Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1894-11-27
WashInrton Letter.

NANtAe fHAtyt 10 hotAouh
organization is dead, are merely
making themselves ridiculous. IN,
! democratic party, which, TO go n,
further back than the memory o
every middle-aged man, made sil
successive unsuccessful Presiden
tlnl campOigns-defeated in fv,
at the polls and in one at III,
hands of an abortion known as tn
electoral commission is not h
be killed by dissention among
few Of its prominent member
which resulted in a stay-at-hom
vote large enough to defeat Il ia
congressional election. On th,
contrary, hat defeat will even.
tually make the democratic party
stronger than ever before, because
it will result in showing some Of
the prominent experimenters that
deviations from the established
principles of the party viii not be
tolerated by the voters; that thou
sands aye millions of good demo-
Gratis will refuse to endorse any
half-and-half principles, preferr-
ing 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 a useful one.
President Cleveland is not
spending much time at the White
House just now, because the time
is short between this and the as
sembling of congress and his an
nual message to congress, which
will be one of the most important
to the country and TO the demo-
cratic party he has ever written,
requires his entire time, and he
can work undisturbed at his coun-
try residence, something which ex-
perience 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 admitted to be
radically defective, and the result
of that study will be shown in the
recommendations of his message
to congress.
No democrat can possibly regret
the issue IF bonds, officially an
nOunced 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 nat
ional credit, and in the absence of
any other method, owing to the
system inherited from a long series
of republican administrations, re-
grets we're idle and action impera-
tive. When a merchant finds his
credit endangered, owing to his
receipts being less than his expen-
ditures he cannot afford to waste
time in regrets because those ex-
penditures are largely the result
of eGtravagant contracts made by
his predecessor. His credit must
be protected and nothing will do
that but prompt payment of his
obligations as they mature, and to
do hat he must have money and
it can only be hal by borrowing
it on his note. That he does, trust
ing to his ability to stop the leaks
in his business and make it profit
able in order to pay it back. That
is precisely the position of the adj
ministration in announcing an is
sue of bonds.
Senators Ransom and German
had a casual meeting and a
friendly conversation in a commit
tee oom at the Capitol one day
this week, and straightway a story
was started that they had evolved
a plan by which a democrat was to
be elected at an extra session of
the North Carolina legislature to
fill the unexpired term Of the late
Senator Vance, and Senator Ran
som was to resign and be elected
for a full term beginning March 4,
1895, at the same extra session.
Verify, the wicked aeeth when no
man pursueth."
Secretary Herbertleft Washing
ton tonight for Mobile. Ala, where
ne goes to take part in the cere-
monies attending the public recep-
ton by the citizens Of Mobile in
honor Of the cruiser Montgomery,
which is TO be held next Monday.
Secretary Smith has also gone
south, but his errand,is one Of pril
vate business. connected with the