The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-08
RUM03S Run DOWN.
Anew Wild Washington Stories
Easily Branded.
Carlisle and lis Fight with
MiIliOnaires.
THEY WANTED BONDS
But HE Besolutely Stood Up
Against Them.
THEY WANTED BONDS

vVAsH1NG1oN. d. C.. Jan. 6--LSpecial.l r
Now we are having another Whiri at the
Hawaiian question They are AZ 40 40 DoHn
branches of congress Not for many years
has an international episode so stirred thf
American ga pital 1T is not the portanc
rf HE matter. butt its strong political bear
ing chat stirs up the dry bones and puts
every one on the qui vlve for the latest de
velopmenta. When the Chilian case was
up for consld creation in congress. or the trou-
Bile with Italy over the New Orleans lynca-
ings. there was not q tenth part the interest
chat there AZ AIT the present moment ln lac
fate ST the CIlsly queen and of the policy
which Mr. Cleveland and his secretary OF
state attempted TO put into eSecution at Ea-
wall nOtwIt hstanding rhe fact that either
81 hose troU bles might easily have lnvolv-
ed ms in q SCI lions war. This has been alto
e.ether an abnormal sort of cpl ode.
The UNRESTRICTED has happened ia every
direction and 1T every turn Of the box. In
the first place. the president was not ex-
pected to ad 3pt the policy which he has at-
tempted to DnT4ue. Ihen it was expected
be would succeed in that policy without any
ve1atious delay. Finally il WAS believed
CONGRESS, afser the delay had interviewed
ana the cat had been let out of the bag,
would adopt more stringent course for
the expression IF its disapprovaI
i Passing Episode.
There are signs that the administration
rs playing fp this very result The presI-
DENT and hi4 advisers hope to SO shape mat
ters that tile attention of the people viii
be distracted by che taIiH or by other meas
ures, Sd tLat the Hawaiian episode Will be
tile more quickly forgotten. That ~ the
best way 0u. Of the dildculty which the adj
milisfratior can now see With the re-
newa4 of the Hawaiian discussion have
come rumors hat tile president IS 1bouO 80
throw his secretary of state overheard. The
rumots lave even erown-nothing grows
so fast as rumor-that the entire cabi-
net IS to BE re1rganized. and chat Secretary
Carlisle as well Us Mr.. Gresham and per
haps AIr. Olney and Secretary Smith IS to
retire b private life
Your CORES pondent has heretofore had
occasion TO lienalk that here is no founda-
tion for these rumors SO far as the secre-
tarv Of state. Tide secretary of the interior
and the secretary Cf the treasury are con
cerned- # ar Olney were TO retire, il would
be att his=own request and if that occurs at
all it will noafe for q long time tx come. AS
to Secretary Gresham, while opinions diff
fer vastly al - the wisdom of his Hawaiian
recommend ttions. there is no difference of
opinion US to his able management IF the
affairs of the state department IN other di-
rections.
In q depar5n where blunders are easily
and unwittlngly ra4de every day Of the
year this IS Che only mistake that has been
committed Lven a. this case the seere-
tary' friends aver That the error arose more
right thing than from any other motive.
Apart from these considerations. it is
known and has been repeatedly pointed
ont 10 these dispatches that the president
and his secretary Of state are the vvarmest
sort Of friends ana that in this unfortu-
nate Hawaiian business the responsibility
IS equally divided between them Cleve-
land VIII not attempt to throw Gresham
overheard ais some dc the imaginative
corresponds have it. for the simple rea-
son that to desert Gresham would be to
disCwn his own policy and 10 discreiit
his own wisdom both IA the selection of
secretary Of state ard lin the Endorsement
of his Hawaiian recommendations. Mr..
Cleveland is not that sort Of man.
SD Truth ID the Reports.
AS TO SECRETARY Carlisle. the rumor max
ers have ID hat lac has not given satisfac-
tion as head of the treasury department,
and that the president would be glad 20
shove him off upon the supreme court
bench. There is not a word Of truth id
these statements There are enough points
upon which public men can be justly crit
icised without Matching up these basel ess
lies about them Mr Carlisle is one of the
greatest living fnanciers, and Mr. Cleve-
land is wholly satisfied with his admins
tration Of rae treasury department.. More
over, during the 10 months that Mr. Car
Isle has been in charge Of The national
finances the treasury has passed through
a0AAE 0A NAc t4cl lAts-l A4CAAA@ Ala 4t- history.
and the big bankers Of New York can tes-
tify to the ability with which the secretary
has guarded the interests of the govern
ment and ofthe people
"a Master Of Finance.
If the inside facts could be learned, Sec
rotary Carlisle is entitled to a great deal of
credit for tae manner in which LIE resisted
the efforts of q syndicate OF millionaire and
agents of millionaires to force upon the
country an issue Of bonds last SIMMER or
fall They went at Mr.. Carlisle as if
ehey could cajole him into acceding to
ehelr request. When cajolery failed. and
when he intimated that he knew how to
Eun the treasury without the help of these
brokers' tile mihonaires and representa-
uves 81 mi li0nalres tried TO bulIdOze him.
II hey threa tened to wreak ven Reance upon
the country and upon the treasury And
when the whole truth about this matter
comes cut Will be found that they did att
tempt to play their game of destruction
and ~ DONG SO helped to precipitate the
panic Whlch troubled the nation last sum
mer. DIR. Carlisle has his faults. as all men
have hut n this csse he stocd his ground
nobly- and some day, when the country
learns the TRUTH II VIII be ready to praise
and not 60 blame him therefor
While the rumor mongers were at it
they thought they would dispose Of about
half the cabinet Olnev was to retire 10
private life Secretary Smith was to 81
back to his newspaper. and Gresham and
Carlisle were to 60 on the bench Neither
Carlisle nor Gresham has the slightest de-
sire Ho 40 on the bench. Gresham left ft
because he was tired Of the life and would
have refined from the bench even If he had
not been chosen secretary of state. Be
sides. theirs SIS no vacancy in the court that
could be filed by either Of these men and
there is not likely to be one In making ap-
pOintments to the supreme court presi-
dents NEARLY always take into considera-