Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-03-29
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
IT WILL M a Me,SiNLEx LOWE
rEAsr AT ST. LOUIS.
Affairs In the Tar Heel state.
Cleveland la = auanaary.
nertoas Garden seed.

Washington. March Ex-senator
Jones bluntly states the ultimatum OF
the silver men AS follows 1.-THE next
oongiens, 80 far as the senate IL con-
cerned, VIII be In control OF tho silver
ineh There viii be no legislation on
the tarift. This much Is settled. In
deed, nothing viii be done on this SUBJ
1ect FOR the next ten years unless silver
IL admitted to the mlnts ON the same
basis as gold. The cry In now, protoc-
iien and free silver. We win have both
or neither, am u sound and staunch
i,roteotionist, but ! don't believe In a
partial application of the theory. Colo
RADIO silver has as much right to be
protected as Pennsylvania coal. The
silver senator's VIII have the balance
Of power In the upper house OF tho
new congress, and they win "hod up
all tafin legislation unlesn II Is coupled
With free silver legislation. The recent
conference OF Eastern manufacturers
and silver senators at Washington In
dlcatea the way In which the wind In
blowing. Mckinlcy'a nomination ut 81.
Louis VIII. u anything, help our side.
Tho Ohio candidate is u studdler pure
and simple. The silver people would
rather see u man like Governor Nor
ton nominated. and the issue made at
once. II TX idle to dillydally with this
great question any longer, IL ~ an
other 'lrrepresslhlc conflict and must
be fought 10 a finish sooner u Later.
The sooner the better
I'VE will soon get matters In good
shape In North Carolina" remarked
James u. Turner, u weil known Citizen
Of the "Tar-hcel'' state. last night.
'Thc Democrats are rcgnining their
lost prestige. and have no doubt that
they win boon be Ia position to down
tho popullstic- Republican combination.
which .ill al ~
time ago. Both parties recognize that
North Carolina win be the ilghting
ground In the coming presidential cleo
lion. and some good lloks are being
put In by the manag.rs."
"Ita all over. and Mckinley has won
his night" said Dick Kerens. before
leaving town last night. Mckinley
viii he nominated on the first bakot.
Tho other fellows know they are whip
ped, and they are feeling little SOM
about u. My advice 10 the friends of
Mckinley IN not TO rub II In. Let them
down easy. Don't braE and be sassy.
In another month they Will all be feel-
Ing good. and by the time we get To-
gcthcr at 81 Louis there VIII be ma
contest nj ali. simply big Mckinley
love feast"
Secretary Morton has written to
inquiry at tho request OF their con-
stltuenta that the distribution OF Bpr-
den seed. recently authorized by oon-
Eress, cannot be much before May. az
II viii be impossible TO Ket the seed
ready before that time They Will ca-
plain To their constituents why they
cannot MI their orders for garden seed
at this time.
President Cleveland is said by his
associates to be In n great quaDdary
un to what TO do with Cuba. He had
until recently intended soon to Inter-
yene with an ldea OF arranging a
scheme by which the cubans could
buy Independence. with Uncle Sam AZ
security But II Is now pretty well
settled that proud. naughty Spain VIII
have no Intervention In hers MI.
Cleveland does not want war. nor dors
he wnnt 10 be snubbod. But he wanth
to do something. and he wants to do u
during the next sixty days.
speaker Reed IL determined that con-
nross shall adjourn long before ths
meeting OF the st. Louis convention.