San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington, June "a.

From Our Regular correspondent
Washington, June "a.
Hurrah for Mckinley and Hobart
n ticket of certain winners: hurrah
for the platform of principles, which
are prosperity bringers. Columns
might easily be written of how the Re-
publicans hereabouts received the
platform and nominations made by
the st. Louis convention without say
ing more than is contained in the
above sentence. Major McKinley's
nomination was expected. but that of
Mr.. Hobart was somewhat of sur
prise to great many, although it was
known that his friends were making a
strong fight for him. Hon. Garrett A.
Hobart is not so well known to the
rank and file of the party outside of
his own state as he Is to the leaders
with whom he has been associated
since he became New Jerseys repre-
sentative on the national committee,
but he is all right. in every sense of
the expression. He has wide expert
ence as a political manager, which he
will put to good use during the cam
paign. as it has already been arranged
| that he shall have charge of the bust
ness end of ii. He has also promised
| that he would take New Jersey under
| his own wing and to repeat the Re-
publican triumph which put Griggs
| into the governors chair. 1t may not
| be amiss to say that Mr.. Hobarts SUI
perb management was largely respon-
sible for the state going Republican.
Great as is the head of the ticket, Mr..
| Hobart is a worthy associate for Gov
| ernor Mckinley.
A scheme is being Matched up to get
enough silver votes added to the solid
sound money vote to nominate ex-
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, at Chi
cago. Campbell is now in Washing
ton. What his real position on the
| money question is nobody knows. He
has said himself that he had no de-
cided convictions.
Hon. John Rooney, the well-known
Irish orator of New York, doesn't pro-
pose to be uncomfortable on account
of the crowded condition of Washing
ton during the Inauguration of Nc
Kinley and Hobart. In order to make
sure Mr. Rooney stopped in Washing.
ton while on his way home from the
st. Louis convention and engaged
quarters for himself and a party Of
friends during Inauguration week.
And others are doing the same thing,
| in person and by mail. 1t is a wise
| thing to do, too. The Mckinley in
auguration crowd is likely to break
| the record, and those who fail to Sc
cure quarters early may not be able
| to get them at all.
According to the consensus of Wash
ton opinion, without regard to party
politics, the dignity ana effect Of Sen
ator Teller's bolt from the st. Louis
convention has been greatly lessened
by the persistent efforts of the Popu-
lists to push Mr.. Teller forward as a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton. OF course those who know Sem
ator Teller's high-minded devotion to
principle do not for moment believe
that he is taking any hand In this
business, but there can be no doubt
that, in giving notice of his intention
to do just what he did, he put it In
the power of men less high-minded to
make use of him as tool to attempt
to carry out certain schemes Of their
own, nor that those men are taking
advantage of their opportunity. There
isn't the slightest probability that the
Democrats will nominate Senator Tel
Ter for president, and he would in
crease the respect with which he is
generally regarded if he would put an
end to the game by forbidding the use
of his name before that convention.
About the oldest thing in the pres
ent political situation Is that, although
Mr.. Cleveland said in his brOadside
against the silver Democrats, publish
ed last week, that his only desire here
after was to be private in the party
ranks, the belief Is generally held in
Washington that he is willing to ac-
cept the Democratic nomination again,
even upon a silver platform. This is
not complimentary to Mr.. Cleveland,
but it is the fact all the same.
That the Democratic party is, as
ever, ready to do any thing that will
give it a chance to win is shown by
the alacrity of Democrats to consider
even the widest sort of a proposition
which promises to gain Populists and
silver Republican votes. One OF these
propositions, which has been seriously
accepted by some Democrats, and the
carrying out of which may even be
attempted at the Chicago convention,
is that Democrat be nominated for
president and a Populist for vice-pres-
ident, and that resolution endorsing
Senator Teller for secretary of the
treasury be adopted by the conven-
ton. And these men actually seem to
think that the voters of this country
can be bamboozled by such crazy
quilt sort of an arrangement as this.
Thnu will know better later.