The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-17
SAYS HIS STATE
IS REPUBLICAN
Congressman Hyde of Spo-
kane Will Yield Moth
ing to California.
1t Will Get Into the Column
Again as Soon as Conditions
Are Normal.
The Congressman Deeply Dep ores the
Attitude of the Government
Toward Cuba.

Congressman S. c. Hyde of the State oi
Washington was among the arrivals here
yesterday and is at the Lick. He is on
his way to the National capital and is ac-
companied by his daughter, Miss Katie
Hyde.
Mr.. Hyde is from the Spokane or East
ern Washington District His home is in
Spokane. and has been for many years,
he being among the first to locate there.
He is an attorney by profession, and was
three times elected Prosecuting Attorney
at Spokane and served six years consecu-
lively.
He is an energetic, pushing man and
goes straight for the thing he wants.
Il was very sorry to learn of the death
of General Maceo," he said to CALL rep
resentative; ait is TO me a matter almost
of personal atfliction. l could scarcely
keep tears back when 1 heard of it,.
Maceo, to my mind, was another Hanni-
bal, and like Hannlbals his skin was
black.
at always seemed to me that these
people down in CUBA ought to have been
helped by us. l shall always look upon
it as a grave mistake on the part of our
are, almost under the shadow of our flag,
and fighting for freedom with ten times
more cause than we had during the
r evolution, yet we have not helped them
in the slightest.
II fear for their cause, now that Maceo is
dead, and l am afraid that if the Spanish
win they will treat the people with extra
ordinary cruelty. Everything goes to
show they will do so.
'Senator Morgan and Morgan in the
Senate and L in the House-introduced
concurrent resolutions during the last
Congress recognizing the Cubans as bel
ligerents. The resolutions passed both
houses and went to the President, but it
seems that according to custom the Presi-
dent had discretionary power to indorse
or not indorse the resolution. At least
this was so claimed, and it finally went by
default 1t appears that in order to make
it so the legislation would be equiya-
lent to law it should have been by
joint resolution, instead of concurrent
resolution, and this 1 understand, Will
now be done.
cit is with pleasure that learn that
meetings in aid of Cuba's cause have been
held at Spokane, Butte and elsewhere
since left. There is great deal of SYM
pathy up there with Cuba.
II believe Congress, at its first session
(the Fifty-fourth Congress), failed of its
duty toward the Cubans and the civilized
world. It's efforts were feeble and i'm po-
tent and in poor contrast with its brilliant
achievements in establishing firmly the
Monroe doctrine and preserving the re-
public of Venezuela from the rapacity OF
The British Government"
Neither Mr.. Hyde nor Mr.. Doolittle, the
Congressman from Western Washington,
was reelected.
1--WE had too much Populism there, Z"
said Mr.. Hyde. "Ex-Attorney General
Jones OF Spokane succeeds me and James
Hamilton Lewis OF Seattle succeeds Mr..
Doorttle. But | can say that the Stale is
Republican as much as California and
Oregon are. The State rightfully belongs
in the Republican column and will take
its place there as soon as conditions re-
been too many factlonal differences among
Republicans. We have bean cursed, TOO,
with the present barbarous method of
| electing United States Senators by the
| Legislature.
''At every session of the Legislature since
! our admission in 1889 we have had Sena-
torial election on hand, and are booked
| for two more at the session this winter
and the one next ensuing. These contests
have been bitter and injurious 10 the
party and State legislation. In one in
| stance there was failure to elect, and we
were left with but one Senator for two
years. The Legislature has never yet had
session to devote to legislation free from