The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-21
PRESIDENT AND PARTY.
Good Work Done by the He-
publican Administration.
Party Pledges Redeemed md Coos
Government Insured-The Ding
ley LAW Entirely Sat-
isfactory.
especial washington correspondents !


as well as by the press OF the country
1t prohibits removal from
positions without speci-
fed cause and without giving the ac-
cused an opportunity TO make defehse'
a principle which everybody must com
mend as fair and just and one which
cannot but result in an improved con-
lition of the civil service OF the country
10 be sure it is not pleasing to those
.poilsmcn who insisted that men shouin
be removed from Office simply because
they were of another party, no matter
how good their record had been, but
It 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 rene Ned its declaration that III
shall be thoroughly and honestly en-
forced, and extended whenever practi-
cable"
The republican party goes straight
along redeeming its pledges. 1T prom
ised at ST. Louis protective tariff, ana
has produced it. 1t promised an honest
effort for a bimetallic conference, and
has not only made the effort, but the
effort is likely to be crowned with sue
cess. 1t promised a currency with every
dollar as good as gold, and its secre-
tary of the treasury is now shaping
up plan which will give uniform and
safe currency, and thus redeem three
of the important pledges OF the plat
form. Contrast this state of affairs
with the conditions four years ago
when banks were failing and business
houses crashing in every direction, with
q democratic president sitting supine'
ly in the white house and doing nothing
TO improve conditions, but planning
destructive tariff and bond issues which
added to the debt of the country.
The president has modified President
Cleveland's recent order cutting down
the fees of certain consuls abroad. but
has iudiciously made his modification
apply only to those consuls whose sal
airy is 81, 900 per annum or less. The fact
that this order applies only TO the small
er consulates and not those already re-
ceiving large salaries will greatly dis
tress the democrats, who had eX-
pected to make political capital out of
the order had it applied, as they sup
posed it would, to the large places as
well as to the small ones.
The DingIcy Law Satisfactory.
Reports from every direction showthat
the Dingley law has not only been greet
cd with general satisfaction, but with
t;x.;t har a nj n n n N r.
ers. Large numbers of establishments
have reopened, and thousands of men and
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
solutely friendless. 1t had no defend
crs during the debate in congress, and
not voice has been raised to express
a regret at its demise.
The papers are full of talk about
John McLean's gold bond. Mr.. Nc
Lean is, as every body knows, a 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. copy
of bond given in his favor by the Co
lumbia Athletic club of the District o.
Columbia has recently been published
in the Ohio papers and carries Mr.. Nc
Leans name as the beneficiary, ant
agrees to pay the sum named to him il
gold coin of the present standard
weight and fineness;" also the inter
est in ''lke gold coin"
Speaking of Mclean and Ohio poll
tics, an Ohio editor states that it j
now in order for Ohio democrats t,
charge Mark Hanna with the response
J bility for the gold discoveries il
Alaska. At least it would be about a
} reasonable as the assertions whic
were preached on every popocrati
stump last summer that Hanna wa
the cause of the advance in wheat.
The Gold Democrats.
The gold democrats continue activ
and energetic. Their campaign !
, Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky will be esp
: cially vigorous, and it is already clea
q ly apparent that they will have man
8 men in their ranks who last year SUI
!, ported the Bryan ticket md platform
0 Recent developments in various dire
8 tons have tended to swell their rank
Il for, with fall of ten cents per oun'
" in the value of silver in the last yet
s and an increase of % cents per bush
d in the value of wheat in the san
/ period, Mr.. Bryan and his followers a
r going to find Some embarrassment
y explaining this fall their assertions
$ a year ago. The Bryan dollar, whi'
n in the last campaign was worth
u cents, is now worth A cents. AT tn
u rate it will be worth 10 cents by 100
y But then man who could calmly arg
< that the people ought to make doll
'e with only SO cents worth of metal in
can Just as well argue for one with
cents worth of metal.-C. ID. King.
DOhio democrats are vonderil
- what Mr.. Bryan will find to talk abo
20 when he makes his promised co
paipp in this state, since all of his pl