Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-09
IN A DILEMMA.
The Situation In Kansas-Don Dick
inson Turned Down.

The Situation In Kansas-Don Dick
inson Turned Down.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. MIR. Cleve-
land is worried about how toapproach
the subject of increasing the revenues
of the government, in his annual
message % Congress. and no MEM
Der of his Cabinet has SO far been able
to suggest any satisfactory solution
Of the trouble. If he ever thought
the present tariff would produce enough
money, which is very doubtful, he
knows now beyond the shadow of a
doubt that it will not. OF course he
knows, as everybody else does, that
Congress will legislate on this subject
regardless of his recommendation but
that knowledge does not help him
any. He knows also that unless the
Democrats propose allowing the Pres
idential election to go by default it is
absolutely necessary for that party
to make some definite declaration on
the subject, and that as the official
head of the party he ought to make
it in his message to Congress. For
him to recommend raising the needed
revenue by amendment of the tariff
law would be to acknowledge the err
ror Of the Democratic party and him
self on the tariff question. That he
will not do, whatever he may think.
Nothing is left then but to recommend
an increase in internnl revenue taxes
and in the number of articles subject
to such taxation, or both. He
knows that no recommendation in
THAT line will be popular, and it is not
strange that he should be worried.
There is but one opinion among
Republican Senators and members of
the House who have been heard from.
That is, that if the administration
gets the money it needs it will be
through amendments to the tariff law,
placing certain articles now free of
duty, which enter into active COM
petition with similar articles produc-
ed in the United States, upon the
dutiable list, and increasing the
duties upon other articles of for
eign production, the low duties upon
which now cripple number ofAmer-
lean industries, by reducing the out
put of our mills and factories. 1t has
been said that the Senate will not
pass such amendments if adopted by
the House, and that if it did Mr..
Cleveland would veto them Well,
that is for the Senate and Mr..
Cleveland to decide. The House is
Republican, as is the country, and If
is going to legislate on Republican
lines, and if its legislation fails to be-
come laws the people will be appealed
to, and they will see to it that after
March a, 1897, there will be a Re-
publican Senate and President as well
as Republican House.
Representative Kirkpatrick, a good
Republican who succeeds Hudson,
Populist, as Congressman from the
Third Kansas district, is in Washing
ton. When asked who was the favor
lite Presidential candidate of Kansas
Republicans, he said: 81 think Nc
Kinley has little advantage in our
State; he has visited us several times
and made many admirers. But Mr..
Reed also has many followers. The
Kansans like sturdy fighter such as
the Maine man has proved himself We
would be well pleased with either of
these two. Either can carry the
the State. Populism is thing of
the past and will cut no more figure
in Kansas. My opinion is that next
year, seeing themselves in such
hopeless minority, the Populists will
support the Democratic electoral
ticket in return for some favors in the
selection of a state ticket. Right
now there is no talk of such coinbi-
nation, and. in fact, they profess to
dislike each other intensely. Wheth-
er they fuse OF not will be of no con-
sequence to the Republicans, because
no opposition ticket will have the
slightest chance for success"
How earnest Pittsburg is about Sc
curing the Republican National Con-
vention may be judged by the talk
of Mr.. c. T. Rawls, of that city, who
is now in Washington helping the
project along. He said: "Our citi-
zens have already pledged themselves
to contribute SOS, 900, and before the
National Committee meets to decide
on the matter they will have increas-
ed it to 500, 900. About the only
charge that is brought against us is
lack of adequate hotel facilities.
and yet we took care of the Grand
Army meeting little while ago in
splendid style. | don't think there
is any reason to fear that the dele
gates and visitors would suffer from
poor accommodations We have
one of the greatest auditoriurns
in the country in our exposition
building, which can by little
alteration, be turned into conven.
ton hall capable of seating $4,000
PEOPLE"
The $751; year which Dor. M.
Dickinson, of Michigan, is said to re-
ceive from the brewers because of his
supposed influence with Mr.. Cleveland
and his consequent ability to look
out for the brewing interest is in dam
ger of being cut off. Mr.. Dickinson
has been sat upon by Mr.. Cleveland
ina manner that indicates the loss of
whatever influence he NAV have had