The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-03-25
THE PRESIDENT WISH
He Cseavcs to a Sound Money
Plank.
AND WILL HAVE 1T If POSSIBLE,


tration-CoIoneI Morrison Is Not Looked
Upon with Favor-Bat whitney May
BE Nominated After All.
WASHINGTON. March Co. Especial. +
What Is the administration up To politi-
callyY Are the president and his lieuten-
ants really trying to nominate Secretary
Carlisle? These questions are often heard
In Washington, and no one Is able to give
a satisfactory answer. But l have made
some inquiries which satisfy me that the
administration has only one definite pro-
gramme, and this has not TO do with can
didates. The first great desire of the pres
ident and his advisers, as L told you some
time ago In dispatch from this city, Is to
secure the adoption of sound money
plank in the Chicago convention. Every
thing else is to be subordinated TO this
project. Unless the platform can be made
right the president and his followers will
have little interest In the nominations If
the principles of the party are to be chang
ed If the Democracy is To become a free
silver party Mr.. Cleveland and his imme-
date friends will not care rap who the
nominees are, and will wash their hands
of the whole business. This statement
gives keynote TO the programme of the
administration, and everything else will
have to be measured by IL.
Carlisle and Morrison.
Secretary Carlisle is in IA certain sense n
candidate for the presidential nomination,
and in sense he has the support of the
administration. But it would not be true
TO say that he is the administration
candidate, if by that is meant that the
whole power of the government is TO be
used to bring about his success. The truth
Is that Mr. Carlisle was put forward as IA
! possible nominee more in the hope that his
appearance in the field would strengthen
the sound money cause than through any
belief that he could be nominated. Before
entering Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet Mr.. Car
Isle was in close touch with the free sill
yer people. Though not very much of a
free silver man himself at any time he
was "A member of their ranks in "a conserv-
alive way, and his friends in public life,
and majority of his admirers in private
life, were in the states which now seek to
have silver made the cardinal principle of
| Democracy. Therefore it was believed that
as IA presidential candidate Mr.. Carlisle
might help TO hold up the hands of the
men who are struggling for antisilver del
egates from the southern states.
Morrison Not For Free Silver.
There was a special reason why Mr. Car
| isles name should be interjected TO the
canvass. Colonel William r. Morrison OF
| Illinois is the most prominent candidate
! in the western and southern section of the
country. Morrison and Carlisle have
much the same standing. They have been
fast friends, personally and politically.
Their political friendship is at an end but
their personal relations are as pleasant as
ever. They have belonged to the same
coterie-that is, the friends of one have in
innumerable instances been the friends OF
the other Colonel Morrison is not "a free
silver man. His personal belief is that
free coinage by this country alone would
be dangerous. But he Is satisfactory &c
the silver men, in measure, because 1t L.
understood among them that II Mr.. Nor
rison were nominated for president and
elected he would not veto silver bill, in
case one were passed by the congress Mr.
Morrison declines TO say whether or not
this is true, but the silver men appear to
be well content with his position If t Is
true IL is because Mr. Morrison, as an old
fashioned Democrat, does not believe il
lies within the province of president tC
set himself up as greater than the congress
and greater than the people who elected
the congress- by interposing the executive
veto upon "a measure which has been dis
cussed throughout the country and upon
which there has been no rash or hasty leg
islation. There Is a theory, to which it Is
believed Mr.. Morrison subscribes, that the
veto power should only be exercised when
congress has acted hastily or impulsively,
or upon supposed state of facts which
| aftprWarQ turned ont To he incorractl Y
stated; and that in no case is it the duty
or right of the president to thwart the will
of the people as expressed through the bal
lot box upon great question of economic
or financial policy.
Contingency.
Another reason why Mr.. Morrison Is