Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-12-09
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence of the COURIER.
Washington, Dec. 8.

of fun here on or about he It'll
and 18th of the present month
when the Republican National
Committee meets for the purpose
of selecting the time and place for
the holding of the next Republican
National Convention. There is
going to be an attempt made at that
meeting to fire the Hon. Perry S.
Heath, Secretary of the RepubIi-
can National Committee. The late
report of Hon. Joe Bristow,
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, has thrown the harpoon :2to
Mr.. Heath with all the energy Of
. man who wanted to get even for
some things, and that report has
stirred up the President to the
sticking stage, and he says that
Mr.. Heath must go. Senator
Hanna, the Chairman of the Com
mittee, is the friend of Heath, and
he is as insistent that Mr.. Heath
must not be disturbed. This pre-
sents an issue at once between the
President and the Senator from
Ohio, who is the real leader of the
republican party. The President
apparently forgets that he did not
make up the present National
Committee of the republican party,
which yields the influence and con-
trolls things until its successor is
elected ut the next national re-
publican convention, but that it was
made up by Mckinley and Hanna,
and therefore is under the control
of Hanna. This being the case.
the committee will accept the die
tum of Hanna and refuse To fire"
Heath. That will discredit Roose-
welt and at the same time place the
republican party in the attitude of
working in the interest of a man
who practically has been indicted
for boodling in the Post Office De-
partment. There is going to be a
warm time and much dirty linen
will be washed for the delectation
of the general public. 1t will be
straight fight between Hanna and
Roosevelt and Hanna is going to
win. Watch the game.
The letter of Grover Cleveland
absolutely declining to be con-
sidered as candidate for the Pre-
sidential nomination on the dem
ocratic ticket is causing much COM
ment here, and the attempt of the
people who were touting Cleve-
land TO make Judge Parker, of
New York, the residuary legatee
of Cleveland, has had exactly the
opposite effect on the leaders of
the democratic party here, that
they expected and hoped it would.
1t has shown up those people as
opposed to the true principles of
the party. IA was stated in this
correspondence some months AGO.
the attempt TO tout Cleveland was
simply an effort on the part of the
reorganizing element of the party
in the east to feel the pulse of the
people. They had no idea that
Mr.. Cleveland would stand for re-
nomination, but they wanted to
see how far the people would stand
for the idea: After they had wor-
ked it as far rs they desired, they
would bring out the real man
behind the movement, man who
Is entirely satisfactory to Wall
stress interests. 1t seems that
Judge Parker is the man. The
democratic leaders in Congress are
laughing ut the efforts of these
people to stampede the democratic
party to man who is the choise
of the men who manipulate stocks
and bonds and all the new-fangled
get-rich-quick games that originate
in the Maelstrom of Money. They
say that if that is the game of
ahOse people, they will have none
OF Judge Parker In theirs. They
see no differencr in republican
and man who is acceptable to the
Wall Street gang in the democratic
party. They say we may as well
have republican in the White
House as a man who has to 90 to
the Wall Street interest and get
the money with which to elect him,
and who must make ante-election
promises in order to get it. In
consequences of this feeling the
stock of the Hon. William RAN
dolph Hearst as the candidate of
the democracy In the next contest,
the only man so far mentioned for
the nomination who is not DOM