Evening star., 1898-12-24
IN HOTEL CoRRupoRs

IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.
II consider the visit Of William J. BRYAN
to Andrew Carnegie at the latter's REQUEST
as determining the issue OF the next cam
paign." said L. A knight of Sedalia, No.,
at the National THE election of a repub-
lican Senate settled the silver question, so
Tar as any practical results could be OBJ
tanned by the success OF the silver issue.
This left the democrats without any we'll
defined issue unless they resurrected the
tariff. When Andrew Carnegie and Senator
Hoar and Senator Hale took a position TO
oppose the expansion policy they gave as
reasons the destruction OF the republic.
Ihls was directly in line with democratic
clalms ana gave the democrats an oppor-
tunlty 10 make a new party alignment and
nght the increase in the standing army and
In national expenditures. The democratic
party is divided upon this question but the
leaders believe that the republicans are
also so divided, and that by taking a strong
the democrats will be able to draw a large
number OF voters from the republican
ranks. and the next campaign will be dis
cussed almost entirely along the lines Of
Imperialism and extravaganza"
"Mortgaged Kansas is always populistic;
prosperous Kansas is republican" said Q.
L. Edward of Larned at the Metropolitan.
Il live in western Kansas on one OF the
principal portions of what was formerly the
Santa Fe trail. My country is a grazing
section, and beef ran so low that there was
no money in raising cattle. A number of
enterprising and prosperous towns in west.
ern Kansas, which had been upheld by
the cattle interests. passed out of existence,
All or the counties then gave large popu-
ilstic maJorities. The price of cattle raised,
the-mortgages were paid of and at tho
last election IL was evident that Kansas
had gone back to the republican column,
We are now enjoying times more prosper.
Gus than We have had at any time since
1876 Western Kansas is Gee more on a
BOOM"
Tho failure of the International Bank
bill do not think will permanently affect
our foreign trade said J. c. Herndon.
banker of St Louis at the Shoreham. 1t Is
certain that with a great increase of for.
eign trade We cannot continue to pay for
exchange on London. But with the large
houses and ample capital which have been
organized or will be organized for the pur-
pose OF doing an export and import busi-
ness the New York banks will find il neces.
sary to establish branches in leading Cen.
tral and South American cities and New
YORK exchange will take the place of Lon
don exchange. II is remarkable how much
interest is now being taken in this Cen-
tral and South American trade by the
houses which declined this trade when of
the time was too long and the credits too
uncertain. They are now branching out af.
ter it, and there is no question that they
will get it.
THE present tendency to large corpora.
tions,' said E. A. Griggs of Chicago, at the
Normandie, will sool place the entire busi.
ness of the United States under the control
of the New York banks. There is no longer
any money in national bank circulation,
and as the various lines of business are
combined in the hands of New York men,
that city is fast becoming what London is
to England, the controller of the entire
country. 1t Is becoming more and more
every year necessary for stocks and bonds
to be listed in New York in order 10 make
them saiiable, while the country banks do
not dare to refuse to obey the dictates OF
their New York correspondents. This
necessarily results In almost all of the sur.
plus money going to New York, and con-
tracts the circulation in other parts of the
country. This is being discussed by busi.
ness mems organizations throughout the
United States, and by the time the next
Congress meets some kind of bill will be
formulated in order to restore the circulate
ing power of the circulating medium"
Il have had the largest Christmas trade
in many years" said c. A. Newman Of
New York at the Riggs. II have been SELL
twenty years and am out now on my first
trip after having settled up the accounts of
my holiday trip. 1t has been a fad of mine
to preserve my order books and l compared
them all while l was at home 1 found
that prices were somewhat lower, but that
sales were larger than in any previous year,
and sold better average class of goods.
l sold fewer cheap toys than / did last
year and more than doubled the amount Of
expensive goods. This difference existed
not only in the cities, but in the small
towns L travelled through, and there seemed
to be no difference in sections. 1 Travelled
over eighteen states, and in those eighteen
states times are much better than they
Were year ago..
'Apropos of the recent riots In Havana il
is interesting to get statement from fair
American standpoint from the center of the
difficulties. This sort of statement came
today to an official of the State Department
in a private letter from a former attache of
the consulate general in Havana, which 1
the Ebbitt
The Spaniards, who are as mad as the
devil about having to leave the island are
using every occasion to pick a fight with
the Cubans. Last night on the slightest
kind of a preteXt about thirty Spanish sol.
dlers attacked the Hotel Inglaterre. They
nred several shots and killed four men,
The American contingent expect to get hold
OF the city IN about two weeks and, aside
from painting ii red in a figurative sense.
they hope to improve conditions in many
ways.