Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-09

lSHiy UeorSe 1Or mayor OF Greater
New York by large element of the
Democratic party of that city Mr.
George, as is well known, is the chief
apostle of the Single-tax idea, and his
nomination by large element of the
party in that city strengthens the be-
lief which has been growing for
months that the leaders of that party
would adopt the single-tax theory to
take the place of the free-silver propo-
sition of last year
John McLean's enormous gas and
street railway interests in Washing
ton are believed to have close rela-
ton to his senatorial ambitions Mr.
Mclean is the controlling owner in
the Washington Gas Works, whose
plant and franchise are valued at
1000, 900, and he is shown to be one
of the directors of Washington
street railway company whose capital
stock is 81. 900. 900. Gas and railroad
privileges in the District of Columbia
are controlled by Congress, just as
those of a city are controlled by its
common council. 1t is therefore i'm
portant for man with five or six
millions invested in gas and railroad
interests to be for six years a member
OF congress, and McLean'S eye for
business is good.
The lingo policy on the Cuban ques-
ton which was urged upon President
Mckinley as soon as he was inau-
gurated president is now seen to have
been an unwise and unsafe one, and
the wisdom of the presidents course
OF action is meeting with popular APP
proVal. IL Is now apparent from the
developments since Minister Wood
ford'S arrival in Spain that the atti-
tude of the administration will be
such as to bring about d termination
OF the troubles in Cuba, and in a way
which will avoid the criticism which
would have surely followed the pre-
cipitate action urged by many people
immediately after the inauguration
of the president. Those who were in
cllned to criticiSe what they consider
ed the SLOW progress of the president.
now see that his course was the wise
one.
The United States had in 1873 Is
cents per capita in silver and now has
SS.77 per capita. Belgium then had
s.. SO per capita; now she has IS. II per
capita. Italy had then Sc cents per
capita; now she has S1.35. The Meth
erlands had then 1886 per capita: now
she has 81 90. AuStria-Hungary then
mad Sill per capita: now she has
S2.l6- Australia had 81. Is per cap
tia; now she has S1.49. Sweden in
1873 had SO cents per capita IN silver;
now she has 81 per capita. Norway
80 cents per caplta: now 81 per capita.
Russia then % cents per capita; now
IS cents per capita The only nations
which have at all decreased are Great
Britain. France, Germany, and Den
mark. Great Britain'S per capita is
1896 instead of s.. 80: that OF France
has fallen from SI3.So to S12.94: that
of Denmark from S4.15 to S2.35. and
that of Germany from S7.47 to 1920
per capita. This data will be of in
terest in the campaigns of this fall
where the silver question is discussed.
If it is made an issue anywhere again.
1t looks as though the Democratic
party in Ohio would have a half dozen
wings and factions before the Ohio
campaign is over. A large ana very
Intelligent element of the party re-
fuse TO endorse the silver platform
and candidate, and has made their own
platform and nomination. Now it
appears that that element of the
Democratic party which adopted the
free silver plank OF the Chicago ut ter
ance as its platform is again divid inc.
The latest reports from Ohio Indicate
that John r.. Mclean. who entered
the senatorial fight as silver man.
has advised the abandonment of the
silver issue, and that this is causing
about an equal division of that sec
ticn OF the Democracy which original
ly supported the free silver platform
adopted at Columbus in July. 1t
thus appears that the once solid
Democracy of Ohio is now being rent
into at least four different fragments.
and there is no telling how MANY
more explosions may occur before
election