The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-11-30

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The administration II making Il
very plain that It proposes 70 maka
IN aggressive fight upon those dem
ocrats who favor silver. The latest
step in that line Il the order that
sx-spsaksr Crisp shall b punishsd
for his recent declaration ID favor
Of silver By being deprived Of the
empty honor Of the minority NOM
ination. That will, however, moi
b IN easy task. Custom, which
counts for much, particularly. with
old members, would give tho demo.
cratic nominations for al tho House
Offices to those who held them in
the last Congress. Mr.. Crisp has
warm personal friends who will be
disposed to support him, although
not in sympathy with his financial
opinions, regardless Of the wishes
Of the administration. It 10 not
the nomination for Speaker, which
amounts to nothing, that the ad.
ministration wishes to deprive Mr.,
Crisp of, but the leadership of the
democrats in the House which il
conferred by that nomination, and
which on the eve of q Presidential
election may be made to amount to
much. An administration man
says that Secretary Carlisle sound
ed the keynote Of the administra.
ton campaign against silver when
he said in his New York speech
Tuesday evening: II think the
abandonment or suspension of the
aggressive movement against this
financial heresy would be most IN.
wise at this time, especially in view
of the fact that q concerted effort
is evidently now being made in the
south and west to regain the ground
lost during the last six months. F"
The populists are especially pleased
with the Administrations aggres.
siveness against silver; they say it
will drive the silver men out of the
democratic ranks and into theirs.
That the dove for public Office is
not growing less is shown by the
scramble now going on in Wash
ington over the Offices of the next
House, and among the scramblers
are a number of ex-Congressmen.
Office holding is q disease, which
once contracted is seldom eradi-
Gated from the system.
For the first time in many years
the United States Supreme Court
has disposed of all the cases on
the calender for q current session
of the court. There were several
causes which led to this good al
though not expected result. Several
cases assigned for hearing were sub
mitted without argument, and other
cases were only briefly argued
The general calender of the court
is still q long ways behind, and ie
likely to remain so, as the new bus.
mess of the court averages rather
close in quantity to the business
disposedl Of.
Mrs. Stanford, widow of the late
Senator Stanford of California. does
not seem to have as much business
shrewdness as her husband had
She gave evidence of that lack o.
shrewdness when in an interview
published in Washington this week
she said of the suit Of the govern
ment against her husbands estate
now before the United States Su
preme Court on appeal: IAN ad
verse decision can only mean ont
thing-the end of Stanford Univer
sity. Yet when l think of the sac
rifice of the past two years or more
and the plans for the great future
of the institution, so confidently
laid out by Senator Stanford befor,
his death, it seems hard that THU
should be the final result" Their,
is a whole lot more about the cost o
the University and it's free tuition
This interview could only have beer
given out for one purpose, and tn,
wonder is that Mrs. Stanford's law
yers should have allowed such al
attempt to influence the member,
of the Supreme Court to be made
The only question at issue in tn,
suit is whether that money belong
to the estate of Leland Stanford d
to the United States.
Gold is again running out of thu
Treasury sieve at rapid rate, ant
there il much talk about another
bond issue in the near future; bu
on the authority of Treasury off
cials it is positively stated that NJ
more bonds will be issued unit
Congress has been given ampl'
time to legislate for the relief of th,
Treasury. While that promise ma,
be kept to the letter, it docs not in
dictate that no more bonds will b.
issued. Giving Congress ample