The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-09-13
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vors the election of the Maryland
/ State Democratic ticket He is a
( Democrat, and the ticket was regularly
nominated by properly constituted
Democratic State Convention. 1t
seems preposterous that any one should
suppose il To be necessary for President
Cleveland to say that he wishes the
regular Democratic ticket in any Stats
elected, but | find that there are peo-
pie who either think or pretend to
think that he must say so in this case
i'll order to have it believed. You may
be sure he will say so, as soon as he
finds out that his supposed opposition
is being used by those who are fight
ing the ticket as an argument to keep
Democrats from giving it their cordial
support" The gentleman who used
this straightforward language enjoys
President CIeveland's confidence to IA
marked extent, and never speaks with
out knowing just what he is talking
"pN"N' liz ulu uol loI ItdsODS OF us
own wish his name to be used, but he
assured your correspondent that the
President would soon let it be known
that he favored the ticket, and he ex-
pected his friends to work aud vote to
elect it.
Comptrollers Bowler's opinion
against paying the sugar bounty will
have one good effect. 1t will get the
consttutionality of government boun-
ties settled by the courts, as the decis-
ion of the Court OF Claims, to which
the sugar men are sent, will certainly
be carried to the U. S. Supreme Court
before the matter is ended. Democrats
have always maintained that the
whole system of government bounties
and subsidies were unconstitutional.
aud Supreme Court decision will he
welcomed by them.
Senator Quay did not wait long be-
tore making use of his newly acquired
/ over in national way, and the first
use made OF it was to punish an enemy
Representative Dalzel, of Penn, who
didn't guess right In the late Republi-
can factional fight in that State. AL
though Representative Payne, of New
York, was the ranking Republican
member of the House Wa3 and
Means Committee in the last Congress,
it has been generally understood in
Washington ever since the result ofthe
last Congressional election became
known that Mr.. Payne would not get
the craftsmanship of the committee IN
the next House, but that it would be
given to Representative Dalzel, of
Pennsy lvania, one of the foremost
Reed sh0uters in Congress. Senator
Quay, according TO his friends, served
notice upon Reed as soon as he had
won his fight in Pennsylvania, that
Dalzel must not be given the chair
manship of the Ways and Means Com
mittee. This will place Mr.. Reed III
very embarrassing position. Mr.. Dali
eel is his close personal friend, and
many think that he has already been
promised that chairmanship, but as
| Mr.. Quay will control Pennsylvania
siXty-four votes in. the Republican
nominating convention, Mr.. Reed will
hardly dare act against his expressed
wishes. Unless he is being lied about
by his friends he is OVERRIDING the boss
/ business to an extent that indicates
softening of the brain.
/ 1t seems hard to realize the POSSIBLE
/ ity of Texas voting any other way
/ than Democratic, but Texans who
| come to Washington say the State
may be lost next year, if great care is
not exercised by the Democratic man
ayers in dealing with the silver ques-
| ton. Judge Potter, of Gainesville,
now IN Washington, says on the SUBJ
4 ject: We have made the finest crop on
record, and are on the eve of great
! prosperity, if we do not, by pursuing
radical and foolish course, turn the
State over to the Populists. What vic
ious results would follow Populistic
| regime in Texas, let the experience of
Colorado aud Kansas tell. That there
is danger of Populist success is appar-
ent in the vastly diminished Demo-
cratic majority at last years election"
Mr.. John III. Terry, st. Louis bust
ness man, is one of those Democrats
who enthusiastically endorses Senator
Hills declaration in favor of ''some
good Western man." He says: ave
have tried candidates from the East so
often with such poor results that it is
now time to look to another section of
the country. know of no man who
would do more 10 unite all sections and
give satisfaction to all elements of the
party than Col. William II. Morrison.
The East could fluid no fault with
Morrison, for he is conservative, and
does not pander to agrarian or Popu-
listic fallacies. He is no demagogue
Looking over the situation carefully
and dispassionalely, he is certainly the
strongest man that could be taken to
head the National ticket, and if elect
ed 1 believe he would make one of the
best Presidents we ever had -