Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-09-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WashipqtOn, Sept. II. 1894.

in it again, it seems, by expressing fl
nancial opinions. According to cur
rent gossip in inside democratic cir
c1es, delegation of influential dem
ocrats from the south and northwest
have been to see Secretary Carlisle
for the purpose of informing him that
Comptroller Eckels must be muZzled
during the rest Of the campaign, as
his financial opinions were accepted
as those of the administration and
would bring on an open revolt among
the silver and infationist democrats
if he persisted in publicly airing them.
The relations between Secretary Car
Isle and Comptroller Eckels have
never been even fairly cordial, as Mr..
Carlisle has never forgotten that Eek
els was appointed by Mr.. Cleveland
without his knowledge, and Eckels
has had the big head ever since his ap-
pointment, acting as though he con-
sidered himself entirely independent
of Secretary Carlisle and only respon-
sible to Mr.. Cleveland. NotWithstand-
ing these strained relations it is said
that Secretary Carlisle sent for Mr..
Eckels to come to his private Office,
and placed the complaint before him,
thinking to win his consent to what
was desired with pleasant argument.
The result was somewhat surprising.
Eckels got mad, and told Carlisle that
the financial opinions he held and
made public at every opportunity
were precisely those held by Mr..
Cleveland and that he should except
every invitation that was extended
him to spread them by making ad-
dresses before financial bodies. Mr..
Carlisle has temper when it is arous-
ed, and this young men fully aroused
it, and for the next few minutes
person in the next room might easily
have imagined themselves listening
to Kentucky teamster arguing with
a balky horse.
Secretary Carlisle is thoroughly i'm
bued with the idea that members of
the administration should keep mum
on the financial question, allowing
democratic stump speakers to make
the most of the recent resumption of
the coinage Of silver dollars by the
mints, among the silver men Of the
west or south, that he has declined an
invitation to deliver an address, before
the American Bankers Association, at
Baltimore, on the 18th of next month.
He made the excuse that it was be-
cause he had already accepted an in
vitation to deliver an address, at Bata-
via, N. Y, on the 18th of October, on
the life and character of Robert Nor
ris, the revolutionary patriot, that he
could not address, the Bankers Associa-
ton; but it is an open secret here
that if it would not have furnished
him a reasonable excuse for not
speaking at Baltimore the people of
Batavia would have been deprived of
the pleasure of hearing Mr.. Carlisle
praise the sturdy virtues of Robert
Morris. 1t is the old, old story,
Secretary Carlisle wishes to aid
the democratic candidates for con-
gress to throw dust in the eyes of the
voters as to what the democratic par
ty intends to do with the financial
question. He wishes to give them an
opportunity to appeal to whatever
happens to be the dominating fiuan-
cial opinion in their respective dis
tricts.
The few democratic politicians in
Washington are quite busy gossiping
over the London interview in which
Representative Wilson is made to say
that he doesn't believe Mr.. Cleveland
desires to be candidate in 1896. The
prevailing sentiment seems to be that
the statement was made as feeler in
Mr.. Cleveland's interest, and it is
pointed out that Mr.. Cleveland has
had plenty of opportunities to per-
sonally announce his intention not to
be candidate; also, that he is not in
the habit of making announcements
of such an important nature-to him
self through third parties. The gen
eral belief among republicans has for
some month been that Mr.. Cleveland
was shaping all his acts with the in
tention of again becoming a candidate.
The turning down of Breckenridge |
by the democratic voters of the Sixth
Kentucky district was the cause of
much quiet rejoicing in Washington,
particularly among the women, most
Of whom regard him as a moral leper.
The one hundred or more FederaIyof-
fee holders who went from Washing
ton to help Breckenridge get renom-
mated will be about the sickest men
in town when they return. -