Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-02-09

From our Regular Correspondent

|
! certain that the Hawaiian annexa-
ton treaty will be ratified when the
vote is taken, although the vote is
not likely to be taken for several
weeks, if all the senators who have
given notice of their intention to
! make speeches on the subject do so.
A motion to postpone further con-
| sideration OF the treaty until March
| l was defeated by the senate this
week, thus disposing of the stories of
a combination of senators for the
purpose OF holding up the treaty in
order to compel President Mckinley
to adopt their ideas of what should
| be done with the Cuban question, in
stead OF following his present policy.
In this connection it may be just as
well to say that the Cuban policy OF
President Mckinley is not in a1y
sense personal. 1t was only adopted
after the most careful consideration
and many conferences with leading
Republicans, and it has the support
of every Republican in congress and
the hearty personal endorsement Of
nine-tenths OF them, and is, therefore,
not likely to be changed by BULLDOG
| ing, or, III fact, by anything short of
changed conditions in Cuba.
A considerable portion Of the time
of Attorney General Grlggs, who this
week took charge of the department
Of justice, has been taken up in receiv-
ing callers. some of them old friends,
but the most of them eminent Repub-
| leans who wished to make his
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sufficient to convince those who meet
| him that the new attorney-genera is
a man Of brains and OF well-balanced
judgment-in short, just the sort of
man who should be chosen for the
legal advisor Of the president.
The jOiui reception of President
and Mrs Mckinley and President
and Mrs. Dole, Wednesday night. was
one of the most brilliant ever held in
the White house. About two thou
sand Of the most prominent men and
| women In Washington attended.
1t doesn't take long for the public
to catch on. When the Administered
ton ordered the battleship Maine to
Havana, there was a period of public
| excitement, argumented by ensatiOn-
the Cruiser Montgomery was ordered
| to call at several of the sm aller Cuban
| ports in the course of cruise around
| the West Indies, there was not a
ripple of excitement, the public hav-
ing made up its mind since the Maine
has been peaceably lying in Havana
harbor that there is no more signifi-
| canoe in ordering a United States
vessel to call at Cuban ports than in
ordering one to call at any other
! foreign ports.
President Mckinley and the Repub-
leans in congress are much pleased
at the crushing defeat Of the Teller
resolution by the votes Of the Re-
publicans Of the house, and they will
| be even better pleased to have that
resolution made the Issue Of the con-
gressional campaign. The Republican
| party stands now, as it has always
stood, for the payment Of all obliga-
! tions in 1OO-cent dollars, and it
doesn't believe the time will ever
come when majority Of the voters
OF the country will favor scaling the
nations obligations So. or any
| other per cent. Secretary Long apt
! IL said Of the Teller resolution: "Bv
| this promise of accent dollar and
of the practical discredit Of the fnan-
| cial Obligations of the United States
| they (the silver meu) commit them
selves to a policy which will reduce
| the value of every laboring mans
wages, Of every veterans pension and
Ofev-ry penny saved and laid upin our
savings banks. We shall 90 before
| the country next fall in the congress
sional elections upon a square issue
! between a sound currency and a de-
| preciated one; between maintaining
| and impairing the credit Of the United
| States; bet ween giving the industrial
! people of the country p dollar worth
a hundred cents for their labor and
product and giving them a dollar
worth forty cents"
The yellow journalist who this week
announced his discovery of the veri-
! table mares nest by announcing t hat
the Republican leaders Of the house
bad decided that there should be no
financial legislation at this session Of
congress is entitled to the BOBBY
medal. Representative Cannon, Of
Illinois, who is one Of the Republican
leaders, said: "The So-calIed leaders
have nothing to do with it. It is the
condition that controls the situation
Of what use wOuld it be for the house
TO waste time debating a financial
bill, when he senate would not pass
it? We have established our ability
to defeat any silver legislation the
senate may pass, and it is all we can
do at this session.
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