Milford chronicle., 1895-12-20


Christmas recess or wait until January,
but the latter is regarded as most probable
The caucus committee has completed the
work Of assigning the chairmen of COM
mittees and the Republican membership Of
the committees, and the job is probably as
satisfactory as it would have been made,
although lots of Senators are not as well
provided for as they wished to be The
reorganization is notnow a matterof doubt.
The populists 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 re-
organization will be quickly accomplished
So much has been printed since the Sc
lection of St Louis as the convention city
about a move to pack the convention for a
nomination that a synopsis 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 hail with
seating capacity of 900 or more to be
furnished properly decorated, but no pic
lures of or name of any living Republican
to be used in said decorations; rooms for
the National Committee and for Conven-
ton Committees; the engraving and print
ing Of tickets, and suitable music, all to be
free Of cost to the National Committee
Of the 1900 tickets printed, one-third,
less / 900 are to be turned over to St. Louis
500 of this number to be given the G A. R. (
and the other five hundred to distinguished
guests, the distribution to be under the
supervision Of a sub. committee of the Ma |
tional Committee And it is specially slip
ulated that none Of the 3, COO tickets to be
distributed by the ST. Louis Citizens Com.
mittee shall be used in the interest of any
candidate. 1t would seem that in that con
tract the National Committee had taken
every possible precaution to avoid ground
for any just charge of fayoritsm.
The Democratic party isn't going to
wait unit the holding Of its National Con-
lentiOn to split into gold and silver fac
ion, which is being led by Senator Harris,
# Tenn has been established, and flag
,earing the motto, No quarter to gold Dem G
lcrats', flung to the breeze One of the ?
liver Democrats speaking of the split
aid" The Democrats have no possible Z
hance to elect president next year, but 6
re are determined to settle for good and all
neither it is to be a gold party or a silver
arty; whether Grover Cleveland is to
lake its platform, or a majority of the del {
gates elected to its National Convention. \
he fight will be to the death, and the sur Il
vors can then proceed to build a new ~
party on what is left, which Sc
ay get into fair fighting condition for the ~
mpaign of 1000" II
Senator Sherman proposes making a set G
eech at an early day TO show how ride a.
ous that portion of the Presidents mes h,
ge which treats of finance really is Speak J..
2 on the subject, Senator Sherman said:
ON Jan. 1, 1880, when we resumed
scle payments. until Mr. Cleveland as.
med the office of President there was no
hculty in maintaining the gold reserve. 10
ring that period it never cost one dollar ~
get all the gold necessary for the reserve 10
ID. Gold naturally came into the Treas les
in exchange for u. S. notes or other
ms of money. At one period when / ~
S Secretary of the Treasury, bought Fu
y millions of gold for sixty millions of gu
er certificates. No difficulty could have
en at this time except for the fact that are
the Wilson German tariff bill duties 'Or
e so reduced as to be insufficient to pay
current expense of the Government. liol