The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-01-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER


Mr. EDlToE:-Scnator Teller has lit
tie surprise that he intends to spring on
| those republicans who. although pretend
ing to be himetallists, are doing nothing
| to countcract the effect of Secretary Gage 5
efforts to have the entire world believe
that Mr.. Mckinley and the republican
party stand for gold monomctalisnl,
Senator Teller believes that there should
be no further masquerading on the tinan-
cial question:; that the constituents of
every Senator have Il right to know to Il
certainty whether he favors bimetaliSm
OF gold recommendation, and that his little
surprise, in the shape of Il resolution he
intends offering and pressing until a
record vote is taken on it, will do the trick.
This resolution did not originate with Sen
ator Teller. but was written by the late
Stanley Matthews, a republican senator
from Ohio, and was adopted by rcpubl-
car votes in the Senate i'll 1873. 1t de
clarcs that ''all the bonds of the United
States, issued OF authorized to be issued,
(undcr the refunding act of 1870, the act
to provide for the resumption of specie
payments, etc., are payable, principal and
interest, at the opinion of the Government
of the United States, in silver dollars of
the coinage of the United States, contain
ing 412! grains each of standard silver;
and that to restore to its coinage such sill
coins ne lnral tonfar y poymppt nf
said bonds, principal and interest, is not a
violation of the public faith, nor in deroga-
ton Of the rights of the public creditor
Reckless assertions have been made con-
corning alleged changes among Senators
on the silver question. For that reason,
if for no other, Senator Tellcr's idea is Il
good one. In addition to smoking out the
would be straddlers, a vote on this resolu
ton will doubtless convince Secretary
Gage and his goldbug assistants in and out
of Congress, of the hopeessness of their
efforts to secure from this Congress legis-
lation authorizing the issue of gold bonds
for the funding of our public debt, or for
any other purpose.
The administration has put itself il Il
position to get new batch of trouble, by
meddling in the contest among the Mary
land republicans over the election of Sen
ator German 5 successor. 1t was supposed
that when the administration ascertained
that it could not force the election of Post
master General Gary to the Senate it had
Ia, 4 I,1 Ill = 10
Maryland republicans to choose their own
Senator, bat that was only supposition.
Within the last three or four days the ad
ADMINISTRATION has openly shown its adyo-
cacy of Judge McComas for the Senate,
and has compelled GOV. Lown,les to with
draw in favor of McComas
Extension Commissioner Murphy, is
opposed to the publication of the entire
pension roll by the government, because
of the large expense, but he thinks it
would be productive of good results to
furnish the newspapers with the complete
list of all pensioners within the radius of
their circulation. When Mr.. Murphy was
in charge Of the office, all newspapers that
applied for lists of pensioners in their To-
calitics were promptly accommodated
The republicans are doing more growing
over the small surplus shown by the Gov
eminent receipts and expenditures for the
month Of December than they will over
the big deficit that January will certainly
show. Nj Dngley has taken advantage
Of the situation to issue Il rosy statement
in which he easily makes it appear,-on
papcr-that the deficiency of 81, 000, 600
for the first half of the current fiscal year
will not be increased during the last half
upon which the country has just entered,
as though that was something of which he
and his party had Il right to be justly
proud What would the stockholders of
big business corporation think of man
agcmcnt that reported loss Of S44 200, 600
in six months and only promised that the
next six months should not increase the
loss: They would probably change the
management as quick as they could, just
as the people intend to do as soon as they
get an opportunity to cast their ballots
against the present mismanagcrs Of our
affairs.
The Democrat who isn't pleased with
the political outlook. must be hard to
please The issue Of this years Congress
sional campaign and of the campaign of
1900 has been made and the argument upon
which it will he wen hy the democrats
furnished by this administration, which
after going through the farce of sending
three eminent bimctalli$ts 10 Europe AS a
Commission for the alleged purpose of Sc
curing the consent of European govern
ments to international bimetalliSm, does
not even wait until the members of that
commission have officially reported, before
it announces to all the world. through its
financial spokesman, Secretary Gage. that
il doesn't want bimctallism at all; either
national or international, only cold mono
mctaliism.