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Especial Washington letter.
ION. WAYNE MACVEAGH Is
one of the most puzzling enig-l
mas Of our times. Every once
in awhile he bobs up serenely
and gobbles good tat Office by APP
pointment- always by appointment;
never by election. Having filled 1t
and drawn the salary attached, he
lapses into a long period OF obscurity.
The mystery is this: Why does any
president disturb him in his obscurity?
Yet three Of them have done this In
explicable thing. Garfield made him
attorney general, Cleveland sent him
as ambassador, now comes Roosevelt
and appoints him to represent us ut
The Hague. The chances are that
Wayne could not be elected pound mas
ter in his ward, but for some unac-
countable reason he is prime fayorite
with presidents. His renowned father
in-law, old Simon Cameron, the Win
nebago chieftain, and his autocratic
brother-in-law, Don Cameron, general
" appealed to the people when they
wanted Office, though each was secre-
tary of war by appointment. Simon is
to have statue ut the expense of the
taxpayers Of Pennsylvania. It's ten
to one shot that Don doesn't care a
rap about q statue. What he wants Is
good time in this life.
Secretary Of the Treasury Leslie NJ.
Shaw, who appears to be the chosen
mouthpiece of the administration (when
the president is SILENT. seems to have
carried his oratorical pitcher to the
fountain once too often. He got along
all right as long as he went about as
sorting that the panic Of June, 1893,
was caused by the Wilson-G German tar
III law, passed In August, 1894. His
Republican hearers thought that sort
Of oratory smart, but he took 1t into
his head to depart from that sort Of
sophistry and to make few epigrams,
whereupon the critics Of the press de-
clare that he is q fat failure. A man
must, In order to be success ut cpl
grams, be endowed with the faculty.
Epigrammatsts, like poets, are born,
not made. Mr.. Secretary Shaw should
remember the old adage that "the shoe
maker should stick to his last"
Hon. Seth Low, reform mayor Of
New York, Is In what his eminent
friend, G. G., would denominate "a
woeful plight" It was to be expected
that strict party men would look
askance at his administration and, fol-
lowing the Missouri rule, would de-
mand to be. shown, but Seth must have
been amazed mot only amazed, but
disgusted-Twhen Hon. William Trav-
ers Jerome jumped on him with both
feet lately. Jerome 10 the bowling
swell reformer Of the whole lot While
these reformers wool each other Ger
tain dairyman at Vantage. England,
smiles among his crooks.
Pennsylvania cievelanders.
The Boston Herald, independent
Democrat gold buggish, etc, thus en-
phatically expresses an opinion:
The suggestion that Grover Cleveland
may again be candidate for the presi-
dency OF the United States has had it,
natural effect upon Colonel Henry Wat
terson Of Kentucky. It has set him to
writing again upon this always. to him,
Irritating theme. But he need not respond
half 30 promptly or so profusely to the
present waving OF the red rag Another
symptom developed by this Cleveland en-
| terprise. and queer one, IL the starting
Of movement In Pennsylvania for Mr..
Cleveland In this connection. Pennsylva-
L MIA OF all statesl Pennsylvania to take
i the lead in Democratic politicsl Pennsyl-
vania, which hasn't any Democrats who
Il amount to anything except those who en-
ter the service OF Matthew 8. Quay!
There Is something exQuisitely absurd IN
such state starting out to give tpstruc'
party Of the nation.
After reading that the Pennsylvania
Clevelanders will 60 away back and sit
down.
The Flag Covers Slavery.
The Boston Post thus discourses upon
slavery under our flag in the Philip.
pines:
This. undoubtedly, IL one Of the awk-
ward situations In which the United
States IL placed by the imperialist policy
which Mckinley forced upon the republic
but 1t 10 mono the less intolerable. u has
bsen our boast. ever since We established
human liberty ut the awful cost OF our
civil war. that the flag Of tho United
States waved only over free men. The
policy OF the dominant party in the gov
eminent looks to the surrender Of this
crest principle to the semibarharoua
L Practices OF yellow men In some OF the
i islands OF an Asiatio archipelago. There
the stars and stripes cover slavery, and
4 the constitution which that glorious mas
4 represents II, made subordinate to thu
i practices Intimately connected with thu
IreliEion" Of people whom we hold II
subsection only by military power. II
lgnominiouA 5.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
may be a great soldier, but his ideas al
to diplomacy are crude - decidedly
crude. For instance. In his round the
world junket he visited Peking, and he
thinks that our diplomatic establish
ment there is not sufficiently fortified
1 to stand a siege. Great C@sar's ghost
Who supposed that 1t is? And why
should 1t be? Is a diplomatic estab
!ishment part and parcel of hostile
inyasion7 BY no manner Of means. i
70 precisely the reverse, an evidence o.
Friendship. five are not welcome II
4 China, our remedy is plain come hom'