Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-06-20
WASHINGTON LETTER
STLOUIS THE CENTER
10 MIKE SPAIN PAY N
IDENTITY.
Silver Apt to Control tn
UemOcF attic National
Convention.
STLOUIS THE CENTER.
tFrom our Regular Correspondent.l

WASHINGTON. June 10th, 1895.
The center of political news is for
the time transferred from Washington
To st Louis, and even the knowledge
that it will shortly return is not sutiI-
cient to keep Washington from being a
little bit envious. 1t is generally pre-
dlcted that the Convention will not
finish up its work before the close of
the week, notwithstanding the avoid
ance of anything like real contest
over the nomination of the head OF the
ticket Very few prominent republic
cans will get the news of the Conven-
ton i'm Washington. Those senators
and representatives who have not gone
to the convention have gone to their
homes Among the latter are Speaker
Reed and Senator Allison.
BOND zNvEsTIGATIoN.
Senator Harris subcommittee be-
gan the bond investigation ordered
by the Senate resolution, to-day,
with tie examination OF Secretary
Carlisle, but it isn't conducted behind
locked doors as Mr.. Harris at first pro-
posed.
WEST VIRGINIA DISTRICT.
There is no doubt about the ''hard
LUCK of the present administration.
II
Smith and the certainty that the Chi
cago convention will be for silver en-
phasizes it, and it seems that the
"hard luck" is to extend to the indi-
vidual aspirations of other members OF
the administration. Some time ago
Postmaster General Wilson, the gem
tleman whose name was given to the
tariff bill which was repudiated by the
Gorman-Brice combine in the Senate
and replaced by one only slightly bet
ter, announced that he would try to
get back to the House from the second
West Virginia district. This didn't
worry the republicans even little bit
but they supposed that it settled the
democratic nomination for that dis.
trict That was what MIR. Wilson
thought, too. But 1t didn't. And the
latest is that the democrats of the dis
trict are going to endorse populist
for Congress, on a free silver platform
and let Mr.. Wilson go up Salt River
with the rest of the administration
According TO information received Dy
the Congressional campaign commit
tee, itdoesn' tmatter what the dems anS
pops do in that district, as representa-
tive Dayton's denomination and cleo
tion are practically sure.
There may be some doubt about VIII
was the original Mckinley man, bu
there is none about who was the frs
Mckinley delegate to the republica
National Convention. According to
letter written by Secretary Bowling G
the National Republican League. tia
honor belongs 81 Hon. VIM. z. Pierce
who was elected from the third GeoI
gia district, and who made the motion
which was adopted Feb 10th, 1896, in
structing the delegates from that dis
- 10 N a
for President.
DR.. Delgado and his father, two nat
uralized American citizens who hav
recently been the victims OF Spanis
brutality in Cuba, where they own
plantation, are in Washington for tn
purpose of trying to get the admini
tration to compel Spain to pay for the
property, which was wantonly destro
ed by Spanish soldiers, and to Civ
them redress for personal injury an
insults These gentlemen would hay
done Just as we'll 10 remain away fro
Washington for the present, as il. hi
been announced that Mr.. Clevelar
would do nothing about Cuba, as !
fears that Spain might resent anythir
like positive action by declaring WI
against the United States. Shou
Spain do that it might interfere wit
Mr.. Cleveland summer fishing plan
The Delgados have seen Secretary
ney and placed proof of their b,
treatment by the Spanish soldiers
his hands, and they are hopeful tn
something will be done for them, g
though Mr.. Cleveland would not eve
see them. And something will
done for them, and for all other Anne
lean citizens by the republican admi
istration which will assume contr
March 4th, 1897.
Either the u. s. needs a minister
Mexico or it doesn t. If it doe, som
body should be sent there VINO W
spend at least one-half of his time
his post of duty, which is more tn
Ex-senator Ransom, of N. g., h
done. He was appointed to the pot
ton at the expiration of his term in t
Senate, March 8, 1895. Since then
has spent considerably more than OF
half his time IN the u. 5 He has be
back three or four times, and up
each occasion has made prolOng
stay in Washington and at his hon
He was presumably ION leave" up
each of these trips but his worship
Mr. Cleveland is not sufficient reas
for granting him so much time
which the public pays him his sala
and there seems to be no other. lie
now in Washington.