The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-05-24
Washington Letter.



WASHINGTON, May 20.-Secretary Carlisle
made it plain before he left Washington that
in his speeches in Kentucky he would not take
part or sides in the fight for the U s. Senator
ship now going on in that State. He also made
it equally plain that he would not himself be-
come Il candidate for the Senate. His sole
object in going to Kentucky is to tell his old
friends and nelghbors what he considers to be
sound money, and to prevent them, if possible,
being led into the worship and support of what
he considers unsafe and unsound financial
methods. He left Washington confident of
succeeding and apparently Indifferent about
the attacks made and threatened on his tinan
cial record. Whatever else Secretary Carlises
speeches in Kentucky and at the Memphis
Sound Money Convention may be they can be
accepted as faithful and exact representa-
ton of the financial views of the admlnistra-
ton. as every statement of fact used by him
has been approved by President Cleveland.
President Cleveland and other members of
the administration have received many ell
dOrsements, oral and written, from the South
and West, of Mr.. Cleveland's recent financial
letters. An idea of how some of these men
talk may be gained from the following lam
guage used by Mr.. w. l.. Crawford of Dallas,
Texas, who is in Washington now: $50 far
Texas is concerned, Mr.. Cleveland is exceed.
ingly popular by far the most popular man in
the party for the Office he so ably fills. His
ideas on the financial question just suit the
sound money men of that State" Mr.; Craw-
ford is practising lawyer, not politician,
but Texans in Washington say he is man
who has opportunities, and makes use of them,
to keep in touch with the sentiment in his State.
Hon. William McAdoo, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, is finding it no easy task to resist
the Democratic pressure that is being brought
to bear upon him to head the New Jersey GU
bernatoral ticket this year, and his consent to
make the race will probably be secured in the
near future. Among the prominent New Jer-
sey Democrats who have been in consultation
with Mr.. McAdoo is Senator Smith, who says
New Jersey is going Democratic again and
that it will stay Democratic.
A number OF prominent MiSSourians, headed
by Ex-Governor Francis, have been in Wash
ingtou within the last two or three days, and it
is probable that some of them came to WASH
ingtou at the request of President Cleveland,
to discuss financial matters, as Ex-Governor
Francis is regarded as very friendly TO the
Presidents financial views. One of these Mis-
Sourians-Mr. b. Ii. Graham, u prominent st.
Louis business man-says of the silver agitation
in the Democratic party: Il think it is an eX-
celent thing that all this strife over silver has
come up so far in advance of the Presidential
election. 1t will give the people time to get
clearer ideas on the subject than many of them
now have, as result of reading such plausi-
BILE but fallacious and shallow book as Coins
Financial School. They will, l think, even
tually ascertain that the price O. wheat and
cotton has not fallen through sy Ipathy with
the decline in silver, but because of the enor-
nous increase of production of these articles
all over the world. The Southern people, in
particular, have no reason 10 hold radical views
on silver; their greatest crop is sold abroad for
gold and their section has no mining interests.
} expect to see i'll the South II gradual but
healthy charge of public sentiment that i'll the
end will be on the side of safe and conscrva-
tive financial system.
A lot of very sloppy stuff has been written
about what the administration intended to do
about Admiral Mcade's very serious infraction
of Naval regulations, among the rest that his
request for retirement would be refused until
after he had been punished. The originators
of most of these stories are entirely ignorant
on the subject. The granting of Admiral
Meade's application for retirement under the
law giving officers who have served forty years
that privilege, has never been n matter of
doubt, and could not be- unless he had been
guilty of crime calling for his dishonorable
discharge from the Navy consequently he will
certainly pass from the active to the retired
list of the Navy. Another story spread by the
ignorant is that once on the retired list Admir-
al Meade could not be punished by the Secre-
tary of the Navy. He is just as much amenablc
to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy OH
the retired list he was on the active list, only
that he cannot be ordered to perform active
duty, except i'll time of war and then l. must be
done by the President with the advice and
consent of the Senate.
The Supreme Court decision of the income
tax question was not surprising. 1t could not
very well have been under the circumstances.
Specimen Cases.
5. ii. Clifford, New CaSSel, Wis. WAS troubled
with Neuralgia and rheumatism, his Stomach
was dISOrdcred. his Liver was affected to All
alarming degree, appetite fell away. and lie was
terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three
bottles of Electric Filters cured him
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg. Ill.,. had
running sore on his leg OF eight years standing.
Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven
boxes of Bucklen'S Arnica Salye. and his leg is
sound and well. John Speaker. Catawba. o.,
said he was incurabe. One bottle Electric Bill
tiers and one box Bncklens Arnica SaIve cured
him entirely. Sold by Thos. G. Forwood &
Co., Druggists, Bel Air.