The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
WASHINGTON.
yrom our Regular Correspondent.

Mr.. McKinley's aid to Boss Hanna
has made the election of the latter TO |
the Senate an apparent certainty, but
unless some very shrewd students of
things political are wrong, it has also
made Mr.. McKinley's denomination
for the Presidency almost an impossi-
bility. According to current gossip,
Senator Foraker will lead fight on
Mr. Mckinley in his own state, and
the anti-Platt republicans in New
York will use the "Citizens' Union"
organization, which has been made
permanent, to down Platt and prevent
his carrying out the deal TO give Mr..
Mckinley the solid vote Of New York
in the Republican National Conven-
ton of 1900. While these movements
may not be directly in the interest of
Gar Reed, as some say they are, he
is likely to occupy the best position
for being benefited by them, if they
succeed, as his friends are known to
be at work in New England and else.
where, to keep the following he had
last year together, and to add to it.
Platt and Hanna, in addition to the
enemies he has made in the distrbu-
tion of pie, will be heavy load for
Mr.. Mckinley to carry, and the
chances will certainly be against his
getting nominated again.
Democrats are inclined to poke fun
at Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, and
to accuse him of having been asleep
for few months, owing to his having
returned to Washington singing the
same old Cleveland Carlisle song about
the only currency legislation needed
being that which will retire the green
backs. Most advocates of the retire
ment Of the greenbacks propose some
other sort of currency in their place,
out Mr. Lindsay would have the green
backs retired as fast as they are pre-
sented at the Treasury, and nothing
issued in their places. In other words,
he believes, or thinks that he believes
that the people could prosper under a
system of enforced contraction of the
currency that is already less in volume
than the country needs. However,
there are not sufficient number of
sharers in that belief to cause any un-
easness.
Representative Gaines, Of Tenn,
has letter written to him by Hon.
w. J. Bryan IN reply to an inquiry as
to the truthfulness of newspaper
statement that Mr.. Bryan had decided
to ratue from politics. The letter
says: The newspaper item is not
true. l expect to remain in politics
all my life. Whether l shall ever run
for Office again depends on circum-
stances. Mr.. Gaines hasn't the
slightest doubt that Mr.. Bryan will
head the democratic ticket in 1900
and be elected President
Ex-Congressman Paul Sorg of Ohio,
who passed through Washington this
week on his way to New York, is en-
thusiastic over the democratic out,
look. He says the party is in a
healthier condition than it has been
for some time, and that there is a
greater desire for harmony prevailing
inside the party. He expressed the
opinion that by 1900, all friction and
feuds within the party will have van
ished, and that in the national election
of that year the democratic party will
triumph. Mr.. Sorg declined to ex
press any opinion for publication
about the Hanna Foraker scrap in
Ohio, although it was inferred from
his manner that he thought Hanna
would win. That is the prevailing
opinion among Ohio democrats II
Washington. They also believe thai
Hanna's success would sound the
death knell of republican rule in Ohio
Representative Hepburn, of Iowa
has let the republican financial ca
out of the bag, and shown why th'
republicans would not dare, even
they controlled both branches of Con
gress, to put Secretary Cages idea
into a statute by saying naively In
published interview Why It w
should pass law on those lines a
this session of Congress, Iowa woul'
not return a single republican Con
gresham next fall, and the republican
would lose Senator from that state.
Mr.. Hepburn's confession may no
have been polite from republican
point of view, but it is true, and ther
are four or five other states IN whlc
the republicans would fare no bette
than in Iowa. The administration ha
got to make bluff at trying to &c
gold standard legislation from Cor
gress, in order to keep campaign prom
ises, but that is as far as it cares to 6
low under any circumstances.
B. K. Bruce, the ex-senator, eH