The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-11-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. @, November s, 1897.

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have seen the party make better show.
ing in some states than it did in this
weeks elections, but be sees nothing in
the results to show that there has been
amy falling off in the allegiance of the
voters to the national principles Of the
Republican party, nor to his admins.
tration. The causes which brought
about disappointing results were in
every case we'll known. In some they
might have been avoided. Looking at
the whole business from purely nation.
al point of view, the Republicans came
out of the elections with gain OF one
Senator, and with experience that should
be very valuable in future campaigns.
1t is true that the victory in Ohio and
in Maryland 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 we'll for an off year, and
the first in new administration at that
Secretary Alger will make one rec
ommendation in his annual report that
will be especially pleasing to organized
labor. That is, that the pay of must
clans in army bands be increased suffi
ciently to prevent their having to seek
private engagements in competition
with private bands in order to earn
enough to keep themselves and their
families. The law prescribing the mum.
Der of musicians in army bands and
their pay is forty years old, and Gen.
Alger thinks it needs amendment to
bring it up to. date.
Ex.secretary of State Foster, who has
represented the U. s. in all the seal
negotiations with foreign countries, is
naturally very happy over the outcome
of the conference between represen.
tatives of this country, Russia and Japan,
which has been going on in Washing.
ington for several weeks. The result of
the conference is treaty between the
powers named for the suspension of
pelagic sealing in Behring Sea and the
North Pacific Ocean. Great Britain
took no part in this conference, but it is
the general opinion of those who are
familiar with the matter that her sub
jects will have to respect the treaty,
whether similar one be negotiated be.
tween her and the U. s., or not. The
agent sent here to represent Great Brit
ain in sealing conference with the U.
s, has unofficially expressed himself as
favoring an agreement similar to that
embodied in the treaty. Inasmuch as
Mr.. Fosters enemies had predicted that
nothing whatever would be accomplished
by the sealing conference, there is
ample cause for his feeling happy.
1t is difficult to find Republican in
Washington, from the President down,
who is not more or less disgusted by the
result of the election in New York City,
although that result was precisely what
everybody who did not willfully deceive
themselves knew it was bound to le,
with the Republican votes divided up
between the regular Republican can.
didate and the Republican who allowed
himself to be made candidate by the
rule or.ruin Republicans who had failed
to succeed in their efforts to control the
regular party organization. And what
added to their disgust was the knowledge
that the vote of Tracy and Low com.
bined would have defeated Tammany.
Said one Republican: "There is no
valid excuse-there can be none-for
such state of affairs, and the Repub
licans of New York ought to see to it
that the name of every man who aided
in placing Low in the field, and in keep.
ing him there, after it is known that
Gen. Tracy was perfectly willing to join
him in retiring, in order that mutually
q greed upon compromise candidate
should succeed them both, is placed up
on a list of those not to be given polti
cal honors by the Republican party
Ii there are any Republicans in Wash
ington who are not more pleased with
the success of Tammany than they would
h I'VE been with the election OF Low they
are not expressing themselves in pub
lie places There is very little doubt
that it was the intention OF the men
who manipulated Lows nomination
had he been elected, to have tried the
same game upon the Republican Nation
al Convention OF 1890 that they did up
ON the party organization of New York
with the hope Of compelling his nomi
nation for President. The scheme is, o
course, dead now, as it deserves to be
1t is doubtful whether Hannis Taylor
who was U. S. Minister to Spain under
the Cleveland administration and who
remained there until about three months
ago, realized what bad break, both in
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