Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-10-19
THAT AIR OF MYSTERY.



Washington name. It has been be-
slowed upon him on account of his
growing liking for mystifying the
public as to his comings and goings.
His manner of returning to Washing
ton after his long absence emphasizes
the correctness of the newappellation.
None of his friends haveeve succeed
ed in giving satisfactory explanation
of this desire to keep his movements
secret, especially when going upon OF
returning from trip. although some
of them have madein enious attempts
in that line. There is some curiosity
expressed as to whether when he
takes his cabinet down to Atlanta
he will try to smuggle himself and
them out of the city. If anybody
knows when the party is to start they
are keeping the knowledge to them
selves. All that is known in Wash
ington is that arrangements are being
made in Atlanta to have the Presiden,
tial party at the Exposition on the
2ad inst.
While no Senator has made POSI-
tive statement to that effect, enough
has been said by Senators to make il
wellnigh certain that there will be nc
general reorganization of the Senate
when Congress meets, owing to
neither party having a clear majority
in that body and to neither Republi.
cans or Democrats desiring to allow
the Populists to dictate the organiza-
alton by making a deal for their votes.
By this it is not meant that there
will be no changes among the officials
and committee ehairmen of the SEN
ate, for there is likely to be number,
but they will be only such as shall
be agreed upon by both Republican
and Democratic Senators, and will be
Of the give and take order. In other
words, instead of all the Senate com
mittee chairmen and officials being
Democrats, as at presents they will
be divided between Democrats and
Republicans, with the chances in
favor of the Populists being entirely
left out in the cold.
Few Americans, no matter what
may be their opinions of the Cuban
revolution, will agree with Attorney
General Harmon's assertion that ex
pressions of sympathy by citizens Of
this country for the struggling Cubans
are "discourteous in the highest de
gree to friendly power and tend tc
embarass and obstruct the govern
ment in carrying out itsdeterminatior
faithfully to execute the laws and full
fill its treaty obligations. /" The Con,
stitution of the United States guaran-
tees the freedom ofspeech, and Mr.. Har-
mon is probably the first member Of a
Presidents cabinet to officially declare
its exercise to be discourteous to /;
foreign government or embarrassing
to our own. Mr.. Harmon may speal
for this administration, which ha.
not at any time during its existenct
reflected public sentiment upon any
question of Importance, but he Ger
tainly does not speak for the Ameri
can people, who will continue to ex
ercise their constitution given rigntl
by publicly expressing their opinions
and sympathies, just as they hav'
always done. If it be discourteou,
for Americans to express sympathy
for the Cuban revolutionists it wa
also discourtesy for the French t.
have expressed sympathy Tor TIL
American revolutionists of '76. Thu
very corner stone of this nation i
freedom, and if the time ever come
when our people do not sympathiz'
with, aye and express their sympath,
too, for those in other countries VIII
are struggling for freedom. our owl
freedom will be in great danger
What adds to the incongruity, not t.
say absurdity. of the Attorney Gen
erals position is the fact that Spaii
did not stop to consider whether j
was discourteous to the United State
or not when she recognized tn
belligerency of the late Confederat
States very early in the late civil wal
| Mr.. PETER, the bewhiskered gentle
man who partly represents Kansas j
the Senate, brings his opinions t
Washington a little ahead Of Con
gress, probably to escape the rush
Several years ago he was cocksur
that the Populists would elect tn
next President, but since then he ia
been keeping tab on public sentiment
and now he gravely announces tia
he hasn't any doubt that the Reput
licans will elect the next President a
well as majority Of the House, an
that the Populists will not come int
power before 1900, and maybe not III
til later. Now isn't that really kin
of the old gentleman He postpone
| the coming of the Populists into pow
er solely to give the Republican
another four or eight years contr'
of the country. but warns them thu
their management of the government
is going to result in the breaking u
Of the party. Seriously speaking, NJ
PETER knows that the Republican
are bound to win next year, unle!
there is very radical shifting
opinion within the nexttwelve month
he also knows that the Populist NOV
ment is dead, speaking in a>nation
sense. His prophecy Of their gettir
control of the government is merely
bit of humor. for everybody exec
the Populists whom he probably siz'
mn to he ou1l;hIa e,o,,ot, 70 bef;e-