The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-01-16
A TRICK OF cLEveLAND's.
Underhand Methods of the Democratic
 Administration.

Enderhand Methods of the Democratic Administration.
 No Australian ever had a boomerang more deadly to those behind him than the administration has proved Go it's apologists. They have long since ceased to be supporters. and as to many things apologize no longer. The un- precedented indeccncy of Secretary Carlisle's published attack on a pend- ing bond bill, which was framed solely because the president had besought congress to relieve the treasury, prob- ally no respectable democrat will at tempt to excuse. Possibly it passed the bond bill in the house. Certainly it gained many votes for the measure, which the administration wanted to defeat. Men will wonder why the president sought to defeat a measure which would have enabled him to bor- row money at lower interest and on bet ter terms for the government. They will find one of two answers each dis honoring to the president. If he want ed to show that his political opponents, to whom he had frantically appealed for relief of the treasury, could not Ggree among themselves and would not do anything, his care for partisan rather than public interest was dis honoring. If he lad private interests, or interests of friends to serve by mak- ing a bond contract with particular persons. and for bonds which could be advanced far above the price paid to the government, his anxiety to have congress fail to authorize better lean is applicable, but dishonoring.
 Democrats can no longer deny that their administration has engaged in a lie welfare, and at vast loss to ind.- viduals. The presidents war message produced financial excitement which he would have been stupid if he had not expected. He was ready to intensity it to the utmost by his hysterical mes- sage imploring congress to mature some measure of relief during the holi- days. If congress had refused or failed, as he expected, he might have had a decent excuse for the bond negotia- tions which, with almost incredible in difference to public spirit, he has been pushing through all the time, and prac- iically completed before one house could act. The surprising vigor and promptness of the house, passing both tariff bill and bond and temporary loan bill between Thursday noon and Saturday night, has left the president to carry out with decent excuse the bond contract upon which his stock jobbing friends have been betting.
 It is commonly remarked by demo- crats who have some perception of pub lie opinion that the president will hardly venture upon step so indecent as the issue of four per cents under the old law before the senate has time to act. This, at least, is evident, that the sen- ate would not take the trouble to con- slider the bond bill, after the president had borrowed slOO ,oOo, ,OoO more by the
 issue of bonds expected this week. Moreover, as his discourteous refusal even to consider the measures of re- lief proposed by the house would apply to the revenue as we'll as the bond part. it is possible that if bonds are issued by the president without waiting the senate will feel that it has time to place before him a tariff bill framed rather for the purpose of reviving in dustry and business, and correcting the infamous bargains with monopoiies made by the last democratic congress, than to meet temporary emergency which will not then exist.
 The bond bill passed by the house, after it was so amended as to prevent the retirement of greenba cks, is a measure which the president, if in the least degree honest in his appeal to congress, must recognize as perfectly responsive to that appeal. It provides for borrowing at lower rate, and for borrowing from the people rather than by contract with more or less foreign syndicate. It also provides for tenn porary loans to tide over any tempo rary deficiency. There are many re- publicans who have believed that no more borrowing by bond issues ought to be authorized or permitted. Others have believed that the present admin istration had so far misconducted af- fairs that it should not be intrusted with any new power. But the majority felt that it was right for congress to respond Loyalty to the president, as if he were honest in his professiOns md assurances, and patriotic rather than partisan in his aims. They responded as promptly and literally as if the ap- peal had come from the most honored of republican presidents. And then they had to pass the bill against the public opposition of the secretary of the treasury and against the vote of every democrat but one in the house. N. Y. Tribune.