Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-13
NO SECRET COMPACT
Secretary Hay Denies Clandestine
Relations Are Maintained With
Her Majesty's Government.
An Alliance Was Never Even Con.
templated- Ohio Democrats
Charges Are False.
Vote Catching Scheme Of Mclean
Farty officially squelched at
Washington.

secretary of state, gives an open denial
to the democratic platform assertions
that the Mckinley administration has
been or is contemplating an alliance
with Great Britain other than the COM
mercial treaties common in interna-
tional procedure.
In letter to Charles F. Dick, chair
man of the Ohio republican state exec
utive committee, made public yester-,
day, Secretary Hay declares that the
democratic statesments to the contrary
are made solely with purpose to
catching the anti-l3ritish vote, and then
adds:
There is no alliance with England
nor with any other power under heaven
except those known and published to
the world, the treaties of ordinary in
ternational friendship for purposes of
business and commerce.. No treaty 9TH
er thar these exists. None has beer
suggested on either side. None is in
contemplation. 1t has never entered
into the mind of the president nor of
any member of the government to
forsake, under any inducement, the wise
precept and example of the fathers
which forbade entangling alliances with
European powers
Secretary Hay wrote the letter from
Newbury, N. H.. in response to an invi-
tation to attend the campaign opening
at Akron on Sept. %. which he regrets
he viii be unable TO do. He discusses
the campaign issues at length. chief in
terest attaching to his declarations on
the subject of an Anglo-American alli-
ance.
Being in desperate need of argu-
ments. he writes. lit is not strange
that they 1.-THE democratsl should have
recourseto fiction. An attempt is made
in the Ohio democrasc platform TO ex-
cite the prejudice of certain classes of
voters against the present adrninistra-
ton by accusing 1t of an alliance with
England The people who make this
charge know it to be untrue. Their
making it is an insult To the intelligence
of those whose votes they seek by this
gross Misrepresentation. But as one of
their favorite methods of campaign is.
to invent fiction too fantastic to con-
tradict, and then to assume it to be
true because it has not been contra
dicted YOU may permit me to take one
moment to dispose of this ghost story,
as it refers to the department with
which l am connected.
Then follows the unequivocai state
ment Quoted heretofore. after which
Secretary Hay continues
II need not dwell upon this fact Even
the men who wrote the Ohio platform
know there is no alliance. But they
seek to make capital in this campaign
out Of the undeniable fact that our rela-
tions with England are more friendly
and satisfactory than they have ever
been before.
1t is hard to take such a charge seri-
ouslX; and If il is taken seriously how
cant be treated With PATIENCE In the
name Of common sense, let me ask what
is the duty Of the government if not to
cultivate. wherever possible. agreeable
and profitable relations with other ma
tions9 And If with other nations, why
not with that great kindred power
which stands among the greatest pow
ers of the world?
What harm, what menace to other
countries is there in this natural and
henefieent friendship Only narrow
and purblind Split could see in it any
thing exclusive. 1t is poor starved
heart that has roorp for only one friend
1t is not with England alone that our
relations are improved We are on bet
ter terms than in the past with all the
nations
with Russia. our old-time friend;
with the great German empire, to WRIT
we are bound by so many ties: with oul
sister republic of France; With Italy
I Austria, and, in short, every European
EVERY Asiatie nation, our relations art
4 growing in intimacy and cordially ev
\ cry year. and our friendship with ou1
! neighbors to the south of US, from the
4 Rio Grande to Cape Horn, grows firm
er. more genuine, day by day"