Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-04-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 10, '96.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 10, '96.
Whatever others may think about it
there is no longer any doubt that
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
the pitchfork statesman, regards him
self as q probable Presidential candi-
date. He left Washington yesterday
for the west. and will deliver speeches
In Louisville, st. Louis and Denver,
and possibly in other places. He has
two strings to his Presidential bow.
If the Democratic convention is cap.
tured by the silver men he hopes to be
their candidate, and if the anti silver
Democrats win he proposes to head a
bolt Of the silver Democrats and to
have himself nominated as a silver and
down with everything candidate. and
to get the endorsement of the Populist
convention In furtherance of these
projects be is making his western trip,
and when he returns he will make
another speech in the Senate that he
iDtimates will be q much greater shock
to Senatorial dignity and common
decency than was the speech he de
livered in the Senate sometime ago.
Poor old Democratic party. 1t is really
to be pitied when men of Tillman's
caliber aspire to it's leadership.
| have just heard an interesting
rumor in connection with Mr.. Cleve-
land 3 alleged deliberation as to what
he shall do about those concurrent
Cuban resolutions, which is given you
for what il is worth. II have reason
to believe" said Il business man who
is a personal friend of Mr.. Cleveland's'
that Cleveland is meditating on using
Cuba for a political coup that will as
tonish, and, he believes, give him an.
other term. He knows that as things
now stand the Democratic party has
NO earthly show to carry the country.
but he has an idea that the enthusiasm
which would he aroused by a foreign
war will rebound to his credit suhi
GENTLY to renominate and re-elect him,
and he is thinking seriously of taking
such action towards Cuba as will make
a war with Span a certainty, and l
believe he has more than half decided
to do it,"
Representative Lorimer, of Illinois,
was at first inclined to regard the re.
port that he was flooding the country
with Harrison buttons, of which, ac-
cording to the story, he had purchased
many thousands. as a joke, but when
kilograms began to pour in upon him
enquiring about it he sent out a serious
denial of the whole story.
Here is an opinion of the Admins
tration, expressed mind you, not by a
Republican by a Democratic ex.Con.
gresham, hon. c. G. Conn, of Indi.
ana, 1.-THE President is the cabinet, and
the heads of the various departments
are well fitted to look after the de-
tails of the Administration, and it will
brighten the Cleveland horizon to send
Cabinet luminaries on political re.
cruiting junkets, it is fully as salts
factory as to allow them to remain
here and draw double salary as Gov.
eminent officials and corporation coun.
sell" And Mr.. Conn rubs it in by
Offering this suggestion for the con
sideration of the members of the cabi-
net who take the stump: ut would be
interesting to hear them explain how
a wise and patriotic administration
had accumulated a national debt of
more than $500, 900, 900 in less than
three years; also the process employed
by anxious financial Samaritans 10
bind up our monetary wounds with
successive bond issues; how a great
party had practically been driven to
suicide because Of the political vaga-
ries of a ~favorite son, and how the
prosperity of an intelligent people had
been turned over to the Unsuitable
greed of a series of industrial and com
mercial combines"
The Senate doesn't approve of the
policy of consolidating all the small
postofices with the big ones in their
vicinity, which the administration has
been pushing of late, and to empha
size its disapproval it added an amend
ment to the regular postofice appro
priation bill, limiting the consolidation
of postoffices to those located within
five miles of the corporate limits of
cities.
If Congress endorses the action of
the House Committee on Military AT.
fairs nothing short of a Presidential
veto will prevent Gen. Miles being
made Lieutenant General. The com.
mittee by a vote of eight to four de-
cided to favorablv report the joint
resolution offered by Representative
Hardy, of Indiana. to promote Gen.
Miles to that rank. The fight which
Secretary Lanont-unda Mr. Glaze.
land 6 orders, of course-hss been max
ing on Gen. Miles has made friends
instead OF opponents for the resolu-
ton. The fact that some people didn't