Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-20
A VERY ROSY WEN
Taken of,Things by Senator Chandler,
Of New Hampshire.

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Of New Hampshire.
In Effect, He Says if Nothing Goes
Wrong, all Will Be Well But He
Warns Secretary Gage to Pull in
His Little Currency Plan and
Keep Quiet-Political Suicide for
the Republicans to Reopen the
Money Question.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, has writ
ten letter to the Washington Post in
which he says:
IF the Secretary of the Treasury and
his single gold standard associates will
cease their demand for impossible cur
rency legislation, Congress will pass
the necessary appropriation bills, prob
ably take care of Hawaii and Cuba,
there will not be a serious party divis-
ion during the session, and there will
be an adjournment in May. Business
will revive, the treasury receipts will
equal the expenditures, the balance Of
trade will continue in our favor and
the Republican party will, in Novem-
Der, 1898, elect a majority of the House
in the Fifty-fifth Congress.
ION the other hand, if Secretary
Gage continues to press upon Congress
a bill, the object Of which, he says, is
First to
COMMIT THE COUNTRY
more thoroughly to the gold Standard
and the immediate effect of which is to
throw doubts upon the sincerity of the
Presidents declarations in favor Of
continued efforts to secure bimetallism,
a political turmoil will arise in Con-
gress which will split the now united
Republicans in fragments, while it will
unite and consolidate the now incon-
gruous opposition. 1t is not feasible
to retire the greenbacks; there is more
probability that bill will be sent to
the President to increase their amount.
1t is not possible to secure the passage
through either house of bill making
the greenbacks into gold notes or au-
thorizing bonds payable in gold. The
effort to do either thing will probably
result in the passage of bill for the
redemption of the greenbacks in silver
dollars and for the payment of all
United States bonds in gold or silver
coin, in the discretion of the Presi-
dent, who will be commanded to exer-
else his option for the advantage of the
government and not for the advantage
of the creditor.
with such an
UPROAR IN CONGRESS
as these proceedings will create, with
Western congressman embroiled
therein, with Presidential vetoes, as
threatened by Secretary Gage, under
angry discussion, it will happen that
all business enterprises and funds and
stocks will be disturbed, prices will
fall, insolvencies will increase and the
Republicans will lose the COMPRESSION
al elections in 1890 as disastrously as
they did in 1890; at which time, there
fore, a Bryan Democratic President
and Congress will be chosen.
whether we are to have one Of
these results-political safety-or the
other-political destruction
DEPENDS ENTIRELY
upon the course to be pursued by Sec
rotary Gage and those who are press
ing him forward, namely, the Gold
Standard League of New York, and the
se,f-constituted National Monetary
Conference How much Secretary
Gage cares for the Republican party
is not known. Whether President Nc
Kinley, whose good faith toward BIZ
metalism is coming to the test, will
stop his Secretary in his insane career,
is not known. 1t is to be hoped he
will. But no political situation has
been clearer than the present to sound
eyes since the Republican party began
its marvellous career forty-two years
ago. There are times for all things.
There is a time to move and a time
to keep still, and now is the time to
SO keep.
ut is simply
POLITICAL SUICIDE
for the Republican party in this Con-
gress to affirmatively open the discus
lSion Of the money question and to
bring on yea and nay votes upon cur
rency legislation. We ought to await
the progress of International bimetal-
ism, the advent Of business prosperity.
and the filing Of the Treasury by the
normal workings soon to be seen of
the new tariff law. Shall we wait for
these things or rush on to self-destruc-
ton? President Mckinley must de-
eide. Will he act for his people or for
MS plutocrats? Upon his answer will
depend the events of 1898.
(Signed) "WM. E. CHANDLER.
December is, 1897"
A SHIP ON FIRE