The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-11-16

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NAsH1na1on, Nov. 8, 1Ge5.
Washington and To country ap-
pear "a b "a for "a unusually BIG
dose Of politics, consfdering thai
this i N Oh year. The ope-sidsd
way in which the important stat6
elections went are responsible for
tho political dsludge appearing
ahead Of tin,e. The republicans
are intoxicated With JOY at their
success, which they acknowledge
was much greater than they expect
ed, and the democrats ara % badly
intoxicated with disgust. With the
members of those parties represent
ing those two periods Of flag" it
may be imagined that much of the
talk is maudlin. The republicans
all assume that the Presidential
election is already settled, therein
lies their danger. That assumption
will make the fight over the repub-
lican nomination all the more bitter,
and bitter fights over nomipations
have before now resulted in disor-
ganization aud defeat for political
parties.
So far 40 the democrats are con-
cerned, the result Of their defeat il
New York, Maryland, Kentucky,
and Ohio, seems to have resulted
in q wholesale killing Of their Pres
idential possibilities in the persons
of Senators Hill, German and Brice,
ex-Gov. Campbell, and Secretary
Carlisle, and Of throwing q very
wet blanket over their hopes of
electing any man President next
year. President Cleveland is said
not to be doing any worrying over
this killing, but even Mr.. Cleveland
must know that his party cannot
possibly win without carrying at
least three out of those four states.
Ono of the actual results of the
elections, in national politics, will
be to give the republicans q major
ity of the Senate after March 4,
1897. Should they elect the Presi-
dent and retain control of the
House the country will have the
unusual experience of seeing one
political party lose the Presidency
and both branches of Congress and
regain them within four years, as
the republicans lost ell three
branches of the government when
the present administration came in.
But this ia going ahead too fast.
The first session Of the Fifty-fourth
Congress, soon to begin, has part
to play in this game of politics be-
fore the game is won.
South Carolinians who come to
Washington bring stories of the
Tillman and anti Tillman squabble
that are little short of astonishing
at this day and time, to say nothing
of being injurious to the good name
of the state. One of them said J:
1T is hard for any one to under
stand the ms and outs of the whole
affair unless on the ground, for
what started originally as opposi-
ton to George Tillman has spread
to fight on all his friends. The
state has two sets of people-Till-
nantes and northumberland
they fight on any and every provo
cation. The row in the constitu-
tional convention is nothing COM
pared with the hatred and ill-will
shown by the members of these
two parties against each other.
An anti-Tillmanite will not buy
food or any article of a Tillman
supporter, and vice versa. The
thing is being carried even into the
schools and churches. It is hard
to estimate the damage the feud is
doing the state"
Considerable speculation is being
INDUCED in as to whether some re-
marks made By Comptroller Eckels,
in lecture on the national banking
system, concerning the Treasury
notes, represents the administra-
tons attitude towards those notes.
Speaking Of the first issue Of Treas
ury notes, and the part taken
therein by Secretary Chase, then at
the head Of the Treasury, he said
Had he fully foreseen then what
is so clear now, the evil following
from such issues, am confident
that all of his great abilities would
have been so used against these is
sues that no Treasury currency
would ever have been put forth, and
the country thus spared the unnec-
essary loss and expense attendant !!
thereon. He never appeared to
better advantage than when as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court be
held against that which, as Secre-
tary of the Treasury, he had pas
sively approved" He added that
the Treasury notes ought to be abol-
ished and that he believed they
soon would be. If President Cleve-
land recommends the withdrawal
of the Treasury notes. he must alao