Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-03-21
Mr.. CARLISLE IS IN IT
Administration Is Grooming Hin
for the Presidential Race.
HIS CHEF IS TO WITHDRAW
Formal UecEuration to That Effect
VIII lie Made Public Within
:: short Time.

Washington, March 16 - Secretary
Carlisle is a candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination at Chicago, and a pub
lie announcement to that effect Will
soon be made by one of the secretary s
close friends in the senate. This an
nouncement, however, viii not be made
Until President Cleveland has formally
stated his purpose to not permit ms
name to be used in the convention III
connection with a third tern2. It IS
learned On excellent authority that -he
president has fully decided upon this
cuu.s., ana it is expected that he VII
make known his determination within
a short time. 1t IS undoubtedly trtle
that Carlisle's candidacy VIII have the
support of Cleveland and the members
3f the cabinet He Will go before the
convention as the Representatives of the
sound money views of the administra-
tiou His friends. i'll conducting the cam
Nass for Carlisle's nominati ton, will urge
that It be laid upon a sound money
platform, aud if he be successful
at Chicago, Will then make this issue
prominent ia the campaign leading u
TO the November elections,
Representative Patterson Of Tenncs-
see has received from Secretary car
Isle a long letter in response to e&-
Speaker Crisp's declara ton that silver
had received unfIiendly Treatment at
the secIetary's hands.
C:riisfc's Defense.
Secretary Carlisle, in his :aply to a
letter written by Representative Pat
terson, says:
T can only say that in all the opefa-
tions Of the treasury department dur
ing my administration the legal tender
gold ana silver coins have been eated
precisely alike, except that greater e.
forts have been made to keep silver coin
in circulation than have been made u
Keep gold in circulation. The amount
paid out by this department in silver
coins and silver certificates greatly eN-
ceeds the amount paid out in gold coins
and gold certificates, and in no instance
has the least discrimination been made
against silver or its paper representa-
tive. In 10 instance has silver OF silver
certificates been refused in payment Ct
a debt or demand due the government,
and in no instance has the government
refused to pay silver coins or silver Ger
titicates i'll discharge Of its obligations
when the holders Of the obligations de-
manded gr requested such payment.
When United States notes or treasury
notes are presented for redemption,
gold In paid if it is demanded, and if
silver is demanded silver is paid. Thus
the coin Of the two metals is treated
exactly alike. 1t has always been the
policy Of the treasury department 10
encourage the use Of silver to the larg-
est possible extent, and ia order 10 ac-
cOmplish this standard silver dollars
will Be sent by express, at the expense
nf the government. to any one who viii
deposit an equivalent account in silver
certificates or in treasury notes with
the United States treasurer Or any as
sistant treasurer, or with national
bank depository: but gold is not sent
to anybody free of charge. The law
authorizing the Use of silver certificates
upon deposits Of silver provides that
the coin deposited for or representing
the certificates shall be retained in tha
treasury for the payment Of same an
demand
1T is therefore plain that whenever
theamount Of silver dollars III the treas
Ury does not exceed the amount Of sill
vcr certificates outstanding the secro-
tary Of the treasury can not, without
a violation of the law, pay out such sill
ver except for the redemption Of Ger
tihcates.
"My letter to the United States sem
ate upon which Crisp's statement
seems TO have been based, was writ
ten On August IT, 1893. aud 1T that time
there Was no free silver in the treas
1iry; tnat Is there were no standard
silver dollars III the treasury except
such IS the law required 10 be held for
the redemption 0f silver certificates and
the treasury notes Of 1890 and those re-
d4uptiona were made at all times dur
ing that month, and every other month
when the forms Of currency We're pre-
scented.
In response t. your verbal inquiry
concerning the coinage Of standard sill
vcr dollars during the present admin
istration you are advised that it
amounts to $6,GG2,GlJ up to the 18th day
If this month, while the amount Of such
dollars coined III this country from the
establishment Of the mint in 1892 up to
February, 1878, period Of Sc years, was
5000, GOO
Il enclose herewith a copy of ny let
ter to the United States senator re
fcrred to above. Very truly yours,
-. 9. CARLISLE"