Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-04-25
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular correspons.r,

ing a splitin the national d4moe.
party, and has virtually anpn,n
himself to be the candidate 81
single gold standard wing - =,
party. This created no. -,,vrr,. y
Washington. 1t has been fo,.sl
owed for months past. Wba,s
both wings will insist upon eants
themselves the democratic nar,a
the silver democrats will iain !.
populists or the Sibley silver n..
is not yet plain. It will den,
largely upon the effect OF Nj "a,
lands declaration upon the rant
file of the democratic party II 4
south, and that effect Will in turp h
pend somewhat upon the resph
the campaigns now being wagad
the stateso of Illinois and Kentnet-
Mr.. Cleveland and his follower.
lieve that If the silver element IA !
democratic patty in those two sta,.
can be beaten this year that the I'm,
Of the democratic party in the SOM
will accept Mr.. Cleveland's financial
ideas and support him for presiaan,
again. The whole power of the ad
ADMINISTRATION is to be used against ~
silver democrats in those two STATE.
1t is already certain that three mem
bers of the cabinet-Carlis Wis.
and Gresham-will take the stnms
against silver.
The administration also propose.
to fight silver in the south. 4 south.
ern democratic anti-silver conyen.
tion is to be held at Memphis, Tenn
on May I'D, at which the principal
address is to be delivered by Secr4.
tary Carlisle. Representative Pat.
terson. of Tennessee, who was in
Washington last week conforms
with Mr. Cleveland and tile otb.r
members of the administration. Sav,
every southern state will he Iargelg
represented at the convention. which
s to be, he says, made the beginning
of an aggressive campaign againsf
silver in the south.
So much for the administrator
view Of the effect of Mr.. Clevelands
declaration of open war against III.
yer. There is Very different view
of the matter taken be the silver
democrats. They say that Mr.. Clevr.
lands move is too late; that seven
tenths of the democratic party ia tie
south and west is irreyocably com
mitted to the free coinage of silver
that the silver democrats welcome
Mr.. Cleveland's declaration, and will
now proceed to show their power "a
control the party by taking steps q
make sure that the next democrats
national convention shall not only
declare in favor of the free coinage II
silver, but shall nominate free s
Yer democrat for president, which
they claim will bring to their sun.
port the entire populist vote.
The republicans-well, you know
the story Of the boy who got his
father to get down on all fours Is
teach bull pup how to fight Ii
will be remembered that when the
pup grabbed the old man by ths
nose the boy, instead of interfering.
shouted: "Stick to him. dad; it'll BE-
the making of the pup!" The aver
age republican feels about this fight
between the silver democrats and
the gold democrats just as the boy
of the story did about the fight be-
| tween his dad and the bull pup.
Whichever way it ends it will bug
add to the certainty of the election
of republican president next year
OF course the public has long ast
ceased to expect anything beneficial
| or courageous from the democrats
administration, but it was hardly
prepared for the admission Of ah>o-
lutte helplessness made by Secretary
Morton, when he said; IF anything
is done to bring relief from beef eX-
tortion. now going forward the pa
pers will have to do it, Can YOU
imagine any combination of cireum'
stances that would have made sec
rotary Morton's predecessor At IT,
head Of the department of agrienI.
ture-the late lamented Jerry Rus.
Of Wisconsin,-use language Of tias
sort?
The administration congratulate
itself too soon. England has not VI
accepted Nicaragua's reply to IT, M
mand, and this country may vet hay
to choose between forcible interior
ence and backing down.
Garden, Flower and Field
seeds at Prideaux's drug store. Nv