The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-11-06
THIBoDAUX, LA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1897
.s..sNUrUN LETTER.
ff'm on, regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. W Oct. 80. 1897.

Mr. Mckinley and adninistra
a, n"hody but themselves e.
tor many persons regarding
thsT now-you-see-, now-y0u-dont-
manipulation "f the Union Pa
H. Railroad question as a thimhlr-
1..ihg game III which the people
| have been buncned. First the sale ol
road was to be postponed and
hts II wasn't. Those ha carefully
studied this matter say that this al
tntnl>tration deserves no credit fo,
lie raise of $S.000,000 in the bid f..
the reorganization committee for the
property that it WAS a question with
the reorganization committee of losing
all HE swag or of giving up enough OF
Il to hush the public clamor which
had compelled the announcements
that the government would ask the
court 10 postpone the sale of the road
taf six weeks, IN order To give intend
Ing competing bidders a chance. and
aat Af. Mckinley was in too great a
hurry to withdraw the application for
postponment of the sale. No iDte
rest could possibly have suffered by
the postponement OF the sale, and the
creditors, other than the government,
Of he road might have been greatly
aenefitted. Members of the admins
tfation may throw bouquets at each
other over this business, as they try
ta make the country believe that thy
accomplished something which de-
serves praise, but the country
has way of getting at tie
inside of things. and it will do so il,
this case
There must be something about the
NJ" fah city campaign which pro-
vaaes taen t" profanity. Secretary
Bliss ls not ordinarily IL profiine man,
hai he has heen nsing ugiy cHss words
IN rnhlic to emphasize his denial of
tire charge that funds Of - Repubii
can National Committee, of which lie
is Treasurer, were being used in be-
half Of Gen. Tracy, the Platt -AIcKin
ley candidate for Mayor of greater
New York. Mr.. Bliss should read his
Shakespeare, aud ponder his COM
ments upon the fellow who protested
toe much.
Tie screws have never been turned
upon Ohio republicans employed in
the governments departments harder
than during the present week. Mane
of them having pleaded poverty as an
excuse for not going home to vote,
Boss Hanna sent Il zig batch of rail
road tiekets-something like 500
finn Washington To Columbus, Ohio,
and retIsn, 10 his Washington agent,
and these tickets have been placed in
the hands of those Ohio republicans
Who had claimed to bet poor to buy
their own railroad tickets. and each
OF them has been informed that bv
calling at the Hanna headquarters in
Columbus in person he can secure
round trip free transportation from
that city to his voting place in the
State And that isn't all; every one
of tlese men has been given hint
that 1t will be very unwise for him not
ta go home and cast his vote fo, the
Hanna ticket. Nothing worse than
this was ever done, even in the days
when a republican candidate for
President unblushinglv telegraphed
asking the chairman 'of the National
Committee, "How are the departm ents
doing ~ Still, there are people who
swallow all the stuff about civil SER
vice reform that emanates from Mark
Hanna's administration.
The great Mckinley Cuban policy.
which WAS used at the extra session to
prevent the House from taking up and
as it should have done, the
joint resolution which the Senate
adopted, directing the recognition b,
this government of the belligerency of
the Cubans, has, if the friends of The !!
administration know what they are
talking about, been abandoned, aud
Mr.. Mckinley will refer the whole
business to Congress for solution.
This seems an astounding statement
o make, INT it is the Mckinley follow
rs who are making it IN Washington. |
Spains reply to the Mckinley policy, |
hieh reached Washington this week. /
seems to have broken the main spring
IF the policy, if there really ever was J
. definite policy, whicl, many doubt.
t is semiotficially stated that the /
communication from Spain will, as (
eSnlt of an understanding between
he two governments, be kept from
10Th the Spanish and the American
'ahlic un.il after it has been submit
ed 70 Congress by Nh. Mckinley. |
4ast Spring Nj. Mckinley said in
fleet ta Congress: keep your hands
If this question | can handle it with
~ yauI assistance, :and in D9cemberi
le will appeal to Congress Tor orders
IS 70 what he shall do with it This
ert Of hing would be humiliating to
sensitive man. Meanwhile every
hing else has been cropped aud Mr.
John Sherman, Mr. Day and
.tler prominent membels Of tie adj |