The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-09-28
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w aShingtOn Letter.
From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept Dist, Is

WASHINGTON, Sept 21st, 1894
Mr.. Cleveland's "boy comptroller"
of the currency has got his foot IN it
again, it seems, by expressing finan-
cial opinions. According to current
gossip in inside democratic circles, =
delegation of influential democrats
from the South and northwest have
been to sc G Secretary Carlisle for the
purpose of informing him that Com
ptroller Eckels must be muzzled dur
ing 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 sill
yer and infiationists democrats if he
presisted in publicly airing them.
The relations between Secretary Car
lisle and Comptroller Eckels have
never been given even fairly cordial,
as Cleveland appointed Eckel without
the knowledge, of Secretary Carlisle
and Eckels has had the big head
ever since his appointment, acting as
though he considered himself entirely
independent, of Secretary Carlisle and
only responsible to Mr.. Cleveland.
Notwithstanding these strained rela-
tions 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 con-
sent tC what was desired with pleasant
argument. The result was somewhat
surprising, Eckles got mad, and told
Carlisle that the financial opinions he
held were CleyelaEd's and that he
should accept every invitation that
was extended him to spread them by
making addresses before financial
bodies. Alr. Carlisle has temper
when it is aroused, and this young
man fully aroused it, and for the next
few minutes a person in the next room
might easily have imagined themselves
listening to a kentucky teamster
arguing with balky horse. l was
probably the worst quarter of an hour
young Eckles ever spent. 1t is said
that Eckles is inclined to carry the
quarrel to Buzzards Bay and to appeal
to stand by him. Mr.. Carlisle is said
to be willing to let it drop, provided,
Eckles does not attempt to make any
more financial addresses or to get
himself interviewed on financial mat
ters during the remainder of the cam
paign and that his mind is fully made
up, if he does, to let Mr.. Cleveland
to choose whether his Secretary of the
Treasury or his comptroller of currency
This row occurred before Mr. Eckles'
Grand Rapids speech, which Secretary
Carlisle did not seek to prevent, but to
have made common place without
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
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 and south, that he has declined
an invitation to deliver an address
before the American Bankers Associa-
ton, at Baltimore, on the 11th of
next month. He made the excuse
that it was because he had already ac-
cepted an invitation to deliver an ad-
dress at Batavia, n. V, 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 reasonable ex-
cuse 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 the of
the voters as to what the democratic
party intends to do with the financial
question. He wishes to give them an
opportunity to appeal to whatever
happens to be the dominating finan-
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 a candidate in 1896.
The prevailing sentiment seems to be