Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-05-02
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular correspopos,..

'oiiVuiu ever say "Na,
roe doctrine again. The adm''
tration, after having allowed ~
little Nicaragua to suppose tba.
would be protected against tbe !.
pacity of Great Britain, has 81 r
or buldozed--it matters not VIII
into keeping its hands off wbile ~ NJ
land forcibly compels the lit.i i'ns'
public to do just what is de,nand
by the British. Senator Hin
right when he said the Monroe d.
trine was meaningless. But =,
only when interpreted by DON
cratic administration that it ismoas
ingless. 1t has always meant Il
what it purports to ean,-Eurons.,
hands of American countlies-wha.
republican presidents were IN os,o.
and it has been so understood nv ~
European governments. An instano,
was the lettering and fall Of i.
MAMMALIAN government in Mevion
which the Third Napoleon tried J,
establish while the United Stat.
was busy fighting the civil war. nj
few words from President Lincoln
Mr.. Cleveland now realizes tha+ !,
he attempts to carry out his annopnc
ed program of compelling every Fed.
eral office-holder, large and small
to take an active part in the Aoh,
against silver which he has startad
inside the democratic party, he will
have an open revolt on his hands
Prominent silver democrats are civ
ing Mr.. Cleveland a chance to back
down by publicly stating their belief
that Mr.. Cleveland has been misren.
resented, and that he never had anv
such intention. Ofcourse they know
that he did have that intention. and
they fear that he still has it. nix
well known that large majority Of
the federal officials in the south and
west are silver men. A democrat
says Mr.. Cleveland will find himself
formally read out of the democratic
party, if he persists in trying to ear.
~ out that programme.
Civil service reform will lose ons
of its most courageous advocates by
the resignation of Civil Service Com.
missioner Roosevelt to become police
commissioner OF New York CITY.
This stepping from the head of a
national commission to become
member of municipal commission
even of the great city of New York,
IS not promotion in any sense Of
the word for Mr.. Roosevelt: but he
is New Yorker, and unable to stand
the home pressure brought to bear to
secure his help in the reformation Of
The abuses in New York police cir
cles, which have scandalized that
city. The people of New York are
to be congratulated on the change, but
there is no reason for extending the
congratulations to Mr.. Roosevelt.
Representative Tawney, of Mime
sofa, at present in Washington, hasn't
been able to see the increase it the
sentiment in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, regard
less OF other nations, which he has
heard about since he came to Wash
ington. Referring to published in
terview in which Secretary Mosely,
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, declared that everything in
Minnesota was going towards silver
Mr.. Tawney said it reminded him Of a
man who, after walking about the
swamps which used to surround the
city of Duluth, approached hotel
keeper with proposition to sell him
a carload Of frogs legs. The hotel
man didn't want so many, but agreed
to buy bushel. The next day the
seller turned up with four pairs of
frogs legs, and when the hotel keep
er Indignantly said to him: "Why
/ thought you said you could get a
carload" he replied" ~ did / thought
from the noise they made that the
swamps were full of 'em, but these
were all could catch.
Two members of President Harri-
sons cabinet, Senator Proctor and
eX-Attorney General Miller, have
declared most positively their ignor-
ance of any intention on the part Of
Gen. Harrison to become a candidate
for denomination at the next republic
can national convention, and Senator
Proctor added that he was not COM
mitted to any candidate, and that
any republican would be satisfactory
to him.
Mr.. Cleveland's implied rebuke 70
Secretary Morton for having come
out fiat-footed for single gold
standard was about the same sort Of