The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-07-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.1
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10. 'se.

lated platform Of principles and nonli.
mated Presidential ticket. There are
no new departures in the platform, it is
merely reiteration OF the doctrines
which have been followed by the party
since its birth and which have given the
country its longest and greatest period
OF prosperity. While, OF course, no
ticket could have been nominated that
would not have disappointed some good
Republicans, certainly no ticket could
have been named that would have
pleased more Republicans than the one
that was named. Both gentlemen have
records of which the party has right
to be proud, and OF which it will be
prouder after they have served out
their terms as President and Vice Presi-
dent.
There was only one regretable feature
about the st. Louis convention. That
was the boiling of some of the silver
Republicans, because the financial plank
OF the platform did not meet their views.
1t is hoped and believed that those
gentlemen and those they represent.
ed will before the campaign has advanc.
ed far see that they will gain nothing by
leaving the Republican party, and that
in the end they will be found support
| ing the ticket nominated at st. Louis.
Political parties are necessarily ruled
by majority, and those gentlemen
were overwhelmingly defeated in the
convention upon an issue which they
We're themselves largely responsible re.
sponsible for forcing upon the conven.
tion. They asked for new departure
in party principles and the convention
denied their request, simply because a
majority opposed it. If the minority in
every convention bolted, political parties
would soon be nothing but fractions.
Stick to your party and hope for better
luck next time is always the right thing
to do.
Some of the South Caroliniaps who
come to Washington are very indignant
when anybody speaks of Senator Till
man as typical citizen of their state.
Mr.. w. & Glass, well kno wn resident
of Charlestown, said: "Tilman lives on
notoriety and is making a show of be.
ing in the Presidential race merely to
keep his name before the country. He
will no doubt get the votes of the South
Carolina delegation, for he controls it
absolutely, but don't think the dele.
gates of another state will support him.
Why, half the people in the United
States class him as an anarchist, and a
big per cent of the remainder put him
down with Waite and Pennoyer in the
crank category"
counterpart of Comptroller Bowler,
in the person of Sixth Auditor Howard,
has been making so much trouble by
holding up post Office accounts that it is
said Postmaster General Wilson has
notified Mr.. Cleveland that if Howard
isn't fred he will himself resign. The
clerks in the Sixth Auditors Office, com.
monty called "Botany Bay" are much
interested in the outcome of this squab-
BILE. They hate Howard, who is fuesy,
self.consequential sort of duck, but, of
course. do not dare say it publicly. But
Howard has 'pull" somewhere. He
was made Chief Clerk of the Post Office
department by Mr.. Bissell shortly after
he became Postmaster General, and was
later promoted to be Sixth Auditor.
This position is under the Treasury,
but it is said that Mr.. Cleveland ap.
pointed Howard without consulting
Secretary Carlisle.
Mr.. Cleveland's announcement that
his only desire hereafter is to be a pri.
vate in the Democratic party is regard.
ed as sort of last ditch expedient to
prevent the adoption of free coinage
plank by the Chicago convention. It
may have that result, but the best in.
formed Democrats in Washington doubt
it. Some time ago Senator Brice begged
Mr.. Cleveland to make plain announce
ment that he would not be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination, and it
was because of Mr.. Cleveland's refusal
to do so that Brice abandoned the fight
he had intended making against the
silver Democrats in Ohio, and told his
friends that he didn't care a continental
what either Cleveland or the Chicago
convention did. So far as Mr.. Cleye.
lands announcement relates to a third
term nomination for himself it is abso.
lutely meaningless, and was entirely
unnecessary. The Democrats had them.
selves already made it 90 plain that he
who ran could read that Mr.. Cleveland
would hereafter be only private in the
party. In plain English he has simply
declined something that he had been
convinced that he could not get, Just a.
Jack did his supper in the nursery
book.
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