West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-11-04
0JA WASHINGTON BUDGET.
Free Passes For Ohio Republicans To
Go H9me And Vote.
The Mckinley Administration And
The Cuban Policy.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c..
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ing their row You see 70. now-you.
don t-see 1t, manipulation Of the
Union P'cie Railroad question as
thimbie-riggIng gomo in which
The people have been buncoed.
First the sale of tho road was to be
postponed and then it wasn't.
Those who have carefully studied
this matter say that the admins
tration deserves no credit for the
raise of $4,000, 900 in the bid for
the reorganization committee for
the property; that 1t was question
with the reorganization committee
OF losing all the swug or of giving
up enough of it to hush the public
clamor which had compelled the
announcements that the govern
ment would ask the court to post
pone the sale Of the road for six
weeks, in order to give intending
competing bidders chance, and
that Mr.. Mckinley was in too great
a hurry to withdraw the applica.
tlon for postponement 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.
Me bers of the administration NAV
throw bouquets at each other over
this business, as they try to make
the country believe that they &C.
complished something which de-
serves praise, but the country has
way Of getting at the inside of
things, and it will do SO in this
case.
I t I
There must be something about
the New York city campaign which
provokes men to profanity. Secre.
tary Bliss is not ordinarily pro-
fame man, but he has been using
ngly cuss words IN public to cmpha.
size his denial of the charge that
funds of the Republican National
Committee, of which he is Treas.
nrer, were being used in behalf of
Gen. Tracy, the Platt- Mckinley
candidate for Mayor of greater
New York. Mr.. Bliss should read
his Shakespeare, aud ponder his
comments upon the fellow who
protested too much.
TT
The screws have never been
turned upon Ohio Republicans EN-.
ployed in the government depart.
ments harder than during the pres.
ent week. Many of them having
pleaded poverty as an excuse for
not going home to vote, Boss
Hanna sens big batch Of railroad
tIokets-something like 5O0-from
Washington to Columb bus, Ohio,
and return, to his Washington
agent, and these tickets have been
placed in the hands Of those Ohio
Republicans who had claimed to
be too poor to buy their own rail-
road tickets, and each OF them has
been informed that by calling at
Che Hanna headquarters in Colum-
bus 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 given hint
that 1t will be very unwiso for him
not to go home and cast bis vote
Tor the Hanna ticket. Nothing
worse than this was over done, even
IN the days when o Republican
candidate for President unblusb-
Ing.y tclographed asking the chair.
man Of the National Commi.tc.
How are the departments dong Pr
Still, there arc people who swallow
oil the stu1 about civil service re-
form that emsnates from Mark
HannA's administration.
til
The great Mckinley Cuban
policy, which was used at tho extra
session 10 prevent the House from
taking mp and adopting, as it
should have done, the joint rosolu.
ton which the Senate adopted.
directing The recognition by this
government Of Che belligolency Of
the Cubsrs nae, ID tbo friends Of
tae administration know what thew
are talking about, been abandoned
and Nr Mckinley win roiar The
whole busiless to Congress for solu.
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