Show our washington letter fa from our ji regular correspondent playing the voters for suckers is a very old republican game but it is to be again this 3 ear arid urn if it wins in it is ia the regu 1 lation tion three card monto monte political trick the republican ad ninis tro tra tion through iti ita iclene land and secretary of tile the treasury area ury is ia manipulating the cards fo 60 that in ill sections where some soine silver boers are necess necessary orv to win the cards will show the republican party to be a greit great friend ot and many fairy stories will be toll lull about what mr MCKI mcknley rIley elpe experts ts to accomplish for allver through international bimetallism anti and in sections where the gold standard element la is held by a majority the cardi will show the itt publicans in their true colors supporters of tile the single 0 gold to be forewarned war ned is to bs be forearmed and if any leal fl friend bedd of silver gets gels caught in this game daml he will des deserve to be ba cau caught bt czar reed cracked the party whip and compe led the republican majority ol of the houe B to stand up and be counted against tho the teller resolution declaring bonds to be payable in silver at the option of the government reed is ak no dodger whatever else he may bo be ile he is for the gold old standard and for gold londs lends and lie he simply compelled tile flou e to endorse the payment of bunda bonds in gold by defeating the teller resolution at all though there are lots los of republicans who would rather that he had killed the resolution by the pigeonhole method if many of the re publicans public ans of the lone flotie lon e had dared to voto vote as they thought there would have been enough of them with the solid democratic im cratic vo vote t to 0 have bave overthrown 1 reeda plan and adopted the teller resolution reno rewo lution senator benator chandler who has been conspicuous in his bis championship of mr mckinley 0 bimetallism bi 1 has hag this to say of tile the latent attempt t of the latter to carry gold ou oil one shoulder and silver on oa the other tile tho president Pre eident is trying to satisfy the gold people and also prosecute prope cuie international bimetallism willell which is it a very difficult thing for him to do because the former are not in favor of any kind of bimetallism so he be declares in favor of paying the national debt in the best money in the world in delorence delc rence to the tha gold people and refrains from saying that the best money in the world is gold in order to avoid disturbing the bimetallists it may maybe be sagacious policy but it will be to it mu h longer it if secretary gage and his assistants are to coni continue nue to declare on every possible occasion occasion that international is impossible while the pic ide ident rit maintains that he is prosecuting negotiations with willi other nations the time will toon come for or the explicit declaration as to whether mr gage cage or the president represents the republican party part Y 11 senator handier chandler was the only battern republican who voted for tb the e tel teller ier resolution which was adopted by a vote of 17 to 12 2 those who have been lack black guarding spain for trying to buy ane friendship of the U S through trade ions offered in the negotiations for to a ity treaty between the U S and spain to in chide the products of cuba and porto rico which are now under way will doubtless doubt lebs be surprised to learn that the first step in these negotiation was taken by the llie U K minister to spain under instruction instruction B from alje department of the state but such is tile the fact just why this administration have gone out of its way to make such a practical demor demonstration of ilg friendliness towards individual must determine for billa himself gelf but i it t seems seams to be al all I 1 it a part of the de deal alvith wi spain which pacified Con congress greeg antl and tho the people for a time lime by sending it a U S war ship to havana I 1 he be liolu house e by a vote veto of to 07 67 passed tile the bill to pay to the southern ou thern methodist Methodi it book for bailla damages cs sustained by the company during the war no senator presents more unique arguments than senator tillman man jofs C and his bis latest on the sil gierer ver question was wag one of his best bast ile he said aid as be viall walked itil down the th aile ai le before 1873 we used to go 0 on oil two legs one leg was gold and the other leg was silver then we cut oin cot leg off but not content with tint thit we placed the cutoff cut off onlea leg on our our tho Ebo and we ire are now hopping klong along on one leg with the other leg on our shoulder the evator illustrated his ic 10 marks by action and when lie he ended by hopping mound on ollie one let leg bending oscr with the imag imaginary IDary burden or oil ins his shoulder there was such a binet of laughter and ap blauss that iha the vice president dent had to lo sharply demand order oder the lodge gilt gild bond resolution having baving been defa etel by bv a of vote 1 it I 53 to 24 in the senate tile tho gentlemen who hane habben ha eben been baying boari bill in wahington agton with the ilea hell that legislation legit lation for gold bondi bond could be secured from this boogren Congre Co ogren 44 have at last got their e eye vea open to facts known to most people from the first day of the session the absolute inn possibility impossibility of eid bond legislation washington 1 D 0 jan 31 |