Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-13
Conversational Ticket,
THE POLITICIAN.

Whatever OJnerS may tnlnk aDOuJ IL
there is no longer any doubt that SEN
ator Tillman, of South Carolina, the
pitchfork statesman, regards himself
as probable Presidential candidate.
He left Washington recently for the
west, and will deliyer speeches in
Louisville, st. Louis and Denver, and
possibly in other places He has two
strings to his Presidential bow. If the
Democratic convention is captured by
the silver men he hopes to be their can
didate, and if the anti-silyer Democrats
win he proposes to head a bolt of the
silver Democrats and to have himself
nominated as silver and down-with-
everything candidate, and to get the
endorsement of the populist conven-
tion. In furtherance of these wild
projects he is making his western trip,
and when he returns he will make
another speech in the Senate that he
intimates will be much greater shock
to Senatorial dignity and common de-
cency than was the speech he deliver
ed in the Senate sometime ago Poor
old Democratic party! 1t is really to
be pitied when men of Tiliman's S caliber
aspire to its leadership.
haye just heard an interesting ru-
NOR in connection with Mr.. Cleveland's
alleged deliberation as to what he
shall do about those concurrent Cuban
resolutions, which is given you for
what it is worth. 81 haye reason to
believe" said business man who is a
personal friend of Mr.. Cleve1and's,
''that Cleyeland is meditating on using
Cuba for political coup that will as
tonish the world, and, he believes, give
him another term. He knows thai as
things now stand the Democratic
party has no earthly show to carry the
country, but he has an idea that the
enthusiasm which would be aroused by
foreign war will rebound to his
credit sufficiently to renominate and
reelect him, and he is thinking serious
ly of taking such action towards Cuba
as will make war with Spain GER
tainty, and l believe he has more than
half decided to do it,
Representative Lorimer, of Illinois,
was at first inclined to regard the re-
port that he was flooding the country
with Harrison buttons, of which ac-
cording to the story he had purchased
INV II iA1r 1n,,t
kilograms began to pour in upon him
enquiring about it he sent out serious
denial of the whole story.
Here is an opinion of the administra-
tion, expressed, mind you, not by
Republican but by Democrat ex-Con-
gressman-Hon. c. G. Conn, of Ind;
1.-THE President is the cabinet, and the
Meads of the various departments are
well fitted to look after the details of
the administration, and if it will
brighten the Cleveland horizon to send
Cabinet luminaries on political recruit
ing iunkets, it is fully as satisfactory
as to allow them to remain here and
draw double salary as government Of
fcials and corporation counsel" And
Mr.. Conn rubs it in by Offering this
suggestion for the consideration of the
members of the cabinet who take the
stump: 'It would be interesting to
hear them explain how a wise and
patriotic administration had accumu-
lated a national debt of more than
$500, 000, 900 in less than three wears:
also the process employed by anxious
financial Samaritans to bind up our
monetary wounds with successive bond
issues; how great party had practi-
cally been driven to suicide because of
the political vagaries Of fayorite son,
and how the prosperity of an intelli-
gent people had been turned over to
the Unsuitable greed of series of in-
dustrial and commercial combines"
The Senate doesn't approve of the
policy of consolidating all the small
postoffices with the big ones in their
vicinity, which the administration has
been pushing of late, and to empha-
size its disapproval it added an amend
ment to the regular Postoffice appro-
priation bill, limiting the consolida-
tion of postofices to those located
within FIVE miles of the corporate
limits of cities.