The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27
MATTERS POLITICAL.

MATTERS POLITICAL.
Senator Butler has broken with Senator
Pr:tchard. He tells his colleague in an open
letter that he win not aid in the election TO
favors the gold standard. Two years ago,
Butler says, Pritchard was a silverite, but
he has since admitted that he has radically
charged his views.
The Macon Telegraph DemocraO does
not believe that ''the Georgia legislature
can do anything so certain 10 strengthen
the Democratic party as to so change the
laws as to insure the purity of elections
and the participation in them Of only those
persons able to read their ballots. and for
this reason able to vote intelligently and
Independently
1.-THE instant duty" the Portland Oregon
ian (Republican) says. 'is to remove the
excess Of government credit currency by
redemption of the legal tenders rejected
the banks and the treasury. If We do not
at once and entirely get rid of the legal
tender notes, it is necessary TO provide that
they shall gradually and naturally be re-
duced to the volume that viii be kept con-
stantly in circulation. and the government
be relieved from the necessity of constant
ly replenishins a reserve against them"
At the annual meeting OF the National
Civil Service Reform League, to be held IN
Philadelphia December 10 and II. addresses
will be made by Carl Schurz. John r. Proc
tor, Silas W. Burt and Dorman B. Eaton.
and papers viii be read by Richard H.
Dana OF Boston. John w. Ella Of Chicago.
Lucius B. Swift OF Indianapolis. Sherman
s. Rogers of Buffalo. Theodore Roosevelt
of New York. Francis z. Luepp Of Wash
ington, Charles Richardson of Philadelphia.
Walter B. Spencer Of New Orleans. and
Mrs. Charles Russell Lowell Of New York.
The Rochester Post-Express Republican)
hopes for the passage at Albany this winter
of the bill, which failed last year. to require
political committees to file statement Of
election expenses. ''The purity OF the BAL
lot box demands that there shall be no con-
cealment here" it says Publicity Is the
foe of the bribe-giver, the bribe-taker and
other foes of an unpolluted suffrage. Com
pei political organizations to file sworn
statements of all their expenditures. and
you go far toward curing the abhorrent
evil of purchased elections
II there is to be a revision Of the tariff,
Louisiana will demand its share Of the
spoIs. THE omission of the sugar sched-
ule from the increase of Is per cent provid-
ed for all other articles by the Dingley bill"
the New Orleans Picayune DemocraO says
SHOULD call for the opposition of the Lou
isiana senators to the measure should 1t
come up again at the coming session of
congress- unless the promoters of the oil
should be willing to include sugar in the
Increase OF Is per cent" To the Picayune
the tariff is a local question, indeed.
The majority OF the Democratic papers
in Louisiana speak fsvorsbly Of the opera
ton there of the Australian ballot. But the
Donaldsonville Times raises the objection
that II disfranchises too many white men.
"A white man." 1t says, who, through no
misfortune of his own. cannot read. will
hesitate long time before parsding this
deficiency before others; his natural pride
revolts against IL. On the contrary, col
cred man looks upon such defect as
natural condition. and has no hesiiancy IN
trying to remedy 1t through the brain and |
intelligence Of others
"why not sell enough bonds at once and |
be done with the greenbacks before more
bonds have TO be sold 20 protest them?"
asks the Chicago Tribune tRspuoiican). |
mo Republican should be scared by that /
cry against selling bonds in time Of peace
which was first raised when bonds were
sold with which 20 get the gold TO begin re-
sumption The time when bonds are sold 4
is matter OF 10 consequence, but they 1
should be sold For some good purpose The
debt OF the government viii not be any /
greater when the bonds are funded, though 4
the interest charge VII be about nine mill I
ions more than now. That VII be the price
OF absolute security in the future"
ssss
"The tone OF n. Democratic press n the 1
south shows a general acceptance OF the
election as putting an end 20 The free silver
q citation notes the Jacksonyiiis. Pa.
Citizen Deuocrao. so fsr as the future +
Is concerned ali goot judges agree that the i
south win hereafter Be fo1n5 on TIE side Of
sound rncrey. as vfl al the rsst Of the
country except possibly tie 's@ge~os'isn 4
/. ;ates' Ia the Rozky Mountain region The
truth i taar che strength of free silver n
,he south has Always Seen grossly exszSe--
atsa- TIE vote recently cast f0V B-fs7
was in nc sense representative q syss-
pz.hy with as silver position en- the par
Of r,zny xho cas-. thes- oaIs0ts fer a;zr-
They rosss a. they aid simply e>aauss -
was The candidate Of TIE De1ccrzits
party"
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