Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-01-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 1898.

Senator Teller has a little surprise that
he intends to spring on those Republicans
who, although pretending to be bimetal-
lists, are doing nothing to counteract the
effect of Secretary Cages efforts to have the
entire world believe that Mr. Mckinley
and the Republican party stand for gold
mono-metallism Senator Teller believes
that there should be no further masquerad.
ing on the financial question; that the
constituents of every Senator have a right
to know to a certainty whether he favors
bimetallism or gold mono metallsm, and
that his little surprise, in the shape of a
resolution he intends offering and pressing
until a record vote is taken on it, will do
the trick. This resolution did not origin
ate with Senator Teller, but was written
by the late Stanley Matthews, Republic
can Senator from Ohio, and was adopted
| by Republican votes in the Senate in 1873
It declares that all the bonds of the
| United States, issued or authorized to be
issued, under the refunding act of 1870, the
act to provide for the resumption of specie
payments, etc, are payable, principal and
interest, at the option of the Government
of the United States, in silver dollars of the
coinage of the United States, containing
4123 grains each of standard silver and
that to restore to its coinage such silver
coins as legal tender in payment of said
bonds, principal and interest, is not
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 Oh
the silver question For that reason, if for
no other, Senator Teller's idea is good
one. In addition to smoking out the
would be sIraddlers, vote on this resolu-
ton will doubtless convince Secretary Gage
and his gold bug assistants in and out OF
Congress, of the hOpelessness of their efforts
to secure from this Congress legislation
authorizing the issue of gold bonds for the
| funding of our public debt, or for any other
purpose.
TINS administration has put itself in .
position to get a new batch of troubles, by
meddling in the contest among the Mary
land Republicans over the election OF
Senator Germans successor. 1t was sup
posed that when the administration ascer-
tanned that it could not force the election
of Postmaster General Gary to the Senate,
it had dropped out and decided to allow
the Maryland Republicans to choose theiI
own Senators, but that was only supposi'
ton. Within the last three or four days
the administration has openly shown its
advocacy of Judge McComas for the Sen
ate, and has compelled Gov. Lowndes to
withdraw 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 il would
be productive of good results to furnish the
newspapers with the complete list of all
culation. When Mr. Murphy was in charge
of the office, all newspapers that applied
for lists of pensioners in their localities
were promptly accommodated.
The Republicans are doing more Growing
oyer the small surplus shown by the
Government receipts and expenditures for
the month of December, than they will
oyer the big deficit that January will
certainly show. Mr.. Dingley has taken
advantage of the situation to issue rosy
statement in which he easily makes it ap
pesr-on paper-that the deficiency OF
$44 000, 900, 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 right to be
justly proud. What would the stock holders
Of big business corporation think of
management that reported loss of $44,-
100000 in six months and only promised
that the next six months should not in
crease the loss ? They would probably
change the management as quick as they
could, just as the people intended to do as
soon as they got an opportunity to cast
their ballots against the present mis-
managers of our affairs.
The Democrat who isn't pleased with the
political outlook, must be hard to please
The issue of this years Congressional cam
paign, and of the campaign of 1900 has been
made, and the argument furnished upon
which it will be won by the Democrats by
this administration, which after going
through the farce of sending three eminent
bimetallists to Europe as Commission for
the alleged purpose of securing the consent
of European governments 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 it doesn't want
bimetallism at all, either national OF inter
national, only gold mono-metallism.