Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-10-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
President Mckinley For General
Tracy,

The Reciprocity TrcRties-Justice Fields
senator oorman's with
drawai - sale Of the Union racia,
railroad.
That President Mckinley is in
favor of Gen. Tracy, the only regu-
lar Republican candidate for Mayor
Of New York City, is now known to
all the world, as it was 70 your cor.
respondent when he told your
readers that such was the case.
Secretary Bliss had the support of
President Mckinley when he wrote
that strong letter endorsing Gen
Tracy and asking every Republican
TO vote for him, as he has the sup
port of the President in going TO
New York for the purpose of re-
gistering and of ascertaining in
what manner he can best help Gen.
Tracy and the regular Republican
ticket, and he will have that sup
port in whatever he may do in the
campaign. President Mckinley does
not intend TO write a personal letter
for use in New York, any more than
one for use in Ohio, not because of
any lack of sympathy with the Re-
publicans engaged in the campaign
in both places, but because he does
n { think that the President of the
United States should personally en-
gage in a political campaign, but he
is going TO Ohio to cast his vote for
the Republican ticket, and it is no
secret that he will think more of
every Republican voter in any State
who follows his example. There is
nothing surprising in all this it
would have been surprising to those
who know the man, had President
Mckinley indicated any intention of
acting otherwise.
Nothing but commendation has
been heard of President Mckinley s
selection of Hon. John A. Kasson,
of Iowa, to be a Special Commits
sioner of the United States with
plenary powers to negotiate recipro-
city treaties with other governments
in accordance with the provisions of
the Dingley tariff act. Mr.. Kassen
served in Congress for many years,
where, as a member of the House
Ways and Means Committee, he ac-
quired valuable experience, and his
diplomatic career has been brilliant
and enviable. He was first Minister
to Austria, then Minister to Germany
and later United States Commission
er to the Berlin conference, which
arranged the present government of
Samoa. The country may rest as
sured that Mr.. Kasson will see that
it's interests are properly taken care
of in any reciprocity treaty he ne
gotiates. Negotiations with France
have been under way sometime, and
that country is likely to have the
honor of the first reciprocity treaty
under the Dingley law. Austria
and Germany have given notice of
their intentions to open negotiation
for similar treaty.
There was no surprise at the pub
lication of the tender of Justice
Fields resignation from the U. S.
Supreme Court, and of President
McKinley's acceptance thereof, to
take effect Dec. 1, 1897. The fact is
generally known that Justice Field
would have retired during the last
administration-he has been eligi-
BILE for retirement under the age
limit nearly eleven years-but for
his disclination to give Mr.. Cleve-
land an opportunity to appoint his
successor, and he announced last
year to his friends his intention to
retire early in the present admins
tration. His health is quite feeble
at this time. There seems to be
little doubt that Attorney General
McKenna will be named for the va
cancy as soon as Congress meets.
Senator Germans latest bluff, Of
feling to withdraw as q candidate
for reelection and to give up the
leadership of the Maryland Demo-
Gratis, if the publisher of the Balti.
more Sun would agree to take the
leadership and stop fighting the
German machine, is so transparent
that it has furnished nothing but
amusement for the Republicans.
German knows that the next Mary
land legislature is almost bound to
be Republican, and he is anxious to
unload the responsibility for defeat
on somebody, and he preferred Mr..
Abel, of the Sun. who has for years
been his most influential enemy in.
side the Democratic party, to any
body else. Mr.. Abel has been fight
| ing Gormanism too long to be caught
by such q scheme he knows as we'll
as German does that Democratic de-
feat is we'll nigh certain, and he
wishes his paper to share in the
credit for bring about that defeat,
this year, just as it did in the carry.
ing of the state for Mckinley and
Hobart last year. Mr.. German has
been credited with much political
shrewdness, but he will have to get
up a better scheme or many will
think that he has been much over
rated in the past.
Those who started that story
about President Mckinley intending
to stop the sale of the Union Pacific
Railroad overlooked the fact that
the sale was ordered by a decree Of
the United States Circuit Court
The only thing that could have
stopped the sale would have been an
appeal to the q S. Supreme Court,
and that the Government decided
sometime age not to take.
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