and
Appropriations. For the first commit
Lee the guessers are divided between
three n,en-Dalzel, II Penn; Payne,
Of New York, aud Hopkins, of Ills.
Dalzsl having the largest number. The
guessers name Cannon, of Ills. and
Henderson, Of Iowa, as the two be-
tween whom lies the chairmanship of
The Appropriation Committee, the ma.
iority guessing Cannon, who was chair
man Of that Committe when Mr.. Reed
was last Speaker of the House; but
these whe guess Henderson say lie has