The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-09-17
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
tCommunicated.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1897.


Boss Hanna has all the proverbial
thrift of the very rich man. He knows
the art of making others pay for what
he wants for himself, and he is utilz-
ing it in the Ohio campaign. Although
there are no national issues IN the
Ohio campaign, the Republican Ma
tional Committee is taking an active
part in it and is putting up money lib
orally to help Hanna get that coveted
election to the Senate. To all intents
and purposes, Boss Hanna and his
man Dick, who are the managers of
the Republican campaign in Ohio.
control the Republican National Com
mittee and the surplus it had left in its
treasury from the big contributions to
the Mckinley fund, and fears are ex-
pressed on the part of Republicans
from other States, who had hoped to
finger some of that surplus in the Con-
gressional campaign next year, that it
will all be spent in Ohio this year, and
some of them do not hesitate to say
that Hanna ought to use his own
money in his efforts to buy his return
to the Senate. Boss Hanna is also
making the Government of the United
States assist him to the extent of many
thousands of dollars, by carrying
through the mails free, under Congress
sional frank, a bulky volume, printed
at the Government Printing Office in
! the form of the Congressional Record
and containing speeches and compila-
tons from pnblic documents. This
volume as it first appeared, contained
extracts from newspapers and was
therefore not frankable. The revised
edition, now being sent out, has left
out the newspaper extracts.
| A new Republican candidate for
Senator Germans seat has added to
Republican confusion in Maryland, and
to the growing belief in the certainty
! that the legislature will be carried by
the Democrats. Postmaster General
Gary is the new candidate, al
though the announcement of his can
didacy was prematurely made. He has
got the Senatorial itch very bad, and
had hoped by the aid of postmasters
and other followers to have had a
thoroughly organized machine in
/
ing it to become public that he was a
candidate, but somebody leaked. He
refuses now to confirm, deny or in any
way discuss the matter. He probably
wants to find out "where he is at" be-
fore committing himself.
[ Although Acknowledgement McKen-
ma was Indignantly emphatic in de-
claring that he did not intend to con-
suit with Mr.. Mckinley about the
opinion he is to give as to the proper
construction to be placed upon the
clause of the tariff imposing discrimi.
mating duties, he did that very thing.
And he did net even have the satisfac-
ton of waiting until Mr.. Mckinley
came back to Washington to consult
with him, but was ordered up to Som
erset, Pa, where Mr. Mckinley was, to
talk the matter over The opinion is
still held back, and it will be discussed
at the Cabinet meeting which Mr.. Nc
Kinley has called. 1t is probable also,
that the Cabinet will discuss the verbal
report made by Consul General FitZ
Lee, who is in Washington, on Cuban
affairs. 1t is understood that after this
Cabinet meeting, Mr.. Mckinley will
go awoy again to remain a couple of
weeks.
In the opinion of the silver men,
now in Washington, the action of the
Bank of England in deciding to hold
one-fifth of its reserve in silver, will
not prove any direct benefit to silver,
but they believe it will help silver in
directly by increasing public interest
! in Europe in the principle of bimetal-
lism. They think that the action on
the part of the Bank of England was
taken more to conciliate the growing
silver sentiment in Great Britain than
as result of the visit of the bimetallic
commission to England and its confer
ences with representatives of the Gov
eminent of Great Britain. Some of the
silver men regard the whole business
as nothing more than a trick on the
part of the gold standard financiers of
England to make the silver men there
and over here believe that they are
gradually coming around to bimetal-
lism of their own accord, in preference
to waiting until they are compelled to
do so. These gentlemen are firmly of
the opinion that England will never
willingly adopt bimetallism, and that
! the only way to get her to do so is to
force it, and the way to force it is for
the United States to adopt bimetallism
independently or in conjunction with
as many European Governments as
may desire to join the move.