The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-05-11
Status Of Affairs of National Inter
est and Doings Of Political
Leaders.
uIssp3aovAL or TIE PORTO RIcAA BILL
Marx uanna's Hand In Natious Mat
overwhelmingly Cabinet and Sec
Rotary AiOot's TaiL-Thc Proposed
subsidy Grab VIII De Nailed ~
the DE M Ocrats.
Especial correspondcnce.l


| conventions and are in excellent hui
+, NOR over the harmony which pre-
vailed. Senator Fairbanks is g.eefully |
| announcing that Indiana is entirely |
satisfied with the Porto liican tarin
! bill. Hanna contemplates with prldc
the platforms whl"n he ana represent
alive Dick made and had adopted IN
various states. They claim that har-
mony has been fully restored even IN
| Ohio-the state where factions always
| flourish.
In Washington there is a disposition
to regard the republican harmony III
such stales as Ohio. Indiana. Wisconsin
and Massachusetts in another iigh'.
The reaction from the storm OF popu-
lar disapproval came too quickly TO
be Altogether genuine. From the sur
face point OF view il is conceded that
Messrs. Dick and Hanna give a fine ex-
hibition of thorough party discipline
when they write the state platforms
in Washington and have them adopted
without "A murmur.
Eut what has become of the opposI-
ton of the republican press: 1t voiced
deep and sincere protest OF the peo-
ple in the Porto Rican matter. and
there is no indication that there has
been any change Of heart since the bill
was passed. 1t seems suspiciousiy won
| derful that state conventions can SO
thoroughly obey the behest of party
bosses and at the same time reject ne
real sentiment of the people-cspccial-
liz when the two were as wide apart as
heaven and earth only few weeks
ago.
There is belief in Washington that
the Disguised and angry republicans
are staying away from party conyen-
tons That they are sulAing in their
tents now. and that they will do the
same thing on election day. 1t ; a
good deal easier to impose party dis
cip.inc on a convention than upon the
mass of voters. II would be a more
healthy Indication if some CT the re-
publican Indignation against the vacii-
lating policy OF the administration had
broken loose in the state conventions.
The harmony which prevailed savored
. very strongly of the harmony OF the
graveyard.
Hanna and Dick have practically
foreshadowed the republican national
platform. and they show clearly that
they have no adequate grasp Of the new
issues that have arisen in the last four
] years.
They deal in justification and eva
sion of administration b.unders- and
the fulsome praise of its imperial policy
is not likely to conciliate the people
who believe that constitutional princi-
pies are involved and that the future
:, Of the nation depends upon their prop
er solution.
!. ycI<inIcy's Creatures.
: Members Of Mr.. Mcllinleys cabinet
have lately been diverting themselves
and other people by attending ban
uuets in various parts of the couAtry
Most Of their utterances are harmless
enough. OF course they praise thcif
= master and take credit TO the .ase."cs
!. for various good things which they in
. agine they have done. Put Secretary
4 Root was more unfortunate than his
n colleagues when he chose the Monroe
I doctrine for his topic and suggested
/ that We might yet have 10 fight in is
defense.
"a He overlooked the very obvious fact
= that our inferno ddling with matters
+ in Pacific waters left the adr.inisira
y ton with very little reason to object
y if European nations chose TO assume
a the aggressive on this continent. Sure
: ly Monroe never contemplated this ma
r ton wagng a war of subjugation or
= the Filipinos and massing war vessel'
E. to grab share in the Chinese partitior
when i, comes off,
v Secretary Root might have talkct
y very instructively on the coming of the
~ rainy season in the Philippines. which
y will suspend hosti!ities and leave til,
IL Fiiipinos no nearer subjugation thar
sc they were before. lie night ha,,
checred his auditors by telling then
u that the war department is constant
y ~ sending fresh troops and supplies {,
k. The Philippines. He might lave Gale,
~ attention to the fact that its cost.
Or nearly n million dollars day TO carr,
- on the war in the Philippines. and tha
~ the average exports from the Unite,
". States 10 those islands amount Z,
~ about 5000 day. They would b,
~ much less il we were not supplying oui
r. own army with many requirements.
~ lie might have playfully cxp.aine,
or how necessary IL Is to allow our arm,
ID. officers 20 have free hand when j
e. comes 10 Cuban revenues. so that the,
AN live in princely magnilicence an,
entertain lavishly.
\, lie might have suggested that IN,
Porto licans will also he obliged I,
az pay for Imperialism out OF the islan'
" avenues. lie should not have neglect
II ed TO call attention TO the democrats
he simplicity with which Gov. Allen land
&C. ed in Porto Rico. though Of course h
vc would he excused IL he passed over tn
n. chilly reception accorded the new gov
Fl. crnor by the populace.
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