Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-11-05

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Handle the Cuban Policy.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 80, 1897.
Mr.. Mckinley and his administra
ton have nobody but themselves t.
blame for many persons regarding
their now-you-see-it, now-you-don't
see-it, manipulation of the Union
Pacific Railroad question as thimble
rigging game in which the people have
been buncoed. First the sale of the
road was to be postponed and then i,
wasn't. Those who have carefully
studied the matter say that the adj
ministration deserves no credit for the
raise of $S,OOO,O00 in the bid for the re.
organization committee for the prop
erty; that it was question with the
reorganization committee of losing all
the swag or of giving up enough of it
to hush the public clamor which had
compelled the announcement that the
government would ask the court to
postpone the sale OF the road for six
weeks, in order to give intending com.
peting bidders a chance, and that Mr.
Mckinley was in too great a hurry to
Withdraw the application for a post
ponement of the sale. No interest
could possibly have suffered by the
postponement of the sale, and the
creditors, other than the government,
of the road might have been greatly
benefited. Members of the admins
tration may throw bouquets at each
other over his business, as they try
to make the country believe that they
accomplished something which de-
serves praise, but the country has a
way of getting at the inside of things,
and it will do so in this case.
There must be something about the
New York city campaign which pro-
vokes men to profanity. Secretary Bliss
is not ordinarily profane man, but he
has been using ugly cuss words in
public to emphasize his denial of the
charge that funds of the Republican
National Committee, Of which he is
Treasurer, where being used in behalf
of Geo. Tracy, the Platt-McKinley
candidate for Mayor OF greater New
York. Mr.. Bliss should read his
Shakespeare, and ponder his comments
upon the fellow who protested too
much.
The screws have never been turned
upon Ohio Republicans employed in
the government departments harder
than during the present week. Many
of them have pleaded poverty as an
excuse for not going home to vote,
Boss Hanna sent big batch of rail-
road tickets - something like 500
from Washington to Columbus, Ohio,
and return, to his Washington agent,
and these tickets have been placed in
the hands of those Ohio Republican
who had claimed to be too poor to buy
their own railroad tickets, and each of
them had been informed that by call
ing at the Hanna headquarters in
Columbia 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 these men has been giving hint
that it will be very unwise for him not
to 60 home and cast his vote for the
Hanna ticket. Nothing worse than
this was ever done, even in the days
when Republican candidate for
President unblushingly telegraphed
asking the chairman of the National
Committee, Chow are the depart:
ments doing?" Still, there are people
who swallow all the stuff about civil
service 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
adopting, as it should have done, the
joint resolution which the Senate
adopted, directing the recognition by
this government of the belligerency of
the Cubans, has, if the friends of the
administration know what they are
talking about, been abandoned, and
Mr.. Mckinley will refer the whole
business to Congress for resolution.
This seems an astounding statement
to make but it is the Mckinley fol-
lowers who are making it in Washing.
ton. SPANS reply to the Mckinley
policy, which reached Washington this
week, seems to have broken the main
spring of the policy, if there really
ever was definite policy, which many
doubt. 1t is semi-officially stated that
the communication from Spain will,
as result of an understanding be be-
tween the two governments, be kept
from both the Spanish and the Ameri-
can public until after it has been sub
mitted to Congress by Mr.. Mckinley.
Last Spring Mr.. Mckinley said in
effect to Congress: keep your hands
Off this question; l can handle it with
out your assistance, and in December
he will appeal to Congress for orders
as to what he shall do with it. This
sort OF thing would be humiliating to
a sensitive man. Meanwhile every
thing else has been dropped and Mr..
Mckinley, John Sherman, Mr.. Day
and other prominent members of the
administration have gone to Chic to
try to persuade the voters to keep
their hands off Marcus Aureliss Han
ma. DEM
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