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POWER OF CORPORATIONS.
DEMOCRATS SAY THEY CONTROL
THE ADMINISTRATION.
Hoke Smith, Villard’s Man-—Did the
Street Railway Octopus Want
Gresham Off the Bench I
From lhe Philadelphia Press.
Washington, Feb. 19. The an
nouncement of the membera of Mr.
Cleveland’s Cabinet throws some
light, in the minds of leading Demo
crats in Washington, upon the influ
ences which are to be potent during
the second Cleveland administration.
Most of these influences are capi
talistic, and had much to do with
paying the expenses of Chairman
Harrity’s successful management of
the Cleveland campaign. Anti-
Cleveland Democrats do not believe
that the chief contributors to the
Cleveland election fund invested
their money from purely unselflsh
devotion .to the abstract cause of
tariff revision.
villakd’s influence.
The refusal of Mr. Cleveland to
appoint Col. Morrison, of Illinois, to
the Secretaryship of the Interior has
already been attributed by promi
nent Democrats to the opposition of
Henry Villard, whose interests in the
Northern Pacific Railroad and its
$25,000,000 worth of disputed land
grants made it desirable for that
corpration to have at the head of the
Interior Department a man who, if
not pliant, would at least not be ag
gressively hostile to Mr. Villard’s
interests. Such a man, the discon
tented leaders of the Democracy are
saying, has been found in the person
of Michael Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
who has the negative merit of com
parative unacquaintance with rela
tions between the Federal govern
ment and the trans-continental rail
road.
Democratic criticism of the selec
tion of Judge Gresham for Secre
tary of State has now taken a new*
form, which accords with this same
theory of the capitalistic influences
which are to control the next admin
istration. It is now suggested that
Judge Gresham’s decisions upon the
bench of the United States Circuit
Court have been so uniformly disa
greeable to the corporate interests,,
and especially to the syndicate which
now controls the street railway facili
ties of Boston, New York, Philadel
phia, Baltimore and Chicago, and
which is reaching out for the control
of the street railway franchises of
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MARCH 3. 1893
Washington, that Mr. Whitney, Mr.
Lamont and their associates thought
it advisable to transfer Judge
Gresham from the bench to a bril
liant and attractive position in the
Cabinet, where he would not have
the opportunity to pass upon litiga
tion in which these corporations are
interested.
POWERFUL CORPORATE INTERESTS.
Both the Gould and Vanderbilt
interests have already been injured,
it is said, by decisions rendered by
Judge Gresham, and critical Demo
crats intimate that these powerful
influences have joined with those of
Mr. Villard and his associates in fa
voring the transfer of Gresham to
the Cabinet. This charge, it is to be
remembered, is made by Democrats,
and however fanciful it may appear,
it is of interest as showing the hos
tility which Mr. Cleveland has
already stirred up within his own
party.
A corroborative rumor, which the
anti-Cleveland Democrats do not fail
to adduce, is that Don M. Dickinson,
who has been Mr. Cleveland’s trusted
courier in inviting men into his
Cabinet and in attempting to influ
ence silver legislation in Congress, is
to become the legal representative
of the street railway syndicate in
Chicago.
The Selection of Gresham.
St. Louis Republic.
Views of Democrats regarding the
selection of Judge Gresham for the
State Department are by no means
moderating. The Democrats as a
rule are opposed to Judge Gresham.
The dispatch sent out from Chicago
that he accepted the State Depart
ment, not because he liked the place,
or desired to reside in Washington,
or to become a member of Mr. Cleve
land’s administration, but because he
felt it to be a public duty, has not in
any way abated their feeling. They
argue that if Mr. Cleveland could
not find among the 6,000,000 Demo
crats of the United States a man
capable of taking the Secretaryship
of State it was about time his party
should disband. Concerning the
feehug of Democrats here about Mr.
Gresham the following temperate ar
ticle from the independent Evening
Star of V ashington City may help
to throw some light upon ths situa
tion, coming as it does from a strictly
nonpartisan source :
DEMOCRATIC DISSATISFACTION.
“While the talk of making an open
fight against the nomination of
Gresham for the Cabinet has about
died out and Democrats as a rule
refuse to discuss the Cabinet situa
tion publicly, there is an intense feel
ing under the surface, and some of
the most conservative men in both
branches of Congress express the
opinion privately that there is going
to be a bitter antagonism between
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Mr. Cleveland and the rank and file
of the Democrats in Congress after
he gets into the White House. A
strange thing about this is that a
great deal of this quiet talk comes
from men who have heretofore been
ranked as Cleveland men. There is
no doubt that the steel has gone
deep into them, and while they are
trying to keep a straight face and
canceal their pain under an assumed
indifference they feel a mortal wound.
“The Morrison men are very much
disgusted at Morrison’s getting turn
ed down, and while a few of them
still cling to the hope that Gresham
may be credited to Indiana and Mor
rison yet be given a place, most of’
them do not entertain this hope for a
minute and are very bitter in their
expressions privately.
villard’s influence.
“They do not pretend to account
for Mr. Villard’s influence with Mr.
Cleveland, but they cling to the be
lief that it is on account of Villard’s
opposition to Morrison that he is not
to go into the Cabinet. They say
that the turning down of Morrison
and the appointment of Gresham is
going to play the mischief with the
Democratic party in Illinois and that
it will be a very hard fight to hold
the advantage they gained at the last
election in that State. There is still
a half-hearted fight being made to
get old time Democrats in the places
that are yet to be filled in the Cabi
net, and the assertion is very general
that if Mr. Cleveland wants to place
himself in touch with the Democrats
in Congress he had better get some
one in the Cabinet who will be recog
nized by the old time Democrats and
who will have some influence with
them.
“Carlisle’s appointment is very sat
isfactory to them, but he is only one
man, and they say that one swallow
does not make spring. This talk
does not appear to be for the purpose
of booming any particular man or to
force anyone in particular, but, on
the contrary, there appears to be a
growing indifference as to whether
Mr. Cleveland tries to put himself in
touch with the rank and file of the
party. It is rather a cold statement
of what they believe the situation to
be and a prediction of the conse
quences.
A FEELING OF INDIFFERENCE.
“The feeling is that if Mr. Cleve
land is not willing to place reliance
in the regular stalwart Democrats,
and to try to strengthen the party
and hold it together, there is no
reason why they should make any
sacrifices in order to get closer to
him. With this feeling —if other
Cabinet selections announced do not
relieve it to some degree—there will
be a very slim prospect of any silver
legislation which does not agree w’ith
the popular view in Congress. The
assertion is made that if men are to
be placed in positions W make recom
mendations to Congrjss and try to
influence legislation in accordance
with the views of the Executive, it
will be very much better to select
men for such service who are recog
nized as colleagues and brothers by
Democrats of long service and who
will have influence with them.
“Whether this feeling is justified,
or whether it will last or not, there
is no doubt that it is very general at
this time. With some the expres
sions may be intended merely as a
threat to compel Mr. Cleveland to
make terms, but this motive cannot
’ be honestly said to be the most gen
eral controlling.
AT VARIANCE WITH A LARGE ELE
MENT.
“The statement is made that Mr.
Cleveland is at variance with a large
section of his party on a number of
points, and that by putting to the
front men who are not recognized as
the wheel horses of the party he will
make it only the more difficult to
bring the party together.
“It is said that the trouble about
the attempt to secure the repeal of
the Sherman law was largely that
the men most active in trying to se
cure the repeal were unknown as
Democrats, and that members listen
ed in vain for any word from the
men from whom they have been in
the habit of gitting advice in party
affairs. If the same policy of com
municating through strangers is fol
lowed after Mr. Cleveland gets into
the 'White House it is predicted that
theh-esults will be the same. These
men may be a little too quick at
jumping to conclusions, but there is
evidence of great discontent, disap
pointment and apprehension.”
A COMPARISON
Between Two Bills Which Were Intro
duced in Congress Recently.
The Wool Hat, Feb. 18.
On Jan. 9, Mr. Watson introduced
a bill in the House; on Jan. 11, Mr.
Cate introduced one also. Mr. Wat
son’s bill was referred to a committee
which was to bury it in one of the
pigeon - holes in their room ; Mr.
Cate’s bill was attempted to be
rushed through the House under the
gag rule.
The purpose of those bills was the
same—to increase the circulation of
the currency and the only dif
ference as to the manner in which it
was to be increased, and the details
to put each plan into operation.
In order to understand why these
two bills were treated so differently,
we must compare them, note wherein
they differ, and then remember that
in the present House there are 434
Demo - Republican, or plutocratic
members, and only 10 Populist, who
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The full text of the Cate bill is
printed in The People’s Party
Paper of the present week, and for
want of space we give only the lead
ing feature in the identical language
of the bill itself.
The Watson bill is voluminous,
and we briefly outline its leading
feature for the purpose of compari
son :
cate’s bill.
“Upon deposits by national bank
ing associations of United States
bonds they shall be entitled to re
ceive circulating notes equal to the
full par value of the bonds, and in
lieu of all taxes shall pay a duty of
£ per centum each half year.”
watson’s bill.
“Upon deposit by any person of
cotton or wheat they shall be enti
tled to receive circulating notes equal
to two-thirds of their market value
and shall pay four per centum inter
est and cost of issuance of cer
tificates.”
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strated that that offered in the Wat
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differences between the two bills are
these :
Mr. Watson’s bill provides for the
issuance by the government of legal
tender notes to any citizen having
the collateral, at four per cent inter
est and no expense to the govern
ment, the money to be repaid within
a year.
Mr. Cate’s bill provides for the
issuance by the government of legal
tender notes to a privileged class
(the bankers) at $ per cent interest
and all the expense to be borne by
the government, the bankers to keep
the money as long as they want it
Which bill was drawn in the in
terest of the people, and which in the
interest of the Shylocks?
The, Cate bill was favored by Jfr.
Cleveland and voted for by a, ma
jority of the Democrats.
Which party will you support
hereafter ?
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direct at the rottenness and infamy
of the whole matter, and went out
side to show that this riot and blood
shed was not the result of the tariff.
In their effort to rob Tom Watson
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wash to the whole affair, as
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Congressional Industry.
The House was in that quiescent
mood that is so frequent of late.
Nobody was doing anything. Two
members stood opposite each other
directly in front of the main aisle,
below the Speaker. It was a dead
lock.
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Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 18.—The in
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in connection with the recent Sena
torial struggle was resumed to-day
hefore the special House committee
of three. Representative Krick told
what he knew of the occurrence at
the Lindell Hotel on the night of the
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