The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-06
IN DEAD EARNEST.
Friends of Silver Hate to OPP
pose Cleveland,
But Their Principles Compel
Them to Do 1t.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Figuring on the Number OF
Dom0cFatS i'm 1t
THE NEXT CONGRESS.

when the chilling veto descended upon the
house and the cause of silver fell, as IL
were with dull and sickening thud-
there were enough optimistic Democrats
TO saw. ooh, this Irritation viii pass away,
and those fellows win give it up and be
ready before long to indorse the president,
because they cannot afford to have split
in the party in their districts But l5
has not turned out So If ono may take
the past fortnights talk as decisive, the
western and southern Democrats are more
determined than they ever have beer
ssIn fact, say Mr.. Bailey of Texas Mr.
Bryan of Nebraska and many Others we
are lust getting in real dead earnest IL
is all nonsense TO talk of going on in the
old way any longer, and we have been
telling those .ti1rid fellows ever since
last August 1t is all mistake to say that
a party is ruined. by differing from its
president ON some point of policy There
was Abe Lincoln, who got up q complete
scheme Of reconstruction end virtually
promised that any Confederate state could
come in whenever 10 per cent of its voters
took part in. the election for Union con-
gressInen- His party just laughed at his
10 per cent governments, kicked his whole
scheme to pieces and went their way
'tTl1ey repudiasCd his policy, but Indoors
a and reelected Kim And there was
Hayes, who wanted the greenbacks reduced
20 $500, coo, COO and was just as frantic
against silver as Me- Cleveland is but con-
Rress passed the acts over his veto, and the
Republicans who voted against him were
reelected by the same constituencies which
Endorsed Hayes So we shall indorse Mr.
CIeveland's administration and buck
against his veto, and we shall win 1t is a
little fact worth noting that the presidents
have been opposed to silver without regard
TO party while the people have repeatedly
shown that they favored it by re-electing
the congresses which voted for it. Z
LATE Pcnee's Views.
Joy the disgruntlement of their Democrat
ic fellows, but some of the silver Republic
ans shake their heads and admit that they
were somewhat in the fix of that country
boy who WIS not quite sure what he was
aiming at in the bushes and ''shot just
near enough TO hit if it were deer and
miss if it werc q calf - They confess a
kind of Willingness that the Democrats
should legisIate for more silver without
making any Republicans responsible
''sort of force it on them, = as it We're But
most delighted Of all are the Populists,
who can already read their titles clear to
80 seats in the next house Says LATE
Ponce. g 1t doesn't amount to a hill Of
beans practically. The bill didn't call for
any more silver-only for coming some
the government is already supposed to
have Tho silver mems support of it was
pretty much sentiment anyhow, and the
opposition to it is Wall street sentiment
and that goes with the president and the
eastern members of both parties Now
this veto clears away the rubbish and leaves
western men no excuse. Now we can get
down TO business and begin an honest
fight, with no Democratic excuses in the
way-none out west anyhow. -
silver at All Hazards.
1t is well that somebody is cheerful
over the prospects, for clear majority Of
the Democrats freely admit that they
cast down There have been more writ
ing of platforms for county and district
conventions to adopt and more sending of
private letters of advice to country editors
and local party managers than for many
day. Occupants of the newspaper gallery
are frequently appealed to for Judgment
these documents, and the ingenuity
displayed in them to indorse the admins
tration and yet insist on more silver is
amusing On one point every Democrat
west of Ohio, with possibly two three
exceptions, is positive, and it is stated in
these words: :" If there must be a split, we
are for silver Sorry to antagonize the
president but our peoples minds are SET"
Another infant industry greatly foster
ed by the snarls and hurry burly of the
past fortnight is that of making up lists
OF the next house. One Republican cal
culation runs like this: g We shall carry ev-
cry northern district in which the present
members plurality does not exceed 2, 600,
every district adversely affected by the
Wilson bill regardless of majority and at
we now have, and that will give US about
40 majority in the next house" The pro
silver Democrats after a good deal of CUR
ing present this basis of hope. "Taxe the
center Of population as it was in 1890 and
draw cardinal lines through it. From
south of the east and west line are IL Re
publicans and lag Democrats and Popu-
lists, and it is not possible for them to
taIe-lasCre than 13 of those districts from
US. West Of the north and south line there
81 T.
altogether in which goldbugs can be elect
ed Let us lay aside this shilly shallying
and make the fight right ON the basis of
our principles, and we shall wipe the earth
with them -
Looking Ahead
A few New Z ork and New England Re
amusement and compared them, and their
Gratis win have Isl members in the next
New York; each from Pennsylvania and
As to the antisiIver Democrats they are
not INDUCING in figures at present. at any
rate not for publication
Such calculations may have no great
value, but they serve to while away these
duh days for it is now generally conceded
that appropriation bills contested election
cases, bills Of q personal nature and the
like will have consumed before they are
entirely done with three times as many
days as were calculated for at the begin
ming of the year.
Texas Excursion.