Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-05-24

10 an UNDERSTANDING. III Wouiu De
much better to let the leading men
go to the convention and have the
question of a nominee decided
there. Any attempt at ringing in
any one in advance will fail, rs II
ought to fail. 1t would not be
wise for any one to attempt such a
thing, and l don't believe the at
tempt will be made. Leaders will
not do it, and if others attempt to
do so they will not succeed. Speak
ing of the general outlook, Mr..
Miller said:
Everything points to Republi-
can victory The Democratic par
ty has disappointed the people,
showing an incapacity for govern
ment. The Democracy is not pro-
gressiye. 1t is composed Of OBJ
structionists.'
The administrations "sound
money platform is to include an
endorsement OF the repeal of
the Federal tax on currency
urged by State banks, although the
last Congress, overwhelmingly
Democratic as it was, refused to
pass bill repeating that tax, or
to adopt an amendment to the tar
iff bill for its repeal. There has
been and is much doubt about
what Mr.. Cleveland wishes the
country to believe he means by
''sound money! single gold
standard is what he wants, but he
has so far lacked the courage to
say so in plain words, as Secreta-
ry Morton did-but there is no
doubt about what the repeal of the
State bank tax means. 1t means
wild cat money, issued by ire
sponsible people, which would be
about as unsound money as could
be put into circulation. Mr..
Cleveland's present advocacy of
the repeal of this tax is merely an
attempt to get the support of the
Southern Democrats who say they
favor the free coinage of silver for
no other reason than that they
want the amount of money in cir
culation increased, but the silver
men are already charging that the
repeal of the State bank tax would
have been accomplished at the last
session CT Congress had not Mr..
Cleveland's influence been used to
prevent.
The mails of the Department OF
Justice are full of letters of com
plaint from U. S. court officials,
who find it difficult to understand
why their salaries are not paid.
This is only another illustration OF
Democratic ideas of economy.
When the Democratic Congress cut
S156, 600 from the amount estimat-
ed to be needed to pay the expens-
es of the Department OF Justice
which pays all Z. S. court officials
and witness fees and other exDenS-
es of U. S. courts, for the current
fiscal year, the seven of nine
statesmen chuckled and called
themselves reformers. Now, as a
consequence deputy marshals,
balliffs and other necessary en-
ployes of the courts cannot get
their salaries and the families of
some OF them are reported to be in
distress, and when the next Con-
greSs meets it will have to make a
deficiency appropriation to pay
them. Meanwhile these people
will have to work without getting
their salaries, until the first of Au-
gust, when they will receive their
July salaries out of the appropria-
ton for the next fiscal year.
Ex-senator Higgins, of Delaware,
is in Washington. He SAYS he
has not the slightest doubt about
the seating of his republican sue
cessor, Senator-elect Dupont; that
he has received the opinions of a
number of the leading constitu-
tlonal lawyers and they all agree
that the Speaker of the Delaware
Senate ceased to have the right to
act as Speaker when he became
the governor of the State.
Members of the administration
Will not talk about the Supreme
Courts decision in the income tax