Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-09-22
THE .BoY COMPTROLLER"
Called Down by Carlisle Wilson as
cIeveIand's Moutllpiece.
(From our regular correspondent. ],


(From our regular correspondent,
| WASHINGTON. Sept. I7.-Mr. cleve-
lands ''boy comptroller Of the cur
rency has been putting his foot in it
again, it seems, by expressing tinan-
cial opinions. According to current
gossip in inside Democratic circles. a
delegation of influential Democrats
from the south and northwest have
been to see Secretary Carlisle for the
purpose of informing him that Comp
troller Eckels must be muzzled during
the rest of the campaign, as his finan-
cial opinions, if accepted as those of
the administration, would bring on
an open revolt among the silver and
inflationist Democrats if he persisted
in publicly airing them. The rela-
tions between Secretary Carlisle and
Comptroller Eckels have never been
even fairly cordial, as Mr.. Carlisle has
never forgotten that Eckels was APP
pointed by Mr.. Cleveland without his
knowledge, and Eckels has had the
big head ever since his appointment,
acting as though he considered him
self entirely independent of Secretary
Carlisle and only responsible to Mr.
Cleveland Notwithstanding these
strained relations it is said that Sec
rotary 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 finan-
cial opinions he held and made public
at every opportunity were precisely
those held by Mr.. Cleveland and that
he should accept every invitation that
was ext nded him to spread them by
making addresses before financial
bodies. Mr.. Carlisle has a temper
when it is aroused, and this young
man fully aroused it, and for the next
few minutes person in the next room
might easily have imagined them
selves listening to Kentucky team
ster arguing with a balky horse 1t
was probably the worst quarter OF an
hour young Eckels ever spent 1t is
said that Eckels is inclined to carry
the quarrelto Buzzards Bay and to APP
peal to his patron to stand by him.
Carlisle is said to be willing to let it
drop, provided, Eckels does not at
tempt to make any more financial adj
dresses or to get himself interviewed
on financial matters during the re-
mainder of the campaign; and that
his mind is fully made up, if he does,
to let Mr.. Cleveland choose whether
his Secretary of the Treasury or his
Comptroller of Currency shall resign,
This row occurred before Mr.. Eckels'
Grand Rapids speech, which Secretary
Carlisle did not seek to prevent, but
to have made commonplace and with
out decided opinions.
Secretary Carlisle is thoroughly i'm
bued with the idea that members of the
administration should keep mum on
the financial question, allowing Dem
ocratic 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 and
south; that he has declined an invita-
ton to deliver an address before the
American Bankers Association, at Bal
! tlmore, on the 18th of next month.
He made the excuse that it was be-
cause he had already accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an address at Batavia,
y. ", on the 18TH of October, on the
| life and character of Robert Morris, the
revolutionary patriot, that he could
not address the Bankers Association
but it is an open secret here that if it
would not have furnished him a rea-
sonable 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 party
intends to do with the financial ques-
ton. He wishes to give them an OPP
portunity to appeal to whatever hap
pens to be the dominating financial
opinion in their respective districts.
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 personally
announce his intention not to be can
didate; also, that he is not in the habit
OF making announcements of such an
important nature-to h i III Ell f
through third parties. The general
belief among Republicans has for some
months been that Mr. Cleveland was
shaping all his acts with the intention
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 Federal Of
fee holders who went from Washing
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