The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

Senator Brice Is ad1liteed as.sis
friends and foes alike, to be one of the
shrewdest men in political life. And
his opinion as to the Demo
cratic policy for the next three months
finds an echo in the minds of many
leading members of the party. He
thinks the wise thing for the Demo
Gratis to do is to wait until the Repuh-
licans have made their platform and
put up their ticket before committing
themselves to any candidate for the
Democratic nomination. He thus
sums up his opinion of what he thinks
the Democrats will do: 1--WE will not
make up our minds as to what we will
do abcut a Presidential nomination
until after the Republican National
Convention acts. The chances are that
the Democratic State Conventions OF
the big States, like New York, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, will not meet to
select delegates until after the st.
Louis Convention" The wisdom of
this waiting policy is that it will leave
the party free to put up the most
available man against the Republican
nominee, and that might be a man
not now considered, and to take adj
vantage of the mistakes made in either
ticket or platform by the st. Louis
Convention.
Both silver Democrats and sound
money Democrats are claiming ma
jority of the Chicago Convention, but
nnifhnr Ci6n q nlniTHlilln thn fnn f irdo
it will take to nominate the ticket I'M
less the two-thirds rule is abolished.
There will he a total of $50 delegates
in the convention. OF these the silver
men claim $40 and the sound mon
ey men $50. OF course, one or
the other claim must turn out to be
wrong. The claims of both parties are
made on the basis of entire State dele
cations, as with the exception of Ohio
and West Va, it is expected that the
unit rule will be followed and thy ma
.jOrity cast the vote of the entire
State delegation either fol or against
silver. The conservatives have not
abandoned hope of a compromise fl
nancial plank upon which all Demo-
Gratis can stand without a surrender of
principle.
In order to give the Democrats the
right to circulate it under Congress
sional frank, Representative Dinsmore
of Ark, had Senator Chambers inter-
view, charging Mckinley with being
a Doodle Candidate read as part of his
speech against the resolution censuring
Ambassador i5ayard, which the House
adopted. Chandler's charges are ex-
plicit and emphatic and if Mckinley
gets the Republican nomination, this
interview will make corking cam
paign document for use against him.
AS there is no official channel
through which those resolutions of
censure adopted by the House can be
transmitted to Ambassador Bayard,
that gentleman Will never know Off
cially that the House has taken such
an absurd course.
Senator Blanchard, of Louisiana,
who has just returend from visit
home, says of the political outlook in
his State: 1.-THE Republicans and Pop
ulists have fused in the hope of doing
in Louisiana what they accomplished
in North Carolina in '95. But they
will miss it, 1 think, by large major
ity-40,OOO, according to the figuring
of Gov. Foster"
1t is now claimed by Senator Mitch
ell, Of Oregon, who is bossing the rather
0AAAOuAO JOO Va giving OOls OupOul, OI
Delaware, a seat in the Senate to
which he is not entitled, that he has
secured the promises of Senators Jones
and Stewart, of Nevada, to vote for
Dupont, and that all the Republicans
will vote for him, but the latter claim
is doubted. Several Republican Sena-
tors have privately expressed them
selves against seating Dupont.
{ 1t is not probable that the secret
meeting which was held here several
days ago for the purpose of giving a
committee of Republican manufactur-
ers from Pennsylvania an opportunity
of trying to make a deal with the Re-
publican silver Senators who refused
to support the House tariff bill, will
result in an independent political par
ty with silver and protection for its
foundation. But the refusal of the Re-
publican silver Senators TO enter any
deal that will allow protection legisla-
ton either during this or the next
Congress, unless it is coupled with the
FIR coinage of silver, was very signifi-
cant. 1t indicates that the straddle
proposed by Mckinley will not be ac-
cepted by the silver Republicans at the
National Convention, and that means
split and the refusal of the silver Re
FuOHConS W SupPOIt Cuc OIs LOUIS LICK.
ct and platform, for that convention is
sure to be dominated by anti-siIver Re-
publicans. All of which is cheering to
Democrats.
The Senate to-day began another
week-the fifth-on the Cuban resolu-
tiOns, but whether this is to be the last
is not at all certain, although it is
probable. President Cleveland has
said nothing and those who presume
to know, say that he will continue to
maintain silence until he feels that
there is occasion to say something, re-
CARELESS of Congressional action.
Marvellous Results.