The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-12-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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meeting held last night under the
auspices Of the united Republican cam.
paisn clubs Of the District Of Oolumbia
was shouting success. The Republi
cans Of the National Capital have no
votes, but the managers OF every nation.
al campaign made by the party can
testify to their efficiency as workers for
the party and to their liberality in con
tributions. The largest available hall
was secured for the meeting-the only
one larger has an ice floor and is being
used az skating rink, which made it
entirely too cold for redhot affair like
this meeting. 5000 tickets were divid.
ed among the clubs. Each ticket called
for seat and they we're all used. Besides
hundreds stood up and many had to be
turned away for lack Of room. Quite
number Of Senators and Representatives
participated in the jolli6cation.
Representative Grosvencr didn't let
grass grow on the schief.ma king story
that he was to be candidate for Speak.
er of the next House. He not only
denied the story, but took occasion to
say what every Republican in Congress
knows to be true, that Speaker Reed
will have no opponent for re. election
before the republican caucus of the
next House.
Mr.. Cleveland may not be trying to
play into the hands of those who are
trying to prevent any general revision
of the tariff by the next Cong ess, but
that is about the only construction that
can be placed upon his having limited to
Senator that he would allow the Ding.
ley bill to become law without his
signature If the Senate passed it at this
session without further amendment.
Had he desired the bill to become law
ct the last session he could easily have
accomplished it, as he could have con.
trolled the votes of enough Democratic
Senators to have Offset the votes of the
opjecting silver Republicans.
Self reel vation is the first law of
lawyers, as well as of nature. That is
why the better class Of patent lawyers
are making their voices heard in pro
testing against methods adopted by
some patent solicitors to obtain the
money of inventors, for services alleged
10 be but not actually rendered. They
recognize that unless the honorable
men in the profession can put stop to
these practices the inventors and the
general public will soon be CHASING the
best of them with the shysters whose
only object is to work the inventor for
all the money he can raise. In protect
ing their profession from the bad and
designing they necessarily protect the
inventor, and the inventor never need.
ed protection worse than he does now.
Among the worst of the Objectionable
methods, which cannot be reached
under the limited authority welded by
the Commissioner of Patents, but which
it is believed could be reached and stop
ped by the organization of Patent Bar
are the periodical gambling lottery
competitions and the speciously worded
circular which induces the inventor te
believe that the money is waiting to buy
his patent as soon as he gets it, which
of course, isn't until after he has paid al
the fees of the solicitor.
Senator Lodge has put stop to al
the talk OF the probability Of his goini
into the cabinet or the diplomatic ser
vice by saying "There is no place il
the gift of the President that woult
tempt me to give up the position o
Senator from Massachusetts,. The YER!
fact that I went to Canton would indi
cate, it seems to me, that / had no ap
plication on file. A matter of fact,
would not permit any one to say any
thing for me. There Is no place de
sire other than the one I now occupy.
1t is very clear that If all the other Re
publican Senators have the same ide'
that Mr.. Lodge has Of the comparative
desirability of being Senator and bein
q member of the Cabinet that no 6ens
| tor will be in President Mckinley
cabinet, but there is NO reason to believ
that there are Senators who are wiilin
to accept cabinet portfolios.
Chairman Cannon, Of the House Ar
preparation committee, who 10 alread
up TO his ears in the work iof preparin
the regular appropriation bills. was ash