The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-11-20
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Washington, November 18th, 1896 -
While President Cleveland may have |
failed in many things he asundertaken,
MS administration has just won the |
greatest diplomatic victory In the history
nf uur country The negutiH tons, now
completed of the treaty providing for
the submission to arbitration Of the
Ver zuela boundary dispute involves a
full ugnition of the Monroe doctrine
by Great Britain, and const qnentiY by
the, rest of the world, and Complies WITH
every demand made 10y this government.
The extent of this diplomatic victory
may be comprehended best 10y remem-
bering that Nenzuela has been trying 10
get Great Britain to arbItTate the dispute
for more than fifty years, and now the
other party to the arbitration Is not TO
ne VeuzueIa but the United states
Members of the diplomatic corps say the
credit for the victory Is more largely due
to Secretary Olney tnan to President
Cleveland. No matter TO whom credit
Is due, it is a matter for every patriotic
American to rejoice over. Beginning
with Monroe every President OF the UNI
ted States has asserted the right OF this
country to interfere to prevent the forci-
ole acquisition of territory on this con-
tipent by foreign power, but never un-
I'll now mas that right been recognized oy
European nation.
The Republican circus promises to
open with the reasSembling of congress,
instead of waiting for the Inauguration
of Mckinley, and the performance Is
likely to be continuous, and from the
number of clowns who will appear 1t
ought to be uproariously funny
The fuu may not mate il u, but the up
! roar can be counted upon To dead GER
| taIEtY.
Ex-Secretarv Hoke Smith was in Wash
| ingtOn this week on legal business lie
said he was out of politics for the time
! being and was not candidate Tor the
| senate, because the voters of his state
| mad decided that the man elected to sue
| ceed Senator Gordon must be SILVER
man.
| Senator Morgan evidently thinks that
| the interview with Chairman DingIcy OF
| the house ways and means committee
which was telegraphed all over the cOun
| try was given for the purpose of nou
| fying the country that the DIngley tar
IF bill would not he passed By the senate
at the coming session of congress, be-
cause of the opposition of silver Sena=
toIs As one OF the silver senators Mr..
| Morgan said; .'If the Dingiey tariff
| bill, so called, docsn't pass the senate
this winter 1t will be the fault OF the Re
| pubicans ! have no hesitation in say
| ing | will not oppOse 1t, although !
| would not say that | will vote for 1t
The Dingiey bill, or the Reed bill, what
ever you may choose to call 1t, Is only ii
| makeshift and the manufacturers of the
east do not really want 1t | do not ex-
pect to see it pass. 1t seems to me very
likely that this will be a case of the en-
| gineer hoist by his own petard. The
matter of tariff legislation at the COM
ing session depends very much upon
whether the Republicans really desire
to pass the Dingley bill. have had no
talk at any time with any senators re
garding their probable attitude toward
the measure in the event of its being
brought before the senate this winter.
but so far as | am personally concerned
they NAV have their way with it
would like to see it presented to Mr..
Cleveland He might feel sufficiently
grateful to Mr.. Mckinley for praising
and upholdiug his financial policy to
|
Republican party administered to him
at the St LOnis convention, and to aid
the Republicans now in getting through
their twO-year Dingley bill. | am afraid
the Republicans will have to offer d
great many apologies to the west foI
their failure to pass such a measure, and
do not propose that any Of them shall
be charged to me-"
The president of the Lakeland Dem
ocratic club, which did effective work
in the campaign just closed. and which
is to continue its organization, gives his
idea of the situation thusly: If Maj. Nc
kinley succeeds in restoring good times
permanently, and demonstrates that his
theory is correct, of course, we will have
no fight We will be benefited and
glad to acknowledge it; but it is oul
belief that Maj. Mckinley cannot over
| come immuuable natural laws. His
proposed policy offers no encourage
ment. Business cannot revive unless
, / moe money is put in circulation. The
retirement of the greenbacks will not dc
| this. Therefore, we are organizing now
TO stay further encroachment on popu.
lar rights; and the campaign of patri
otic education will go on, and four years
hence we will wave the victorious Dem.
ocratic banner"
There Is just one thing" remarked
Republican senator, (which, to my
mind, makes it certain that neither Ex
President Harrison nor Speaker ReeC
will be members of McKinley's cabinet
they are both too big, mentally, to play
subordinates to Mckinley and nobod,
knows it any better than Mckinley him
self. He may tender cabinet portfolios
to both men. in fact, | feel, assured tina
he will; but it will de done merely as al
act of good will, and not with the slight
est exp citation that either man will ac
cept"
\ great many people are asking wha
Senator Butler did in the recent cam
paign to give him the enormous head b,
is exhibiting these days. He has de
veloped mania for keeping himself be
fore the public by talking rot to news
paper reporters, who, of course, print it
They always enjoy seeing a public MAJ
make monkey of himself NJ.
ElOping Couple adght.