The evening times., 1895-08-31
S6nt from Washington


Democrats. who had hoped that the fight
i'm Kentucky might result in pronounced
victory for that style OF finance which the
administration advocates 1t was intended
that Secretary Carlisle should go actively
to work in the cstspaign, but Hardin's at
titude makes 1t very questionable whether
the Secretary will make any speeches in
Kentucky this fan.
1t would be embarrassing for Secretary
Carlisle to go to Kentucky and advocate
the election of candidate for Governor
who repudiates his present financial thco-
ries. 1t would be equally embarrassing for
Mr. Carlisle to enter into the Kentucky
campaign and omit mentioning the name OF
the candidate for Governor. He might as
sumo the position that il did not matter
what the financial views Of the guberna
torial candidate were, since he would have
nothing to do with national politics as Gov
ernor, but that would be admitting that
there had been no necessity of his going
into Kentucky and making fight for a
sound money platform and for using some OF
his employees to gain victory.
Probably the least embarrassin thing for
the Secretary of the Treasury to do would
be TO keep out of Kentucky until election
day, and then go to COvington and vote his
ticket. The only thing, so it now appearc.
that would cause Secretary Carlisle to enter
actively in the campaign iii Kentucky would
be desire 10 prevent the election of a Re
publican majority in the legislature-that
would mean q Republican Senator of course
or 10 by his personal popularity overcome
the progress that Senator Blackburn is max
ing for reelection. In that case it would
be generally assumed that Secretary Car
ltse was a Senatorial candidate. He prob
ably is, but very embarrassed one at pre-
ent.-Albert Halstead in Cincinnati Com
mcrcial- Gazette.
A good deal OF interest has been shown
here in reference to the kilograms of con-
GratulatioBs sent by Comptroller Bowler
and Commissioner Pugh, of Ohio, to ex-
Governor James Z. Campbell on his nomina-
tion for Governor by the Democrats. Mr
Bowler's telegram not only congratulated
Mr.. Campbell, but thanked him for the ser
vice he was rendering the Ohio Democrats
by conscnting to run. In view of the fact
that both Messrs. Bowler and Pugh We're
long known as opponents TO Governor Camp
bell In Hamilton county, these kilograms
have excited comment, and some are so
wicked as to say that they We're really
sarcastic and intinateI mat the Ohio Of
ficcholders in the city were chucklinE to
themselves that Campbell was again riding
to a fall politically. Others are saying,
however, that it sho wed that the admjnistra-
ticn having compelled Campbell to enter
the forlorn battle which only meant defeat,
We're trying TO show that they appreciated
his sacrifice and that past enmities and op-
position would now be forgotten and for
given.-J. S. Shriver, in Cincinnati Times
Star.
Probably Washington business men lose
more by bad debts than those of any other
city in the country. BY the settlement o:
the Mora claim against the Spanish govern
meDt, one groceryman here. alouc, will
be paid u bill amounting to nearly $1,000.
This bill has been running for several years,
and, of course, the grocerynlan has trusted
to luck and to the possibility, which at
one time seemed remote, of this government
enforcing the claim.
All tradesmen. however, have not been SO
lucky as the grocerynian in the Mora case.
1t is well known that the debts of the late
William McCarrahap amounted to many
thousands of dollars. His claim was such
Just one that no one couldsee no W Congress
could refuse him his rights. For this rea-
son neither hotel men nor tradesmen hesi-
tated to trust the old gentleman for any
thing he wished.
The settlement of the claim in New Mexico
to vast tract OF land known as the
Peraita -Reavis grant. adversely to the
claimants, VIII also mean the loss of
thousands of dollars to hotel keepers and
merchants in Washington and the East.
This grant was valued at many million dol
lars, and Reavis and his wife were sup
posed to be the only living heirs, the
grant having been made by the Spanish
government more than 100 years ago. The
whole scheme was proved to be gigantic
swindle. and nearly all of the papers in
the case were said to be forgeries. 1t Is
said that Reavis, on the strength of his
claim, stopped at a hotel in Newport
with his wife, children and a nurse, and
run up an average bill of $25 day for three
months.
Every winter half dozen or so of such
claimants are in Washington prosecuting
their cases before Congress, and they
usually manage to find some hotel or
boarding house keeper who will take
them on trust upon the prospect of the sue
cessful termination of their efforts to
secure money from Uncle SAM. R.
Van Antwerp, in Minneapolis Journal
The reciprocal trade of the United States
from Great Britain was not SO large dur
ing 1894, but was still highly significant.
The United States imported from Great
Britain and her possessions SITS, 900, 900 !;
worth of goods during the year, an amount
equal to % per cent OF the total of all im- |
ported articles.
1.-The above figures, says Secretary Nor |
ton, ''are worthy of consideration because
they teach the Importance of encouraging
that trade throughout the earth. All legiti-
mate trade, if it eDdures. is gainful to both |
parties thereto; but trade between individ- |
uals-that is, trade where either one is loser |
thereby-stops itself. Trude between indi- |
viduals continues so long as it is found to |
be mutually advantageous, and what is true
as to trade between individuals holds good |
as to trade between nations. Therefore, all |
trade restrictions, falsely called protective !
tariffs,'' are unnecessary because they must |
only impede or prevent profitable trade; |
while bad trade dies of its own profitless- |
ness.''-F. H. HosfUrd, in Detroit Free |
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