People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-31
KEEP POSTED.
The Tariff No Longer the Paramount
Issue with Cleveland Democracy.
Has the Powerful Leverage Of Patronage done
Its Work. Let the People Keep an Eye on
Their Servants.


Its Work. Let the People Keep an Eye on
Their Servants.
Special to the Kansas City Times, Dem)
WASHINGTON, d. c., March o.
Considerable satisfaction is express
ed by those here who are in sympa-
thy with the sound financial policy Of
the administration over the fact that
it seems generally agreed that not
only Senator Vest but Senator NcOr-
hees will act with the administration
in all the coinage measures which arr
proposed. This being true there will
be a plain easy majority Of three on
the senate committee in opposition
to free coinage and in favor of the re-
peal of the Sherman law. These
propositions, it is everywhere admit
ted, Mr.. Cleveland holds to be of more
pressing and urgent Importance than
even tariff reform itself. Speaking
to warm friend of his from Cincin-
natl, Mr.. Cleveland said:
"Unless free coinage is beaten down
and the Sherman law repealed this
country Will, within a year, expert
ence the greatest financial panic We
have ever known"
The impression grows steadily, and
is assisted nightly by the federal ap-
pOintments made so far, that the
house in the Fifty-third congress will
favor the repeal of the Sherman law
and will defeat free coinage no mat
ter in what form proposed. No one
assumes to be authority for ii, but
the argument made on all sides runs
like this: In the first session OF the
Fifty-second congress the silver ma
jOrity in the house was apparent and
the Bland bill was only defeated by
filibus.ering. In the second session
OF the same congress, after Cleve-
lands election and when his financial
policy was so well known, 50 many Of
the silver men changed their views
and resolved to follsw the admins
tratiOn that the plain, clear majority
Of the house was against free coinage
and in favor Of the AndrewSCate
currency bill and a reversal OF the
whole situation occurred. The silver
men were put on the defensive and
it was only by dilatory tactics that
they saved themselves from over
throw.
Since then the friends Of Cleye-
lands policy claim that other changes
have taken place in their favor. 1t Is
also claimed that OF the ninety votes
which will be in the Fifty-third con-
gress which never voted on the silver
question In the house at all, fully
sixty Of them are with the admins
tratiOn. Not only that: it is
claimed and not denied, that Crisp.
who will be the unObstructed speaker.
and chosen without contest in the
Democratic caucus, has agreed with
Cleveland to so frame the committee
on coinage, weights and measures
that, while Bland will retain the
Craftsmanship, the great weight of
the committee will be warmly in ia
yOr of any money measure which the
administration will ask. Crisp is a
free silver man, but says prime neces-
sity exists for perfect concord be-
tween the house and the president on
all tariff and money questions, and
will so make up the committees as tO
insure that result and reflect the ad-
ministration policy as In a mirror.
Those in a place to Judge and to
whom the question Is important say
that the house In the Fifty-third con-
gress will be for the repeal Of the
Sherman law and against free coinage
in the proportion Of three to five. II
Is no secret, either, that Mr.. Cleye-
land intends to dispose Of the federal
offices so as to promote and protect
that condition. 1t was Herbert's
vote against silver, not his naval
knowledge, which named him secre-
tary Of the marine, and that policy in
appointments which looks to the iinal
overthrow OF the silver heresy anu
the assertion Of sound tinacial meas
ures still obtains with undiminished
yigOr.
Mr.. Cleveland makes no secret OF it.
Senator A. G. Forney, the author
OF the new game law passed by the
recent legislature, who Is in the city
In connection with the senatorial in
vestigation, says that he is receivinga
great many letters which show that
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