The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-09-22
SECRETALLIANCEH HOAX
Secretary Hay Explodes a Nc
Lean Ghost Story.
RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND 0
They Are Friendly, but No More 81
Than With Germany.
RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND
"THBY KNOW 1T TO BE UNTRUE


Mclean Platform Builder With Pur-
J posely Resorting to Fiction to Preju-
dice Voters Again-t the Republican
j Party.
! Columbus, O., Sept. 49,. 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.
Mr.. 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 Hay
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 ii
| Impossible for me to accept your kind
| invitation to be present at the opening
of the Ohio Republican state cam
paign at Akron on Sept. %. 1 regret
this the more as the occasion promises
| to be one of unusual interest. A stir,
ring campaign, and 1 doubt not a great
| victory, await you.
| Our opponents this year are in ar
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 tt
l from time to time, from the force O
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
sufficiency of money to meet the de
mands of a volume of business unpre
cedentedly vast and profitable; with la
Dor generally employed at fair wages
with our commerce overspreading th
world; with every dollar the govern
ment issues as good as any other dol
lar; with our finances as firm as rocl
and our credit the best ever known
it is no time for financial mountebank
to cry their nostrums in the marke
place with any chance of being heard
1t is equally hopeless to try to re
suscitate the corps of free trade. TIL
Dingley tariff, the legitimate successo
of the Mckinley bill-that name O
good augury-has justified itself by it
works. 1t is not only true that ou
never before attained but the Ameri
can policy of protection-the policy O
all our most illustrious statesmen, o
Washington and Hamilton, Lincoln
Grant and McKinley-has been tri
umphantly vindicated by the proof tina
it is as efficacious in extending ou
foreign commerce as in fostering an
stimulating our home industries. Ou
exports of domestic manufacture
reached in this last fiscal year the un
exampled total of $360,000, 900, a
amount more than two hundred mil
,, lions in excess of our exports 10 year
ago. These figures ring the knell G
those specious arguments which hav
been the reliance of our opponents TO
SO many years, and which are onl
fruitful in times of leanness and dis
, aster.
What is left, then, in the way of
platform? The regulation of trust:
which the Republicans can themselve
manage having all the requisite expe
rience both of legislation and business
and finally the war, which, it seem!
was too efficiently carried on, and ha
been too beneficial to the nation to sui
the Democratic leaders. We have bee
] able to give in our time some move
! ideas to the rest of the world, and non
more novel than this, that a great pal
ty should complain that the results of
war were too advantageous. 1t will b
hard, however, to convince the bulk {
our people that we are the worse o
because our flag has gained great hor
: or, our possessions have been extend
ed, our position in the world increased
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