The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-06
He is A CLOSE OBSERVER
And His Trip May Result in
Much Good to China.
FETE0 AND DINEO BY OFFICIALS
Cornelins Vanderbilt Has Given $780,
600 to Help Defeat Free Silver
and Elect Maj. Mckinley
President.

1 Will nave gone TO the East VIA the
West. His arrival and stay in Wash
| ington have been distinctly an event.
The absence of the President has been
| the only mar to the completeness of
the affair." The weather has been bril-
liant beyond description, and the citN
brushed and scrubbed by the rain
storm, was white and green i'm the yell
low sunlight
III and his suite came in all the mag
niticence of Pullman specials, but they
| came in the darkness and storm. Next
| morning he was up with the sun, his
grand kinsman, and had had his rice
Cruel, his cigarette and his breakfast
before the house girls came out and
stood yawning ON the front steps; and
| before most business men were com
ing down town he was i'm his carriage
and away up the avenue TO the Navy
Yard and new Library, and by nine
o'clock had been carried through the
Capitol in his sedan chair.
When shown the splendid new Lii
brary, he asked Mr.. Foster if it was
complete. When told no, he declined
to go in. When pressed he motioned
to his attendants to drive to the Capt.
toll They drove. He cared little for
the details that were to be. He had
grasped the idea of grandness of the
home of the books of our w-makers.
Once in the portals of the Senate Hall
he listened to a word of explanation
and description and passed swiftly
through the corridors. He gave a mere
glance at the great painting of the
battle of Chapultepec, but nodded
approval at the marble room and the
statue of Hancock.
The same afternoon Iii. with five of
the most important of his suite, called
at Secretary Carlisle's and was receiv
ed by the Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle,
two sons, w. X. and Logan and the
grandchildren of the Secretary. An
immense crowd had gathered to see
the great man as he passed in and out
of the house, carried in his sedan
chair, and accompanied to his carriage
by ex-Secretary John w. Foster. with
whom he drove away at the
close of his visit. And last night
he was the guest, at dinner,of Mr.. Eos
ter at the Arlington Hotel, and fine
dinner they partoolI of and which they
enjoyed while the Marine Band played
the music most liked by Prince Iii.
Minister Yang Yu and wife enter
tanned Ii at luncheon. The Legation
rooms were gorgeously adorned with
American beauty roses, these flowers
are the favorite ones with Madam
Yang Yu and on all State occasions
she has them in profusion, their rich
coloring adding greatly to the always
bright and hospitable appearance of
the Legation rooms.
III Hung Chang is much better look
ing than his pictures. He has a serious
countenance, but there is something
gentle and winning in the expression
of his eyes. To all appearance he is
free from sanity and the great curiosi-
ty evinced by the multitude to see
him and the crowds who follow his
carriage whenever it comes in sight
seem to make no impression upon
China's representative.
But what is it all about? Secretary
Olney has no impression that the Earl
is travelling for his health. 1t may be
that the shock which China got in the
war with Japan has convinced him that
civilization has proved in the hands of
an eastern nation its superiority over
paganism, and this great pagan, rely
ing on the reserve intelligence and
numberless multitude of his people,
intends to do in a decade what it has
taken Japan two score years to accent
plish. He has learned by a broad and
shrewd inspection of the greatest ma
tions of the globe where he can get the
best methods and instruments to hum
BILE Japan and restore the landmarks of
his Empire.
You can put deeper suggestions than
these behind the impenetrable and
impurturbable countenance of LII and
then not fathom his purpose. 1t is
unfair to write of Ii and fail to tell
that the famous peacock feather
droops gracefully behind and does not
stand up extensively. Whether it is the
effect of the peacock feather or the
yellow Jacket cannot be dOgmatically
| determined, but certain it is that since
Ii came to town, the money talk has
ceased and gold bugs and silver bugs
all unite in agreeing with your prom
ouncement about Li-that he is great
and most interesting character.
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Two months ago Hon. J. Sterling
Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, was
| firmly convinced that Mckinley would
carry Nebraska. He has been travelling
through his State since, and now he
saws: "As a matter of fact the cleo
toral vote of Nebraska will be given to
Bryan, and in my Judgment, every 9th
er State West of the Mississippi will
do likewise" If there is any man
Morton dislil<es it is Bryan, and he
would stop at nothing to compass his
defeat. His admission, therefore, is in
the nature of the best proof that Bry-
an will carry the West"
The Republican committee this week
was glad to greet Pritchard and Settle,
and promised to give them as much
money as they wanted if they could
induce the Populists to run Bryan
and Watson electoral ticket in North
| Carolina. The committee is Flush"
| now. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave his
check for 100000 one day this
week. Mr.. Thompson, treasurer of the
Republican Congressional committee
of Washington, saw, handled and was
duly thrilled by said check only the
other daY while In New York.