Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-12-22
CHAMP GLARK'S LETTER
Bimetallism Is Still a
Lively Corpse.
E ON RESURREOTING.
Won't Stay Planted When It's
Safely Buried.
snvERs REPUBLICAN, FRIENDS

noyO ---@a-o3 .
Senator Chandler OF New Hampshire
Hopes to Awake Dormant Bimetal-
Iists-A GoldbuE Paper sounds n
Note of warning = Expansion May
Lead to Free Trade-AncIent Demo-
cratic Doctrine Revised.
Especial washington letter.
Banquo's ghost isn't in it a little bit
with bimetallism when il comes to fis-
ing again. How often it has been laid
ont in cold death; how often the coffin
lid has been screwed on good and tight;
how often it has been consigned to the
grave by willing hands; how often 1t
has reappesred suddenly and unexpect-
eddy full Of lusty life to the astonished
gaze Of Its would be murderers to scar
their starting eyeballs-all this passeth
my mathematical powers to tell
On the 9th of November every gold
bug paper in the land declared that at
last the deed was done, the job COM
pleted. the country sayedl We had
heard the last Of the silver craze. Tho
iunatios were knocked out for keeps;
the senate was safe for ten years; the
single gold standard was fastened on
the country forever I'd a dayi
That was the fats 1g JUNCTION which
the propagandiEts Of the English system
Of finance on this continent laid to their
palpitating hearts.
General Grosvenor, in q burst Of con
fdence and with prophetic ken, strok-
ing his venerable beard, his eye In fine
frenzy rolling, declared that we would
how have a whole generation Of Repub-
lican presidents - presumably from
Ohio.
So with wassail bout and popping of
oorks and the ~uproarious strains Of mu-
sic and much enthusiastic if maudlin
oratory the oddities celebrated the wake
over the corpse of bimetallism. They
said TO each other gleefuliy, diabolio-
ally, ghoulishiy: tits dead this time,
good and dead, deader'n a smelt.
deader'n a doornail, deader than-the
denoei What is that awful noisef' And
it wal to them an awful notes.-the
sound Of himetaliism bursting from the
tomb, with Hon. William E Chandler
Of New Hampshire, Puritan statesman,
Republican senator, in the role of chief
resurrectionisti Macbeth terror wasn't
a circumstance to theirs. After all their
labor and fussing and Tuning and boo
ding and bulldozing and growing and
b~loviating and guzzling and ~hurrahing
they come ont of the same hole they
went in at They have to begin at the
beginning and do it all oyer again
start in alb initio, de novo, from the
stump at the bottom.
Republicans @Cuss" BIZ Chandler.
The unanimity, alacrity and bitter
ness with which they will damn Chan
der would eclipse the sulphurous glory
Of "our army in Flanders" If what
they are saying about Chandler could
be taken down Geographically, 10
would make rare and racy reading, but
would be excluded from the mails un-
ceremoniously on account Of its profani-
~ and obscenity. They may "cuss'' all
they please, but the fact remains that
the New England senator has started a
brand new debate on b~imetallism
which will be conducted at every fire.
side in the land. Now, If some defeated
Democratic or Populistio candidate for
congress had writtez-ah elaborate in.
tsfTrUw N f9m Of bimetalliam ths
goldbug press with one accord would
have denounced il as dwelling idiocy,
but they can't so fippantly dismiss thu
well considered words of New Hamp-
shire's senior senator. he halls from
the east, the habitat of wise men. ID
Is enc Of the high priests In the templs
Of Repnblicanism. That he is mischie'
Vous as a monkey may be admitted, bul
that he il gmart as a whip is known Of
all men; that be is ambitions as Juliui
Caesar is suspected by many, and thai
he aspires to the presidency is believed
BY some. His post election interview, I
portion Of which I quote below, has sci
many people hereabout 10 using theii
thinkers az they never used them be
fore, for Chandler's shrewdDess ant
dexterity ct floating with the tide hav'
become proverbial
Those Republican politicians whit
care nothing for principle, but who de
sire above all things to be on the win
ming side, are rubbing their eyes ans
whispering 10 each other: Better III
low on the financial question. william
is sly. He generally knows what he'i
about. Can il be that be has read thI
handwriting on the wall and is prepar
Ing 10 contest the presidential nomina
ton with William Mckinley, takinl
'B~imotallim' as bis battIecryf' Thu
lsy the timeseryers who will shout n
Justify for bimetallism tomorrow,
they think 1t popular, as they shout 70
the gold standard today.
Believes In silver.
Here are some Of the latest u~tterance
If the willy New England senator. II
safe to say that be would not talk a
such q strain unless be believes ths
even 10 the Republican ranks there Is
strong though dormant feeling in fave
Of bimetalliEm. for Senator Chandler ]
act of tho stuff out Of which martyr
sre made and possesses no suoh absorb
ing love af principle a. 70 oauss him I
feoklessly thr0w away a seat IN th
senate q the United States for what oil
Bill Allen Of Ohio would have demon
mated in his energetic Lingo - d.