Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-20
Chandler Calls His Actions
ellis Insane Career"
TIME FOR SILENCE on CURRENCY.
He Declares 1t Political Suicide For Re
pubiieans to Open Discussion of the
Money Question-Should Take Care of
Hawaii and Cuba.

w AsH1NdION, D6C. W. - C6HdIOE
Chandler of New Hampshire has writ
ten letter 10 the Washington Post in
which he says
''If the secretary of the treasury and
his single gold standard associates will
cease their demand for impossible cur
rency legislation congress will pass the
necessary appropriation bills, properly
take care OF Hawaii and Cuba, there
will net be "a serious party division DUR
ing the session. ana there will be an
Adjournment in 8ay Business will
revive, the treasury receipts will equal
the expenditures. the balance of trade
will centinua Il ur favor, and the Re-
publican party VIII in November, 1898,
eject Il ma 5Orlty of the house in the
Fifty.fifth COZ gress
ION the uther hand, if Secretary
Gage continues to press upon congress
a bill, the OBJECT OF which, he says, is
first, to commit the country more
thoroughly to the gold standard, and
he immedl" g effect of which is to
throw douh.a upon the sincerity OF the
presidents re larations in favor of con
tinund efforts 10 secure bimetallism,
political turmoli VIII ARISE III congress
: hlch will spilt the now united Repub-
Iicans in fragments while it Will unite
and consolidate the now ineongruous
opposition. ,t is not feasible to retire
the greenbacks there is more proba.
bility that bill will be sent to the
PRESIDENT to increase their amount. 1t
is net possible to secure the passage,
through either house, of bill making
the greenbacks into gold notes or auth
orlzing bonds payable in gold. The eff
So 70 "A sci, l.
result in the passage of bill for the re-
demption of the greenbacks in silver
dollars and for the payment of all
United States BONDS in gold or silver
coin, in the discretion of the president,
who will be commanded exercise his
option for the advantage of the govern
ment and not for the advantage of the
creditor.
~ 18th such an uproar in congress as
these proceedings viii create with
western ngressmen embroiled therein,
with presidential vetoes, as threatened
by Secret airy cage, under angry discus
ion it will happen that all business en-.
terprises and funds and stocks will be
disturbed, prices will fall, insolvencies
will increase and the Republicans will
lose the congressional elections i'll 1898
as disastrously as they did in 1890 and
beyond the hope of a favorable re-
action in 100 at which time, therefore,
Bryan Democratic president and con-
gress will be chosen.
whether we are to have one OF
these results-political safety or the
other, political observation-disclosures
entirely upon the course to be pursued
by secretary Gage and those who are
pressing him forward, namely. the
Gold Standard League of New York,
and the self constituted monetary con.
ference. how much Secretary Gage
cares for the Republican party is not
known Whether President Mckinley,
whose good faith toward bimetallism
is coming to the test, will stop his Sec
rotary in his insane career. is not
known. 1t is to be hoped he will. But
no political situation has been clearer
than the present to sound eyes since
the Republican party began its marvel
Gus career AZ years ago. There are
times for all things. There is time TO
move and time to keep still, and now
is the time to so keep.
cit is simply political suicide for the
Republican party in this congress to
affirmatively open the discussion of the
money question and to bring on yea
and nay votes upon currency legisla.
ton. We ought to await the progress
of international bimetallism, the ad-
vent of bu mess prosperity and the fill
ing of treasury by the normal workings
soon to be seen of the new tariff law.
Shall we wait for these things or rush
on tofselt- destru ton: President Nc
Kinley must decide. Will he act for
his people or for his plutocrats? Upon
his answer will depend the events of
1885,"