The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-02-03
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1898.
GAZETTE BUILDING DIRECTORY.
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convention the Republican party was
pledged to three important questions.
One was the money question, whereby
gold was to be continued as the stand
ard; a second was that Hawaii should
be annexed and made part of the
United States; and third was that it
would do everything in it's power to
bring about termination of the war
in Cuba, and expressing it's belief
that Cuba should be free and indie
pendent State. Of these pledges only
one has been redeemed, and that was
handed to the present administration
by Democratic President as a trust
for safe-keeping alone. No action was
required to redeem it. The other two
pledges have not yet been redeemed,
and the voters are commencing to lose
some of the confidence in the admin
istration that they expressed at the
polls. Nearly year has elapsed since
President Mckinley assumed charge
of the government and no definite &C.
ton has been taken up to date.
In the Hawaiian annexation ques-
ton there is some difficulty, on &C.
count of treaty ratification requiring
two-thirds vote of the Senate. While
number of Democratic Senators are
in favor of annexation, others are viru-
lently opposed to it, as are also few
of the so-called English senators in
the United States Senate. The ex-
queen of the Hawaiian Islands is at
Washington and lobbying with Senat-
ors with view to having them op-
pose annexation, and so strong has her
influence became that it was found
necessary to have President Dole of
the Hawaiian Republic come to Wash
ington to offset her influence, if posi-
BILE. During the past week it has been
stated that annexation prospects by
the treaty process vas much brighter
and it is believed that it will be car
ried. If it does not joint resolution
annexing the Islands will be intro
duced. This will only require ma
jority vote of either house, and will
undoubtedly be passed. While the
delay is decidedly tiresome the admin
istration advises patience, with the as
surance that the more light on the
subject the better will it be for both
countries.
In the case of Cuba President Nc
Kinley's:policy has been not to excite
the business conditions existing in this
country by war talk. The Eastern
manufacturers and the financial CEN
ters have strongly urged this policy,
even though it has cost many lives in
the Pearl of the Antilles. At the same
time, his policy has been beneficial to
American citizens imprisoned in the
Spanish prisons. Through diplomatic
circles he has succeeded in having all
of these prisoners released. whereas, if
war had been declared, nearly all of
them would have been executed. At
the present time, with man-of-war in
the Havana harbor, it is claimed that
PRESIDENT Mckinley has three differ
ent points on which he can interpose
the right of intervention in the war.
he first is that the distribution of re
lief supplies sent from this country,
after full understanding with Spain
that they could be received and their
distribution allowed, has been inter
fered with. The second is that the
lives and property of Americans, and
even the safety of our consular Offices
in Havana have been in peril during
several weeks past, and the third is
that the mails of the consulate have
been withheld, although released after
an emphatic protest on the part of
Gen. Lee, our consul-general at Ha-