Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-10
PLATFORM SUPPORT
MUST BE A TEST OF A MANS
LOYALTY TO HIS PARTY.

LOYALTY TO HIS PARTY.
Mark Hanna Causes a "Iiigh Old
Timer In the Interior Depart.
ment by Trying to Control Ap.
pOintments-A Heavy Republican
Deficit - Per manent Prosperity
Can Only Come Through the
Opening Of the MINIS 10 Free
Coinage OF silver Same as Gold.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. Sd, 1897.
1t has always been considered the
proper thing to make support of the
National platform of the political
party the test of a mans loyalty tc
his party. The platform adopted by q
party in National convention is the
only authentic declaration of the
principles of that party and must be
so considered until another national
convention meets and adopts another
platform. These facts are so self.
evident that mention of them seems
almost unnecessary, yet objection is
being raised because Democrats are
insisting that the platform adopted by
the Chicago convention must be ac-
cepted as the principles of the Demo.
cratic party. To do anything else
would be radical departure from all
political precedents.
There is clash of authority in the
Interior Department between Secretary
Bliss and Indian Commissioner Jones
that may end in a big row among
prominent Republicans. Mr.. Jones
present assistant is Mr.. Thomas p.
Smith, who is Democratic holdover.
Mr.. Smith has made tip-top record
and Mr.. Jones would like him to re-
main in his Office. Boss Hanna di-
rected some time ago that one of his
Ohio proteges-Tawner, by NAME
who has been serving as the private
Secretary of Secretary Bliss, should be
appointed Assistant Commissioner,
and the appointment was about to be
made when Commissioner Jones heard
about it and notified Secretary Bliss,
that he would not have Tawner for
his assistant. Then there was a high
old time in the Office of Secretary
Bliss, and the relations between him
and Commissioner Jones are very
much strained, but Tawner has not
yet been appointed. Ofcourse, if Boss
Hanna insists he will be, and if Jones
doesn't like it he can resign. 1t is a
custom to consult the wishes of bureau
chiefs in selecting their assistants, and
upon that custom Commissioner Jones
relies.
Republicans would rather not talk
about the deficit of about twenty-six
million dollars shown by the official
figures of the governments receipts
and expenditures for July and August,
the first two months of the new fiscal
year. They have already done too
much talking about the surplus that
the new tariff was certainly going to
produce.
Senator McLaurin's success in the
s. c. primary election, which means
the nomination and election to the
Senate, was the source of no little
pleasure to his numerous Washing
ton friends. He has already shown
that he will make Senator OF whom
his State and section will be proud.
Representative De Graffenreid, of
Texas, is in Washington. Speaking
of wheat and silver he said: sour
farmers are this year blessed with
abundant crops and the wheat produc-
ing countries on the other side of the
ocean have short crops. In other
words, the demand for American wheat
is almost greater than the supply;
hence the big prices which the specu-
latOrs are just now getting. 1 am
sorry to say this will not always con-
tinue, for next year the demand for
wheat by reason of good crops ON the
other side may be only normal, and in
that event our farmers will not receive
any more for their wheat than formerly.
Let the minis of the United States,
England, France, and Germany be
Opened Tomorrow to silver, and you
would see the price of the white metal
rise steadily until it reached the level
OF gold. Why would it rise? Simply
because OF the demand-just the same
as demand has raised the price of
wheat" Mr.. Graffenreid expressed
his opinion strongly of those who are
constantly decrying the four hundred
million standard silver dollars the
country now has, and ended an in
|teresting chat by saying: "The only
solution Of the question is to open the
minis to silver the same as gold.
permanent prosperity will never come
Through the further contraction of the
currency, which the gold bugs are try
ing to bring about by discredit.
ing our standard silver dollars.
What the country needs is more
money. That will be the issue in the
next campaign, and; in my judgment,
the Democrats will win upon it."
Mr.. John Russell Young, the new
Librarian of Congress, is now having O
hard wrestle with the more than
seven thousand applicants and their
friends, who were disappointed when
he, this week, announced the appoint
ments to ten of the best positions at
his disposal. He still has forty or
fifty small places to dispose of and al
though they only carry small salaries
the pressure to get them is something
awful to contemplate. Dem.
Going Cat ~ Business.
Having concluded to close out my
business at once am prepared to give