The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-19
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McKinIey's Party Deny Previous
KNOWLEDGE of Reeds Visit.
IT LOOKS VERY SIGNIFICANT.
JekyI Island is the Very Place for the
Uninterrupted Confcrcnce-Judge
Day is i'm Thomasville, But says
lie viii Not Go to Jckyi.

THC1iAsVILLE, GA. March Is
/ Thomasvine for the first time since the
Presidents visit was rife with political
gossip to-day. Jekyi Island. speculation
, ram. was 10 Doe the scene of an important
political gathering whore The future
course Of the Republican party would
be gone oyer and settled Tar from the
public and the press and shielded from
Intrusion by strict enforcement of the
no trespassing regulations of the rich
club which controls IFS destinies.
The sudden appearance of Sneaker
Reed at Jckyl Island. the auth0ritive
announcement that President Mckinley
Vice President Hobart and Senator Hanna
would make their trip there on Mon
day and the visit OF Judge Day formerly
Secretary OF State. 10 IN masyille, though
absolutely mere condolences, according
10 those gentlemen named, who are here,
revived az once recOilecti0ns of the inn
portant part I'm national history born OF
the Th0masyille conferences four years
ago
The conferences now. said the gossip
We're 10 Dee transferred 10 Jekyl Island,
the scene chosen was suggestive of the
times when kings met ON craft in mid,
stream u settle The desiinies of empires
THEY DENY Ir.
II Is x4ir 10 say at the outset tha.
Senator Hanna. Vice President Hobart.
and President Mckinley himself say
positively that there is no politics what
ever I'm their present visit South. anc
that it. is undertaken solely for rest and
reCuperation.
As 10 SPEAKER Reeds presence ar Jekyl
both Senator Hanna and Vice President
Hobart said that they did not know tho
Speaker was there until they saw the
rarors
The latter. before the arrival of m,
papers. was so positive that the Speakc-
was not 10 be az Jekyl Island that whc1
o newspaper man told him Mr. Reed WI
there. he promptly bet him n suit ~
clothes that Speaker Reed was not 40
Jekyl Island The news. Il was evident
WAS also surprising 10 others In the Presi
dents party. who ordinarily would have
heard Of II had there been any. anticir%
tory comment about the house on the
subject.
A. regards Judge Day, he Is not going
10 Jekyl and probably Will be out ~
Thomasville on the way home by the
time the President returns.
There is. nevertheless, a possibility that
the Jckyl Island trip. though not so in
tended by its principals. may have an i'm
portant political bearing II may prove
% be the reconciliation ground o. presl-
dent Mckinley and Speaker Reed That
their relations are strained, and develop.
ment ~ nartv policy I'm egslation hin
dered thereby, Is matter OF common re-
port.
Judge Moore. whose guest Speaker Reed
Is. and Cornelius y Bliss who asked
President Mckinley and party 10 Visit
him. are common friends OF all parties
personally and politically. and through
them harmonious fellow hiD may agen
prevail between the two foremost Re-
publicans. II the Jelsyl Island trip has
any political outcome II will he this
Should this consummaton come. II is
quite likely that neither the Speaker nor |
the President would have been privy 70 |
It's inception. for knowledge by them of |
such an ulterior hope by their hosts !
would have prevented its accomplish |
ment.
DENIAL. S~EEPING.
This view Is entirely consistent with
the statement OF the principal persors