The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-11
the DEMOCRATIC PRE- $.
s4vENsA. WEDNESDAY. Feb. II, 1se
VICTIMS of the hard work and enormous re-
sponsibilities of the Treasury portfolio-Folger
Manning. Window. sll within eight years

VICTIMS of the hard work and enormous re-
sponsib;lities of the Treasury portfolio-Folger,
Manning. Window. sll within eight years
IN less than year from the terrible Tracy
tragedy Secretary Window fell dead. Those
who believe that such things always travel in
threes are asking, who will be the next victim2
WILL the new Secretary of the Treasury be
gold bug, or will he be free coinae MANI If
Mr. Harrison decides the matter upon his own
Judgment he is certain to be the former but if
he takes the advice of some of the longest head
ed men in his party. he will be the latter But
in either event Benjamin Harrison the candi-
date will lose votes in the next national con
vention of his party. and that's what's the mat
ter with Benny by this time
1T seems little queer that those republicans
who shout the foudest for protective tariff high
enough 70 shut out all the world, claiming that
America can exist without any commercial
dealings with the rest of the world, are the very
men who oppose an American system of financ
the free and unlimited coinage of silver-bas-
ing their opposition upon the ground that
America cannot have free coinage without con-
sent of the great commercial countries of Eu-
rope. We merely give this as specimen of
their own comments
ONE would suppose from reading the COM
ments of the republican press upon the pleasant
exchange of courtesies between Governor and
Senator-elect Hill and ex-President Cleveland
at a recent dinner at New York that the repub-
licans expected these two gentlemen to meet
la Fitzsimmons and Dempsey. This is absurd,
Cleveland and Hill are good friends and are
both good democrats, and we have no hesita-
tion in making the prophecy that when the
next national campaign opens they will both be
hard at work for the democratic nominee.
whether it be one of them or some other demo-
crat.
1T looks as though it would be left for the
democratic House to find out which Congress
men speculated in silver while last years silver
bill was pending The committee of the pres
ent House doesn't seem inclined to try very
hard. in fact severa! of its republican members
have practically admitted being sorry for hav-
ing found out about Senator Cameron's specu-
lation, and they never would have discovered
that if Senator Vest had not voluntarily testified
to the facts. Did any of the members of this
committee get share of the pork"
WELL. well Truly wonders will never cease.
According to ex-senator Warner Miller. presi-
dent of the Nicaragua Canal Co., the proposition
to have the Government guarantee the bonds of
that corporation did not come from the COM
pany, but from the Senate com mittee on For
eign affairs, and was the result of an investiga-
tion of the progress made by the company in
building the canal. He hastens to add that the
company had promptly accepted the provisions
of the bill in view of the many advantages to
be derived therefrom. Well. we should think
SO. Is there any corporation in existence that
would not promptly accept an offer of the U. S.
Government to guarantee the payment of $780,
100000 of its bonds. and especially a company
that finds its bonds drug on the market, even
when offered at all sorts of ruinous discounts
as has been the case with the Nicaragua Co. If
the company did not request this legislation
some individual individuals. very heavily
interested therein, must have exercised pow
erful influence over the Senate committee on
Foreign Affairs.