The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-12-17
LETTER FROM
WASHINGTON,
Clsveland's Message the Same
Old Gag-Wapts Eng
lands Permission.

0iu uae VANS Ing
lands Permission.
RESOLUTIONS FOB CUBA.
Some Thiogs which Marx Hanaa IL Re-
ported to He Seeking Yor-Intam afisss
1hst Aonsy IL KssAy For Ba,i.s CD
LsgfsIatuEss- The ..Iaessa ass on n B,m.,.
.iIism" Hunsux Up Again.
WAsHISGTos. D. c., Dec. 18th,
lS96.-The opening Of Congress last
week was devoid of any feature of
special interest. The Presidents
message was very long, heavy and
wearisome. The part of it relating
to the financial question was simply
a rehash of his former statements,
and keeping with his past I'M Ameri-
can course on this question. Inter
est was specially attached to what
he might say on the Cuban question.
About this matter he had a great
deal to say, but whatever his real
meaning was it was effectually
buried beneath a mass Of meaning
less words. He straddled the aues-
ton just as the Chicago platform on
which he was elected straddled
the financial question. His position
towards Cuba seems to be about the
position Of the International bime-
tallist toward silver. The interna-
tional bimetallist always claims that
he has a great sympathy for silver,
but says that we must wait until the
consent of England and other for
eign nations is gotten before we can
do anything. Cleveland expresses
great sympathy for Cuba, but he
must wait for Spain's consent before
he can do anything. Cleveland and
the international bimetailist are
both arrant humbugs and contemp t-
ible frauds.
However, three strong resolutions
have already been introduced in
Congress, favoring the recognition
of the independence of Cuba out
right, and already speeches have
been made by Senators Call and
Cullom on these resolutions, and
other speeches are to follow.
1t is disgrace to our free
institutions and to our boosted
love of liberty that this ma
ton sits still while the patriots in
Cuba who are contending against
the same evils that we fought
against the Revolutionary war, and
fighting for the same priceless boon
of liberty, are oppressed and butch
cred by the cruel and merciless
Spaniards.
On last Wednesday a Republican
senatorial caucus was held. Senators
Teller, Cannon, Dubois, Mantle, Squire.
and Pettigrew, who revolted against
Mckinley and the Republican Ma
tiOnal platform were invited TO attend
this caucus, but they POLITELY and
unanimously declined % do so. Sen
atOr Dubois, who was secretary of the
caucus sent in his resignation
as secretary and also as member
of the caucus. These men who have
so long fought for financial reform
inside of the Republican party realize
that the monOpOlists, trusts, and gold
syndicates have complete charge of the
party, aud that there is 10 hope
| for good government ever to be re-
stored under or through it. There
fore, they have left the party for good,
and in the future will stand with the
Peoples Party and no other true re-
| formers. John Sherman called what
was left of the Republican caucus to-
gether, and the first thing they did
was to pass a resolution IN favor of
international bimetallism, and ap-
point a committee to go to work on
that line. How much longer does
Sherman and his allies think they can
fool the American people with such
straddling humbuggery and decep-
ton. Every intelligent man in Amer
lea knows that England and the other
countries that profit by the gold
standard will never agree to the free
coinage of silver. Therefore they
know, and these Republican Senators
know, that free silver with the consent
of England is absolutely impossible
and, even if it were possible, what hu
mility and what trechery to our great
free government to claim that we can
not legislate about our own affairs
without the consent of Great Britain
The man who claims that we must &c
the consent of England before w
legislate would have refused to sigl
the Declaration of Independence if b.
. had lived during the Revolutionar!
War. He would havo said that b.
, could not sign the Declaration of In
dependence without the consent o
. England. He would have wanted al
> international Declaration of Inde
> pendence. In the language of Zel
Vance, these international bimetallist
J would seem to be either knaves o
} fools.
l Senator Allen threw bomb shel
into the Republican camp when h
moved few days ago to take up tn
e Republican tariff bill and put it i
. such shape that it could be passet
1 1t is clear that the Republicans neve
t intended to pass this measure, and
: they are in earnest about wanting
}, pass a revenue measure and make u
:. the deficit in revenue and to prever
the further issue Of bonds, now the
: have the opportunity.
: Mark Hanna has been here for abor
t week. After comforting with tt
q Republican Congressman and Sen.
ltors, President Mark Hanna notifie
r his protegee, Mckinley, that he mu'
5 spring. But the chief business (
IS Mark Hanna seems to have been
Is confer with the Republican Senator
z and Congressman from those Stat
q where Senators are to be elected /
- the legislature this winter and De!
n spring, and to inform them that Il
National committee wi
81 take the necessary steps to captul
% these legislatures. He simply wan
20 these Congressman and Senators
81 inform him how best to bring his p
% culiar influences to bear upon Il
IN members of the legislatures. He
10 reported to have said that if these le
islatures cannot be captured one wa
they must be another. 1t is also u
derstood that he favors the use
c. money instead of patronage where n
= cessary to accomplish this result. E