The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-01-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASuINGTON, ID. c., January 4th

AsHINGToN. ID. c., January 4th.
MIR. EpIToE:-A great political sensa
ton may follow the delivery of several
speeches bearing upon the methods en-
ploved in the election of Mckinley, in the
Senate before the close of this session of !
Congress. Several senators. including
Jones of Arkansas, and Teller, of Colo
RADIO. have had agents at work ever since
the result of the election was announced,
invest eating and gathering facts to he
used in the speeches they intend to make.
No gold democrat nominated by Presi
dent Cleveland to hold an office from
which a silver man was removed will be
confirmed unless the silver Senators
change their minds This agreement was
reached by them after mature dcliheration.
If the offices are to he held by gold men,
they prefer that they shall be gold repuh-
licans selected by Mckinley. Although
it has not been fully decided there are rea-
sons for the belief that Secretary Francis
and some of the other men who were NOM
mated to fill vacancies not created by the
removal of silver men will he confirmed
by the Senate. hut if failure to confirm his
nomination would not cause litigation hv
throwing Il cloud upon the leg iitv of his
official acts us Secretary of the Interior, it
would be by no means certain that the
nomination of Secretary Francis would he
confirmed
1t will be sometime before the gossip
about the scarcity of Senators and Repre-
scntatves at the Presidents reception is
stopped. There were less than dozen
Senators present, and only one of them
was democrat. and out of about two doZ
en- Representatives not more than half of
them were democrats.
If the original Mckinley republicans
can have their way. McknlevS admins
tration will start out just about as har
moniously as did that of the last Ohio
President. poor Garfield The latest edict
of these hog 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 favorS are corc"rned. the new
administration would find itself onfIont-
ed with as vicious "A lot of enemies within
its own party as could be gathered togeth-
er. 1t is possible, however. that Mckin-
ley is wiser than some of his would tie adj
visers. and that he will not put himself up
as target for all the stones thrown by
this quartettc and their friends, lest there
be a little David among them.
Senator Jones, Chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, has written
the following letter to a diScoura geu cor
respondent, which speaks for itself II
don't agree with the gloomy view you take
of our efforts. When we pollcd million
more votes than Cleveland did four years
ago, when he was said to have carried the
country by IA landslide, we certainly have
accomplished Il good deal, especially when
we remember what the feeling of the party
was when the Chicago convention met.
Another thing is a matter of decided salts
faction To me and that is that we pollcd at
least two-thirds of all the intelligent votes
in this country. The large republican
votes embraced millions of negroes and
utterly unlcttcrcd fo "eigncrS, who have no
conception of the genius of our govern
ment, no appreciation of the obligations
of citizenship. and no idea of economic
questions. In this country | believe that
intelligence is bound to win, and consider
ing thefact that the overwhelming ma jority
of intelligent men were on our side in this
controversy, | see nothing to dishcarten
the friends of democracy
Senator Wolcott, who has gone to Eu-
rope to confer with the leading advocates
of international bimctallism. stated before
his 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 Bimctallic
Lea que 10 do so, for the purpose of asceI-
tanning in an authoritative way what pros
poets there are. if any, for international
bimetallsm. Silver men in Congress
while, of course, hoping that Senator VOL
colt may bring back encouraging reports,
do nat 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
obtaining any agreement for internatiL nal
bimetallsm. 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 Sen
ate anti-republcar for Il long period of
years.
Senator Vest, who spent his holiday in
Washington, has gone home to remain
until the Missouri legislature elect his sue
cessor. He is confident that he will he
his own successor, and unless all the in
formation received in Washington has
been wrong, his confidence has a solid
foundation.
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