The aegis & intelligencer., 1897-10-08
Washington letter.


WASHINGTON, Oct. Cuba; il ought to b,
aud it shall be free" That il the motto on tn
Tag which the friends of Cuba, many and il
fluential in Washington, have nai cd to tn,
mast. The new campaign for free Cuba WI
opened with Il big mass meeting, under thu
auspices of the Womau'S National CubaI
League, participated in by many prUminen
men, including Il number of Washington
foremost ministers of the gospel. Othc
meetings are to be held, not only il Washing
ton, bat III all sections OF the country, IU Civ
that hearty sympathy for Cuba known to eXiS
l chance to express itself i'll such an cmphaU,
way that the leisurely and uncertain steps o
the administration will have 10 be quickcned
whether it be agreeable to the government o
Spain or not. AT this meeting IL picked chOi
OF sixty voices sang for the first time in public
Joseph Adams ode to Cuba which l.,
dedicated to the League. There was grca
enthusiasm, and those who are in charge 81!
that it is going to continue to grow until /
becomes irresistible. These people believ,
with the Cubans that nothing short Of freedom
for Cuba will be accepted, and that the ad
ministration scheme of pacifcation for Cub,
under continuance of Spanish rule is bount
to be a failure.
Ex-Governor Hoadley, Chief Counsel for tn,
intending purchasers of the nion Pacific Rail
road, has been in Washington for the purpose
of securing the official consent of the admins
tration. He secured it, of course, and the rGac
will be sold next month, notwithstanding the
protests of the Senate Committee on Pac:i
Railroads aud the charge of reputable citizen
that the sale is Il job to do the government au.
the private creditors of the road out of million
of dollars.
1t pays TO be the Presidents doctor. DIR
Newton L. Bates, IL niedici Al director in the Navy
who was the private physician of Mr.. Mckin
ley when he was i'll Congress, and who has oc.
cupied the same position since he beclm,
President, has been appointed Chief Of the
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy
Department. although he WAS not next in lin,
for promotion.
An Ohio Republican whD would not allow
his name to be used because it figures on al
official pay roll and he wishes it to stay there
has been telling the inside facts about IT,,
hgh-handed way in which Boss Hannas man
Dick, has been walking rough shOd over tn,
Foraker Republicans in the State. He has been
in the State recently and knows. He said
There has never been anything like it befor,
in Ohio politics. Tee supporters of Senator
Foraker supposed that when the deal was
patched up, largely through Mr.. Mckinley. by
which Mr.. Hanna was to be supported for tht
Senate and Gov. Bushnell re-nomiaatei, thai
factiOnal differences were to be shelved for the
time and the tmpIign made harmoniously
they soon discovered that the harmony was t.
consist of constant humiliations put upon the
l. II III
their heuchmen. II has beca steadily getting
worse ever since the campaign opened anG
the end is not yet, although Senator For
akcr became so disgusted that he left the State
with the intention of remaining away until u c
election. Mr.. Mckinley has persuaded Sena-
tor Foraker to return to Ohio, ana promised
him that if he would go ahead and make
speeches he would see that Hanna and Dick
gave him and his friends better treatment
Foraker accepted Mr.. McKinIey's promise and
left Washington today for Ohio, but he knows
that Hanna considers himself Mckinley
master, and he hasn't much confidence in that
promise. Foraker will have personal day OF
reckoning with Hanna, as sure rs you live.
whether it be on the floor of tina United States
senate or i'll the State of Ohio"
There is an unusual lot of growing among
the oihce seekers IN Washington, because OF
the little lime that Mckinley devotes to them.
They 20 to the White House every day, but
few of them get an opportunity to see Mr..
Mckinley, and those who do see him do not get
much satisfaction. He makes some apppint-
ments nearly every day, but lots of them are
men whom he knows personally or wishes to
reward for personal work done for him. As Il
result there is some plain talk in the hotel cor
rdOrs from those who believe themselves en-
titled to official recognition and who have been
led to suppose they would get it. Slowly, but
surely. an anti-McKinley sentiment is gre W.
ing among Republicans.