Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-22
THE CAMERON PARTY
HATS ABOUT THE SIZE OF TIE
SILVER PARTY.

~s@h FAh T.
"ood Material for Goveruor i'm
0hto-Mighty Effort TO Defca, tho
Income Tax-Intcrua,io,.
wary conference PrOblemattcai-
The Spanish Question-artoru
1enerai Olney on the Iu,one
Taxa Historic SocIety-au In.
teresting Event In Anticipation
NJ the White House.
i'cs"Iar correspondence of the standard.
WASHINGTON, March :. 1885.
1he new silver party was launched
lils week by the executive committee
OF the Bl-Metallc League, together
with the suggestion that ex.Repre-
sentative Sibley OF Ia who was cleo
ted to the tiity.third Congress as u Dem
ocrat and who gained an uncnyiable
notoriety by Safeguarding a Dem
ocratic President in one of the djrtiest
speeches ever made on the floor of the
House and who became an avowed
Populist long before the expiration of
his term, should be the nominee of
the new party for the Presidency.
Sibley was given this distinction sole
ly because he has money and is willing
to spend it. AS matter of fact there
is every reason to believe that the new
so-called silver party is nothing more
than move to compel the Republi-
cans to nominate a Presidential
candidate who, if not personally favor
able to silver, will at least promise to
sign free silver bill, if he is elected
and Congress passes one during his
term. That's why a candidate was
F" suggested" instead of nominated. 1t
was a suspicion that the new party
i. merely intended to be tail to the
next Republican National Convention
that has prevented such pronounced
silver Democrats as Bland, of Mo-, and
Bryan. of Nebr., endorsing it. They,
and the silver Democrats generally, be-
lieve it unwise for Democrats to join a
new party at thi. time, and expect that
the platform OF the next Democratic
National Convention will show the
wisdom OF that belief. Representative
Newlands, of Nevada, is to be in
executive charge of the headquarters
of the alleged new party, which are to
be established in Washington. Mr..
Sibley let the cat out OF the bag when
he said if the Republicans would
nominate Senator Cameron for Presi-
dent the American Bi-Metallic party
that's the name of the new party
would support him. The only two
Senators identified with the new party
are Jones and Stewart, of Nevada, both
of whom are devoted friends OF
Cameron. 1t looks like" the Cameron
party" was the right name for it.
Hon. w. c. Gear, one of the five
Democratic members OF the Ohio State
Senate, is in Washington. He has
this to say OF the political situation in
his State: "The unterritied Demo-
cracy of the Buckeye State has never
yet been dismsyed, and will be found
fighting with all the old-time az
gressiveness when the next campaign
is inaugurated. very much desire to
see Hon. Paul J. Sorg the nominee of
our party for governor. He is the
strongest candidate that could be put
up, and if there is a possibility of DEM
ocratic success, it is with Sorg to lead
the ticket. His German descent
makes him popular with the Teutonic
voters. His standing with the labor
ing people 10 the highest. Paul Sorg
has proved his friendship for the work
ingman in the most practical way. A
large employer OF labor, he has never
cut down wages, and his business has
not suffered from strikes. The Ohio
Republicans are ranged in hostile fac
tons. and If the bitter, feeling between
the partisans of Foraker and Mckinley
continues to grow in intensity, uleic
will be a great chance for Democratic
victory"
"The court is happy to welcome an
old acquaintance in the new relation"
was the response of Chief Justice
Fuller to Attorney General Olney's Of
fetal introduction of Hon. Holmes
Conrad, the new Solicitor General, to
the Supreme Court at the opening OF
the case involving the constitutional.
i ty of the income tax. Attorney
General Olney, Assistant Attorney
General Whitney and Solicitor
General Conrad are defending the con-
stitutionality of the tag, while opposed
to them are q round dozen Of the most
prominent lawyers in the United
States. The greatest interests felt in
this decision. About fifteen years ago,
the Supreme Court decided the old in
come tax to have been constitutional,
and the impression among laymen is
that it will so decide again, but it
must not be forgotten that there has
been an almost entire change in the
personnel of the court since that de-
cision was made.
There is considerable speculation
about that monetary conference, which
as yet is only among the probabilities.
1t is expected that the call for it, if
issue at all, will come from Germany.
1t will be entirely discretionary with
President Cleveland whether he ac-
cepts the invitation for this country
to participate, but there is no reason
to doubt his acceptance. It's not GER
tain that the three commissioners to
be selected by the President will be
named until the invitation for the
conference has been issued and &C.
cepted. The six commissioners named
by the Senate and House-Senators
Jones, of Ark; Teller, of Colo, and
Daniel, of Va, and Representative
Crisp, of Georgia, Culbertson. of Texas,
and Hit, of Ill.-are with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Hit, all silver men,
WASHINGTON, March Is, 1895.
President Cleveland returned to
Washington, and Secretary Gresham
resumed his duties after ten days
sickness, just in time to give Spain a
lesson in international courtesy, by
forcing her to her knees IS an apollo
gist for the action of the commander
of a Spanish cruiser who didn't have
any better sense than to fire on a
United States mail steamer in the
open sea, en- route from Colon to New
York, merely because he had a sus-
picion that there might be supplies
for those engaged in the Cuban
revolt on that steamer. Senior