The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1899-04-22
Was4linstOD- ID. C., News.
Frop our Regular Correspondent.

4 A midnight conference was held
to consider he spectre of Sam
Jonesism, which is badly frighten-
ing Ohio Republicans. The confer
ence was participated i'll by Boss
Hanna, Mr.. Mckinley, and several
other republicans of prominence
who came from Ohio to Washing
ton for the purpose. They believe
that Sam Jones intends to run as
| an independent candidate for Gov
crnor of Ohio, and that he stands Il
good chance of getting enough
votes to throw the State to the
Democrats, if he doesn't get elected
himself. They realize that the loss
of Mr.. Mckinley's own State this
year, would start a boom for "Ted-
dy' Roosevelt that might knock
Mr.. Mckinley out of renomina-
ton next year. They don't know
just what to do about it. A pro
position was made that Sam Jones
be given the regular republican
nomination for governor, but it did
not find much favor, because it was
stated that he could not he con-
trolled by the machine. 1t was
also proposed that an attempt be
made to ascertain whether Sam
Jones could be bought off with a
big appointment in tie diplomatic
service. All agreed that some
thing had to be done to head off
Sam Jonesism in Ohio, and all
promised to put their wits to work.
And the fighting still goes on in
the Philippines. Our troops whip
the Filipinos and take a town every
day or two, but as soon as they
leave the town, it would require
1O0,00 men on the island of Luzon
alone, to permanently garrison all
the townsville Filipinos occupy it
again. And this sort of thing is
likely to go on indefinitely. It is
not surprising that men are begin
ming to ask each other how long the
people of this country will be will
ing to put up with this sort Of
thing. The question is pertinent.
Not satisfied with trying to de-
prive him of honors rightfully be-
longing to him, the Navy Depart
ment has ignored the request of
Rear Admiral Schley-he has at
least got his commission-for sea
duty, and practically placed him on
the shelf for the time being, by
making him a member of the Naval
Examining Board in Washington,
while Sampson, the man lie ranks,
is in command of a fine squadron.
Wherever few long-headed re-
publicans gather just now, the sub
ject Of how the party can get the
idea that it is too favorable to trusts
out of the heads of the voters, is
apt to come up for discussion. At
a gathering of several republican
Senators i'll Washington this week,
one of them said: II must confess
that l do not consider the political
outlook overnight for the republi-
can party. The spring elections
were not encouraging. The Toledo
election ! regard as most signif-
cant. Sam Jones, the lndependant
candidate for Mayor, got al
most as many votes as his republi-
can and democratic opponents
combined. What does it mean
/ believe it is a condemnation of
trusts and monopolies. The repub-
lican party is in very perilous po-
sition. 1t has apparently been
captured by the trust barons and
monopolists. Unless we can shake
them off, l believe it will be next to
impossible to elect Mckinley, or
anyone, on the republican Presi-
dental ticket next year." An
other republican Senator present
said "The sentiment against trusts
is certainly very strong throughout
the West, and | agree with you
that we must do something radical
in order to disabuse the impression
i'll the public mind that the republi-
can party is a party of trusts. 1t
will not be an easy thing to do,
however. Even if we put in a
strong antitrust plank in our plat
form next year, the fact that the
campaign will be in the hands of
Mark Hanna and other trust mag
mates, will render our declaration
against trusts almost farcical."
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