The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-17
MORTON IS SARCASTIC.
Amused at the Anti-AdministratiOn
Comment.


From the Washington Post.
When Secretary Morton was asked yes
terday by a Post reporter. What do you
find TO comfort you in the election re-
turns?" he replied:
First, speaking only as a citizen and
representing only myself with alacrity
/ congratulate the department of agrl-
culture, particularly the division Of Orni-
thOlOgy, upon having so prOvidently pub
lished an ante-electiOn treatise on the
crow previous work on edibles and
nutrients by Prof ". o. AtWater was
considered Of great value TO all the peO-
pie OF the United States But the buile-
tin on the innocent and meta horically
edible crow viii be perUscd with infinitely
greater relish by those who have that
juicy bird gratuitously and generously
thrust into their dietary as temporary
TURKEY rev scientific divisions have
made such remarkably accurate fore
cast as 10 conditions demanding food
or peculiar fiber and flavor"
W hat do you think OF New XOrk2''
W I'm melancholy eyes / tearfully pc
Tuse the statements Of some partisan
newspapers and certain politicians tina;
the election in New York is an accentu-
ated, lcud-VOiced rebuke of the admins
Jraton. And as the two senator's of that
state are known all over the union as
the lervld sincere and especial advo-
Gates, during the last congress, of all
the financial and economic legislation
which President Cleveland recommended,
~ seems cruelty and eNcrucldtingly vim
dictlve and maniciOus on the part of our
political opponents that they should point
10 the defeat of the distinguished Sena-
tors Hill and Murphy in New York as
refined and condensed condemnation of
the President and all his advisers"
What of New Jersey"
OF course, in New jersey things are
not particularly encouraging to local dem
ocratic leaders. But when one remembers
with what zeal and ardor the genial and
attractive Senator Smith of that common
wealth eSDOuSed the Wilson bill and eiO-
qucntly advocated its passage, / pro-
foupdly realize that our Jersey friends
and adherents have also suffered and sor-
rOwed."
And Ohio?"
Turning to Ohio. a person from my
another friend of the Wilson style of tar
if legislation. in the person Of the able
and accomplished Senator Calvin 5. Brice,
has been maliciously smitten because of
his adherence TO the revenTe economies
advocated by this administration"
But what do YOU think Of Maryland?'
/ The warm vigor and eloquence with
which Senator Arthur Pue German always
defended the tarim reform policy to which
the democratic party was pledged by the
Chicago platform renders the Maryland
election more directly and intensely a re-
bukc to thCadvOcates of tariff reform and
commercial freedom than do the results
in any of the states before mentioned"
What about the silver party and the
free coinage of that metal at the ratio of
l6 to 1?'
THE results in Kentucky and in the
Lane district IN LIMOS lnQlcdte tndl the
doctrine of free coinage does not circulate
on parity with the doctrine of sound
money among the democracy in either OF
those states
What about Nebraska?"
The returns from that state are not
Yet received from remote sections, but
the eastern portions, including Douglas,
Cass, Otoe, and Lancaster which are
among the most pOpulOus counties, indi-
cate that Oratory-l6 parts Of wind to l
part of logic-is not effective in vote
q rna
say that the sound money democrats of
the state have pOlled so far about Is, go
votes as against 5000 cast by the wor-
SnlperS at the free silver shrine. The
farmers, .l8bcrers. and many others in
gagged in galnful pursuits in the west
are apparently opening their eyes to the
fact that it is much against their in
tereSts to insist upon having the least
possible amount of silver for given
amount of their products. They partially
ieallze thdt by demanding the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 they
are insisting upon having that commodity
made into money at $l.19 an ounce, when
II IS worth as bullion only So or 70 cents
an ounce. They remember that they OPP
posed protective tariff because by law
II put an ARTIFICIAL price on things they
nad 70 BUY, and then at once see that by
the free coinage of silver into 412A grain
legal tender dollars they by law would
put an artificial price on silver, ana thus
domesticate the protective principle and
to imports"
What will the effect of the election be
upon the next democratic national con-
Vention?'
"The recent chastisement which has
been administered to the democratic party
by democrats themselves Will undoubtedly
be ruby remembered by the delegates 10
the next national convention. The recoi-
lection will teach those delegates thar
the platform of 1896 must state politicaf
and economic doctrines unevasivelv an
equiVocally, and truthfuily. with tersc-
ness and courage. The national conVeu-
ton Will further be logically conVinceG
before meeting, Ii seems to me, that hon
est money is a necessity to honest peo>
pie and an honest administration of in
diVidual and government affairs Such he
| ing its faith, that convention must de-
clare in favor of a currency depending
upon gold Tor its ultimate redemptio
To my mind two units of value are op-
salutely unthinkable. Personally (and j
speak for no one but MYSELF I am in IA
VOr OF declaration in the next demo-
cratic national platform squarely commit
ting the party 10 gold monometaillism.
The richest in resources of any country IN
| the world, the United States can ana
must have the greatest attainabe un,
| huctuating purchasing power in all of It's
coined money. The gold and silver pieces
Except the subsidiary ones of the latter
metaD which wear the mint stamp or
| this government should have a bullion
value to their coin value"
What in your judgment, will the COM
ing session of congress do?"
1T is not my province to attemDt To
forecast legislation. 1t is, however sin
cerely to be hoped that partisanship viii
not override patriotism in debating or
legislatng upon the national questions OF
revenue and finance. Every good citizen
no matter what his party Affiliations NAV
be, intensely desires the maintenance Of
the honor and credit of his government
That congress may enact lust laws tn
that end is to-day the first and heartiest
wish of every genuine American in this
republic"
Torture in the French Army.
From the London Standard
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