The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-07-15
wAsHINcToN:LETTER.
A Weekly Budget of Interesting New
from the Capital.

A Weekly Budget of Interesting News
from the Capital.
WASHINGTON, July 10.-0nly last year
the country was told the south was prac-
tically UNANIMOUS in wanting the tax
on bank currency repealed, and a con-
vention dominated by sOutherners and
westerners of the Tillman and Altgeld
stripe declares that all paper money
shall be issued by the United States gov
ernment.
The tariff plank Of the platform was
made wobbly for the express purpose OF
catching the votes Of the republican pre-
tectionists of the silver states, and is
about on a par with the tariff for rev.
enue" plank of the Hancock platform.
The plank favOring constitutional
amendment to allow the imposition of an
income tax was sop to the populists.
The plank denouncing appeals to the
federal courts in local affairs was in
tended to catch the professional labor
agitatOrs of the Debs stripe.
The civil service plank, although in
effect cOntradicting itself, was put in to
make the practical politicians" believe
that clean sweep would be made for
their benefit, if the democrats should
win.
The plank against third term was
put in for pure cussednesS to add to the
discOmfOrture OF Mr.. Cleveland, although
it is probable that the belief that Mr..
Cleveland was the most unpopular man
in the United States was also factor in
its adoption.
The plank favOring legislation which
will prevent the making Of contracts
stipulating the kind of money in which
obligations shall be paid was putintofOOl
those who have no better sense than to
believe such legislation possible under
our present constitution.
The plank indirectly attacking the
national banks was put in to tickle the
pOpulists.
The plank denOuncing large apprOpri.
atiOns by republican congresses and de.
manding a return to simplicity and
economy was merely bit Of buncOmbt
inserted for use among the ignorant.
The ticket named to runSOn this plat
form is in keeping with the nature o.
the platform itself, and with the anar
chists-pOpulistic Tenderness Of the con
trolling element in the convention. 81
far as the republicans are concered, they
are delighted with both ticket and plat
form, which are just about what they
would have made them had they beer
given the task of thus adding to the Ger
tainty of the election of Mckinley an(
Hobart.
Secretaries Carlisle, Lamont and Herb
ert are in Washington, but they all de
clined to be interviewed on the work O
the Chicago convention. That they dis
like it is certain, but whether they O
any member of the administration will
take any public step to accentuate thei
dislike is very uncertain. Mr.. Clevelan,
favors a bolt and some, but not all, o
the members of his cabinet are of tn
same mind; but their action will not b
determined upon until it can be assel
tained how much support an indepent
ent democratic ticket upon a gold plat
form can count upon getting. The PR
diction is made by democrats who ougf
to be familiar with the sentiment {
their party that there will be no otht
democrat ticket put up, and that I'll
boiling will be confined to individual
who will vote the republican ticket; tn;
y being the most certain way to defei
= the dem-pOps.