Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-06-12

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Campbell Talks-Silver Sentiment
in Chicago Convention Conceded.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June 9Th, 1896.
A bombshell has been exploded in
the camp OF the iubilant Mckinleyites
by the positive announcement that
Speaker Reed will not under any cir.
cumstances play second fiddle in the
Mckinley orchestra. Mr.. Reed is q
thoroughly Disguised man. He thought
he had his party in hand as he has
had the Republican majority of the
House, and it hurts him to be knocked
out by the man who has LEES ability
than any of the prominent candidates
for the nomination; and makes him
mad to see men who had pledged
their support TO him falling over each
other to announce their allegiance to
Mckinley.
President Cleveland was not sur
prised when Congress passed the River
and Harbor bill over his veto, nor has
that changed his opinion of the merits
of the bill, and predictions are freely
made that very small portion of the
money appropriated by the bill, now q
law, will be paid out by the present
administ ration. There are more ways
to kill dog than by hanging him.
The Butler bill prohibiting the
further issue of bonds without the
consent OF Congress was passed by the
Senate, the vote being 80 to %, silver
being the dividing line, but was quickly
shelved by the House which voted to
lay il on the table, after it had been
adversely reported from the Ways and
Means committee.
Unless the difficulty of keeping a
quorum present in the House, which
is becoming greater every day, shall
delay the transaction of business, Con-
gress will adjourn by the middle OF
next week, probably a little earlier.
But there are several members OF the
House who stop everything by raising
the point of "no quorum" everytime
they get the opportunity. There is
no expectation of doing anything else
than to finish up the regular appropria-
ton bills.
Ex-Gov. Campbell, OF Ohio, who is
considered by many to stand good
show for the Democratic nomination,
is in Washington. He doesn't believe
there will be split in the party at the
Chicago convention. Speaking about
it, he said: al feel quite certain that
when the Democrats meet in National
convention at Chicago they will
exercise good enough wisdom and
moderation to frame platform liberal
enough and broad enough for all men,
bers of the party to stand upon. / be-
lieve that conservatism and good sense
will prevail, and that differences OF
opinion will be subOrdinated to party
welfare. The silver men appear to be
in the majority, but that is no reason
for imagining that the party will split
into fragmer ts. as has been so cheer
fully predicted by a good many peo-
pie who don't in the least know what
they are talking about. The Demo-
cratic party has survived too many
ordeals to dread shipwreck now; and
it will continue to exist and to win
victories as it has been doing from the
beginning"
1t would be amusing, if it were not
such really serious matter, to see the
care with which the Republicans in
Congress are guarding their talk in
Cuban affairs. Such men as Senators
Sherman and Chandler, who were talk.
ing nothing but ripsnorting jingoism
few week ago are now as mum as
Quskers on the subject. The reason
is that somehow or other the Republi-
cans have become convinced that Presi-
dent Cleveland is getting ready to beat
Congress at its own game, by an early
recognition OF the outright in.
dependence of Cuba. Whether the
President has any such intention is
matter about which those who could
speak by authority will not talk. 1t is
probable that the Republican scare
grew out of President Cleveland say
ing to Senator Sherman and two other
members OF the Committee on Foreign
Relations, who called at the White
House to discuss Cuban affairs, that
he thought recognition of the in
dependence OF Cuba was preferable to
recognizing the Cubans as belligerents.
1t is now openly conceded even by
such sturdy opponents of silver as Sec.
retaries Smith and Morton that a
large majority Of the delegates to the
Chicago convention will be silver men,
but there is much less talk Of bolt
by the opponents OF silver than there
was when the control OF the conven.
ton was in doubt. In fact, quite
number of the strongest advocates
OF the gold standard in Congress
have voluntarily stated to silver DEM
ocrats their intention to be to support
loyalty the ticket and platform of the
Chicago convention. So far the Dem.
ocrats in Congress are doing very
little talking about any particular
candidate for President, and while
most OF them have a personal pre-
ference there is nothing like q con.
centration OF sentiment upon any one
man. Dem.