Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, Jan. q, 1897.
A great political sensation may follow
the delivery of several speeches bearing
upon the methods employed in the election
of Mckinley, in the Senate before the close
of this session of Congress. Several Sena-
tors, including Jones, of Arkansas, and
Teller, OF Colorado have had agents at work
ever since the result of the election was
announced, investigating and gathering
facts to be used in the speeches they intend
to make.
No gold Democrat nominated by Presi-
dent Cleveland TO hold an Office from which
silver man was removed will be confirmed,
unless the silver Senators change their
minds This agreement was reached by
them after mature deliberation. If the
offices are to be held by gold men, they
prefer that they shall be gold Republicans
selected by Mckinley. Although it has
not been fully decided there are reasons
for the belief that Secretary Francis and
some of the other men who were nominated
to fill vacanies not created by the removal
of silver men will be confirmed by the
Senate, but if failure to confirm his NOM
ination would not cause litigation by
throwing cloud upon the legality Of his
official acts as Secretary of the Interior, it
would be by no means certain that the
nomination OF Secretary Francis would be
confirmed.
1t will be sometime before the gossip
about the scarcity of Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes at the Presidents reception is
stopped. There were less than dozen
Senators present, and only one of them was
a Democrat and out of about two dozen
Representatives not more than half of them
we're Democrats.
If the original Mckinley Republicans
can have their way, McKinley's Admins
tration will start out just about as har-
moniously as they did of the last Ohio
President, poor Garfield. The latest edict
of these bog politicians is that the friends
of ex-President Harrison need not apply
for Office under Mckinley. With the
friends of Tom Reed, Matt Quay. Tom
Platt and Ben Harrison black listed SO
far as official fayoTs are concerned, the new
Administration would find itself confronted
with as vicious a lot of enemies within its
own party as could be gathered together.
It is possible, however, that Mckinley is
wiser than some of his would-be advisers,
and that he will not put himself up rs a
target, for all the stones thrown by this
quartette and their friends, lest there be a
little David among them.
Senator Jones, Chairman of the Demo
crat National Committee, has written the
following letter to discouraged correspon
dent, which speaks for itself: / don't
agree with the gloomy view you take of
our efforts. When we p0lled a million
more votes that Cleveland did four years
ago, when he was said to have carried the
country by a landslide, we certainly have
accomplished good deal, especially when
we remember what the feeling of the party
was when the Chicago Convention met
Another thing is matter of decided salts.
faction to me and that is that we polled at
least two thirds of all the intelligent votes
in this country. The large Republican
vote embraced millions of negroes and
utterly unlettered foreigners, who have no
conception of the genius of our Government,
no appreciation Of the obligations of citi-
zenship, and no idea of economic questions
In this country believe that intelligence
is bound to win, and considering the fact
that the overwhelming majority of intelli-
gent men were on our side in this cOntrO-
versy, see nothing to dishearten the
friends of Democracy"
Senator Wolcott, who has gone to Europe
TO COuicF Will tuO lchuluS duvOcHtce Vi
international bimetallism, stated before
bis departure that he was not encouraged
by anything he knew to believe that his
trip would be productive of results, but
that he was going to make it because he
had been requested by the Bimetallic
League to do 80, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning in an authoritative way what pros
poets there are, if any, for international
bimetallism. Silver men in Congress while,
Of course, hoping that Senator Wolc0tt may
bring back encouraging reporls, do not
believe that he will There is more or less
uneasiness among Republicans about his
trip. They fear that if he comes back and
reports that there is no prospect of OBJ
tanning any agreement for International
bimetallism, that he and the other silver
Senators who supported Mckinley may
follow Teller and the other silver Republic
can Senators who supported Bryan out of
the party, and that would make the Senate
anti Republican for long period of years
Senator Vest, who spent his holiday in
Washington, has gone home to remain until
the Missouri Legislature elects his successor.
He is confident that he will be his own
successor, and unless all the information
received in Washington has been wrong,
his confidence has solid foundation