The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01

delegates for him. OF course II Is too
early for the same kind of work to be be-
gun again, and | am sure after all that
has happened, that Alabama will be found
very sterile soil I'm which to plant the
seed. That It will be commenced. | have
no doubt whatever | should not wonder
IL Cleveland hopes to gather to himself
the Republicans, especially i'm the west,
who are not favorable to a high tariff.
lie will get support from wherever he can
and from whatever party that Is willing
to help In his ambitions. The Democracy,
however, will go ahead and make its fight
without him"
'I have heard the gentlemen who
participated in the Reform club dinner
called the Waldorf Democracy, because
they met at the hotel of that name" was
the comment of Representative Carmack.
of Tennessee; IL should call them the
'walled-on Democracy because they are
ny themselves representing nobody and
unable to influence a single vote. | have
no doubt, In my mind that Mr. Cleveland
or his friends are scheming to have him
nominated i'm 1900 but they will certainly
not be successful, If they hope to have
him at the head of the regular Democ-
racy. He will never be in the ranks of
our party again"
There can be no misunderstanding of
\
He is for the old soldier every time, and
is not afraid to so declare. At n Grand
Army Post celebration of Grants BIRTH
day in this city on Tuesday, Mr.. Evans
made speech. Among other things, he
said: I'm my official position / find my
self confronted by grave responsibilities.
But | want to say / shall endeavor to do
my duty to the old soldiers. | am not
here to send out spies through the land
to see how | can prevent giving pensions
to old soldiers, the men who saved the
nation. l want to grant to them such
pensions as the law allows. We do not
want any hair splitting over these cases,
but at the same time we do not want the
machine to run away with us. As pub
lie servant l shall strive to do my duty
both by the government and my old COM
rades, with full appreciation of the re-
sponsbilities involved in the perform
| ance."
The chief clerk of the Treasury depart
ment was a big man when Logan Carlisle
held the job. Logan,it is well remembered
| by many, was almost the whole thing,
and anything he wanted that he didn't
already have his father got for him. In
| this way it came about that all corre-
| spondence of the Treasury department,
| all the official letters prepared in the
| various bureaus for the signature of the
secretary or assistant secretaries, had to
| pass through the chief clerks hands. Sec
| retary Gage has changed this, and the
| chief clerk no longer exercises super
| vision over matters which properly be-
| longs to the assistant secretaries or to
| the secretary himself.
| EX-Representative Pickler, of South Da-
| kota, who was turned down for commits
| sioner of pensions and also for commits
| siOner of Indian affairs. is still looking
| after job 1t is said that he can have
| a foreign berth which would suit him well
enough financially, but he still has an eye
| on the United States senate and when
| Mr.. Pettigrews turn comes around for
| reelection i'm 1901, he will find the strong
| est kind of an opponent in eX-Reprcsen-
| tative Pickler. In fact, ii is whispered
| with considerable frequenCe that part of
| the plan of coalition between Republic
| cans and independents in South Dakota,
| which resulted in the reelection of Sem
| ator Kyle is to be followed at the proper
| time by the defeat of Pettigrew and the
| promotion of Pickler. In the meantime a
| government position not incompatible
| with his dignity is desirable, but II is not
| desirable to go abroad, for that would not
| give him sufficient opportunity to keep in
| touch with the people of his own state
| and keep before them his candidacy for
| the United States senate.