Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-04

hUI ping OH tHC otncT StTtIlS
to Please Wall Street.-The Re-
publican Party Straddlcr-
Durlicity Everywhere the War
Ship to Havana a Peace Offer
ing to Srain-Dolc'S Plan for
Annexation Il Dulcfui Failure
Allison Il Florrer Scheme to
Cover Deficiencies - Where Is
There Evidence of Il "DaWn of
Prosperity" East of the Rock
les?
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1898.
The gold standard crowd is on the
run. The stampede began before the
adoption OF the Teller resolution by
the Senate but the knowledge that
that resolution would be adopted, as
well as the advice of the Republican
Senators and Representatives from the
middle west, convinced Mr.. Mckinley
that the gold standard business would
not go down, and that his party's
only hope was to make play to keep
the bimctallists from DESERVING the
Republican party in a body. The
game was started when Mr.. Preston,
Director of U. S. Mint, who had
made himself particularly obnoxious
to the silver men by his obtrusive
advocacy OF the gold standard, both
under the Cleveland and the present
administration, and whose work in
that direction was referred to by
Senator Wolcott in his recent speech,
was bounced and the position given to
a Republican bimetallist from Iowa.
But the highest trump was played
when Secretary Gage, the high priest
of the goldocracy, was made to public
ly say that Mr.. Mckinley was a BIZ
metallist and was supported in that
policy by every member of his Cabinet.
Ye gods! think OF that for soner-
sault.
The opinion is growing in Congress
that the sending of that warship to
Havana was the result of an under
standing between the administration
and Spain, and that its principal OBJ
ject there is to stave off Congressional
action.
So long as President Dole, of Hawaii,
who is now being entertained in wash
ington as the guest of the United
States, contents himself with the So
cial attentions that are being paid to
him and his wife he will find everv-
thing lovely and the goose hanging
high, but if he attempts TO NEEDLE
with the annexation tight-he will
find things very different.
During the discussion which pre-
ceeded the adoption of the Teller
resolution, declaring United States
bonds payable in silver at the option
Of the government, Senator Teller
forced Senator Allison, who voted for
this same resolution in 1873 and
now against it, to admit that i,
would be legal and proper for the
Secretary of Treasury to pay the OBJ
legations OF the government in either
gold or silver. Mr.. Allison tried to
qualify that admission with a lot of
stuff about the duty of the Secretary
OF the Treasury to maintain the parity
OF the two metals etc., but the adj
mission was all that Mr.. Teller wanted:
he is willing to leave the explanation
OF Mr.. Allison's vote against the resolu.
ton after that admission to be made
by that gentleman TO the voters OF
Iowa.
Although Senator German pointed
out that the Pension appropriation
bill Us it came from the House carried
about ten million dollars less than
would be spent by the pension bureau
during the fiscal year beginning July
l, next, and Senator Allen offered an
amendment adding 100000 to the
total carried by the bill, no action was
taken by the Senate to increase the
appropriation and the bill was passed
substantially as it came from the
House. 1t is somewhat surprising
that the Senate should even to this
extent have helped along the Republic
can policy OF insufficient appropria-
tons, in order that the government
finances may be made to appear better
than they should be, for the purpose
OF bamboozling the voters at the Con-
gressional elections. 1t is at this time
absolutely known to officials of the
pension bureau that deficiency ap.
preparation which may exceed $IO,-
100000, will have to be made by the
next session OF Congress to pay
pensions.
Representative Richardson, of Ten
nessee, stirred up the Republican
menagerie in the House by repeating
the minstrel end mans joke about the
only two things he ever saw that were
exactly slike-the Cleveland panic and
the Mckinley boom; and when the
Republicans started in to talk
prosperity" they were asked why
that "prosperiiy" had brought on a
os'"S VI A.csOOO SObbOIl I1Ill operatives
in New England, and made quite a
mess of their attempts to explain that
unusual accompaniment of "pros-
perity." Grosvenor, Of Ohio, got him
sell so tied up that he sought to escape
by bit of personal blackguardism-
calling Greene. of Nebraska, a back
woodsman. He and his party will
find lots of back-woodsmen of the
same sort next November, and every
one OF them will cast an anti-Republi-
can vote.
This is what Senator Teller said of
this era of prosperity: 81 do not
know, perhaps, but have tried to
learn, have given this question hours
OF study that few men have, and | be-
lieve that this is the great question
that the money question threatens not
only this people, but the enslavement
of mankind throughout the world.
| said in 1893, to my countrymen