West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-03-30
OUR Washington LETTER.
Bryan Brings the New York Gold
Bug Boilers 10 Time and
Forces The Fight.
The Army Court Of Inquiry Bound
70 Sustain Gen. Miles.
The Sugar Business In the United
States Knocked Out 3y Cuba
and Porto Rico.
Special Correspondence Of The Argus.

NGTON. Mdfcn ID 1919 -
The Bryan Belmont correspond
once has naturally been the princi
pal topic Of conversation among
Democrats since it was m de pub
lie. All sorts of opinions nre TX
pressed concerning its effect pom
the party IN next years campaign,
but the general tendency is that
Col. Bryan only did what any other
man of spirit would have done. in
striking bnck at those who have
been hitting at him for months.
and that the fight which the cor
s%pondence has precipitated had to
come anyway and that il il better
to have it now than next year. It,
is ah open secret that the element
of the party represented by Mr..
Belmont, which bolted the regular
party platform and ticket IN 80,
has been working to down Col.
Bryan and get control of the next
National Convention of the party.
Col. Bryan's friends have con
tended that men who bolted in 30
and who openly threatened to bolt
again in 1900. if the same platform
is adopted, have no right IN reason
to dictate to the Democratic party;
that these rule or ruin men have
not n single electoral vote that
they can promise with II reasonable
degree of certainty. even if they
were allowed to dictate both candi
date and platform and consequently
that their detection will not re
duee the electoral vote of the
Democratic party by u single vote;
also that the party in every State
that wont Democratic IN 90 is
overwhelmingly in favor of a re
"a loption of the principal plsnks Of
the Chicago platform, next year.
The discussions of this correspond
ence will have a tendency to show
whether these claims are correct or
not; also to cause the rank and
file of the party to make sure that
that they are properly represented
in the next National convention.
A movement has already been
started to make every delegate ad
mitted TO that convention pledge
himself to support the ticket nomi
mated and the platform adopted.
TIT
When they have no power to De
otherwise, Republicans are always
fair. A case in point is the distri-
button of the Senate patronage.
When the Republicans were in the
minority they thought the plan of
dividing the patronage of the
Senate among Democrats, Repub.
lIcaus and POpulists, in proportion
to the strength of each in the
Senate, as just right, as it unques-
tionably was. But now, having a
majority of the Senate, they have
undergone a change of mind and
are advocating a change that will
give them entire control of the
Senate patronage, and without
waiting for a change to be formally
adopted. Democratic employees are
being dismissed to make places for
Republicans.
TIL
There are some men in the Alger
party, now on the way TO Cuba,
that are ashamed of being with
him, or else he has some along that
he is ashamed Of, as particular
pains were taken to prevent a com
pleto list Of the eight or ten men
getting published.
TIT
Secretary Hay had a bad spell
when it was learned that the re-
report Of OK. Secretary Shorman's
dca'h was false. lie had caused
copies Of IN article highly eulogiz-
ing tho public career Of Sherman TO
be sem TO a number Of tn, big news
papers. He isn't much Of a politi.
clan, but no know that with Sher
man alive and his attitude in Ohio
politics uncertain, neither Hanna
nor Mckinley would wish tho ad
ministrstion TO stand sponsor for
any praise Of the man they had
forced out Of the Senate and out Of
the Cabinet. kilograms we're sent
requesting that the sulogy be sup
/ pressed.
TIT