The Press., 1896-07-09
Washington Letter.
Washington, July 6, 189

Washington, July 6, 1896.
 "Presidcnt Cleveland will not support the ticket nominated at Chicago" was the positive assertion of @ gentleman who is a personal friend of MT. Cleveland, but is not prominently identified with either of the political parties. Continuing he said: "Mind you. do not say that MT. Cleve- land will publicly condemn the Chicago ticket and platform, although I should not be surprised in tho least if he did; only that he will not support it." This assertion fits in with the stories which have been circulating in inside political circles in Washington for several days. According to these stories, MT. Cleveland not only wants tho gold democrats to bolt the Chicago convention, but to nominate a gold ticket of their own.
 A week ago it was announced that no member of the cabinet would go to tho convention. Saturday came tho tole- graphic announcement that Secretary Morton, the most rabid gold man of tho lot. had turned up in Chicago, claiming that he did not go on account of the con- vention, but merely to pay visit to his son, who lives in that city. It is said that Secretary Morton is there as the personal representative of MT. Cleveland, and that he is there to try to bring about bolt by the gold men.
 It is not believed in Washington that there will be any bOlting of the cOnven- tiOn, but 1t is beliovcd-aye, knOwn-that ticket in every way possible, not only with ordinary political methods, but also with business methods. One of the latter, which has already leaked out, will be to use the banks to embarras the silver men, by refusing to discount their notes, or to allow them to renew any of their obliga- tiOns now held by the banks when they become duo. The forcing of MT. St. John to resign the presidency of tho Mercantile National Bank of New York City, because of his views on the silver question, is said to have been part of the scheme to have tho banks all over the country put the screws on thoil silver customers This is 0 new wrinkle in politics. How it will work remains to be seen.
 The newest edition of "Old Glory" with forty five stars, made it's first public appearance Saturday, it being an invaria- ble rule of the government to add the stars for new states on Independence Day. Quite number of the forty-fve star flags have been made up by the government flag makers, but Uncle Sam can be very economical sometimes, and these new flags will not be issued to the army until the old ones are worn out. The navy has it's own flag makers, and all our ships will now fly the forty-five star flag, as the new star can easily be added to the flags now on hand.
 Corporal James Tanner, who came near to being the most lionized man at the big Confederate reunion and the Jeff Davis monument celebration in Richmond last week, has returned to his Washington home, and has been, in his characteristic way, paying his respects to those of his follow members of the G. A. R., who have indirectly criticised him for going. After saying that he made no pretence of repre- senting anybody but himself at the Rich mond celebration, and broadly intimating that what he did was nobody else's busi- ness, the corporal said: "Twenty years ago, when was commander of the c. A. R. in New York, broadly advocated and went on record as advocating the strewing 1of flowers upon the graves of the Confed- crate dead, who had found 8 sepulcher in our northern communities. Not, I said, fought and conquered, but because we had met them on the battlefield, and knew that they were as bravo as the bravest that they were among the best of the worlds sOldiers-in other words, they were American soldiers. After twenty years spent in thought and speech along that line, make no apology to anybody on Gods green earth for upholding these country it has cost me terribly 1 have been three times under the surgeons knife and saw, but 1 don't regret all the sacri- flee and suffering If our childron can enjoy in peace and prosperity glorious union of all the states. If anybody fought for the Union cause with the hope that we should be forever at war, think he made a mistake in enlisting among us." This is the way Mrs. General Picket, also a resident of Washington, and who was one of the principal figures in the celebration, speaks of Corporal Tanners visit to Rich mond: No incident since the war has done so much to restore and cement the good feeling between the north and south as the acceptance by the crippled corporal of the invitation to the reunion. It was commented upon everywhere in most cor dial terms. All honor to the brave, gen. erous soldier"
 It is thought that Secretary Olney car ried Gen. Fitz Lees report on Cuba to President Cleveland several days ago. MT. Olney slipped away from Washington very mysteriously.