| Show CHANDLER CENSURES GAGE warning letter to tho the administration by tho the new hampshire senator washington D C dec SO RO chandler of new Harari shire has written a letter to tha th a washington post in which ho he says if the secretary ot ol the treasury end and his single gold standard associates will cease their demand for impossible currency legislation congress wil pass the necessary appropriation bills probably take care of hawaii and cuba there will not be a serious party division during the session and there willbe will ie an adjournment in may business will revive the balance of trade will continue lu in our favor and the republican party will in november 1898 elect a majority of the house louse in the filly fifty fifth congress on the otiler other hand if secretary gage continues to press upon congress a bill the object ot of which he bays is first to co commit himli the country more thoroughly to the gold standard and the immediate result of which is to throw doubts upon the sincerity of the presidents declarations in favor of continued efforts to secure bimetallism a political turmoil will arise in congress which will split the now united republican party into fragments while it will unite and consolidate the now incongruous opp osal it is if not feasible to retire the green backs there is more probability that a bill will be sent to 0 the president to in creasa arcase their amount it is not net possible bl to secure the passage through either house of a bill making the greenbacks green backs s into gold notes or a authorizing bonds payable in gold the effort to effect either thing will probably result resift iri in ilie the passage of a bill for the redemption of the greenbacks green backs in silver dollars and for the payment of all 11 united un difed states bonds in gold or silver coin in the discretion of the president who will be commanded to exercise his opinion for the advantage of the government and not for the advantage of the creditors with such an uproar in congress is as these p proceedings will create with certain congressmen embroiled therein with presidential vetoes as threatened by secretary gage under angry discussion it will happen that all business enterprises and funds and stocks will be disturbed prices will fall in solvencies solven cies will increase and the republicans public ans will lose the congressional elections in 1808 as disastrously as did they in isoo and beyond the hope of a favorable reaction in 1900 at which time therefore a bryan democratic president and congress will be chosen whether wo we are to have one of 0 these results political safety or the other political destruction depends entirely upon the course to be pursued by secretary gage arid and those who are pressing him forward namely the gold standard league of new york and the self constituted monetary i conference how much secretary gage cares for the republican party is ia not known whether president mckinley whose promises of good faith towards bimetallism are coming to a I 1 test will stop his secretary is not known it is to be hoped lie he will but no political situation has been clearer than the present one is to sound eyes since the republican party began its marvelous career forty two years ago there is a time for all things there is a time to move and a time to keep still and now is the time to so BO keep it is simply absurd for the lican party in this congress to affirmatively I 1 open the discussion and the I 1 bringing of yea and nay votes on currency ouri curi I 1 legislation we ought to await the progress of international bimetallism I 1 the advent of business prosperity and the fillia filling of the treasury by the normal workings soon to be seen of the new tariff law shall we wait for these things or rush on to self de st ruction president Alc mckinley Kinley mutt must I 1 decide will he act for liis his people or for liis his plutocrats upon his answer will depend the events of 1888 1698 signed WILLIAM E CHANDLER december iset ll 11 |
