The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, May 81. 1895.

President doWD, make NJ secre1 vi INC siea'
interest they feel in the result Of Secretary
Carlisle's crusade against the free coinage OF
silver. Before leaving Washington Mr..
Carlisle carefully prepared the speeches to
be made at the Memphis Sound money"
convention and in Kentucky, and it may be
said that President Cleyeland actively
assisted in their preparation and, to put it
in business vernaculsr, placed his o. K
upon them. In other words, the speeches
made by Secretary Carlisle are intended to
be the platform upon which President Cleve-
land will try to unite the Democratic party
for next years National campaign, and
either to get himself or man named by him
nominated for the Presidency.
Some of the silver men, especially those
who belong to the Democratic party, make
light of Mr. Carlisle's crusade, and say that
i t will take only short time to convince
the administration that it's ''sound money"
doctrine is only the tail of the Democratic
dog the body being represented by the free
coinage element Other silver men regard
mitting the President and Secretary of the
Treasury to be powerful enemies, and they
fear that they will in one way or another be
able to greatly impair the strength of the
silver men in the South.
As seen in Washington there is only one
thing certain about this fight, and that is
the intention of the administration to make
it to the death. Those who hint OF compro'
mise are hooted down by the administration
men, who say that the next Democratic Ma
tienal convention has either got to be silver
or anti.silver which is about equivalent to
saying that it must be Cleveland or anti
Cleveland. 1t seems impossible to say how
it will end; men who are in positions to
know public sentiment disagree so widely in
their predictions. Present movements can
be noted and studied; future results must
be waited for.
One not acquainted with the unanimity
with which the politicians and hangers.on
in Washington know everything officially
after it is announced, would, in view Of the
general talk about the income tax decision
of the Supreme Court, wonder why it was
that any doubt had ever existed as to what
that decision would be, when so many
people can spin out arguments by the yard
to prove that they knew all the time just
what the decision would be. No community
however small, is free of the l-told-you ou-so
fiend but he is probably more numerous in
Washington than anywhere else Had the
decision been exactly the reverse it would
not have pbased the know-it' 'alls; they
would have come up smiling with their 81
told you so's' just the same, and the queer
part of 1t is that many of them really be
lieve they knew it all the time They are
like the man who repeats an untruth sc
often that he finally gets to believing il
himself.
Quite commotion exists among certain
class in Washington, because of a recent de
cision of local court, that the Edmund'
law against the cohabitation of males anc
females not legally married was in force ii
the District of Columbia and it is growing
as the number of arrests increase and ha
made regular boom in marriage market, al
those who marry are not punished. So fa
the arrests have been confined to the deni
sons of the alleys, but there are hints tina
the police are making preparations to 60 VI
higher, and whispers are current of con
templated arrests which will, il made, Great
a sensation. owing to the position of tn
a parties, supposed by their associates to be o
the highest respectability, and, as matte
of course, to have been married
The recent activity of ex-Presdent Harri
son and some of his friends has stirred u
the Republicans no little. 1t is now be
n leved that Mr. Harrison is out for anothe
nomination. With few exceptions the me
who are known as the leaders of his part
are opposed to Mr.. Harrison's nomination
just as they were in 1892. Then Mr.. Harr
son had the support OF the office holder
supposed candidacy is worrying the othc
fellows no little, and they cannot hide it,
If ex Senator Warner Miller knows an,
about the Republican machine in New Yor
that state will send solid delegation fl
Governor Morton to the Republican Natio
al convention, unless Governor Morton hin
self shall prevent it, which isn't probabl
At least that is what Mr.. Miller, who
M now in Washington, claims.
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