Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-11-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondents
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 1897.

President Mckinley, like any other
good Republican, would have liked to
have seen the party make a better
showing in some States than it did
in this weeks elections, but he sees
nothing in the results to show that
there has been any falling of in the
allegiance of the voters TO the national
principles of the Republican party, nor
to his administration. The causes
which brought about disappointing re-
suits were in every case well known.
In some they might have been avoided.
Looking at the whole business from a
purely national point of view, the Re-
puolicans came out of the elections
with a gain of one Senator, and with
experience that should be very valu
able in future campaigns. 1t is true
that the victory in Ohio and in Mary.
land was won by dangerously small
margins, but such has been true of
many of the greatest political victories
ever won. On the whole, the party
came out very well for an off year,
and the first in q new administration
at that.
Secretary Alger will make one recon-.
m%endation in his annual report that
Will be especially pleasing to organ
lied labor. That is, hat the pay of
musicians in army bands be increased
sufficiently to prevent their having to
seek private engagements in COMPETE
ton with private bands in order to
earn enough to keep themselves and
their families. The law prescribing
the number of musicians in army
bands and their pay is forty years old,
and Gen, Alger thinks it needs amend
ment to bring it up to date.
Elk Secretary of State Foster, who
has represented the United States in
all the seal negotiations with foreign
countries, is naturally very happy over
the outcome OF the conference between
representatives of this country, Russia
and japan, which has been going on in
Washington for several weeks. The
result of the conference is a treaty be
tween the powers named for the suspen.
sion of peLagic in Boring Sea and the
North Pacific Ocean. Great Britain
took no part in this conference, but il
is the general opinion of those who are
familiar with the matter that her sub
jects will have to respect the treaty
whether a similar one be negotiated
between her and the United States, Of
not. The agent sent here to represen.
; Great Britain in a sealing conference
with the United States has unofficially
expressed himself as favoring an agree
; ment similar to that embodied in tn,
y treaty. Inasmuch as Mr.. Fosters enc
mics had predicted that nothing what
ever would be accomplished by tn,
t sealing conference, there is ampl,
!, cause for his feeling happy.
! 1t is difficult to find a Republican il
Washington, from the President dow
who is not more or less digusted by tn,
! result of the election in New Yorl
I City. although that result was pre-
| cisely what everybody who did no
. ~willfully deceive themselves knew
, was bound to be, with the RepublicaI
T votes divided up between the regula
Republican candidate and the Repub
8 lican who allowed himself to be mad
. a candidate by the rule or ruin Reput
q licans who had failed to succeed in thei
n efforts to control the regular party OF
8 ganization. And what added to thei
! disgust was the knowledge that tn
vote o fTracy and Low combined woul
have defeated Tammanv. Said on
y Republican: There is no valid excus
v of affairs, and the Republicans of Me-
York ought to see to it that the nam
of every man who aided in placin
! Low in the field, and in keeping hiI
there, after it was known that Gel
n Tracy was perfectly willing to joi
him in retiring, in order that a mutt
ally agreed upon compromise cand
n date should succeed them both,
y placed upon a list of those not to /
given political honors by the Republ
IL can party" If there are any Republ
ia cans in Washington who are not mo
B pleased with the success of Tammau
a than they would have been with IL
~ election of Low, they are not expires
,e ing themselves in public places. The
es is very little doubt that it was the i
ot tention of the men who manipulate
= Low denomination, had he been electe
"a to have tried the same game upon Il
N Republican National Convention
Z 1900 that they did upon the par
~ organization OF New York, with II
!: Well