The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-08-09
WASHINGTON.
rom our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 1895

would not be a candidate for third ,
term, was this week corroborated by
members of the cabinet. Your cores
pondent has no desire to spring the
ld.you-so gag on your readers, but
he cannot forbear saying that he knew |
what he was writing about when he
made that statement, and that he
never makes positive assertions on
anything less stable than rock bottom
foundation. Anybody can say that,
but you just keep tab on this paper
and see if it isn't strictly true in this
case, just as it has been in the past,
President Clevelands position, ac.
cording to those who have heard him
express his sentiments, in regard to
the next democratic Presidential noml.
nation is just about what would be
that OF any other man of strong will
and convictions occupying his posi-
ton. He believes it necessary to the
welfare of the democratic party and
of the country that the man nominated
for President by the democrats should
carry out fixed policy, which he has
already indicated, and in order to
be sure that no mistake is made he
wishes to have hand in naming the
candidate. Wouldn't you, if you were
in his place2 Wouldn't any aggressive
man OF course there are democrats
who differ with President Cleveland.
That is privilege he has always con-
ceded to every democrat. His plan
and that of his opponents will 80 be-
fore the democratic national conven-
ton, which will in its wisdom decide
which shall guide the democratic
party through the next Presidential
campaign, and to that decision all
good democrats, regardless of their
present opinions, will bow. Let all
the fighting inside the party be done
between now and the assembling of
the National Convention, to elect
delegates in accordance with your
views after majority Of those dele.
gates have agreed upon a platform
and two thirds of them upon ticket,
let the fighting all be against the COM
mon enemy, and for that platform and
ticket.
Secretary Lamont's generally ac-
knowledged political sagacity causes
his opinions to be highly valued when
given, which is seldom. 1t has pleas
ed many democrats to learn that he
has expressed the belief that ex. Secre-
tary William G. Whitney, of New
York, would be the strongest man
the democrats could nominate for
President, and that he could easily
defeat any candidate the republicans
could put up. 1t has been known for
some time that the republicans were
very much afraid Of Whitney and that
they would do anything they could to
prevent his nomination. New York
republicans visiting Washington have
said that in their opinions no member
of their party could carry New York
against Whitney, and New York demo-
Gratis are positive that it could not be
done by anybody.
State department officials will not
discuss the Waller case, but there are
good grounds for the belief that the
reason Waller is still in a French
prison serving out a sentence of TWEEN
ty years imposed on him by French
Court Martial in Madagascar, on
charge of having betrayed certain
movements of French troops against
the natives, is that this government
has no justihable ground for inteifcr-
ing in the case. Waller is negro
who was for time U. S. Consul in
Madagascar. After retiring from Of
flee, against his will, he remained on
the island and engaged in business,
and some say, although his lawyer has
denied it, that he went so far as to
acquire citizenship there.
Some people have allowed to be-
come frightened by the statement
that Louisiana would become a repub-
lican state if Comptroller Bowler
decides, after hearing the arguments
which are to be made next week, the
original sugar bounty clause of the
Mckinley law to have been unconsti.
tutional, and declines to approve the
payment of the money appropriated
by the last Congress to pay deferred
sugar bounties. In order to get the
opinion of one who is in position
to know, Judge Thomas J. Semmes,
of New Orleans, who is in Washing
ton to assist the Louisiana Congress
ional delegation in arguing in favor of
the constitutionality of the sugar
bounty, was asked if there was any
probability of Louisiana becoming a
republican state. The old gentle.
mans eyes flashed as he said with vi
gor and emphasis "Never, sir
never ! while there was some revul-
sion of feeling and discomfort during
the frs: part Of Mr.. Cleveland's pre-
sent administration, the return of
good times has removed it all, and
the state may always be counted