The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-07-27
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

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WASHINGTON. J uly 23.-Is there secret ur-
dc rstanding between the administration and
the government OF China? The acceptancs Of
Secretary Hay and other menbeIso the Cabi-
net OF everything said to them by the Chinese
Minister as gospel truth. is regarded as sus-
picious. Although scoffei at by the entire
diplomatic corps and doubted by the public,
Mr.. Hay has accepted the cahlegram alleged
to be from Minister Conger and saying that he
and the other foreign ministers In Pekin were
all right. ON the lSth instant but in need Of
help, rs genuine, and the other memb RS of the
Cabinet have even gone 80 far as to throw
bouquets at Mr.. Hay by publicly saying that
his getting that message was great dip omatic
triumph. Diplomatic fiddlestick. That mes
sage, whether fake or genuine, was secured by
the Chinese minister for purposes Of bis own,
and IL there was any triumph about 1t. the
credit 10 his. 1t is whispered among European
diplomats in Washington that the sdministra-
ton has undertaken the contract of keeping
the present Chinese government power, re-
CARELESS of any decision of the powers which
are assemblinR an army in China for allied &C.
ton. 1t is difficult to believe that Nr. Mckin-
ley has made any such agreement, His own
imperial schemes are quite enough to keep
him busy, without his tackliug those Of China.
Senator Wellington, who sometime ago de-
clared that he would not support Mckinley for
reelection. Is still throwing nuts to the admin.
istration which it cannot or will not crack.
Tho Senator said, while In Washington.a day
or two ago: "If the situation In the Philippines
is az favorable AS the administration would
have us believe, there is no reason why twelve
or fifteen thousand men could not be sent from
there to service in China. / think that would
be Americas fair quota of the International
force fef the relief of Pskin. and beyond the
protection of American life and property, this
country has no business to interfere with the
affairs of the Chinese empire. American SOL
diers should never form part OF an army for
the conquest of China. The European powers
have sowed the wind and are now reaping the
whiriwind. They have been LOOKING for
trouble In China for long time, and now they
have 1t, The fre they have kindled 10 o hot
one. and this government should look well TO
| 1t that American troops are not used ~ catf-
paw for the pulling out of European chest
nuts"
Secretary Root now says that the sdministrs-
| ton hopes to hand Cuba over to the cubsus
within the next eight or ten months, but there
are still men who believe that the island will
have string to it when 1t Is turned over to the
| Cubans. and that secret schemes for annexa-
/ ton are being worked and encouraged by the
| administration for the purpose Of making II
appear, when the time is ripe, that the demand
| for anne ation comes from the Cubaus. Ger.
| Wood had very little to say about annexation
| when he was In Washington last week, and
| that little was not important, although he was
cornered by one newspaper man and made to
| acknowledge that he believed large sjority
| of Cubans now favored an independent gov
| eminent, rather than annexation. The ad.
| ministration knows that It's attitude toward
Cuba IL being closely watched by the people
aud that any act which even seems to imply
that good faith would not be kept with the
Cubans, would make thousands of anu-Mc
| Kinley votes. II there Is to be any trickery, Il
will be carefully concealed until after election
It seems to be little early In the campaign
Il for Boss Hanuas henchmen to be putting on
fakes, but all the same they are going 1t. Sew
eral men known to be close TO Hanna have
been filling up Washington newspaper mel
with stories about how worried the "old man
was because OF the refusal or some or tn
| heaviest contributors to his Inpaign funt
| years ako to give cent this year. aud of hi
fear that the National Committee wound hav
to skimp its campaign plane for lack of money
| The object OF these stories Is to create the i'm
| preston among the Democrats thatthe Repub
| licans are going TO be short OF campaign none.
this year. 1t is. of course, absolute tommyrot
Hanna spent 5000, 900 four years ago, an,
he expects to spend quite as much or more thi
year, and he knows just where to go to get II
If his victims do not come down wit on
) squeeze them to get what he wants. He mus
think the Democrats are easily gulled indeed
IL he thinks 1t possible TO- make them oeliev
that the favored trusts which have pr0ntted
! largely by Hanna legislation, will allow th
other election,