The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-01-17
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our O.cn Correspondent.

WAsHINGTON, d. c., Jan. Is, 1900.
Democrats in this city are watching
the Kentucky contest with the gravest
interest on account of the effect it is
likely to have ON the next campaign.
1t is said to be quite within tho bounds
of possibility that events in that State
during the next sixty days will deter
minc who shall be declared President
next Fall. Advices from Frankfort
state that the Republicans are prepar
ing to resist the seating of Mr.. Goebcl
by force of arms, with the obvious in
tcntlon of giving the administration
an excuse for marching troops into the
State to preserve order. 1t is no Sc
crct that Democrats generally over the
country look askance at the Gocbel
law and regret that it should ever have
been enacted. But matters have pass
ed far beyond that stage ut present
According to tho constitution of the
State, it is strictly within the power of
the Legislature to decide that Taylor
is not entitled to his seat and that Co
bel is. Whether just or unjust-and in
the opinion of fair minded Kentuckians
it is entirely just-sucha course is per-
fcctly legal. To resist it, will be to re-
sist the fundamental law of the State,
and will be absolutely hopeless be-
sides. The Republicans know this,
but il they can create such disturb
ance as to necessitatc the sending of
troops, they will lay the foundation for
the throwing out Of the electoral vote
of Kentucky this fall on the ground
that the State has not "a Republican
form of government" The danger Of
such IL proposition in an election which
will be as close as that Of this Fall will
be, is apparent. The Tucker act, pass
ed i'll 1887, gives the House of Represen-
tatives power to throw out the vote Of
State or even to count it for the 9TH
er side in case Of fraud. That mana
cans have shown themselves to be, will
hesitate to invoke this law if they can
find colorado ground for their action,
is not to be doubted for an instant.
The only hope lies in tho smallncss Of
the Republican majority in the House,
and in the probability that certain Re-
publicans will prefer justice to parti-
sanship. There is little doubt that the
Democrats will carry the next House,
no matter how the Presidency may 60.
The passage of the currency bill will
really be good thing for the party,
removing the silver question from the
domain of practical issues for the next
four years at the least and enabling
the gold Democrats to como back to
the party, as, indeed, many of them
have done already. The bill will be of
advantage in another way. also. as it
is conceded that it will lose the Repub-
licans at least five seats IN the next
Senate-those from Montana, Ncbras-
ka, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado
and it will probably lose them three
more two years from now-from Ken
lucky. North Carolina and Maryland.
The loss of the five first this Fall would
still leave the Republicans with ma
jority OF six, but tho loss of the threo
last, two years later, would divide the
Senate evenly.
The speech Ex-senator Bcveridge, of
Indiana, in the United States Senate
OH Tuesday, marks the advent into the
national arena of probably the most
forceful debater on the Republican side
of the chamber. The cloquence with
which he presented the Philippine
situation was 80 striking that it carried
away those who heard it, but he did
not touch the heart of the controversy
at al, and when his eloquence is for
gotten, no solid substratum will remain
in the memory. He sketched with
ftorceful strokes the great wealth of the
islands, present and prospective, tho
alleged illimitablc Chinese markets
that their control opened to the United
States; argued that the Filipinos were
not lifted for self government and de-
clared that the Constitution was ex-
panslve and would not stand in the
them. But he said nothing as to tho
rights of the people who had battled
for liberty for three centuries, nothing
as to the methods by which this cOun-
try had acquired control, nothing Us to
the consent of the governed" His
argument was addressed wholly to
American greed and not to American
Former Senator Quay's friends are
now appealing to Democratic Senators
to support him on the ground that he
aided them several years ago in defeat
ing the ''force" bill. IfMr. Quay could
prove his claims he would undoubtedly
win the sympathy if not the support Of
several Senators. But the record is
against him. The force bill was faith
cred in the House by Mr.. Lodge, OF
Massachusetts. Aided by Speaker
Reed, he pushed it through that body
under party whip and spur. In the
Senate it was championed by Senator
Hoar, of MASSACHUSETTS,, who is now,
like Lodge, in favor of seating Quay.
Hoar by turns, stormed and threatened,
pleaded and begged, in his effort to
ranch q vote. Eo would havo succeed
ed but for the fact that certain Repub-
Finally, on january 22, 1881, one of
these, Senator Wolcott, of Colorado,
moved that the Senate lay aside the