Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-07-24
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. g.,

July 81, 1891.
EDITOR REGISTER The campaign
in Ohio has commenced. 1t cannot be
said truthfully that everything looked
bright for the Democratic party In
the beginning. There was some dis
satisfaction at the nomination OF Mr..
Campbell, but it proceeded entirely
from the people in Cincinnati who had
been removed from office by him. 1t
is not believed by the best posted Of
the Ohio Democrats that the defec-
ton from the party will be very great
because of the dissatisfaction of few
Doodle Democrats in Cincinnati, and
that when the fight opens the rank
and file of the party will stand by it
all the way through. The platform is
certainly an admirable one. The
three principal points are lower taxes
at the custom house, the restoration
of silver as money, and graded in
come tax. There certainly can be no
objection to either of the principles
laid down in these declarations. The
people of the country fully understand
that class legislation should cease and
that the laws of the country should
be made not for the benefit of the few
but for that of the many. If this is
done the Mckinley tariff bill will be
greatly remodeled, and that is what
the Ohio Democrats declare for The
reconciliation of silver, making it up
to the full dignity of money, will
double the money Of the country by
giving us two instead Of one metallic
foundation, and the United States
ought to be the last nation in the
world that did not insist upon having
given to silver all the power money
has. 1t produced last year more than
forty per cent of all the silver in the
world, amounting to over 1000, 600
worth. There is no juster or fairer
tax than one upon incomes, and
graded income tax, such as the Dem
ocrats of Ohio declared for, is certain
ly the best or most proper method OF
collection from the rich their proper
tionate share of governmental eX
penses. No income under an amount
that will properly provide for the nee
essaries of a mans family should be
taxed at all, but when it exceeds that
the tax should be laid, and for every
time the income doubles the amount
agreed upon as exempt from taxation
the tax should be doubled with the in
come. In this way the enormously
rich can be compelled to pay TO the
government fair proportion of their
wealth. With a platform containing
these three principles the Democrats
Of Ohio ought to succeed, and will sue
coed if dissensions in the party do not
prevent it.
Indian Commissioner Morgan has
made u declaration that he will not
authorize the bureau established here
with the Catholic church to make
contracts for its schools amongst the
Indians. 1t is just to Commissioner
Morgan to say that if the bureau has
been guilty of what he charges it
with, he ought not to recognize 1t.
A number of publications charging
Senator Morgan with almost every
crime in the decalogue have been
printed, and he says that they come
from this bureau.
1t is now a very well settled fact
that Mr.. Blaine has recovered his
health. He has been on visit from
Bar Harbor to the mainland and con-
suited for an hour or two with a
lawyer on some legal matters, be-
sides having his private secretary
with him and transacting consider
able amount of government business.
This is probably bad news for Mr..
Russell Harrison. w.