The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-11-04
WASHINGTON.
our Regular Correspondent.

their nOW-you-o|S', ho" w" tyo
see-it. manipulation of the Union
pacific Railroad question as thin
ble.rige,ng game IN which the people
ta,e been buncoed. First the sale
If the road was to be postponed and
,hen il wasn't. Those who have care
Gv studied this matter says that the
administration deserves no credit for
the raise Of $4,000, 900 IN the bid for
the reorganization committee for the
property that it was a question with
the reorganization committee of los.
inc all the swag or of giving up |
enough of it to hush the public |
clamor which had compelled the an
nouncement that the government
would ask the court to postpone the
sale of the road for six weeks, in
order to give intending competing
bidders chance, and that Mr.. Nc
Kinley was in too great hurry to
withdraw the application for a post
nonement 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. Members of the admins
,ration may throw bouquets at each
other over this business, as they try
TO make the country believe that they
accomplished something which de-
serves praise, but the country has a
way of getting at the inside of things,
and it will do so in this case.
There must be something about
the New York City campaign which
provokes man to profanity. Secre-
tary Bliss is not ordinarily profane
mgn, but he has been using ugly cuss
words in public to emphasize his
denial of the charge that funds of the
Republican National Committee, OF
whcn he is Treasurer, were being
used in behalf of Gen. Tracy, the
Platt-McKinley candidate for Mayor
of greater New York. Mr.. Bliss
should read his Shakespeare, and
ponder his comments upon the fellow
who protested too much.
The screws have never been turned
upon Ohio republicans employed in
the government departments harder
than during the present week. Many
of them having pleaded poverty as an
excuse for not going home to vote
Boss Hanna sent big batch of rail
road tickets-something like 500
from Washington to Columbus, 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 tt
buy their own railroad tickets, anc
each of them has been informed thai
by calling at the Hanna headquarters
in Columbus in person he can secur'
round.trip free transportation iron
that city to his voting place In tn
State. And that isn't all every on
of these men has been given hln
that it will be very unwise for him no
to 90 home and cast his vote for tn
Hanna ticket. Nothing worse tha
this was ever done, even in the day
when republican candidate fc
President unblushingly telegraphe
asking the chairman of the Nation;
Committee, "How are the depar
ments doing ?" Still, there are pee
pie who swallow all the stuff abo'
civil service reform that emanatt
from Mark Hanna's administrator
The great Mckinley Cuban polio
which was used at the extra sessio
to prevent the House from taking u
and adopting, as it should have don
the Joint resolution which the Sena
adopted, directing the recognition
this government of the belligerency
the Cubans, has, if the friends OF t
administration know what they a
talking about, been abandoned, al
Mr.. Mckinley will refer the who
business to Congress for solutic
This seems an astounding stateme
to make, but it is the McKinl
followers who are making it in Was
ington. Spain's reply to the Mex
ley policy, which reached Washlngt
this week. seems to have broken
the main spring of the policy, II th'
really ever was a definite poll
which many doubt. 1t is seml-oif
ally stated that the communlcal
from Spain will, as result OF an
derstanding be between the two 6
ernments, be kept from both
Spanish and the American public
til after it has been submitted to Z
gress by Mr. Mckinley. Last Spr
Mr.. Mckinley said in effect to {
gress keep your hands off this q'
ton l can handle it without y
assistance, and in December he
appeal to Congress for orders a
what he shall do with it. This sor
thing would be humiliating to Sc
tive man Meanwhile eVerytl