The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-01
Especial correspondenoe.l


Needs-FOur Financial Plans.
Especial Correspondence.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. w ashingten
owns to a mild surprise at the compare
tive lack of excitement at the opening
of the short session of congress. There
was sort of vague expectation that the
defeated would come back early with
fire in the eye and destruction in the as
pect and proceed to pitch into the presi-
dent and each other with all the fury
that would naturally come from letting
loose the acrimony they restrained dur
ing the last session; also that the VIC
tors would be insultingly hilarious In
truth, a number Of the Republicans are
not coming till after the holidays, and
many of the Democrats write to their
colleagues as if they would not come at
all, while several have written to the
sergeant-a alarms to know if they could
draw their mileage and stay at home.
OF course he answered no. As to the de-
feated. instead of pitching into the pres
ident and senate, most of them are anx-
iously asking, How the deuce can the
Democratic party be united by 1902
And more than one old observer sorrow-
fully shakes his head and says that it
can't be done; that the great division
between the east and west must come to
an open and angry rupture before that
time.
Congressman Patterson's Views.
It is amusing to observe how beauti-
fully the election figures serve to
strengthen each mans favorite view,
and how every Democrat who will talk
believes as he did last year, only little
more so. Hon. Josiah Patterson, genial
and sCciable as ever, is even more of
''cuokoo, talks far more freely and
says that ''the time has come for Demo-
Gratis to drop their nonsense, stand by
the president and enter at once on the
work of thoroughly recognizing our
financial system. The first thing to do
is for us to unanimously resolve and
publish it to the world as the deliberate
act of congress that at all hazards this
nation intends to maintain the national
credit and the parity of its currency
with gold. For many years now both
parties have been lodging the issue,
and the credit of the country will not
bear further uncertainty, and neither
which permits uncertainty. The repeal
of the Sherman law did some good, and
the new tariff will soon justify itself,
and now the thing to be desired above
all others is financial certainty. A sus-
pension of gold payments would be tho
greatest possible calamity.
Ideas of Ikirt and Bynuna.
In response to questions on this point
ly emphatic in favor of certainty, but
held that the shortest route thereto lay
in exactly the opposite direction-name-
ly, in the restoration of silver to its
original place as the money of final re-
demption. Mr.. Ikirt is decidedly the
most hopeful man in the defeated party.
He thinks business is already improving
under the new tariff and will improve
still more rapidly in the near future;
that the repeal of the federal election
law has already been justified, and that
even the Republicans will soon indorse
it; that the Democratic party will be
thoroughly united in 1896, and that ev-
erything will be lovely and the goose
hang high in the party wigwams When
the extreme views of Mr.. Patterson were
quoted to other western men, they
promptly stigmatized him as "a gold
bug Matched from Memphis mud, -
which would seem to indicate that they
are feeling little sore.
Mr.. Bynum takes gloomy views of
the situation generally. He "can't see
how business is to improve much. The
trade in woolens and few other things
has to come up at this season, but there
isn't going to be any boom. How the
Llischief can farmers buy manufactured
goods with wheat at 40 cents, and cotton
at cents, and horses no sale at all?"
Incidentally he adds that he will return
to indianapolis and the practice of his
profession, and all interviews to the con-
trary are flakes.
"Watchdog" Holman.
Mr.. Holman is more inclined to free
| silver than ever and thinks the failure
| to do anything for it stands next to the
! hard times as the cause of the late revo-
luton. Representatives from the eastern
cities come in slowly, as usual, and so
far as they talk are more certain than
ever that 'sthe financial vagaries of
western Democrats are running the par
| ty." A considerable group of southern
men, of whom Messrs. Livingston,
Money, and Abbott of Texas are types,
say thai the president Fought not to
have STAYED off the issue by bonds or in
any other way. He should have thrown
the whole responsibility ON congress and
said. If you don't act promptly. the
government paper will go to protest ,
That would have aligned parties on this
money issue last year, and we could
have had it settled before the end of
this session. The Democrats can afford
to be beaten once on this issue, but fur
ther temporizing will be ruin. The peo-
pie simply will not endure it." And
finally a score or more of leading Dem
Ocrats from the central west and south
4hi.,l- Tho com, t,r- "a, r,,3 L.c,.