Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-03-12
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular correspondent
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Grover Cleveland's ~ know ~.
than anybody elsen was never ~.
consciously Haunted in the face =,
congress and of public opinion thai
it is in the beginning of the last yaa4
OF his reigh. Self-opinionated presi
dents we have had before, but non.
or them ever told congress and tbe
world, before congress had formally.
promulgated its opinion upon an i'm
portant matter that they would nav
no attention to that opinion. NJ
Cleveland did so when by his a.
rection Secretsry olneS gave to tho
press statement defining the All.
tude of the administration on H..
Cuban question. This statement 70.
duced to plain English is that Mr.
Cleveland says to congress and n
public opinion, which in this matter
it unquestionably represents, 4 care
not what you think or what YOU do
| will not recognize the belligercnev
of the Cubans, nor will take anv
other step towards helping them 10
gain their independence, or even en-.
courage them by an expression of
sympathy"
Not a few people think congress
has been served right in this ease. be-
cause of its failure to 90 about the
thing in the right way. Its expert
ence in the pigeon-holing Of the
Armenian concurrent resolution
should have been sufficient to have
caused the Cuban resolution to have
been put in shape in which it could
not be ignored by Mr.. Cleveland.
This conld easily have been done by
making it joint resolution. Then
if Mr.. Cleveland had vetoed it they
could have passed it over his veto
and compelled him to carry out its
provisions. This can yet be done, and
If it isn't done congress will Justly be
accused of being afraid of Mr.. Cleye-
land.
The people of the newer states and
of the territories have never had any
reason for admiring Mr.. Cleveland,
and if all of them feel as their rep
resentatives in the house and senate
do about Mr.. Cleveland's reference
to them as being citizens of "badly-
regulated municipalities, corruptand
unsafe territories, and undesirable
states in his speech to the Presby-
terrain home missionary meeting in
New York, he would not meet very
hospitable reception should he visit
any of them. The house found it
necessary to censure Ambassador
Bayard for making un-American
speeches in Great Britain; it would
now be in order for both house and
senate to censure Mr.. Cleveland for
having made an un-American speech
in New York. 1t only adds to the in
suit that the Objectionable language
should have been used as an argu-
ment in favor of home missions,
which are naturally favored by al
most everybody. The real grievance
which NJ. Cleveland has against
those people is that they have never
agreed with him or his policies, and
have not hesitated to say so.
The debate on the resolution in
favor Of seating Senator Dupont, Of
Delaware. began last week in the
senate. 1t is reported that the popu-
lists have agreed to vote with the
democrats, against the resolution. #
they do, Col. Dupont will be kept out
of the seat.
Although the democrats in con-
gress are not in love with the adj
ministration, an administrator dem
ocrat-Capt. w. 2. Hurley-was Sc
lected as Names representative on
the democratic congressional cam
paign committee, Notwithstanding
the presence in Washington of Col.
Charles b. Morton to press the
claims Of an anti-administration
democrat. Morton it will be remem-
bered was one of the treasury audi
tors, but was kicked out of office for
having written letters abusing Mr..
Cleveland and eX-Secretary Carlisle.
He has since tried to get back in
Office. Ex-Secretary Whitney is re-
ported to have received the follow
ing reply from Mr.. Cleveland, to
request for Monton's reinstatement;
"Morton has consciously lied to me,
and if all the men. women and chill
dren in the United States We're to
ask it, would not give him an APP
pointment.'
THERE has not been lawyer III
the town Of Bedford, Mass, a place OF
a thousand or more inhabitants, IN
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