The times., 1898-10-24
MONDAY. OCTOBER "a, 1898.
Hatching the Syndicate EGGS.

AS the fateful eighth day of NOvem-
Der approaches, it is productive of cyni-
cal interest to observe the wild and few
erish efforts of the Administration to
satisfy the American people that it is
a rock of adamant in opposition to the
assumption of a single peseta of Span
ish debt, and that when the time comes
after the elections-to take up the
subject of the Philippines at Paris. it
will be found to be as expansive and
determined against the surrender of any
island whatever, as The Times itself.
The fatal difficulty which the Admin
istration is encountering in this connec-
ton arises from the fact that while it
is desperately necessary to convince the
voters of this country that a patriotic
policy is in course of enforcement. il
is equally requisite to pursue another
and diametrically opposite line of ac-
ton, as secretly as possible. in order to
carry out the dominating private deal
with the interests represented by Ed
munds, McCook, Day, Gray, Ireland,
and one or two others of the Hanna
privy council.
To carry both of these loaded buckets
on its shoulders at one and the same
time. Mr.. McKinley's advisers have re-
sorted to a trick or two that, from
a Canton, Ohio, point of view, must ap-
pear to be excessively clever. One of
these devices might seem diaphanous to
most people, but it is redeemed by an
evident intention to be deeply dark and
Conan Doyley. Reference is made 10
the dispatch of a special messenger to
Paris, in the person of a Washington
publisher generally supposed to have
had intimate and valuable relations
with the Spanish legation before, if not
after, its departure from this capital.
As it is understood that the dispatch
bearer in question, with a commission
as such from the President, is most
particularly useful as a means of COM
munication between the influences, here
and abroad, working together for the
common objects involved in the ante
protocol contract pertaining to certain
Spanish bond interests, and the future
of the Philippines, the utility of the ar
rangement is rather obvious. 1t also
serves another excellent purpose.
1t would hardly do for Judge Day
Senator Davis, or Senator Frye, tC
write dispatches to the press, calculated
to create impressions on this side of the
Atlantic which might be found errone-
GUS after the Autumn elections. Meth
er of the Senators in question would
do such thing in any case, nor YET
probably would the former Secre-
tary of State. But il is said by friends
of the Administration to be highly de-
sirable that something in the way OF
news occasionally should be sent ovel
from Paris, constructed to placatt
American suspicious, and on the basi.
of what only a person on the inside OF
the Commission could know In sug.
gesting this, nobody should jump to the
conclusion that we have WhitelaN
Reid in mind. He is a diplomatist OF
too high character and standing as &
jubilee ambassador to be intrusted Will
anything requiring the exercise ot
coarse qualities like common sense
There only remains the falsely alleged
Democrat, Gray of Delaware, who i.
too able a man willingly to place him
self in position of indelicacy. will
his own knowledge and consent. ever
to further the interests of those wht
dictated his appointment as a Peac,
Commissioner for their own purposes
Being a man of brains, and therefor,
amenable to reason, we feel sure he viii
see the policy of preventing the instru
ment through whose mouth Commits
sion intelligence is to be blown, from
copying his style in the text of sucf
cablegrams as the exigencies of tn,
situation at home may make it neces
sary for Gray's syndicate friends t.
have waited across the sea.
1t will not escape notice that almos