New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-02

the Wolcott commission abroAd again
soon. Senator Chandler says that the
only reason the president does not re-
pudiate Gage and his bill is his desire
to avoid a party rupture.
Regarding these painfully conflicting
reports, the Minneapolis Tribune says;
.If MI. Peabody and Senator Chandler
are correct in their representations-;f
the senator alone is correct the presi-
dent is playing dangerous game Of dis
stimulation which will in the end bring
Doth him and his party to grief. We can
not believe it,
Why not believe it? Is there anything
in VIM. rIcKinley's public record on the
financial question to repel belief in dis
stimulation on his part? Isn't he the
man who declared IN congress that he
| wanted the largest use of silver and vot-
ed for the smallest use? Isn't he the man
who was proposed as a candidate for
president in the Ohio convention on a
practically silver platform, and isn't he
| the same man who was nominated next
month on gold platform? Isn't he the
sound money candidate who was for gold,
but did not want the word mentioned in
the platform adopted at st. Louis? Isn't
he the president who sent the Wolcott
commission abroad to ask for bimetal-
lism and who allowed his secretary of
the treasury to intrigue against the work
of the commission so as to make it a
failure? Isn't he the president who re-
commended to congress that the curren-
cy needed instant reforming and who
added a postscript asking congress to
wait awhile? Is there anything about
VIM. McKinley's record on the currency
question that need not be believed, any,
thin at Minneapolis Times.
The Duluth Herald finds fault with
banquets similar to that rendered the
new attorney general and says:
A New York dispatch published in
the Herald the other day told of a mag
nifcent dinner to be given to Governor
Griggs of New Jersey, in celebration of
his appointment to the attorney general
ship. 1t is an unfortunate introduction |
for the new attorney general to the peo
pie of the United States and it certainly
will not gain for him the respect of the
plain people of the country. AS the ST.
Louis Post-Dispatch very aptly: says, if
Governor Griggs were a private citizen
no one could object, except on the
ground of foolish ostentation, to his
friends giving him dinner at 500 a
plate, or silver service worth $4,000,
! or loving cup worth $4,000. Blu: he is
not a private citizen. He is public
official, appointed to a high office, the
duty of which is to enforce the law
against rich and poor alike and to guard
the legal rights of rich and poor alike.
None can participate in these costly
compliments but the very wealthy. Why
should Governor Griggs be rendered and
why should he accept such gifts and
honors at the hands of the very wealthy,
whese interests give them a direct and
strong concern IN the administration of
the law?Whose attorney general is Gov
ernor Griggs to be? It may be that friend
ship alone prompts the costly dinner and
gifts. 1t may be that neither gratitude
for past favors nor expectant gratitude
enters into the motives of Governor
Griggs' wealthy friends. But favors of
all kinds in politics are suspicious, and
a public official, particularly an official
so closely connected in interest and Ca
reer with corporations as Gov. Griggs IS,
should hold himself above suspicion.
The Post-Dispatch is right when it
says that the Griggs banquet is .distaste-
full to the people. 1t smacks of pluto
cracY's triumphal feast in celebration of
a fresh victory and in honor of sue
cessful champion. Saz.s,,.
Rea- Admiral Kirkland. commandment
at the San Francisco navy yard, is of the
opinion that the old monitor pattern of
warship, with one or two heavy guns and
low freeboard, would yet maintain its
superiority over the great battleships
which the nations are now stralning
their enelgies to multiply. What the
navy needs most, he says, is ten or TWEEN
ty more vessels of the monitor type.
Two of these of the Monterey and Mon