Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-07-10

Silver-mine owners who are at
tempting to carry Iowa and Ohio OF
the silver issue this fall should have {
business consultation with Mr..
Dehs and arrange with him to delay
the departure of his communist,
organization until after the election
They need all of that kind OF votes
they can muster.
| The Commissioner Of Pensions does
not agree with the Democratic idea
that the duty of examining surgeons
is to invent ways and means of keep
ing old soldiers from getting pensions
Justly due them, and so has dismissed
about five hundred Democratic ex-
aiming surgeons who seem to have
thought that their chief duty during
the past four years.
The proposition for half fiat
dollar has no further charms for Tom
Watson and his populist followers.
He has announced new platform oil
a government issue of paper money
which shall give per capita of fifty
dollars to everybody, and he expects
to put this in the platform at the
convention of his party this week and
send the free coinage proposition to
the rear.
1t is doubtless great disappoint.
ment to Mr.. Bryan to know that he
is not to figure as the chief of the
silver movement in the next cam.
paign. But the mine owners who
put up the cash for the silver fight
have decided that a man with a
losing record will not do for second
race, and have therefore passed the
word along the line that he is to be
ignored in the future.
| No wonder Chairman Butler Of the
Aopuliot NdtioLdl COlnullttcG ICJcStSu
Mr. Bryan's $1,000 contribution tc
the campaign fund Of that party under
the circumstances. The idea of sup,
posing that so small sum would
command the Presidential nomination
OF great party is preposterous. A
man with the financial wisdom which
Mr.. Bryan processes ought to have
known better.
For one, do not believe it pos
sible to succeed upon platform that
demands the unqualified free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 10 to with
gold. We have fought that battle
and it is lost. We can never fight it
over under circumstances more favor
able to ourselves. If we hope to sue
coed, we must abandon the extreme
demand. "--Ex-Governor Boies oi
Iowa in letter to Col. d. M. Fox, oil
Des Moines.
| Democratic support for the protec-
tive tariff is one of the causes of the
improved conditions through the
country. Business men who are CON
stantly studying these conditions are
Of the opinion that the tariff bill
which has just been framed will re.
main on the statute books for a long
time because OF the growth of the
protective sentiment among the Dem
ocrats, and that with its permanency
there will be permanent bushes:
prosperity.
Ex-Governor Boies of Iowa has re
fused longer to follow the free-coin'
age-of-silver proposition. and is out
in an urgent argument in favor of Z
paper currency based solely on the
market value of the silver bullion
against which it would be issued
Governor Boies' reputation of the
Democratic doctrine which proposes
to base currency on legislative action
which should call 46 cents dollar is
a severe blow to the free coinagists.
4 Just one-twelfth of the Mckinley
administration has passed and in that
time Republicans lave done more in
the way of carrying out the pledges
of the platform than was ever accom-
plished in double that time by any
previous administration. When you
consider that this has been done with
a Senate in which the Republicans
are in minority you should celebrate
the close OF the first four months in
stead of grumbling because the full
four years undertaking has not been
completed.
Protests" coming from foreign
nations relative to the tariff which we
are about adopting are not looked up
on as a serious matter by our states