Middletown transcript., 1895-05-25

lew udyS. Ex-
Speaker Reed was is Washington for a
few hours last week, ,and although his
visit was to see sick friend-Rep1e-
sentative Hit, of Ill.,-it started
Presidential gossip, as he is generally
recognized as one of the leading can
didates for the Republican nomination.
Gen. Harrison's visit to New York
has also furnished food for gossip.
Col. Michener, of Ind, close friend
of Gen. Harrison's, who has law
office in Washington, says of that visit:
"Gen. Harrison has been to New Jer-
sey to receive medal from the His
torical Society of that State, and is
now in New York to sit for a portrait
which is to be hung in the White
House. That is his real business in
New York, although he may also at
tend to some law business" When
asked bluntly whether Gen. Harrison
was a candidate for the nomination
Col. Michener replied: "He says he is
not ;" and changed the subject.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, of New
York, at present in Washington, says
on the subject of the next Republican
nominee: 81 don't think there has
been any effort to get together on the
part of the leading men of the party
to come to an understanding. 1t would
be much better to let the leading meh
go to the convention and have the
question of nominee decided there.
Any attempt at ringing in any one in
advance will fail, as it ought to fail.
It would not be wise for any one to
attempt such thing, and don't be-
lieve the attempt will be made. Lead
ers will not do it ,and if others attempt
to do so they will not succeed" Speak
ing of the ger eral outlook, Mr.. Miller
said: "EverythiDg points to Republi-
can victory. The Democratic party
has disappointed the people, showing
an incapacity for government. The
Democracy is not progressive. 1t is
composed of obstructionists."
The administrations ''sound money"
platform is to include an endorsement
of the repeal of the Federal tax on
currency urged by State banks, al
though the last Congress, overwhelm-
ingly Democratic as it was, refused TO
pass a bill repeating that tax, or
to adopt an amendment to the tariff
bill for it's repeal. There has been and
is much doubt about what Mr.. Cleve-
land wishes the country to believe he
means by "sound money"-a single
gold standard is what he wants, but he
has so far lacked the courage to say so
in plain words, as Secretary Morton
did-but there is no doubt about what
the repeal of the State bank tax means.
1t means wild cat money, issued by
irresponsible 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 tie coinage of
silver for no other reason than that
t,..u l,G.
circulation increased, b! t The silver
men are already charging Ihat the
repeal OF the STATE bank tax wuult!
have beer accomplished at he last
session of Congress bad not Mr. Clevt-
lands influence been used 10 prevent.
The mails of the Department Of
Justice are full of letters of complaint t
from U, S. Court officials, who find it
difficult to understand why their saler-
les are not paid. This is only another
illustration of Democratic ideas of
economy. When the Democratic Con-
gress cut S156, 1000 from the amount
estimated to be needed to pay the ex-
penses of the Department of Justice,
which pays all U. S. Court officials and
witness fees and other expenses Of
U. S. Courts, for the current fiscal
year, the seven by nine statesmen
chuckled and called themselves re-
formers. Now, as consequence
deputy marshals, bailiffs and other
necessary employees of the courts can
not get their saleries and the families
of some of them are reported to lie in
distress, and when the next Congress
meets it will have to make deficiency
to pay them. Meanwhile
these people will have to work without
getting their saleries, until the first of
when they will receive their
July saleries out of the appropriation
for the next fiscal yer.
Ex-senator Higgins, of Delaware,
is in Washington. He says he has not
the slightest doubt about the .ating
of his Republican successor, Senator
elect dupont; that he has received the
opinions Of number of the leading
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 cases, but
it is easy enough to guess how they
feel about it; there is no occasion for
hem to express themselves.
WASHINGTON, May 90, '95.
Dyspepsia
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