The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. d. c., January 2S, 1898.

President Mckinley to say the right
thing at the right time and place that
nothing else is expected from him, he
is being condemned on all sides for the
tone of the speech he made Thursday
night at the banquet of the National
Association of Manufacturers, in New
York. He returned to the White House
today.
Secretary Gage made a ten strike when
be took occasion, without noticing any
of the absurd rumors about his being
on the eve of resigning because the
President was not in accord with his
financial views, to say that the Republi.
can party was the best friend of bimetal.
ism, which it approved in its National
platform that its political head has
been active in his efforts to secure it
under the only conditions by which it
can be maintained--an international
agreement that in his efforts to inaugu.
gurate such method the President
heartily supports the principles of his
party's platform, and has the support of
all the members of his official family,
inuendoes and declarations from various
sources to the contrary notwithstand.
ing. After this plain statement of facts
the professional liars ought to give Sec
retary Gage rest for while, but hav.
ing set him up as bogy man they are
not likely to let him alone.
There are few Republicans in Con.
gress or around Washington who did
not rejoice at the election of Hon. Louis
E. McComas to the Senate by the Mary
land legislature. If he makes as good
record in the Senate as he has made in
the House and upon the bench of the
Supreme Court of the District of Colum
bia, he will be one of the greatest Sena
tors Maryland has had. His term in the
Senate will begin march the 4th, 1899
Representative Brosius, of Pa, says the
defense OF Tsmmany by Amos Cummins
reminded him of the following lines
from comic opera once popular:
There is beauty in the below of the blast
There is grandeur in the growing OF the
gale;
There Is eloquence outporing when the lion
is a roaring,
And the Tammany) tiger is lashing of
his tail.
The Democrats in the House followed
the bad example of Mr.. Bryan and at.
tempted to deny the existence of pros
perity in the country. It is now prob
able that they are sorry that they were
not wiser. The Republicans simply made
monkeys of them for the amusement of
galleries. Secretary Gage has a list of
25O factories and enterprises that have
started to work during the last six
months, many of which had been idle
since 1896, and advances in wages are
reported from almost every direction in
almost every industry, except the New
England cotton mills, which are not al.
fected by the tariff but by the opposition
Of the cheap labor in the cotton mills Of
the south. The strikes in those cotton
mills was the only thing the Democrats
ty. The country is prosperous and con.
stantly growing more SO, and about the
only thing that could possibly check the
growth of prosperity would be the elec.
ton of Democratic majority OF the next
House, and the consequent fear of Dem
ocratic legislation.
The first case heard by the U S. Su
preme Court after the seating OF Mr..
Justice McKenna, which took place
Wednesday, was that involving the con.
of the Texas anti, trust law,
which had been deferred until it could
be heard bv full bench.
Attorney General Griggs has been con-
6rmed by the Senate, but is not expect.
ed to join the cabinet until the first of
next week.
The Republicans have been the gain
ers in the debate on the resolution, de
claring U. S. bonds to be payable in sill
yer at the option OF the government, al
though the resolutions was adopted by
the votes of the silver Senators 1t was
brought out clearly in the debate that
the only object of the resolution was to
embsrass Republicans and the Eastern
anti silver Democrats also that the res.
olution would have no binding effect,
even if there were possibility of its
by the House, which there is
not. The silver Senators have merely
the tactics of the French King
who marched his army up the hill and
then down again, and they have accom-
pllshed precisely the same thing-noth.
ing.
President Dole, Of Hawaii, is in Wash
ington, the honored guest OF the United
States. He says that he has not come to
take any part in the controversy in the
Senate over the annexation treaty, but