The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-09-09

Senator Spooner, Of Wisconsin, cor
rectly says: 'BrYanism and free sill
yer have gone over the brink forever.
New industries are being projected,
capital is coming out, business i 70.
viving, and, on the whole, this long
looked for and much talked-of era Of
prosperity is not on tie way, but act.
ually here"
Col. Andrew Ceddes, of Iowa,
widely known in grand army circles,
this week assumed the duties of chief
clerk Of the department Of agricult-
ure.
Hon. John Russell Young this week
announced his selections Of the re-
mainder of his chief assistants in the
management of the congressional Ii
brary, and everybody comedies that
he has lived up to his promise that
each of them should be chosen for
their special fitness to fill the posi-
tions TO which they are appointed.
Those appointed were Prof. James G.
Hanson, of Wisconsin, to be chief of
the catalogue department; Thomas
H. Clark, of Alabama, to be superin-
tendent of the law library; P. Lee
Phillips, of the District of Columbia,
to be superintendent of the hall of
maps and charts; Allen B. Slauson,
of Oregon, to be superintendent of
the periodical and newspaper depart
ment; W. r. Whittlesey, of Virginia,
to be superintendent, and Miss Myr-
tie L. Mason, of Illinois, to be assis-
tant of the music department.; A. P.
G. Griffin, of Massachusetts, and Ar
thur R. Kimball, of New Hampshire,
to be assistant librarians; Lawrence
Washington, of Virginia, to be in
charge Of Washingtonian libraty, and
w. H. Morse, of Rhode Island, to be
assistant in catalogue department..
There are about forty clerks, atten-
dants, laborers, etc., to be appointed
to complete the working force of the
new library, and the number seeking
those places is in the neighborwood
of seven thousand.
Members of the administration are
not disappointed in the amoant pro-
duced by the Dingley tariff up to
date. The deficit of about twenty
six million dollars for the months of
July and August was no larger than
it was expected to be. Large ad-
vance importations lessened the tar
if receipts and large expenditures
necessarily had to be made in the
first quarter of the new fiscal year.
The Dingley law is all right, and as
soon as the advance importations are
used up it will produce quite as much
revenue as Mr.. Dingley and the treas
ury experts estimated in advance OF
it's enactment, and the treasury will
soon accumulate sufficient surplus to
resume the republican policy of re.
ducing the national debt by the re-
tirement of bonds.
The attempt of the silver demo
Gratis of Pennsylvania to compel w
F. Harrity to retire from the demo
cratic national committee is regarded
in Washington as the beginning of 6
fight to the death upon the gold dem
ocrats by the silver democrats. Thu
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organization in their hands and they
are apparently fully determined thai
those members of their party who de
cline to fall down and worship at thu
shrine of the free coinage of silve
shall be kicked out of the party
Nothing could please the republican
/ more than to see this determination
fully carried out and the democratic
party, municipal, county, state ant
nationol committed to free silver.
i, Considerable gossip has bee
, caused in Washington by the decla
e ration of Gov. O'Ferrall, of Virginia
= that he would not support the recent
| ly nominated state democratic tickle
: but as the men who nominated tina
+ ticket are in control of the electio
j. machinery this detection is not likel
Q to affect the result. With an electio
t law in Virginia that would ensure tn
(. counting Of votes as they are cast
J. would be an easy matter to defea
the democratic ticket.