Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-07-20
WASHINGTON LETTER
The Incoming Speaker-Mr. JUSTICES In
descretiOn-An Agricultural Middle
(FrOm Our Regular Correspondent

(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. d. G. July 18th, 1895
Wonders never cease Although Mr.
EfReed. probably has as yet given little
attention to, and has certainly not
made up his mind on any particular
policy to be followed when he becomes
Speaker OF the House, democratic
newspaper published in Washington
has iound out all about il and has ia
ken the public into it's confidence IL
there over was more gall displayed.
even in these days of "enterprising"
newspapers it has escaped your CORE
spondent's attention, and he devotes
bis ire time in trying 20 keep upl
VIII Pthe procession. 1t is unnecessa-
ry TO mention the programme outlined
by this knowing newspaper further
4 than to 81 lt it begins with the alb
surd statement that the republicans
4 will be afraid to touch the tariff That
is false enough, as time will show, to
stamp the whole story as a democratic
office made fake. It is the democrats
who are afraid One OF the certain
ties Of the next session OF Congress is
that the House will revise the tariff in
number of important particulars.
and it is probable that the revision will
be accepted 10y the Senate although
that body will not have n republican
majority. AS Josh Billings used 60 say,
ellis better to be ignorant than to
know so darn much that amt So"
IL has leaked out that Mr.. Cleveland
would like toremove Ambassador Eus-
It's for his recent indiscretions in the
way OF jingo speeches and newspaper
interviews, but Is afraid that If he does
So he Will make Eustis the democratic
mandidate for president. He recogni-
80 that however indiscreet the utter
lnces of MIR. Eustis may have been in n
J diplomat his opinions have voiced the
sentiments of many Americans and
that his removal from office for such
an offence would make him very pop
ular. That being the ease Mr. Eustis
will probably remain IL Paris, unless
he gets mad at being rehrimanded and
resigns, as he may do. IL has been
whispered over since that London
speech that Mr. Eustis has presiden-
tial aspirations.
Oh humbug one of the other names
= is certainly HOke Smith. A New York
newspaper has started a popular sub
scription for the benefit of Miss Eliza
beth Key. gr2nd daughter of the au-
thor of ''BSeyStaI Spangled Banner
who was on the first of July dismissed
without cause from the petty clerical
position she had filed for fourteen
years In the Pension Bureau, and her
feR ~ asha.gtOn contributors to this
appears the name of Secretary
se Smith, the man who has IL in his
Wer TO restore Miss Key to the posi-
N from which she was so mercilesslN
Il cruelty dismissed with his approx
thus enabling her and her crippled
bother to live Independently instead
Il having TO eat the bread of charity
dr Hoke Smith would find it hard L
4
any feekng accompanied his donation
TO the Key charity fund it was merel,
n conscience contribution II ne ha6
EITHER feeling for the Keys or the pa
triotism which every American SHOULD
have, he would reinstate Miss Key ant
save her the humiliation of accepting
support for herself and mother from
the newspaper charity fund donated
by the public.
Agricultural Department official
cannot brush away the accusation, tina
spectators get advance infOrmatio
of the departments official crop re
port, by referring to them as "ol
gold stories. Old or new, it doe
seem strange that certain big speculs
tors should always be able to lay thei
bets in the market just before thOs
reports are issued in way to max
money and to make it appear to othe
people that they were acting upon al
Eual knowledge. Perhaps these specl
ators only guess, but it seems n littl
Ddd that they should always CUES
light, while others just as intelligeI
continue to guess wrong right along.
Members of the administration al
having a difficult task to reconcile I'll
promise that a democratic tariff won
open the markets OF the world to II
producers and manufacturers of Il
United States with the cold, hard, Fl
ures contained in the official report
the Bureau of statistics-igure cor
piled by democratic officials. Duril
the eleven months ending May 81, g
exports from the United States fell {
as compared with the same period en-
ing May 3lst, '94, when the McKinl
law was in force, nearly $75,OO0,O 600
Value-tO be exact, the expOrtatio
for eleven months under the McKinl
tariff amounted to 1913, 547, 500, viii
he Iexbortations for the same peri
hinder the democratic tariff amount
only to 1888, Col 1856 These are
sort of facts which have convinc
those who control the great busin,
interests of the country that it is !
safe to have the democratic party
control of the national gOVernmS
and which will not soon be fOrgOtt
but will stand like stone wall O'
which the democratic party cam
hope to get during the life of the pr
ent generation.