Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-12-21
from our Regular correspondent.I

but whether Utah would have become
State any sooner is doubtful, as Mr..
Cleveland will not issue the proclama.
ton until he gets good and ready.
1t is not yet certain whether the Re-
publicans will reorganize the Senate
before the Christmas recess or wait
until January, but the latter is regard
ed as the most probable. The caucus
committee has completed the work of
assigning the chairrnen of committees
and the Republican membership OF
the committees, and the job is prob
ably as satisfactory as it could have
been made, although lots of Senators
are not as well provided for as they
wished to be. The reorganization is
not now matter of doubt. The Pop
ulist Senators after voting once for a
slate OF their own are going to retire
from the Senate chamber That will
leave the Republicans in the majority
and reorganization will be quickly ac-
complished.
So much has been printed since the
selection of ST. Louis as the conven-
ton city about move to pack the con-
vention for nomination that a syn
oposis of the contract made between
the Republican National Committee
and the committee representing the
city of ST. Louis is hereby given as
the best refutation of such stories:
A hall with seating capacity
of 900 or more to be furnished
properly decorated, but no pictures of
or name of any living Republican to
be used in said decorations: rooms for
the National Committee and for Con-
vention committees; the engraving
and printing of tickets, and suitable
music, all to be free of cost to the
National Committee. OF the IL, 900
tickets printed, one-third, less 1000
are to be turned over to st. Louis.
500 of this number to be given the G.
A. R., and the other 500 to distinguish
ed guests, the distribution to be under
the supervision of subcommittee Of
the National Committee. And it is
specially stipulated that none of the
5000 tickets to be distributed by the
ST. Louis Citizens Committee shall
be used in the interest of any candi-
date. 1t would seem that in that con-
tract the National Committee had
taken every possible precaution to
avoid ground for any just charge Of
favoritism.
The Democratic party isn't going
to wait until the holding of its Nation
al Convention to split into gold and
silver factions. The split has already
come. Within stones throw of the
U. S. Capitol the headquarters of the
silver faction, which is being led by
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, has
been established, and flag bearing
the motto, mo quarter to Gold Dem
ocrats, flung to the breeze. One O
thr Silver Democrats speaking of the
split said: 1.-THE Democrats have ne
possible chance to elect a President
next year, but we are determined to
settle for good and all whether it is
to be gold party or silver party
whether Grover Cleveland is to make
its platform, or majority of the del
agates elected to its National Con
vention. The fight will be to the
death, and the survivors can ther
proceed to build a new Democratic
party on what is left, which may get
into fair fighting condition for the
campaign of 1900.
Senator Sherman proposes making
a set speech at an early day to show
how ridiculous that portion of the
Presidents message which treats O.
finance really is. Speaking on the
subject, Senator Sherman said; From
Jan. /, 1880, when we resumed specie
payments, until Mr.. Cleveland as
suned the office of President there
was no difficulty in maintaining the
gold reserve. During that period it
never cost one dollar to get all the
gold necessary for the reserve fund.
Gold naturally came into the treasury
in exchange for U. S. notes or other
forms of money. At one period when
| was Secretary of the Treasury,
bought sixty millions of gold for six
ty millions of silver certificates. No
difficulty could have arisen at this
time except for the fact that by the
Wilson German tariff bill duties were
so reduced as to be insufficient to pay
the current expenses of rhe Govern
ment y