The silver star., 1897-09-16
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.
WASHINGTON
NEWS NOTES,

,om our Washington Correspondent.
"a has always been considered the proper
ling to make support OF the national plat
rm OF political party the test of q mans
yalty TO bis party. The platform adopted
,tsani n deeiaraton M ofthe principies Il s Of tha,
trty and must be SO considered until another
:,tional convention meets and adopts another
iiaiform. These facts are SO self-evident that
iention of them seams almost unnecessary,
ct objection Is being raised because demo-
rats are iRa aisting that the platform adopted
. the Chicago convention must be accepted
The principles OF the democratic party. To
. anything elsc would be arad!cal departure
'.sin nil political precedents.
There Is clash OK authority in the interior
apartment between Secretary Bliss and In
Ian Commissloner Jones that may end In a
ones present assistant is Thomas P. smith
$ no is 3 democratic holdover Mr.. smith has
niade n iip-top record and Mr.. Jones would
Ike him TO remain in his Office. Boss Hanna
ERECTED sometime ago that one OF his Ohio
liroteges-Tawner. by name-who has been
serving as the private secretary of Secretary
Hiss, should he appointed assistant cominis-
-ioner andthe appointment was about 10 be
made WHEN commiSsioner Jones heard about
!tand notified Secretary Bliss that he would
OF have Taw:ier for his assistsnt Then
there was high old time in the Office of 5 &C.
Fetary Bliss, and the relations between him
strained. but Tawner has NOT yet been ap
pointed of course. II Boss Hanna insists he
viii be. and II Jones doesn't like It he can re-
sign 1t Is a custom to consult the wishes of
bureau chiefs IN selecting their assistants, and
anon THAT custom Commissioner Jones relies
Republicans would rather not talk about the
defiett OF about twenty-six million dollars as
shown by the official figures of the govern
ment's receipts and expenditures for July and
August the first two months of the new fiscal
year They have already done too much talk
ing about the surplus that the new tariff was
certainly going to produce.
Senator McLaurins success in the South
Carolina primary election, which means his
noninE elton and election to- the senate. WAS a
source OF no little pleasure 10 his numerous
" hi MOTT Hn a
that he will make senator OF whom b state
and section will be proud.
Repre- sentative De Graffenreid ofTexas 5 in
Washington. Speaking ofwheat and liver.
ne said Our farmers are this year are
blessed with abundant crops aud the wheat
producing 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
sorry 10 say this Will not always continue, for
next year the demand for wheat by reason o.
good crops on the other side may be only nor
mai. and in that event our farmers Will not
receive any more for their wheat than form-
erly. Let The mints Of the United states, En-
gland. France and Germany be opened tomor-
row to silver and you would see the price of
the white metal rise steadily entil IT reached
the level OF gold. Why would II rise? simply
because of the demand-jnst the same as de
mand has raised the price OF wheat" Mr.:
Sranenreid expressed his opinion strongly of
hundred mIilinn standard silver dollars the
country now has, and ended an interesting
chat by saying. "The only solution OF the
question is 10 open the mints to silver the same
as gold. Permanent prosperity will never
come through the further contraction OF the
currency. which the gold bugs are trying to
bring aLont by discrediting our standard silver
aollars. What the country needs is more
money. That will b. the issue OF the next
campaign, ane, In my judgment, the demo-
erats will win upon II in 1900.
John Russell Young, the new librarian of
congress, is now having hard wrtstle with
the more than seven thousand applicants and
their friends, who were disappointed when he.
last week. announced the appointments To ten
of the best positions at his disposal. He still
mas forty or iifly small places to dispose of and
although they only carry small salaries the
pressure TO get them Is something awful.