The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-26
Washington Letter.

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Washington. June 18th, 1896 =
! resident Cleveland : letter stating that
| ne, las an unhinching Democrat who
/! has been honored by his party aud who
| desires hereafter no greater political
| privilege than to occupy the place of
| private la it's ranks, could not have
| been surprising tn readers OF iis corro-
spondence in which II was positively
stated. by authority, many IN nifs ago
that President Gleveltnd waS net and
would not be a candidate before the Chi
cago convention and thai he would
whenever he deemed such action deSIra
BILE write letter to that effect. What
was stated then has now come TO pass.
| That letter has been written II WAS not
surprising, either, ln view of Mr. Cleve-
lands consistent opposition to silver,
that he should have used that letter to
make a fresh attack upon the free coin
age of silver There Is a very decided
difference OF opinion among Democrats
as to whist, if any. effect the president
letter will have upon the Chicago con-
veHtiou, and only time will tell which
are right. Republicans say, they will use
the letter as campaign document II the
Chicago convention adopts a free silver
platform.
Secretary Lamont probably talks as
little to the public ear as any man IN
public life, but he has way of accom-
pliShing what he starts out 20 do that
many more talkative men lack. When
Secretary Lamont wrote a letter oppos-
ing the bill to revive the grade OF 1t.
General of the army in order that Gen.
| Miles might be promoted thereto, and
giving the reasons for his opposition,
many supposed that congress being an
ti-administration in both branches would
pass the bill just because the admins
tration didn't want it passed but your
Uncle Daniel knew better. If anybody
will take the trouble to hunt it down
that Miles bill will be found in a com
! mIttee-room pigeonhole, nicely covered
with dust and cObweby, and there 1t will
probably remain. You couldn't per-
suade Secretary Lamont to say word
about it now. He got what he wanted
and that ends it with him.
Representative Amos Cummings is adj
mittedly an authority on \. Y. politics.
While in Washington this week he said:
Il am sanguine that New York will go
Democratic this year, 1t matters not
what the Chicago convention does on
the financial question. The people of
New York state are thoroughly disgusted
with the reform administrations that
have produced the Raines bill and other
monstrosities of legislation. They are
mad all the way through and 80 per
cent of them are more interested in turn
ing down a party that encroaches on
their liberties and brings back an era of
blue law and puritanism than IN the
platform of a national convention
Mr.. w. G. Conrad a banker and cat
tleman, of Montana, and a good Demo
crat, says of the political situation in
that state: ''Ihe Democrats can carry
the state for silver candidate for the
presidency, and if they combine with
the populists, which they paobably will,
they can elect the governor easily.
They might carry the legislature, too,
out that would not be of supreme inn
pOrtance seeing that no L 5. Senator is
TO be chosen by that body. Governor
Boies seems to be the favorite presiden
tial candidate out our way at least we
hear more about him than of the rest.
If he gets the nomination there is no
| doubt Of his ge ting Montana's electoral
vote"
Never was the result of national
| convention received in Washington with
/ more apathy than that of the one which
! has just been held at St. Louis OF
| course, when one stops to think, that is
] not difficult to account for. People do
/ not enthuse over the announcement of
( cut and dried affair, aud the only
| thing that was ever for a moment IN
! doubt about that convention was who
/ would be the candidate for vice presi-
dent. Gar Reed remained in Washing
4 ton to hear the news, and If he would
! only tell what he thinks about it-but
/ ne won't. Democrats do not regard the
/ tick, t nominated at St Louis as a
strong one. On the contrary, they think
it would have been difficult for the con-
ventiOn to have picked out one that
| would have been weaker. Aside from
the ennity of many of the Republi
| can leaders because of the methods
adopted by Mark Hanna, Mckinley will
fail to get the votes of many Repubi-
cans who regard him as a one-idea man.
The bolt of silver Republicans because of
the financial plank of the platform
makes it doubtful whether Mckinley
can carry a single western state. In
short, 1t is tne opinion of the best in
formed Democrats that If the Demo-
Gratis can't beat Mckinley they could
not beat anybOdy, and that the Repub-
licans have added very largely to the
chances for Democratic success. NJ.