Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-01-20
THE POLITICIAN.

lHE FULlllClhN.
Messrs. German, Harrity & Co. al
lowed the other members of the Demo
cratic National Committee, which me
here this week, to imagine that they
decided the time and place for holding
the Democratic national convention
but as matter of fact the members o
that astute political firm had settled
the matter some time before. A gen
tlemen who is usually good authority
upon matters relating to the bushes.
of the firm says there is only one mar
who could .haye changed the result
That man is eX-Secretary Whitney
He was, so this gentleman says, in
formed by German, Harrity e Co. that
if he would agree to accept the Demo
cratic nomination he could name the
time and place for holding the conven-
tion and write his own platform. Mr..
Whitney, who knows thing or two
about the value of political nomina,
tions is said to have replied in sub
stance that although he was a wealthy
man he didn't care to indulge in the
pastime of throwing good money down
ratholes.
There were a number of more or less
interesting ghost stories floating
around Washington this week about
Mr.. Cleveland having authorized the
statement to certain members of the
not allow his name to go before the
convention, and many prominent news
papers paid telegraph tolls on these
stories, but most diligent inquiry failed
to locate single member of the com
mittee who would acknowledge having
received any such information, and
some of them did not hesitate to say
that they did not believe Mr. Cleve-
land had authorized anyone to make
such a statement. The best informed
men in Washington still believe that
Mr.. Cleveland wants the nomination
again, and that nothing short of abso-
Lutte proof that he cannot get the nee
essary number of votes in the conyen-
tion will cause him to say one word
against the presentation of his name
to the convention, and every movement
of the administration indicates the
correctness of this belief.
Amos. Cummings, of N. Y, has again
shown himself to be about the most
independent Democratic member of
the House. Amos was a gallant SOL
dier and it riled him when one of his
colleagues charged that the
proposed by the Republi-
cans to the pension laws, intended
solely to secure justice to the old sol
diers and their widows, was nothing
but an attempt to loot the Treasury.
Mr. Cummings started off by emphati-
cally repudiating sentiments expressed
by his Tammany colleague (Mr. Bart
lett,) ION behalf of the people; of the
Union soldiers; on behalf of widows
and orphans, and finally and emphati-
cally on behalf of Tammany Hall"
he then paid his attention in cutting
language to the present administra-
tion of the Pension Office. He said it
was time to call a halt on the Pension
Office. That old soldiers and poor
widows were standing in hourly ex-
pectation that something cowardly
from the Pension Office would strike
them; they were being stabbed in the
back from a quarter from which thev
should expect nothing but praise and
Justice. 'Rah! for Amos
Senator Mills, of Texas, who has
been wobbling around ever since he
made that declaration against the free
coinage of silver, made a speech this
week in which he tried to square him
self with the silver men in Texas. He
iidn't exactly go back TO his original
position in favor of free coinage, but
ne befogg ed the question and tried to
beat the devil around the stump by i'd
1ocating the coinage of the silver bull
ion in the Treasury, the payment of
obligations in both silver
Ind gold, and denouncing national
oanks and the issue of interest bearing
ponds. 1t is evident that Mr. Mills is
till between the devil and the deep
ea," where it will be rememb bered he
declared himself to be in a speech
made while the bill for the repeal OF
he purchasing clause of the so-called
herman silver law was before the
enste. The trouble with Mr.. Mills is
hat the gray matter on the inside of
is head is altogether out OF proper
on to the horse power of his lungs. |