The silver star., 1897-11-04
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LETTER.
From our Washington correspondent.


tration h!aye nobody but tl,enselve~
to blame for many persons regard
ing their now-you-see-it, now-you.
don't-see-it, manipulation of tn.
Union Pacific Railroad question a.
a thimble-rigging game in which
the people have been buncoed
First the sale of the road was to b.
postponed and then it wasn't. Those
who have carefully studied this
matter say that the administrator,
deserves no credit for the raise OF
81, 600, ,oop in the bid for the reor-
ganization committee for the prop
erty; that it was question with
the reorganization committee of los.
ing all the swag or of giving up
enough of it to hush the public
elamor which had compelled the an
nouncement that the government
would ask the court to postpone the
ie sale of the road for six weeks.
III order to give intending compet-
ing bidders chance, and that Mr..
Mckinley Was in too great hurr,
to withdraw the application for
postponement of the sale. No in.
terest could possibly have suffered
by the postponement Of the sale,
and the creditors, other than the
government, Of the road might have
been greatly benefited. Members
Of the administration may throw
bouquets at each other over this
business, as they try to make the
county believe that they accom-
piished something which deserves
praise, hut the country has way
af getting at the inside Of things,
and it will do so in this case.
There must be something about
the New York city campaign which
provokes men to profanity. Sccre-
tary Bliss is not ordinarily pro-
fame man, but he has been using
ugly cuss, words in public to EN-.
phasize hts denial Of the charge
that funds of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. Of which he is
Treasurer. were being used in be-
half of General Tracy, the Platt Nc
Kinley candidate for Mayor of
greater New York. Mr.. Bliss
should read his Shakespeare. and
ponder his comments upon the fel-
low who protested too much.
The screws have never been turn
ed upon Ohio republicans employed
in the government departments
harder than during the present
week. Many ofthefn having plead
ed poverty as sn excuse for not go
Ing home to vote, Boss Hanna sent
q big batch of railroad tickets
something iikefsoo-from Washing
ton to Columbus. Ohio. and return.
to his Washington agent, and these
tickets have been placed in the
hands Of those Ohio republicans
who had claimed to be too poor to
buy their own railroad tickets, and
each Of them has been informed
that by calling at the Hanna head.
quarters In Columbus In person he
can secure round trip free transpor-
tation from that city to his voting
place in the State. And that isn't
all; every one Of these men has been
given hint that II will be very un-
wise for him not to go home and
cast his vote for the Hanna ticket.
Nothing worse than this was. ever
done, even In the days when a re-
publican candidate for President un-
blushingly telcgraphed asking the
chairman ofthe National Commit.
tee, "How are the departments do
ingl" Still. there are people who
swallow all the stuff about civil SER
vice reform that cmanatcs from
Mark Hanna's administration.
The great Mckinley Cuban policy
which was used at the extra session
to prevent the House from taking
up aud adopting, ~ II should have
done. the joint resolution which the
Senate adopted, directing the rccog.
milton by this government Of the
belligefeucy Of the Cubatis, has. II