| Show CAREY AND SILVER It will be observed that In the silver fight in the upper House of Congress Senator Carey of Wyoming ranged himself on the side of the opponents of the white metal It has been suggested sug-gested that the silver men of Wyoming Wyo-ming after the hard fight they made during the last campaign and in the present legislature are undoubtedly congratulating themselves on the fact that they have put an end to the Im j mediate Influence of Senator Carey on the silver question It was indeed a great victory for the silver men when he was defeated for another term in the Senate He has been one of the most potent factors against the education edu-cation of the people of the east on the silver question By his attitude he has greatly aided in keeping a number of senators who had leanings toward free silver from being converted into strong supporters of that principle However if the people of Wyoming have been congratulating themselves that the fight is over they will be disabused dis-abused Such an impression may easily have arisen because it has been the custom of the western free silver people peo-ple to underrate Carey He is destined to be a live factor in Wyoming politics for many years to come He is a man of strong beliefs and curious in his methods When he seems to be doing nothing he is most dangerous When I he makes no ripple on the surface then it is time to send a diver down to the I bottom of the political river to see what operations are being carried on there He works in the depths His career In the Senate should furnish an object lesson on this point Leaving aside all question of partisanship par-tisanship and disagreement with him on the silver question he makes a good showing He has seldom made a speech on the floor of the Senate He is not at all spectacular and is one of the men who are hardly ever mentioned by the eastern newspapers or the press associations Yet he is one of the most effective committee workers In Congress Con-gress In matters which did not take in party principles he has been a power as well on the Democratic as the Republican Re-publican side of both houses It is a matter of record that measures which he has fathered have seldom been antagonized an-tagonized on the floor When they have come up for consideration a few words have sufficed to set the wheels of legislation legis-lation in working order and they have gone like clockwork Bills of his referred re-ferred to committees have seldom met the fate of being pigeonholed but have been placed on the calendar with remarkable celerity and with as remarkable re-markable celerity taken off the calendar calen-dar and acted upon and then worked out of conference committee and to the President with equal speed In fact Carey has been almost a master of the art of manipulation Hill is an admirer of the Wyoming senator sena-tor and on one or two occasions the two have swapped favors as to legislation Scarcely anywhere in the Senate is there a place where Carey atone at-one time or another has not laid a small wire He has been one of the really great manipulators of the body Absolutely silent as to his plans he has done some very heavy work and left behind him an impression that the labor la-bor was almost infinitesimal It is on account of his peculiar manner man-ner of working and his strong views on the silver question that Wyoming la by no means free from his influence He is perfectly honest in his beliefs on the sillier question It has never been with him so far as extends the opinion of the silver THen who know him best a question of subserviency to Wall street or alliance with the eastern gold bug element He has simply disagreed with his constituency as to what will be for the best interests of their state He holds that Wyoming is no more a silver state than is New York or Ohio or any other state in the Union whose resources are not largely influenced by the production Of silver Therefore lIe leaves out the purely local question as td the amount of benefit to be derived t from the mining industry and resolves the question down to one of pure economics econ-omics He belongs to that class which believes be-lieves it would be wise to restore the bimetallic standard if all the commercial com-mercial nations of the world will come together on it If they should agree on a fixed ratio he believes by their united strength they could keep that up He does not believe be-lieve though that it would be possible possi-ble for the United States against the opposition of the European commercial nations to maintain the parity between the two metals Therefore Wyoming Is not yet free from discussion as to her future status on the silver question Underneath the I surface of the local Republican party an influence that had made itself felt in the Senate at unexpected times will be I I at work Carey is untiring in his energy I en-ergy His methods are to keep steadily at work counting even the most infinitesimal in-finitesimal gains as well worth while and never ceasing hi his endeavors in the face of the most stupendous obstacles obsta-cles He will be at home Warren and Clark will be at Washington most of the time Unless they are watchful they may return to their state someday some-day and find that they have been undermined un-dermined and the ground they thought I so secure is crumbling under their I feet Carey Is likely to be very much alive politically for some time to come I |
