Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-23

iFhe Able Secretary of State Charges the
Mclean Platform Builder with Pur-
posely Resurting to Fiction to PrFJu-
dice Voters Against tho Republican
Party.
Columbus, o., Sept. 10, - Chairman
Dick of the Republican state commit
tee today received letter of more than
ordinary public interest and value from
Hon. John Hay, the secretary of state.
No man is better qualified to speak of
our national relations with foreign
powers than Secretary Hay, and what
he says with respect to the mythical
secret alliance with England" which
was set up as a bugaboo in the Mclean
GAINESVILLE platform, comes with the
force of an authoritative and official
declaration.
MIR. Hay was the trusted and conf
Dental private secretary of the sainted
Lincoln and learned his principles OF
politics and had his schooling in states
manship under the eye of the martyr
president A trained and scholarly
diplomat, he won high praise during
the Spanish war for the mastery man
ner in which he met all the difficult
situations which confronted him as
minister at the court of st. James.
If any living man knows of the al
legged "secret alliance" it is Secretry
Hay, and the manner in which he dis
poses of it is conclusive and convinc-
ing. As minister to England, Mr.. Hay
during the Spanish war not merely did
not negotiate any such treaty, but so
conducted American interests that
England can not say today that the
United States is under any obligation
to Great Britain other than that which
is due to the general comfy of nations.
But on all these points Secretry Hays
letter, which follows, best speaks for
itself:
Newbury, N. H., Sept. IL.
Hon. Charles Dick, Chairman State EX-
ecutive Committee, Columbus o.:
Dear Mr.. Dick-I am sorry that my
engagements are such as to render it
impossible for me to accept yeur kind
invitation TO be present at the opening
of the Ohio Republican state cam
paign at Akron on Sept. 2S. l regret
this the more as the occasion promises
to be one of unusual interest A stir
ring campaign, and doubt not a great
victory, await you.
Our opponents this year are in an
unfortunate position. They have lost,
for all practical purposes, their politi-
cal stock-in-trade of recent years.
Their money hobby has collapsed under
them. Their orators still shout 16 to
/ from time to time from the force of
habit, but they are like wisdom crying
in the streets, in one respect at least,
because mo man regardeth them,'
With our vaults full of gold, with
suficiency of money to meet the de-
mands of a volume of business unpre-
cedentedly vast and ndprofitable; with la
Dor generally employed at fair wages;
with our commerce overspreading the
world; with every dollar the govern
ment issues as good as any other dol
lar; with our finances as firm as a rock
and our credit the best ever known,
1t is no time for financial mountebGnks
to cry their nostrums in the market
place with any chance of being heard
1t is equally hopeless to try to re-
suscitate the corps of free trade. The
Dingley tariff, the legitimate successor
of the Mckinley bill-that name of
good augury-has justified itself by its
works. 1t Is not only true that our
domestic trade has reached proportions
never before attained, but the Ameri-
can policy of prOtection-the policy Of
all our most illustrious statesmen, Of
Grant and McKinley-has been tr!-
vindicated by the proof that
it is as efiicacious in extending our
foreign commerce as in fostering ald
stimulating our home industries. Our
exports of domestic manufactures
reached in this last fiscal year the un-
exampled total of S360,0O0,0O an
amount more than two hundred mil
lions in excess of our exports 10 years
ago These figures ring the knell of
those specious arguments which have
been the reliance of our opponents for
so many years, and which are only
fruitful in times of leanness and dis
Rster.
What is left then, in the way of
platform? The regulation of trusts,
which the Republicans can themselves
manage, having all the requisite expe-
rience both of legislation and business;
and finally the war, which, it seems,
was too efficiently carried on, and has
been too beneficial to the nation to suit
the Democratic leaders. We have been
able to give in our time some novel
ideas to the rest of the world, and none
more novel than this, that a great par
ty should complain that the results of a
war were too advantageous. It will be
hard, however, to convince the bulk of
our people that we are the worse off
because our flag has gained great hon
or, our possessions have been extend
ed, our position in the world increased,
and our opportunity for work and use