The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-13

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prints the roalOwing interesting article:
Mark HaaAa's agents are aires 1y at work
fn Wall stree5 Tor the campaign OF 1900.
They are working for the peTpeJuation OF
power for the Mckinley forces.
Petitions issaed by the New York branch
ofthe Sound Moaey League, which has its
national headquarters in Chicago, have been
extensively circulated. More, they have
been freely signed for large contributions.
Henry CIcvs is one of the signers. He
said yesterday:
"Our aim is TO offset what Bryan is do
ing. 1t will take money, hence the subscrip-
tions."
Mr.. Ciews admitted that money was
coming in freely
Visitors from Chicago and other Western
cities are talking ominously of the work
already done in the West for this political
hind pool IL is said that q million dollar
campaign fund is now fairly in sight.
Anon & the capitalists whose names are said
TO head the lists are J p. Morgan, Mr..
Rockefeller, George Gould, Russell Sage,
Spencer Trask, Andrew Carnegie, Henry
C1ews, Gustav s. Schwab, Robert Nj. Gal
laway, August Belmont, George NJ. Pull
man, John waRamaker, Chris Magee, and
hundreds of others.
The scheme 60 re-elect Mckinley is EN-
bodied in the organization known as the
National Sound Money League. This is
Mr. Hanna s political blind pool Mr. Z.
v smaney, who was Hanna s right-hand
man, in charge OF the Mckinley Press Bu-
reau, is secretary OF the league, and the
confidential lieutenant OF Mark Hanna.
lie is rapidly organizing branches of the
league in the principal cities
ct the formationof the New York branch
OF the league, in the Chamber OF Commerce,
February %, constitution was adopted
stating that the National Sound Money
League is formed to perpetrate the gold
standard in the United States; that the
work OF the league shall be carried on
through State. county and local leagues.
"An matter for publication shall he sub
ulitted to, and approved by, the eN ccutive
committee Action with reference TO leg
isiative measures shall emanate only from
the executive COMMITTEES.
pear otherwise than Of an economic nature,
tOr keep the Government on E0id basis.
bat the political features OF the move
nent in the direction OF Mckinley 20 sue
ceed hirnscifin the new century are rapidly
coming % light.
The amount uf money that is being sub
scTfbed promises to be enOrmous-any-
where from ono 60 two millions OF dollars.
The subscription papers, bearing the sigma
tures of many leading merchants. bankers
and business men Of New York, state In
substance that the undersigned are TO con
tribute the amounts specified annually,
for four years
The modest sum OF $500 a year by j. p
Morgan, is followed by similar subscrip-
tions from other capitalists VIGOROUSLY in
terested in the Mckinley Administration.
MoKiuIey's friends will have control OF
the money Never in the history OF the
Government have politicians dreamed OF
raising a miIiion-GOllar campaign fund
four years in advance.
Immense quantities Of literature are
being prepared under the direction OF
Mckinley managers, all ostensibly de
voted to the Mckinley brand of sound
money, warranted to be followed by pros
perfty Not a page is &c be sent out until
revised and O. X d. by the power behind
the throne A meeting OF the national
executive committee is to be held at
Chicago In May
The continuation that was formed in
1856 to oppose the nomination of VIII
Ham Mckinley is stillin existence, work
ing not yet in open defiance OF the Ad-
ADMINISTRATION. but in defense Of their pO-
Iiticai interests, and TO prevent such
domination of tie Administratiu by Mark
A Hanna as would impcril their political
future.
Mark A Hanna, the warwick Of Re-
publican politics, is marshaling his forces
on the old lines backed by the army of
capitaIsts, whose reward is row being
prepared, and which will come to them
when the Dingley tariff bin is passed
Yet, according to one of the anti-McKin-
hey combination, the platform on which
the Republicans, if they hope to win, must
sand in 900, is like this
Bimetallism.
Opposition 10 trusts.
Income tax.
Tariff for protection OF labor only.
Some of the reasons given for and symp-
Icy combination are:
president McKinIeys disregard Of
Senator t. C. Platt in relation to Federal
effsces.
1.-The appointment of original Mckinley
men to fin every place but one in the Gabi-
net. and the nomination Of Mckinley men,
or neufrals, 10 the most important foreign
departmental pos tons
The rewar,ling of Mark A. Hanna's
managers in every State by appointment
&C local offices.
The refusal, last December, of the lead
ers of the anti Mckinley combination to
accept Cabinet positions.
Senator Foraker's opposition to the re-
turn of Mark A. Hanna TO the United States
Senate and his ifnplacable objection to the
ncrIsination of ex-Congressman Bellamy
storer as First Assistant Secretary Of
State"
Yesterday the representative OF a central
Western State In tie Republican national
committee gave utterance TO this prediction:
That within sixty days much Of the his
tory of the Garfield administrator would
begin to repeat itself, and that many of the
prIacipal actors in that fight would nlay
HEADING roies in the coming Republican dis
rupti0n.
when President Mckinley chose his Cabi-
net he worked for denomination. He tried
60 piacate the more powerful OF his rivals.
A tacit understanding existed among bis
csa antagonists that none should accept po-
satsons. hut that each should preserve his
YoliticaI independence.
Mckinley offered to Senator Allison,
Toxa's perennial Presidential candidate,