Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-30
To- Chairman Dick For Cam.
paign Purposes Dissected.
sSPOONING" WITH ENGLAND.
What of the Hand of Administration ID
Alaskan Controversy
LOYALTY OF DEMOCRATS IN THE WAR

ssbeQeNOlenI do ohSECo
by the President to the Filipinos
Meant That the People Who Were
Struggling For Their Independence
From Spain Would BE Swallowed
by the Trust-Scarred Administra.
ton In Obedience TO Philanthrophy.
OF course. all Ohio has read the let
ter addressed to Chairman Dick of the
Republican state executive committee
by the Hon. John Jay Hay, secretary
of state. 1t is not the trumpet call OF
q warrior mounted on barbed steed
to battle for his chief.
Perhaps while Colonel Hay wrote he
recalled the fact that, before the pres
ident honored him by inviting him to
the head of his council board, he had
made the state department, as far as
he could, doubtful honor.
He had first used it as political
club with which to beat John Sherman
to death, in order that the senatorial
tosa. which the latter had worn so
long, might grace the aristocratc
shoulders of Mark Hanna. Before Mr..
Sherman had become accustomed to
his new quarters in the state depart
ment. he was evicted in order that
Judge Day might, for time, be a
mask behind which the president could
himself be secretary of state.
But however formal Mr.. Hays letter
is in its mention of the president, 1t
is most loyal to the party to which he
belongs. He lauds the Dingley tarih,
and gives it all the credit of our en-
larged foreign commerce, as well as
our home industries. He admits that
the great increase in our exports is
due to the fact that we make better
goods and sell them abroad at lower
cost than other people.
Carnegie's Warning Overlooked.
But be makes no mention of the
warning from such practical men as
Andrew Carnegie and ex-senator
Washburn of the danger to our export
trade from the greed of trusts, which
seem bent upon such an increase of
prices as may kill the goose that is
laying the golden eggs.
Of course Colonel Hay has his fling
a. the financial doctrines Of the Dem
ecratic party, which are opposed to the
gold contraction schemes of the money
lenders of the world, to whom the Re-
publican party long since made an as.
signment for the benefit of the sub
scribers to its campaign fund. Upon
this subject Colonel Hay merely echoes
the interviews which daily appear in
the administration organs from admin
istration officeholders, great and small,
returning from their summer vaca-
tions. Borrowing from Colonel Hays
example, one might say cit is hard to
exterminate a rooted tendency"-the
Proverbs do say something about an
animal that "knoweth its masters
crib"
Colonel Hay loudly protests against
the charge that the Republican admin
istration favors an alliance with Great
Britain. Whether all the "spooriing"
and other lovesick demonstrations
which have been publicly going on so
long have yet led to secret marriage
will be better known when the people
are permitted to see the hand of the
administration in the Alaskan bound
ary game now being secretly played.
Feelers are constantly being put out
to see whether our people would be
willing to give Great Britain the free
use of an American port in Lynn canal
in Alaska, first calling it lease at
nominal rate. To do this would be as
base a surrender of American inter-
eets as it would be to cede away Long
Island or Cape Cod What we would