The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-04-25
Cleveland'S Gold Letter Ca1cu.
lated to split Democracy In
Twain.
The Democrats DON'T Like t.
Talk About lhe Tin Plate
Industry.
4 Lot of Gossip and RuInOrs
political and Other.
Especial Correspondence

would split into silver and gold factions
before the opening Of the presidential
campaign, and those expectations seem
now to be in a tar way Of materializihg
into facts. They are merely amused by
the chimerical assertions of certain Mr.
Cleveland's followers, that the republi.
can party would support Mr.. Cleve-
land on single gold standard platform.
They know that not even small Sec
ton of the republican party could under
any combination Of circumstances be
brought to support Mr.. Cleveland upon
any platform. They are qu,,e as much
amused by the assertion that the repub-
lican party, ontside OF the extreme
western states, is a gold standard party.
| Of course 1t is needless to saw to any intel.
ligent republican, and most republicans
are intelligent, whether he lives north,
east, south or west, that the republican
party is not. never has been and is n ot
likely to be a single standard party.
The republican party has, since the
question has been raised, repeatedly de-
clared it's national platforms in favor OF
bimetallism, which tine Century Diction-
| airy thus defines: The use of two met
ais as money at relative values set bv
| legislative enactment; the union of two
metals in circulation as money at a
fixed rate. Specifically, that system of
coinage which recognizes both coins of
silver and coins OF gold as legal tender
| to any amount, or the concurrent use of
coins of two metals as circulating
medium, or the current use of coins of
two metals as circulating medium at
| fixed relative value" There is no %
dication that the next republican ma
tional convention will do otherwise
than reaffirm that declaration. There
is only one single standard gold party,
and that is the Cleveland wing OF the
democratic party.
Even rock-ribbed democrats had to
mile when the official announcement
was made that the treasury department
would no longer collect and dissemin-
ate statistics relating to the manufac-
ture Of tin and terne plate in the United
States. The reason was PLAIN. Every
crease of this industry, which was one
OF those established by the Mckinley
tariff law, was officially given the lie to
every democratic editor and stump
speaker who took part in the last pres,
Dental campaign, all OF whom had de-
clared in the most positive terms that
there was no such thing as the manu-
facture of tin and terne plates for com
! mercial purposes in the United States,
and predicted that three months after
the election it would be impossible to
find an American tin plate factory at
| work. Blu. the makers of the Mckinley
law knew what they were about. They
gave the manufacture of tin and term.
plate such firm footing in the United
| States that it has continued to grow,
| although its growth has been slow
| since the enactment of the democrat &c
tariff. Had the republican party con-
| tinued i'll power there would have been
no need TO import pound of tin or
terne plate.
Secretary Morton continues to make
an exhibition OF himself, through his
daily newspaper interviews on the beel
question. He seriously presents argu-
ments to prove what everybody has
known from the trst-that the price of
beef was forced up and kept up by the
beet trust, and then just as seriously an
nounces his inability to do anything to
help the people. Really ne is a ve:y
funny little man. True, he talks to
much, but his talk amuses the country.
and in these hard times" the pen,,e
need all the free amusement thew can
get. His latest interview advocates the
single gold standard of finance.
That there are number hungry dem
ocrats still unprcvided tor is show bv
the number of applicants Tor the vacan-
Gym the deputy comptrollership of the
treasury, caused 10y the death last week
ct Hon. Charles ii. Mansur. One of
chese applicants-an ex-congressman-is
charged with having circulated peti-
ton asking tor the office as soon as it
was announced that Mr.. Mansur's III
ness would probably re fatal. No mat
ter who gets the office this ghoul should
not.
Secretary Gresham is quite touchy
over that apology demanded from SPAN
on account of the firing on the Allianca
and which has never been made. 1t is
sad that an old personal friend OF his
attempted to jolly him a little about it
and that he quickly made it PLAIN that it
vas forbidden subject. The new
Spanish minister is expected IL arrive
here IN Il few laws. aud lha, lis arrival
WIZ shortly Dc ioI,owed ljy an apology
rom ms government Tor iiistng al the
american fag or by u .lyi.i.td from ii,s
government thar Secretary Gresham
epo"'gze tor having ,nadr ,rile original
asma'!d. NJ one isevrr VI, pr:issd at
ANYTHING that OCCURS In ysconnection
with our foreigu Iasi1ns, these days.
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