Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-18
PRESIDENT AND PARTY.
Good Work Done by the Re-
publican Administration
Party Pledges Redeemed and Good
Government Insurcd-Thc Ding
leg Law Entirely sat
tsfactory.
Especial Washington Correspondence ,

ircslutnt MChlnlcN civil service or
der is very generally commended here
as well as by the press of the country
generally. IL prohibits removal from
government positions without spcci-
fled cause aud without giving the ac-
cuSed an opportunity To make defense.
n principle which every body must COM
mend as fair and just and one which
cannot but result in an improved con-
dition of the civil service ~ the country.
To Toe sure il is not pleasing To those
spoilsmcn who insisted that men should
Ice removed from Office simply because
they were of another party, no matter
how good their record had been, but
IL is thoroughly in line with the decla-
rations of the republican party which
in it's ST. Louis platform assumed re-
sponsibility for the civil service law.
and renewed it's declaration that lit
shall be thoroughly and honestly en-
forced. and extended whenever practi-
cable"
The republican party goes straight
along redecming it's pledges. IL prom
ised at 81. Louis a protective tariff. and
has produced it,. 1t promised an honest
has not only made the effort, but tn.
effort is likely to bc crowned with sue
cess. 1t promised n currency with every
dollar ms good as gold. and it's score
tory OF the treasury is now shaping
up plan which will give uniform aud
safe currency, and thus redeem three
of the important pledges of the plat
form. Contrast this state of affairs
with the conditions four years apu
when banks were failing and business
houses crashing i'm every direction. with
democratic president sitting supinc.
ly in the white house and doing nothing
To improve conditions, but planning Il
destructive tariff and bond issues which
added To the debt of the country.
The president has modified President
Clevelnnd's recent order cutting down
the fees of certain consuls abroad. but
has judiciously made his modification
apply only To those consuls whose sal
AIRY is So 900 per annum or less. The fact
that this order applies only To the small
err consulates and not those already re-
ceiving large salaries will greatly dis
trcss the democrats, who had cN-
pectcd TO make political capital out OF
the order had ii applied, as they sup
posed II would, to the large places ns
well as to the small ones.
The DInEIcy Inv satisfactory.
Reports from every direction show that
the Dingley law has not only been greet
ed with general satisfaction, but with
general activity among the manufacture
ors. Large numbers Of establishments
] IaFs A ~
women have found employment since
President Mckinley attached his sig
nature to the Dingley bill On the other
hand, the Wilson law seems TO be- alb
solutcly friendless. 1t had no defend
crs during the debate in congress, and
not voice has been raised to eNpress
regret Mt its demise.
The papers are full of talk about
John McLcan's gold bond. Mr.. Nc
Lean is, as everybody knows, Il candi-
date for senator from Ohio upon a
strictly silver platform; yet he re-
quires the obligations which are made
TO him to be payable in gold A copy
of bond given in his favor 10y the Co
lumbia Athletic club of the District Of
Columbia has recently been published
in the Ohio papers and carries Mr.. Nc
Leans name as the beneficiary, and
agrees TO pay the sum named 10 him i'm
gold coin of the present standard
weight and fneness;" also the inter
est in like gold coin"
Speaking OF Mclean and Ohio poll
tics, an Ohio editor states that il is
now in order for Ohio democrats to
charge Mark Hanna with the RESPONSE
bility for the gold discoveries in
Alaska. At least il would he about as
reasonable as the assertions which
were preached on every popocratic
stump last summer that Hanna was
the cause Of the advance in wheat.
The Gold Democrats.
The gold democrats continue active
and energetic. Their campaign i'm
Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky will be espe-
cially vigorous, and II is already clear
~ apparent that they will have many
men In their ranks who last year sup
ported the Bryan ticket .ud platform.
Recent developments in various direc-
tons have tended 20 swell their ranks,
for, with a fall Of ten cents per ounce
In the value OF silver in the last year
and an increase Of % cents per busbeI
in the value Of wheat in the same
period, Mr.. Bryan and his followers are
going 20 find some embarrassment in
explaining this fall their assertions OF
"a year ago. The Bryan dollar. which
IN the last campaign was worth 80
cents. is now worth A cents. AZ that
rate IL will be worth 10 cents by 1900.
But then man who could calmly argue
that the people ought 10 make dollar
with only 50 cents worth Of metal in II
can just as well argue for one with 10
cents worth Of metal.-C. y. King
rTOhio democrats are wondering
what Mr.. Bryan will find 10 talk about
when be makes his promised com
paign in this state. since all Of his pre-
dictions and promises Of last fall have
proven absolutely false by the develop
mcnts since Doc made them Carroll
CO.. Free Press.
DThc report that the price Of silver
BE- going 20 the bottom" ought 10 be
gratifying 10 The free silver advocate.
They have maintained an along thar
silver was the bottom OF our monetary
system. and now they will bc in posi-.
ffrr a. r,rgr.. ff f.If,..-,. a. 80.