The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-11-20
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. 1880.
There are lots of people in Washing
ton who take no stock in the alleged
information received by the admiuis-
trarioD, that Spain has decided, if it
fails 10 lick the Cuban insurgents with
in the next few weeks, to try 10 lick
Uncle Sam. Among them is Il naval
officer who has had opportunities to
know the Spaniards thoroughly. Dis
cussiDg the matter, he said To per-
soual friend: "Somebody is trucking
the administration by giving it false
that it is being done to prevent Cleve-
land and Olney following FitZ Lees
advice and doing something that might
help the Cubans. The present race of
Spauiards are as arrant towards as can
lie found anywhere on earth, and if the
United States should demand it, they
would rather go down upon their
knees in suppIication than to attempt
to fight US. Spain is a poor country
and growing poorer all the time,
even before the drain which his re-
suited from its attempts to put down
the Cuban revolution was started. 1t
has few good fighting ships, but it
needs them all aud its rulers do not
see where anymore are to come from;
therefore they have not the remotest
idea OF seeking or of accepting war if
it were thrust upon them by country
which they know has navy that
would either sink or capture every
Spanish war vessel within sixty days
of tie opening of hostiities. | have
not the slightest hesitation in saying
that if President Cleveland was to rec
ognize the independence of Cuba to-
morrow, the Spaniards would not dare
to resent it outside of their home news
papers" While most people agr g
with this officer iu believing that the
administration is acting upon false in
formation, its action in making prep
aratiOns to fight, if ii becomes neces-
sary. is generally CONNIE nded; and the
commeldation would be still heaTtier
If, when everything is ready to fight.
use should be made of the preparations
by forcing a cessation of the war in
Cuba, which is making a desert out of
the most fertile island in the world and
is losing to the citizens of the United
States more than 500. 1000, 600 a year in
profitable commerce.
General VIM. Birney, tine veteran
Republican who came out for Bryan
and free silver dnring the recent cam
paign. tells a story about a Maryland
Methodist who replied at public
meeting to an argument put forth
against the use of silver by a Method
ist Bishop because it had been forev er
desecrated by the use of thirty
pieces of it with which to bribe
Judas Iscariot. According to General
Birney, the Methodist gen Ieman,
spoke as follows: Brethren, the
Bishop is wrong. He has not exam
ined his Bible. Christ used silver coin.
Not only used it, but sanctioned its
u.s. BY others. In the 18th chapter Of
Mathew, when the tax gatherer de-
manded his tax, Christ directed Peter
To 60 to the sea, cast in hook and
take the fish that first comes up; that
he would fiud silver coin in the
fish's mouth; that take and give unto
them for Me and thee Now, breth-
reD, he could just as easily have had
Peter pull out gold fish with gold
coin in his mouth as a silver fish with
"a silver coin in it's mouth, but he
wanted To give the example TO his fol-
lowers for all time to use silver"
1t is perfectly well understood in
Washington that there are three men,
beers of President Cleveland's Cabinet
Carlisle, Herbert and Wilson-whom
Mr.. Cleveland would like to see pro-
vided for before he retires from office
They are all poor and they are disposed
from education and experience TO be
better satisfied in public than in pri-
vate life. Mr. Cleveland hopes that
Republican squabbles in Kentucky
will result in sendiug Mr.. Carlisle back
to the Senate from which he stepped
on entering the cabinet, and, although
Mr.. Carlisle has said that he would
prefer returning to private life and the
practice of law at his home, there isn't
the slightest doubt that he would will
ugly accept the Senatorship. or falling
that, aud probably in preference to
that, a seat on the beach of the Unite d
States Supreme Court. IL is pretty
generally believed that Secretary Her
bert will shortly resign and be APP
pointed to coming vacancy in the
Supreme Court OF the District of Col
umbia, aud that Mr.. Wilson will he
given some sort of a judicial appoint
ment later. When these things were
first talked about, prominent silver
men declared that the silver majority
in the Senate would refuse to confirm
the nomination of any member of Mr..
Cleveland's Cabinet to any position,
but that was during the excitement tf
the campaign. It is quite certain that
neither Senator Morgan or Senator
Pugh, of bis State, would object TO
Secretary Herbert, in fact, they would
probably be glad to see him provided
for Mr.. Wilson is personally popular
in the Senate, as well as everywhere
else, and even Mr. Carlisle has staunch
personal friends among the silver Sen
ators who would be more likely TO help
him than to fight him. But Republic
can Senators would be glad to hang up
every nomination made by Mr.. Cleve-
land this winter, as it would mean
just that many more appointments tor
Mckinley to make.