Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-02-18

me. have little heart to look 1000
miles to the westward of our country
to Hawaii-when we have such a strug-
gle going on in Cuba, almost at our very
DOORS"
On motion of Mr.. Hale, the resolution
was referred to the COMMITTEE on foreign
relations.
Since this speech of Senator Mason
was delivered, the following spirited in
terview with Senator Foraker (Repub-
liean of Ohio has been published. 1t
begins in discussing the letter of the
Spanish minister, referred to in last
weeks REGISTER. Mr.. Foraker is re-
ported as follows:
"The incident should not be allowed to
end with the acceptance by Spain of the
Spanish minister's resignation, for we
! should have word of apology from
Spain. The offense of Minister Dupuy
de Lone was most serious one. 1t was
not only insulting in its character, but 1t
showed that his whole course has been
one Of duplicity and hypocrisy. He has
not only insulted the American people
by his illusions to the president, but he
has shown that autonomy and CONNER
cial reciprocity as proposed by the minis
try at Madrid, are but sort of bunco
game. In his letter he speaks of the
proposed commercial treaty as some
thing to be urged for effect, and of au-
tonomy as not legalized. In other words,
the talk about commercial relations is
buta time service, and the proposition
to give autonomy is not in good faith.
The Cortes has not authorized it, and
never will, and that is what he had
reference to.
SIN my judgment the time has come
for something affirmative, positive and
conclusive. to be done by the United
States Christianity, morality, human
ity, patriotism, and the spirit of liberty,
all combine to demand that we intervene
and put an end to an atrocious struggle.
According to the Monroe doctrine we
cannot allow any other nation to inter-
pose. The responsibility is, therefore,
all cur own. We must answer for all
the pillage, waste, rapine, butchery, and
starvation that may ensue from this time
forward"
"What should be the consequence,
senator, if Spain stops with the accept
ance of De Lome's resignation?'
81 do not know what the admnistra-
ton will do, but, no matter what might
be the result, this nation should assert
its own selfrespect and maintain it, es-
pecially under all existing circumstances,
without regard to the consequence, for
w w lie oil Uo RI ho nj
consistently with honor, to be avoided,
yet there are times, and this, | think, is
one of the times, when it is less to be
avoided than policy that would be
lacking in national spirit and the mani
festation for national honor"
In the same paper that publishes this
interview with Senator Foraker appears
the following telegram from Ohio, show
ing that their senator's course is fully
sustained by the Republican clubs of
that state:
The Ohio Republican League conven-
ton, which was held in this city today
columbus, Feb. 1T, was one of the
stormiest in the history of the league.
About 200 delegates, representing seven
ty-two clubs. were in attendance. The
factional feeling which marked the late
senatorial contest cropped out. There
were strenuous efforts to restore har-
mony, however, both the retiring presi-
dent and the president elect advising the
members of the league to lay aside fac
tlOnal differences. Senator Foraker, in
his telegram to the league, also made
Mo
Bushnell element were dominant in the
convention, however, and while they
endeavored to keep factional differences
in the background, carried all their
points.
Trouble was started early in the pro.
ceedings. President John j. Sullivan, in
his opening address to the convention,
referred to the great service which had
been rendered the party in the last cam.
paign by Gov. Bushnell, Senator Hanna,
and Lieut.. Gov. Jones. Hon. Clay
Drinkle of Lancaster criticised Mr.. Sui
livan's omission of Senator Foraker's
name quite sharply, saying that one
would not infer from Mr.. Sulivan's
speech that Ohio had a senior senator.
While there was contest on some of
the officers, the big fight of the conven-
ton was on the resolutions. The chair
man of the committee on resolutions was
Charles Griffin of Toledo, and he drafted
the report presented to the convention.
The last three sections of the report pre-
cpitated fight, led by A. s. Bickham
of Dayton. Despite the.oppositlon, how
ever, the original resolutions were
adopted, with the following addition:
We send greetings to President Mckinley
and senators llama and Foraker and assure
them of our heartest support.
The sections objected to by the Me
Knley and Hanna adherents are as
follows:
We indorse the Cuban reso lution introduced
and discussed February 0 by Senator Mason
in the United States senate, ana hope that il
will be promptly approved by the committee
on foreign affairs, passed by the senate, and
qnpr0eticallV carried into effect nv Our