Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-05-02
TILLMAN HAS THE BIZ HEAD.
Adjournment Venezue Ian Commits
sion-Raines Liquor Law.

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Tillman's head is about ten times as
big, in his own mind, since he re-
turned from his Western trip. He
actually believes that his chance for
being nominated for President by the
Chicago convention on a free silver
platform is good one, and he says
there is no longer the slightest doubt
that the Silver Democrats will control
that convention. He thinks that
Western tour has made him so
solid with the Democrats of that sec
ton that he is now planning tor a
Southern speech making trip which
will take in Alabama, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Georgia, Mississippi. and Texas.
When Tillman's aspirations for the
Democratic Presidential nomination
were first talked about the Cleveland
Democrats regarded it as good joke,
but they don't now. Just so were
the Cleveland Democrats at first dis
posed to pooh pooh the idea of the
Silver Democrats controlling the Chi
cago convention. Today most of
them admit the probability that ma
jority of the Chicago convention will
be silver men. but they say they rely
upon the influences which men like
Senator Brice and ex-Secretary Whit
ney can bring to bear upon them af-
ter they get to the convention to pre-
vent the adoption of radical silver
platform or the nomination of a sill
yer man.
The Senate is now working under
an understanding that nothing i'm
portant shall be taken up until all of
the appropriation bills are disposed of,
and some think that adjournment is
probable on or about May 10. the date
suggested at a recent conference of
Republican Senators, but everybody
recognizes that there can be nothing
certain about it until joint resolu-
ton naming the day for adjournment
has been actually adopted by the Sen
ate The House is all right and will
promptly agree TO any date set by the
Senate, and will wait for the Senate
to take the initiative.
Numerous Congressman breathed
easier when the announcement was
made that the Venezuelan Boundary
Commission had decided to send to The
Hague for the purpose of having an
expert examination made of the orig
inal Dutch documents in the Royal
Archives, which bear upon the Vcne-
zuelan Boundary question. 1t had
been rumored that the Commission
had practically finished its work and
would make its report to the Presi-
| dent in short time, and it was feared
that if the report was made before
Congress adjourned, it would result
in an indefinite prolongation of the
session. But it is now known that
the Commission cannot complete its
work until those old Dutch documents
have been carefully gone over, and
possibly others at Madrid. which
makes it certain that the report will
not be made before next winter
The idea that the Raines Excise
law, passed by the New York Repub-
lican Legislature, was going to injure
the Republican party of that State is
no longer held even by Democrats,
on the contrary it is going to strength
en- the Republicans. Here is the
opinion of Judge c. w. Meade, for
some years a police judge in New
York City, who is now visiting Wash
ington: "At first it looked as though
the Raines law would be so distaste-
full to the public that the Republican
party would be made to suffer for its
enactment. But there has been a
great change of public sentiment; the
people are beginning to realize the
many good points of the law, and l
am satisfied that the Republicans will
reap the benefit from it instead of dis
aster. 1t is about as good a statute
as the ingenuity of man could con-
trive; it wipes out the dives where
the poorer classes loaf and squander
their earnings; it puts the business OF
selling liquor on the best possible
plane by putting it in the hands Of
responsible men, and it does away
with the corruption and blackmail OF
the old regime"
This administration makes record
for partiality and prejudice in every.
thing it touches. For tie second
time board of his brother officer.
have submitted a report to the Wa
Departmentdeclaring Lieut.. Schoheld
son of Gen. Scho6e)d, to be unfit TO
promotion, on account of his bein3
very deaf surely a good enough
reason. But for the second time
, Secretary Lamont has disapprovet
j the finding of the Military Examinin,
!. board, and has now directed tia
Lieut.. Schofield be re-examined 70