West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-12-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
MCKINLEY rs FOR SECRETARY
ROOT FOR HIS RUNNING NATE
NEXT YEAR.
Wages Have Increased Ten Per Cent.
and Prices One Hundred Per Cent
From our Special Correspondent

From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 16.-
Mr.. Mckinley isn't satisfied with
bossing Congress ; he intends to
boss the whole Republican shooting
match. For some reason he has
soured on Boss Platts little
scheme of making Gov. Teddy
Roosevelt the Vice Presiden-
tial candidate, and he took
occasion to tell the members
Of the Republican National Com
mittee, which met in Washington
yesterday to choose the time and
place for the next Republican Ma
tional Convention, that Secretary
Root would be nominated on his
ticket. Boss Plat tries to make it
appear that he means it when he
says that Roots nomination for
Vice President will be entirely
satisfactory to him. Now, 1T has
become known that Mr.. Root is
Mr.. McKinley's candidate the
thick and thin worshipper at the
Mckinley shrine are falling into
line and the Root boom is grow
ing accordingly.
Senator Allen, who has been APP
pointed by the Governor of Ne
braska to fill the vacancy left by
the death of the late Senator Hay.
ward, will be warmly welcomed as
staunch and valuable recruit to
the ranks of the anti.gold standard
Senators, who are peparing for a
long and hard fight in the Senate
against the gold standard bill,
which Mr.. Mckinley has found it
so easy to jam through the House.
III
The Republican speeches in the
House, this week, have contained
lots Of gush about "Repu blican
prosperity" and Sound money!"
but very little praise of any por-
ton of the gold standard bill,
which will, if it becomes IA law,
put the control of the finances Of
| the Country in the hands of the
bankers, enabling them to contract
or expand the amount Of money in
circulation at will.
TT
Representative Cochran, of Mo.
in an able speech against the Me-
Klnley gold standard bill pre-
sented figures showing that there
is not enough gold in the world to
do the business of the world, and
declared that the Importation of
gold to pay for the surplus crops
exported to supply the failure of
crops abroad had quickened trade
and produced the prosperity of
which the Republicans boosted and
warned the Republicans that when
the stock of gold declined, as he
believed it was bound to do, the
prosperity of today would crumble
like house Of cards. Represen.
tative Sims, of Tenn in his
speech against the gold bill, called
attention to a very important fact
that while wages did not average
more than 10 per cent. above the
panic level, the price of manufac-
tured goods had increased 100 per
cent.
III
Senator Pettigrew's resolution
calling upon the Secretary of the
Navy to inform the Senate whether
the flag of the Philippine Republic
was carried by vessels IN Manila
Bay and saluted by Admiral
Dewey or any OF the vessels of his
squadron at any time since May l,
1898, and whether vessel flying
the Philippine flag accompanied
the u. $. Cruisers Concord and
Raleigh to Subig Bay, IN June
1898, to aid in compelling the
Spanish force to surrender, asks
for Legitimate information and