The age-herald., 1897-12-28
REPUBLICAN PARTY
 IS ALL SPLIT UP Mckinley Playing Both Ends
 Against the Middle. ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME As to When There Will Be Open hu-
 tiny in the Ranks. ALL SORTS OF RUMORs AFLOAT Secretary Gage May Get Mad and Throw Up the Sponge at Any Time.
Secretary Gage May Get Mad and Throw
 Up the Sponge at Any Time.
MCKINLEY IS AN EXPERT JUGGLER
May Succeed in Keeping the Party Intact Through the Present Session Without Do- ing Anything-Gall and Senator
 Chandler Examples of Malcontents.
Special to The Age-Herald.

Special to The Age-Herald
 Washington, Dec N-How soon will the split in the republican party come? is the question every one here is asking. How much longer can President Mckinley hold together the differing factions and when will he come into the open himself IS an other question that concerns politicians at tho capital. There is no truth in the report that Wolcott will resign his seat in the senate, but there is astrong likelihood that he will take some pronounced position on the money question in the near future.
 All sorts of runners have been afoat here and are still being circulated in official circles. Some of the friends of Secretary Gage say that he will resign if the adminis- tration does not throw all its influence to getting his scheme through congress. , Others, that he has no such intention but that the president is glad to see him take the stand he has, as it helps to satisfy the extreme gold element in the party. The presidents feet are about two yards apart. He is riding two horses, each horse going in an opposite direction. He will soon have to take to the one and abandon the other or else fall between the two with his hip joints badly twisted
 Riding Two Horses.
 It is wonderful how MT Mckinley has kept up this eort of political jugglery as long as he has. He is certainly all expert at it. He may be able to go through this session without doing anything, yet keep ing all parties within his own at nominal peace. There are those who have that Aoi+ I,i oit1 for trir
 Every day some congressman. heretofore quiet and under restraint, airs his opinions in the papers Those with bimetallic con stituents seek newspapers to give inter views in which they criticise the admins tration and the Gage plan of finance There are others still of the Chandler stripe who are still harping on bimetallsm and adyis- ing the party not to take to the gold cure. That is likely to kill as to cure.
 Senator Chandler and Representative Subway, both from New Hampshire, are examples Of how badly the party is split. Chandler wants bimetallism and here comes Sul.away who says that bimetallism is nothing but free silver.
 What Cy Says.
 'T am q gold standard man." emphat- cally declared Representative Cy Sulloway, of New Hampshire in referring to Senator ChandIers recent letter touching the Gage bin "We might as properly talk about using jackknives and bootstraps for cur rency as to drive the two metals abreast"
 MT. Sulloway, who Is as distinctive a type of the Yankee as the distinguished senator from his state. makes 1t plain in few words, however that he is not in sympathy with MT. Chandler's financial views which are prominently known among statesmen.
 Senator Chandler has yielded vigorous pen in behalf of bimetallism," said MT. Sideways interrogator
 "Bmetallism," retorted MT. Sulloway de- liberately. but with an intimation of his disregard of it in his tones as he lifted himself out of his chair "Bmetallism, an- other term for free silver. If any one ex- poets to ride two horses going different ways he must have longer legs than mine" That was all MT. Subway had to say on the subject of Senator Chnndler's recent letter.
 Hungry to Be Interviewed.
 Men who are wary of being interviewed are now rushing into print. Interviewers cannot be found fast enough for them to express their opinions. They say that they must denounce the whole of the G; ge plan if they are ever to get the nomination next year. The fight in New Hampshire is form ing upon this very line. The silver ques- tion has finally become an issue in the east. and watch the "sturdy New Englander" squirm. Chandler is leading the fight for bimetallism, as he calls 1t up in his state, and the gold men are going to push him along that line It may yet be expected that Chandler and Morgan may be found fighting on the same side of finance as they are always found on the same side where foreign affairs are concerned.
 Smooth MT. Mckinley.
 In the meantime the gold committees and commissions which have grown out of the. Indianapolis convention are dong all they can to hold up Gages hands and at the same time to encourage Mckinley to stand firm. Mckinley is making a good, peaceful president. He does not want anything to happen, at least not during this administration. He thinks it very cruel for congressman to push these is-