Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-09-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington. Sept. %, ISO0.


Washington. Sept. %, 1899.
The panic Of the administration over
the situation in Ohio, daily grows worse,
and Mr.. Mckinley tells the Ohio repuh-
leans who call on him that the state
must be car, led ut all hazards. He sent
a trusted personal messenger to New
York to meet Boss Hanna when he ar
rived from Europe and tell him just how
blue things look from the administration
roint Of view; also to impress upon him
the necessity of taking steps to see that
lentv If money was provided Tor use III
Ohio. 1t is probably the taking OF those
"steps" which caused Boss Hanna to
stop in New York, instead OF comm. iii
rect to Wasl,in ton. The matter has
been discussed in cabinet meetings and
two members, postmaster general Smith
and secretary Wilson designated to take
the stump. Mr.. Wilson will speak
mostly in the agricultural section, his
powers Of persuasion among farmers
being supposed to be wonderful, while
Mr.. Smith will talk mostly to city and
town audiences. The ordering OF the
civilian PHILIPPINE commissioners home
WAS also influenced to Il certain extent,
by the Ohio scare. 1t is hoped to have
the next fighting campaign under way,
before election day, and the civilian
r
so that Otis can have no excuse for not
pushing the fighting. So much TO: the
republican view of the Ohio campaign.
Democratic confidence in success in
O.o is even greater than the republican
fright Mr.. Mclean, who is now in Ohio
to remain until after election is in con
slant communication with his Washing
ton friends. lie SAYS he feels absolutely
certain of being elected governor, and he
is not the sort OF man to say so without
believing it himself From other sources
comes the same sort of news. The demo.
Gratis are united and enthusiastically con
fident, while the republicans are divided
into factions, some OF which would rather
humiliate Boss Hanna whom they have
never forgiven for the rough shod manner
in which he kicked them out of the state
machine, to make places for his hench-
men, than to accomplish any other one
thing. There is also much more Ohio
republican opposition to the imperialistic
/ Il ,sctr Il.
ly to the so far unsuccessful war in the
Philippines, than even the democrats
supposed existed until recently. Much
Of this opposition is silent, and will hardly
result in direct votes for the democratic
ticket, but it will increase the stav-at.
homes on election day, which will he the
next best thing to democratic votes.
The object II delegation Of Washing.
ton negroes, including a preacher and
several ex-oflice holders, in calling at the
white house, was reminder OF recon-
struction days. They seem possessed Of
the idea that Mr.. Mckinley has power to
interfere with the proposed election law
in Moth Carolina, and they wish him to
put clause in his annual message to
congress, recommending that the pio-
posed election law be declared illegal be.
cause OF its violation OF the 18th amend
ment. Mr.. Mckinley is Il strong partisan,
b 1t he knows too much to attempt to
meet the wishes of these negroes, even if
they were citizens of North Can DINA, in
stead OF being meddlers with what in no
way concerns them. The "nigger" ques-
ton will never figure prominently again
in presidential messages or in congress
sional legislation. II unconstitutional
laws are passed in North Carolina, or in
any other state, the people can get them
passed upon by the proper legal tribunal.
without either the help Or hindrancc of
the president or any official connected
with the executive branch OF the govern
ment, and the DEGREES of the courts will
be obeyed by the people. The supreme
court OF the U. s. alone possesses the
power to declare state laws unconstitu-
tional.
Ex-senator Joe Black burn, who has
been resting a little in Washington, pre-
paratory to returning to the stump, did
not give the story that Col. Bryan would
not speak in Kentucky, a chance to get
fairly started, before he headed it off by
saying: "Mr. Bryan wrote me that he
would be glad to speak in Kentucky and
would leave the details to me. There was
no promise of any number OF speeches,
nor were any definite arrangements
agreed upon. have written him that
we will be ready for him any time after
the first OF October, and by that time
from present indications, the boiling
movement in Kentucky will have dwin-
died away into nothingness and Mr.
Bryan will have solid democratic party