The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-05-30
POLITICS AT WASHINGTON.

the administration campaign
against free silver i'm that state,
which was inaugurated by Mr..
Cleveland's letter to that alleged
non-partisan Caicago committee.
Incidentally Senator Palmer took
occasion to express his opinion of
two prominent Illinois democrats
accused of siraddling the silver
question, in the following language:
"Nobody expected anything else of
Vice President Stevenson, because
it is well known that if any ques-
ton has two sides to it Stevenson
will have no opinion on it. Bill
Morrison, however, is not usually
so modest, and his position in the
beginning was rather surprising,
although / think, as affairs are
shaping themselves, he was wise
i'm taking a conservative and nom
committal position. 1t will give
him more influence when the real
fighting begins, if it ever does"
Speaking of the coming democratic
convention in Illinois Senator Pal
mer made these paradoxical re-
marks "The convention was called
for the purpose of endorsing free
silver. and the programme will be
carried out to the letter. There
will be large amount of super
fious enthusiasm, of the manufact
ured i kind, but 1t will
count for nothing. The silver craze
is subsiding, and it will continue to
subside"
Mr.. Cleveland's reports from Ken
lucky are no more encouraging
than those from Illinois. A promi-
nent administration democrat who
has just returned from Kentucky,
where he went for the purpose of
instigating the free silver strength
among the democrats, says there
isn't the slightest doubt of the fail
ure of Secretary Carlisle t. stem
the silver food in the party, and
that he regards the adoption of a lG
to free coinage platform by the
state convention as certainty,
He says also that it would not sur
prise him to see the republicans
elect a majority of the legislature
and successor to Senator Black
burn. If the administration can
control enough votes to prevent,
Blackburn will not, be reelected,
even should the democrats succeed
in retaining control of the legisla-
ture.
The administration is now pin
ming its hopes to the effects of the
Memphis Sound Money" conven.
ton, Iheld this week, upon the
southern democrats, but it remains
to be seen whether these hopes are
not of the same soap bubble kind as
those recently held concerning the
defeat of the silver democrats in
Illinois and Kentucky.
Appropriations are to be with
held whenever possible, in order to
prevent the calling of an extra ses'
sion of Congress which Mr.. Cloye-
land acknowledges himself to be
afraid of. At the last session OF
Congress $5,0O0,000 was appropriat.
ed to pay deferred sugar bounties
Not one cent of this money has
b zen paid out and there is little
probability that it will be for some
time. 1t is the same with numer.
Gus other appropriations.
Justice Jackson wasn't the um'
pire, after all, in that income tax
game, although everybody, himself
included, thought he would be
when the rehearing was first pro-
posed. Justice Shiras, by exercis-
ing the right granted to every man
and taken without asking by every
woman, of changing his mind
made himself the umpire ard rem
.dered his decision against the tax
The annulment of the income tax
by the decision of the Supreme
Court has added to the certainty
that the next Congress will he call
ed upon to provide for additional
revenue, in order to furnish tn,
money to meet the enormous de
felt which will exist at the close %
the present fiscal year IA d to pre-
vent a similar deficit during the
next fiscal year. A number of way
to do this have already been sug
gested, but 1t will not be surprising
if the republicans in Congress de
eide that the best way to raise the
money and at the same time boon
American indurtries will be to rais'
the tariff duties upon all articles
competing with the products of thu
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