The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-01
SILVER May CONTROL.
Belief That Ii Will Dominate
at Chicago.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's VIEWS.
He Wants No Compromise at Chicago--A
Picturesque Senatorial Contest Looked
For In Nevada Some Remarkable Facts
~ To Counties aud states

WASHINGTON, June - Special -
President Cleveland and the members OF
his cabinet now privately admit that the
national convention at Chicago will be
controlled by the silver men They do not
publicly give up the fight. but might n,
we'll. IL Is the presidents idea that thcrc
should be no compromise at Chicago In
timations have been made by prominent
Democrats that some way TO straddle the
silver question and keep the party together
might be found but MIR Cleveland is not
| willing To countenanoo anything of the
sort. He believes the battle should be-
fought To a finish. and that In this way
the problem OF monetary standard An
this country will be settled much quicker
than by temporizing with the question
/ A Fatal Mistake.
Prominent Democrats sey the president
and Secretary Carlisle made a fatal mis-.
take few months ago in Kentucky. Sen
| ator Blackburn, the regular Democratic
candidate for senator, was battling for his
seat. small number OF Democrats re
| fused TO vote for him because OF their 10y
| atty 10 the administration and because
they could not indorse his silver views In
this emergency Blackburn appealed To Sec
rotary Carlisle TO help him out. Every one
believes that IL Mr.. Carlisle had urged the
members of the legislature to elect Black
burn he could have won. But President
Cleveland, who is hard fighter. even
within the party. advised Carlisle not 20
do so. In consequence Mr. Carlisle wrote
a letter which virtually advised his friends
who were opposing Blackburn To stand
their ground The result was no election
Democrats say that IL Cleveland and
Carlisle had helped Blackburn win his seat
they might he able to control the Chicago
convention. II they had come out with
ringing appeal 10 all Democrats to stand
together for the good of the party, sinking
minor differences, but remembering al |
ways that they were party men, not only |
would Blackburn have won his fight but |
Democrats everywhere would have rallied |
about the administration They think this |
would have produced a feeling within the |
party which would have strengthened the |
president SO much as to have turned the |
tide against free silver. On such small in.
cidents the fate OF parties does often hang
Eckels Hoodooed.
There IL good story on Mr. ECkCls, the |
comptroller of the currency Two weeks |
ago Mr.. Eckels started for his home mt OF.
tawa, Ills, to make a fight for the dele
gates TO the state convention in behalf of |
the administration. On tho train Mr.
Eckels took dinner i'm the dining car, and
as the car was going around sharp curve
the colored waiter lost his balance and del
uged the boyish appearing comptroller
with the contents of plate of soup. From
that moment Mr.. Eckels appeared to be
hoodooed His ward in Ottawa went
against him. his town went against him. |
his county went against him, and his con
gressional district went against him. He |
lost everything In sight and returned 10 |
Washington a sadder IL not a wiser man. {
saying that 10 Is no use to go forth on q
political mission IL one is TO get into the
soup before no reaches his destination. o
Nevada Is likely to be the scene of one of
the most picturesque senatorial contests OF
the coming winter, Congressman New
lands of that state Is said To be a candidate
for the seat now held by Senator Jones II q
these two come together in bid for the
honor of representing Nevada in tho upper
branch of congress, there will be music In :
the air. In the old days when Jones.
Stewart, Fair, Sharon and other million
aires sought the senatorship as rivals II |
was worth a small fortune to have a seat |
In the Legislature. II Newlands goes into | ,
the contest In earnest, he will give Jones
. lively race. Both are very rich Both |
are good fighters, and when his blood is up |
neither cares for expenses Every one in |
Nevada Is hoping the senatorial fight comes |
,ff, for 1t will In measure meet the com.
olaint of the people that there ism t enough | ,
money In circulation.
What To do with Nevada is one of the
problems which no one cares TO tackle. and
therefore the probabilities are nothing will
DO done with it. Yet many public men :
,hink 1t great mistake TO permit Nevada :
20 hold her place among the states with a
member OF the house and two senators in
he upper branch IL does not seem right | r
% permit 40, 900 people on the plains and
n the mountains of the far west to have !
Is many votes in the senate as New York
has with her 1000, 900 inhabitants. Yet
What can be done about itS Nevada is not
likely TO give up her statehood voluntarily.
md the constitution provides no method
~ which Nevada may be reduced to ter
itory without her consent Jt has been | q
that some other territory be m
,exed to Nevada in order to increase the
population OF the state to respectable
lgure, but there is no available territory.
Nevada Is now surrounded by states except
% the south, and the people of Arizona |
re not likely to consent TO giving up any C
Il their soil. AS Nevada Is SO she will |
'robably have To continue until industrial
hanges give her larger population. r
A Diminutive state.
An eastern senator who has n fondnoss D
or figures has called my attention TO some C
facts. 1T will surprise you. {
aid the senator, "to learn that there are
n the United States no fewer thar l9l
ounties each OF which contains a larger
population than the whole state of Nevada.
MI but ten OF the states have within their 4
orders counties each of which contains a T
reater population than tho entire state OF
Nevada You will he further surprised 20 O
earn that In the state of PENNSYLVANIA a
lone there are 36 counties each of which
) more worthy of being made state. so
mr. as population Is concerned than Ne.
ada. There are 81 such counties In New II
fork, IA In Ohio, IL in New Jersey and {
illinois, in Massachusetts,, In Maine. 9
dichigan and South Carolina, 3 in Con.
ecticut and Missouri, In Alabama and
tennessee, In California, Indiana. Iowa r
Maryland, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and
'exas In Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky
minnesota, Nebraska, Virginia and Wash
ngton, and In Arkansas, Colorado, Della.
Vare, Louisiana, Oregon and Utah. "