Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-05-09
TiLLMAN THE BLACKBOARD.
Mckinley by Acciamation- Trying
Smoke Out Cleveland.
From our regular correspondent.)


tFrom our regular correspondent
! WASHINGTON. May 6.-While moth
ing is certain in politics until it ha
been accomplished. the impression i
well nigh general in Congress. al
though few Of those who are com
mitted to other candidates will no
! publicly admit as much. that Cover
nor Mckinley will be nominated fo
President by the st. Louis conI en-
ton. The original Mckinley mer
express confidence that no ballot will
be taken but that the nomination will
be made by reclamation. OF course
It is possible that something may oc-
cur that will change matters, and it
is largely upon that something that
the opponents Of Governor Mckinley
are now banking, but from the best
obtainable information in Washing
ton it looks at this time as if McKin-
ley was bound to win.
Members of the House are disposed
to resent the action of the Senate in
reducing the number of battleships
provided for in the Naval Appropria-
ton bill from 4 to 2, and the House
will probably refuse to agree 70 the
Senate amendment The House Of
ten refuses to agree to Senate amend
ments, but somehow or other the Sen.
ate nearly always succeeds in having
its way, and as members of the House
are much more anxious to get home
some of them have got to fight for re-
nomination-than the Senators, this
will probably not be an exception to
the rule, if the Senate refuses to re-
cede. But the vote in favor of the
amendment was close-3I to a7-and
upon fuller attendance of the Sem
ate, enough votes may be obtained to
recede from the amendment.
The House passed the general bank
ruptcy bill by vote of Is7 to 81.
Whether the bill will be disposed OF
by the Senate at this session is not
yet certain. 1t will depend largely
on whether an agreement can be
reached to limit the debate to a given
time.
Representative Baker, Of New
Hampshire, has offered a concurrent
resolution providing for an investiga-
ton by select Congressional COM
mittee of the recent purchase of seed
by Secretary Morton. A preamble
to the resolution sets forth the char
ges made against Secretary Morton
by Chicago firm of seedsmen; also
Secretary Morton's charge that Sena-
tors and Representatives often dis
pose of their quota of seeds for cash
instead of having them sent to their
con stituents.
If Senator Tillman of South Caro-
lima, was given his just deserts, he
would be expelled from the U. S.
Senate for having iusulted that body
upon the two occasions he has deliv-
cred harangues on the floor Of the
Senate chamber, by copious use OF
ungentlemanly language. Other
Senators have criticised other public
men just as harshly as Tillman did,
and it being their right to do so no
objection has been made, but no other
Senator has ever belched forth such a
deluge Of billiugsgate as Tillman did,
and the worst feature of it is that he
claims all his blackguardism to be
done in the name of the people and in
the interests of reform. The reform
of which Tillman is the apostle is
truly to be pitied How hollow it is
may be judged from the fact that Till
man drew his salary as Senator for
the period he was travelling in the
West making BLACKBOARD speeches,
without a blush. Some of the ablest
silver men in Congress believe that
Tillman has done the cause of silver
irreparable injury by his wild talk.
It must be CALLING to South Caro-
linians to read OF Ti1lman S boast that
he has the electoral vote of that state
completely under his control and can
place it wherever he pleases. A more
disgusting or disgraeeful boast was
never publicly made in this country.
1t is little more than the boldest po-
litical boss has ever dared to do.
Il is believed that when Senator
Hill stated in his speech, on the floor
OF the Senate, that he didn't believe
Mr.. Cleveland would again be can
didate for the Democratic nomination,
that the foxy New Yorker was trying
to smoke Mr.. Cleveland out and get
him to make definite declaration of
his intentions. The wording of the
platform adopted by the Michigan
Democratic convention, which was
probably prepared by Don Dickinson,
has increased the belief in Washing
ton that Mr.. Cleveland intends to
capture that nomination for himself
unless the Silver Democrats make It
impossible by capturing the Chicago
convention.
Although Democratic Senators have
assured their Republican colleagues
that they would do nothing to pre-
vent an early adjournment there is a
belief in some quarters that the as
suTance had string tied to it which
will become visible when the Repub-
iicans report a resolution to the SEN
ate setting a date for adjournment.
Reduced Rates to Washington.
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