Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1895-11-14

tions have before now resulted in dis
organization and defeat for political
parties.
So far as the democrats are concern
ed, the result of their defeat in New
York, Maryland, Kentucky. and Ohio,
seems to have resulted in wholesale
killing of their presidential possibili-
ties in the persons of Senators Hill,
German and Brice, ex-Gov. Campbell,
and Secretary Carlisle, and of throw
ing a very wet blanket over their hopes
of electing any man president next
year. President Cleveland is said not
to be doing any worrying over this
killing, but even Mr.. Ceyeland must
know that his party cannot possibly
win without carrying at least three out
of those four states,
One of the actual results of the cleo
tions, in national politics, will be to
give the republicans majority of the
senate after March Z. Should they
elect the president and retain control
of the house the country will have the
unusual experience of seeing one politi-
cal party lose the presidency and both
branches of congress and regain them
within four years, as the republicans
lost all three branches of the govern
ment when the present administration
came in. But this is going ahead too
fast. The first session of the fifty-four
congress, soon to begin, has a part to
play in this game of politics before the
game is won.
South Carolinans who come to Wash
ington bring stories of the Tillman and
anti-Tillman squabble that are little
short OF astonishing at this day and
time, to say nothing of being injurious
TO the good name of the state. One Of
them said: ''It is hard for any one to
understand the ins and outs of the
whole affair unless on the ground, for
what started originally as opposition
to George Tillman has spread to a fight
on all his friends. The state has two
sets of people-Tillmanites and anti
Tillmanites-an they fight on any and
every provocation. The row in the
constitutional convention is nothing
compared with the hatred and ill-will
shown by the members of these two
parties against each other. An anti
Tillmanite will not buy food or any
article of a Tillman supporter, and vice
versa. The thing is being carried even
into the schools and churches. 1t is
hard to estimate the damage the feud
is doing the state"
Considerable speculation is being in
dulged in as to whether some remarks
made by Comptroller Eckels, in q
lecture on the national banking sys
tenn, concerning the treasury notes, re-
presents the administrations attitude
towards those notes. Speaking OF
the first issue of treasury notes and
the part taken therein by Secretary
Chase, then at the head of the treas.
ury, he said: "Had he fully foreseen
then what is SO clear now, the evil fol
lowing from such issues, I am conf
dent that all of his great abilities
would have been SO used against these
issues that no treasury currency would
ever have been put forth, and the coun,
fr,y hn 1Nc
and expense attendant thereon. He
never appeared to better advantage
than when as Chief Justice of the SUI
preme Court he held against tha,
which, as secretary of the treasury, he
had passively approved" He added
that the treasury notes ought to be
abolished, and that he believed they
soon would be. If President Cleveland
recommends the withdrawal of the
treasury notes, he must also recon-
mend some way of getting the money
to redeem them, and his recommends
tion will find sturdy opposition in con-
gress if it does not include some other
form of currency to take the place of
treasury notes and prevent contraction
of the volume of money in circulation.
If Hon. Marion Butler, the new
populist senator from North Carolina,
talks on the floor of the senate as he
does now he is likely to become promi-
nent before the session ends. For in
stance, he says concerning the reor-
ganization of the senate, that from the
best information he can obtain ma
jority of the senators have been for
years protesting their desire to show
their constituents how much they
would do for silver if they only had an
opportunity. Mr.. Butler thinks the
opportunity at hand, and says that If
the senators fail to organize the senate
on a non-partisan silver basis these
professed friends of silver should be
called upon by their silver constitu.
ents for an explanation, and he init.
mates quite broadly that he may feel
called upon to ask for some explana
tions on the floor OF the senate should
the action or non-action OF certain
senators-he called no names-be of q