The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-23
from our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, November 70, iSo

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, November 10, 1904.
Those republicans and populists
who are trying so hard to make some
body think that they believe the dem.
ocratic party, as national organiza.
non. is dead, are merely making them.
selves ridiculous. The democratic
party, which, to go no further back
than the memory of every midde.aged
man, made six successive unsuccess.
ful Presidential campaigns - defeated
in FIVE at the polls and in one at the
hands OF an abortion known as the
electoral commission is not to be
killed by dissension among a few of
its prominent members which result
ed in stay.at.home vote large enough
to defeat it in Congressional elec
ton. On the contrary, that defeat will
eventually make the democratic party
stronger than ever before, because it
will result in showing some of the
prominent experimenters that devi-
ations from the established principles
of the party will not be tolerated by its
voters that thousands, aye millions of
good democrats will refuse to endorse
any halfand-half principles, preferring
defeat TO compromise with principles
they have been taught to oppose. The
recent election was a bitter lesson,
but the future will prove that it was
useful one.
President Cleveland is not spend.
ing much time at the White House
Just now, because the time is short be
tween this and the assembling of Con
gess, and his annual message to Con
gress, which will be one of the most
important TO the country and to the
democratic party he has ever written,
requires his entire time, and he can
work undistutbed at his country resi-.
dence, something which experience
has shown him he cannot do in his
Office at the White House. During his
vacation the President devoted much
time to studying the financial system
OF the country, which is generally ad
mitted to be radically defective, and
the result of that study will be shown
In the recommendations Of his mes
sage to Congress.
No democrat can possibly regret
the issue of bonds, officially announced
this week by Secretary Carlisle, more
than does President Cleveland and
the members of his cabinet, but in
the face OF the necessity for preserving
the national credit, and in the absence
OF any other method. owing to the
system inherited from a long series Of
republican administrations, regrets
were idle and action imperative.
When merchant finds his credit en-.
dangered, owing to his receipts being
less than his expenditures, he can.
not afford to waste time in regrets be.
cause those expenditures are largely
The result of extravagant contracts
made by his predecessor. His credit
must be projected and nothing will
90 that but prompt payment of his
Obligations as they mature, and to do
that he must have money and it can
only be had by borrowing it on his
note. That he does, trusting to his
ability to stop the leaks in his business
and make it profitable in order to
pay 1t back. That is precisely the
position of the administration in AN.
nouncing an issue Of bonds.
Senators Ransom and German had
casual meeting and friendly con-
versation In the Capitol one day this
week, and straightway a story was
started that they had evolved plan
by which a democrat was to be elected
al an extra session Of the North Caro-
ma legislature to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senator Vance, and
senator Ransom was to resign and be
elected for full term beginning
March 4, 1895. at the same extra ses-
sion' Verily, ",he wicked feeth when
no man pursueth.'
Secretary Herbert left Washington
tonight for Mobile, Ala, where he
goes to take part in the ceremonies
attending the public reception by the
citizens of Mobile in honor of the
cruiser Montgomery, which is to be
neld next Monday. Secretary Smith
mas also gone south, but his errand is
one OF private business, connected
with the trial of an important lawsuit,
al Atlanta, in which he is one of the
counsels.
A striking exhibition OF fanaticism
run wild is given by the criticism of
Mrs Cleveland by members OF Penn
yNanla branch of the w. c. T. u,
because she followed the usual custom
and broke a bottle of champagne in
Christening the steamship St. Louis,
,Sunched at Philadelphia last Monday,
'he criticism is all the more senseless