Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Democratic members of the House will oppose, it is said, any resolution thanking Speaker Reed. The copyright bill passed the Senate on the 18th, in an amended form. It may not become a law thia session. Congressman Bland has written a letter to one of his constituents in reference.to Mr. Cleveland’s anti-free coinage letter. Mr. Biand concludes his epistle as follows: “I do not see how the Democratic party can indorse free coinage and at the sum 6 time indorse Mr. Cleveland; nor do I see how our party can do otherwise than to demand free coinage in its national platform. * * * People may admire Mr Cleveland’s courage and honesty, but I see nothing to be gained by our people by admiring the courage and honesty of a man who stands in the way of their prosperity, and rqjecta their demand for the money of the constitution so necessary to give us a healthful circulating medium now demanded, especially among the agrioultura’ i classes. The fight of the South and West against Wall street is on, and Mr. Clove* and can net stem the tide.”