The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-09-07
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WAsH1NaroH. Aug. 80, 1896.
| If Secretary Olney has adopte'
the jingoistic tone he IL credite'
with in his dealings with foreig'
powers he has taken our admins
| tration from one extreme to another
90 far as its foreign policy is con
cerned. It will be remembers!
that friends of Mr.. Olney said Q
the time that he made it condi
ton Of becoming Secretary OF Sat-
that he should be allowed to inaug
urate . vigorous foreign policy
This be- is said by his friends !,
have done from the day he tool
charge. There is no official proc
! of this now accessible to the public
but az soon as Congress meets ]
will be an easy matter to get reso
lutions adopted calling for the cor
respondence in the cases which Sec
rotary Olney may wish to get be
fore the public. His friends So.
that this correspondence will shov
that be has been using spread eagl'
language right aud left, not only t
the republics on this continent ane
to Spain, but to mighty Grea
Britain and to France. If all this
be true it shows that Secretary OF
ney has correctly sized up the PEG
pie of this country, who woulc
sooner back up a cockey admins
tration that was wrong than ar
over-timid one that was right. /
may be too late now to eradicate
from the mind of the general pub
lie the association of timidity with
the foreign policy Of this admins
tration, owing to certain occurrences
during the time the late Secretary
Gresham presided over the State
department, but if it can be done
Secretary Olney is on the right
tack to do it.
The official report of the govern
ment engineer commission which
in accordance with an act Of Con
gress, recently went over the route
of the Nicaragua Canal for the pur.
pose of making a minute investiga.
ton of what has been done and
what the present plans will require
to be done, will not be made pub
lie until. Congress meets, but the
main points of the report have
become known in q sort Of eemi.
official way. The commission re-
ports the general plan upon which
the Canal company has been work
working az feasible, but suggests,
if the work is to be completed, a
number of minor changes. And,
as was generally expected, the com
mission reports that the estimates
of the cost of the work which have
been submitted to Congress were
ridiculously low. According to
the estimates of the commission it
will require not less than $l15, 900
600 to complete the canal. $70,-
100000 was the estimate of the
Canal Company. England wants
to be let into the control of the
canal, if this government is to build
it, and when the matter comes up
in Congress some lively speeches
may be looked for on that subject.
The anti-silver democrats of Ken.
lucky want Secretary Carlisle to
come out and make some more
speeches in the campaign, but the
Secretary doesn't take kindly to the
idea. Having succeeded in his fight
to control the platform adopted by
the State convention he is 10th to
enter upon a new contest which he
might lose. A close personal friend
of Secretary Carlisle says nothing
short of a personal request from
President Cleveland will cause Sec
rotary Carlisle to get himself mixed
up in that muddled Kentucky cam.
paign.
The politicians regard Senator
Quay's personal triumph in Penn
sylvania as having a very important
bearing upon the republican side OF
the Presidential campaign. 1t will
give Mr.. Quay control of the Penn.
sylvania delegations to the nomi-
mating convention, which probably
means that the solid vote of the
state will be cast for Reed. With
the immense vote Of Pennsylvania
to start with and the shrewd manip-
ulations of Senator Quay these pol.
iticians think that Mr.. Reed will 90
into the convention with excellent
prospects of capturing the nomina-
ton. These predictions are based
upon Senator Quay's declaration
for MIR. Reed some time ago. Pol
iticians have been known to change
their minds, and even if Quay was
really for Reed when he said be was
he may not be for him now, or il
he was for him now he might not
be for him when the convention
meets. Nothing is more uncertain
than politics.
The Shasta squaws who work in
the hop fields are reported to have