Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-20

ONO ana big rour lines, VIII nedu-
quarters at Huntington.
The Republicans of Huntington held
large and enthusiastic convention
and nominated the following splendid
ticket: Mayor, D. f. Matthews: Treas
urer, Jacob l.. Crider; City Clerk, Will
f. Swan; Assessor, II. NJ. Adams;
School Commissioners, Will o. Walton
and John T. Gibson.
MORTON AND THE nEAT TRUST.
Cleveland Puzzled to Know How TO
Circumvent Silver.
From our regular correspondent
WAsHINGToN. Apr. I5.-The pres
sure on the administration, to do
something to head off the silver stam-
pede which seems to have seized the
Democratic party. is daily growing
stronger. Mr. Cleveland is perfectly
willing to do anything to prevent the
capture of the Democratic party by
the silver men. At first he was dis
posed to try to stop the movement by
going to Chicago and making an anti
silver speech, which should rally the
Cleveland Democrats around the sin :
gle gold standard, and the arrange
ments were made to have him invited
to do SO by committee of alleged
partisan business men of Chicago:
but later he became doubtful as to
that plan, and has given considerable
consideration to a project suggested
by a member of the Cabinet for the
writing of series of letters by him
self and all the members of the Cabi-
net, to be made public by those who
received them and to be used as wea-
pons against the silver phalanx of the
Democratic party. He wrote the first
of the series last Saturday making an
ingenious plea for "honest money"
Stripped of verbiage it is an argument
in favor of gold recommendation.
Other plans have also been considered
but nothing else has yet been definite
ly settled upon.
Meanwhile, Senator Roach, of
North Dakota, who is silver Demo
crat, fires this broadside right under
Mr. Cleveland nose, SO to speak
81 am glad to see the Illinois State
central committee take the initiative in
sounding the Democracy of that State
on the silver question. We have got
to meet the issue of silver in the next
national convention, and we might as
well hear from the various States now
as not The Illinois scheme is a good
one, and hope to see other States fall
in line and adopt the same plan. -
That is treason against Mr. Cleveland
on the part of Mr. Roach, for he must
have known when he made those re-
marks that the administration was bit
terlyopposed to the Illinois scheme, and
that Hon. William R. Morrison ("Hor-
izontal Bill') is ow in that State, at
the request of Mr.. Cleveland, trying
to lay plans to prevent the convention
declaring for free coinage.
Secretary Hoke Smith likes Wash
ington SO we'll that he wants to step
from the Cabinet to the U. S. Senate
on March 4, 1897, to accomplish that
purpose. One of the principal draw
backs to the accomplishment of Sec
rotary Smiths ambition is that Sena-
tor Gordon has shown no willingness
to retire. On the contrary, he is
credited with desiring to succeed him
self, if the Democrats can retain con-
troll of the Georgia legislature. An
attempt was made to make deal for
the election of Gordon to be governor
and Smith to the Senate, but Gordon
refused to enter it. Ex-Speaker Crisp
is also willing to go to the Senate
Secretary Morton's serious an
nouncement of his intention to use
the machinery of the Department of
Agriculture to make an investigation
in order to ascertain if there is beef
trust, which is responsible for the re-
cent sudden and continuing rise in
the price of beef, is enough to bring a
smile to the face of the most solemn
COW. If Mr.. Morton was honest in
making that announcement his ignor-
ance is greatly to be deplored, as it is
fact well known to thousands that
there is beef trust, composed of the
big meat packers, which has for some
time been slowly but surely forcing
the local butchers in all towns of con-
siderable size out Of business, in order
that the trust could dictate prices
without fear oflocal opposition. That
time has apparently come, and the
trust is putting on the screws. There
is an antitrust law, which might be
used to annoy the beef trust, even if
nothing more could be done under its
provisions, if Attorney General Olney
so willed. But the administration is
apparently satisfied to let the case
rest on Secretary Mortons promise to
investigate. Meanwhile, the people
can choose between paying the prices
demanded by the trust or stopping
their beef supply.
Today is the last day upon which
returns can be made without penalty
by those who are liable for the judi
cially emasculated income tax, and
orders have been sent out that all
those who fail are to be Immediately
proceeded against by the collectors of
internal revenue, but at one time the
Cabinet had under consideration the