The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-01-21

OUR W \SUINGTNN LETTER.
W ASuiNGToN, ID. G., January ltth.

WASulNGToN, d. c.. January Eth
MIR EDIroE:-If the silver forces ofthc
country are thoroughly united they can
win. That has been admitted by antisil
YER men. If the silver forces are not
united, ii will not lie the fault of the men
who are at the head of the National Com
mittees Of the three PARTIES which adyo-
Gated the free coinage Of silver in the last
National Campaign. As arc.ult Of a num-
Der of conferences hc>wcen Chairman
Jones, of the Democratic NatiDEa Com
mittce: Chairman Butler, of the Populist
National Committee an Chairman Townc
of the silver Republican National Commit
tee, a joint address to the friends of silver
has been prepared and w.d .ly circulated
with view to securing cooperative ac-
ton in every Congressional District in
which there are organizations of two or
more Of these parties, in this years cam
paign. In other words, the object is to
secure the election of silver representa-
tive in every Congressional district which
has Il majority Of silver voters. If the
spirit of this address is accepted and put
into practical effect by the voters, there is
no doubt that majority of the next House
will be silver men.
The long and determined fight in the
Ffty-third Congress over the attempt to
stop specializing on options may be re-
ncwcd. as Representative Sullivan, of
Missouri, has introduced an anti option
bill along about the same lines as the old
Hatch bill that was only defeated after
long and costly struggle in which all of
the stock and grain exchanges of the
country united to fight the bill.
Enough lies to fill big book have been
printed about the selection of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Campaign Commit
tee, all of them with one tcndency-an eff
fort to make it appear that a plot existed
to elect an anti-silvcr Chairman of this
Committee Such talk was, of course,
ridiculous to those who knew the facts,
although it may have gulled some others
There has been no plot and the method V
which members Of the Committee are Sc
lected are such that any plot would be
next to impossible. With the exception
of a member from Tcnnc see, all of the
members of the Committee have been Sc
lectcl, and there is lot the slightest doubt
that both will be pronounced silver men.
Instead of silver having been weakened
on the Committee it has really been
..tr, Ia, Nal,
who was member of the old Committee,
was not selected for the new one, solely
because of his reputation of the Chicago
platform. In his place Senator RawlnS,
Of Utah, was selected, and there is surely
not a stronger silver man in either branch
of Congress than he is. Another new
member of the Committee is Senator Cock
rell, of Missouri. whose pronounced silver
views are known all over the country.
Senators MITCHELL of Wisconsin, Murphy
| of New York, and Smith, of New jersey,
who were on the old Committee, were Sc
lcctcd for the new Committee. They are
not silver men personally, but their party
loyalty caused them to support Mr., Bryan
and the Chicago platform, and there was
no Just reason why they should he sighted
by being left off.
Nearly everybody in Congress expects
that a crisis will be reached in Cuban mat
tiers in very short time. Those riots in
Havana will force the hand of this govern
ment if they continue. The Senate has
Il MI IN, q, in, VIII !
any, preparations have been made to pro-
tect Americans and American interests in
Cuba, and if the answer isn't speedily
forthcoming or isn't satisfactory, there is
likely to be a circus in the Senate. In the
House. the consideration of the Diplo-
matte and Consular Appropriation bill
was postponed from last week, when it
was ready for fear that the Cuban speeches
certain to be made upon it would create
50 much excitement that the House might
get away from the Gar and rush that
Morgan belligerency resolution through
Senator Wolcott's speech would have
greatly surprised the average Senator had
it not been known even since Senator
Chandler stated that it was Mr. Mckinley's
intention to send that international Bime-
tallc Commission to Europe again, that
the Mckinley program included an at
tempt to make that old international hi
metallism will the -wisp help the repub
licans in the coming Congressional Cam
paign OF course, it was somewhat dis
appointing to Senator Wolcott's silver
friends that he should have lent himself
to this program, but he has probably been
caught by the glitter of patronage, big
chunks of which Mr.. Mckinley has placed
at bis disposal right along.
The opponents of annexation start into
the second weeks debate of the Hawaiian
treaty by the Senate with more confidence
than is displayed by its advocates. In
fact, 50 confident arc they of having votes
enough To defeat ratification, that they
are said to he willing to have ii vote taken
at any time that the other side may agree
upon.
MIR. EU TF.leWOHTH DEAD.