Milford chronicle., 1895-09-20
WASHINGTON LETTER

Washington, D. c., Sept. I6, 1895.
Members of the Administration are much
chagrinned and more alarmed over that
statement published by the bond syndicate,
which, by the way, is one of those explain.
atoms which do not explain. Some of the
language in that statement was certainly
not calculated to allay the fears of Secre-
tary Carlisle concerning the maintenance
of the gold reserve. For instance, the as
sertion that the syndicate, although under
no obligation to do so, would continue to
deposit gold "if existing conditions make
it feasible to do So" The administration
fears that existing conditions" in this
case will mean whether It will be to the in
terests Of the syndicate to furnish the
Treasury with gold The syndicate added
to the Generalization of Mr.. Carlisle and
his fellow Democrats when it said: 'But
neither the bond syndicate nor any one
else can control the elements" After all
what frightened Mr.. Carlisle even worse
than the significant wording of the public
statement of the bond syndicate was the
fact that a member of the syndicate with
from the Treasury and exported 81, 900
Of the 81, zoe, 900 in gold sent to Europe
last week-the largest shipments ever
made In one week, with the exception of a
week in last January, when the total sent
was half million in excess of last week.
Secretary Carlisle made no pretense of be-
ing master of, or even of being one of the
controlling factors in the financial situation;
he is simply drifting, trusting to luck and
the bond syndicate, seemingly without an
idea of what he will do or try to do in case
neither keeps the gold reserve above the
danger line There never was a time
when fnancier was more needed at the
head of the Treasury. With an able man
directing our finances there would be no
more bond issues in times of profound
peace, but the.able man is lacking and the
bond issue will come again in due time.
Representative Milliken, Of Maine,
brought good-sized section of the Reed
boom to Washington with him. Said he,
"If you meet with anyone who declared
that New England was not for Tom Reed
for President, challenge the statement with
all the force and enthusiasm that human
nature can exert. But he isn't depending
on his own section alone The American |
people admire, to point approaching rev.
aran~a a man Of hio frfa1Ia~f and en- A.
Reed has following to-day in every part
of this broad land, and will have it too,
when the National Convention meets to
select standard bearer. That the Repub-
licanns will elect the next president seems
about as certain as anything can be in this
world, and that he will hail from Maine
hope and believe"
Perhaps the Civil Service Commission
isn't trying to aid the administration in its
efforts to control the next Democratic Ma
tonal Convention, but all the same that
will be the practical result of its official an
nOuncement that it is no violation of the
Civil Service rules for an office holder to
attend political convention as delegate.
The Commissioners evidently realize that
Mr. Cleveland intends the letter he wrote
Turing his first term against that identical
hing to be ignored.
The talk about the administrations in
entiOn of adopting vigorous foreign pol
cy has been revived in connection with
he rumor that the belllgerency of the I
Cuban RevolutionistS is shortly to be :
1t will be time enough how I
.ver, to believe in such a radical change
when some steps have actually been taken \
Owards such policy. Until then the PEG. I
Vie only have the record it has been made I
o judge the administration by, and a mi {
roscopial examination would fail to show
me single vigorous act in that record. '
According to visiting Republicans, the {
respect of success in Maryland and Ken T
ucky continues to improve The admin i
stratlon has made no move to indicate
hat it wishes the success of the German |
cket in the former State, and there is
othing to indicate that it will At least Y
ne member of the Cablnet-Hoke Smith E
is credited with wishing defeat for the Ii
German ticket MIR. w. Wines, of
KY, was member of the d
lst Republican State Convention, is now d
! Washington. He says, THE division Y
! the Democratic party on the silver ques-
on IS favorable to Republican success h
Ip to the present time there has been B
pathy and Encouragement in the rank g
nd file of the Democratic party. Whether v
icy ultimately pull themselves together, n
me only can determine. ! am perfectly is
'nfdent that the State will go Republi- al
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