The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-05-24
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
From our Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, MAY %. IS

w May ~ loJD.
Secretary Carlisle made it very plain
before he left Washington that in his
speeches in Kentucky he would not
take part or sides in the fight for the
United States Senatorshlp now going
on in that State. He also made Il
equally plain that he would not him
self become Il candidate for the Senate.
His sole object IN going to Kentucky is
to tell his old friends and neighbors
what he considers sound money, and
to prevent them, if possible, being led
into the worship and support of what
he considers unsafe and unsound fl
nancial methods. He left Washington
confident of succeeding, and appar-
emily indifferent about the attacks
made and threatened on his financial
record. Whatever Secretary Carl isles
speeches in Kentucky aud at the
Memphis Sound Money Convention
may be, they can be accepted as a faith
ful and exact representation of the IL
nancial views of the administration,
as every statement or fact used by him
has been approved by President Cleve-
land.
President Cleveland and other men,
bers of the administration have receiv-
ed MANY endorsements, oral and writ
ten, from the South and West, of Mr..
Cleveland's recent financial letters.
An idea of how some of these men
talk may be gained from the following
language used by Mr.. w. l.. Crawford,
of Dallas, Texas, who is in Washing
ton now: $50 far as Texas is concern
ed, Mr.. Cleveland is exceedingly pop
ular, by far the most popular man in
the party for the office he so ably fills.
His ideas on the financial question just
suit the sound money men of the
State" Mr. Crawford is practicing
lawyer, not politician, but Texans in
Washington say he is man who has
opportunities, and makes Use of them,
to keep in touch with the sentiment in
/ his State.
Hon. William McAdoo, Assistant
! Secretary of the Navy, is finding it no
I easy task to resist the Democratic pres
sure that is brought to bear upon him
to head the New Jersey gubernatorial
ticket this year, and his consent to
make the race will probably be secured
in the near future. Among the promi-
nent New Jersey Democrats now in
consultation with Mr.. McAdoo, is Sen
ator Smith, who says New Jersey is
going Democratic again aud that it
will stay Democratic.
A number of prominent Missourians,
headed by Ex-Governor Francis. have
been i'll Washington within the last
two or three days. and it is probable
that some of them came to Washing
ton at the request of President Cleve-
land, to discuss the financial mat
ters. as eX-lovernor Francis is regard
ed As very friendly to the President 5
financial views. One Of these Mis-
sourans-Mr. b. i. Graham, Il prom
ineut ST. Louis business man-says
of tine silver agitation in the Demo
cratic party: Il think it is an excel
lent thiug that nil this strife over silver
has come up SO far i'm advance of tine
Presidential election. II will give the
people time to get clearer ideas on the
subject THAI many of them now have
; a result of reading such plausible bu
fallacioUs and shallow book as Coins
: Financial School. They will, think
eventually ascertain that the price O
wheat and cotton has not iallet
, through sympathy with the decline il
) silver, but because of the enormous in
crease of production of those articles al
over the world. The southern people
in particular, have no reason to hole
radical views on silver; their creates
| crop is sold abroad for gold and thei
, section has no mining interests. | eX
pect to see in the South gradual, bn
: healthy change of public sentiment
that in the end will be on the side Of /
safe and conservative system.
A let of very sloppy stuff has beef
f written about what the administration
intended to do about Admiral Meade.
very serious infraction of Naval regu
latiOns, among the rest that his request
for retirement would be refused unit
after he had been punished. The orr
ginators of most of these stories are ell.
tirely ignorant on the subject. The
granting of Admiral Meade's applica-
ton for retirement, under the law Civ
ing officers who have served forty
; years that privilege, has never been a
matter of doubt, and could not be, I'M
less he had been guilty of crime call
ing for his dishonorable discharge from
the Navy; consequently me will GER
tainly pass from the active to the re-
tired list of the Navy. Another story
spread by the ignorant is that once on
the retired list, Admiral Meade could
not be punished by the Secretary of
the Navy. He is just as much amen
able to the orders of the Secretary of
the Navy on the retired list as ne was
on the active list, only he cannot be
ordered to perform active duty, except
in time of war, and then it must be
done by the President, with the advice
and consent of the Senate.
The Supreme Court decision of the
income tax question was not surprs-
ing. 1t could not very well have been
otherwise under the circumstances.
II I'll a.