The evening times., 1900-10-20
POLITICAL GOSSIP.


to make at least one speech in that State
Secretary Joseph Button left yesterday
expecting to go to Wheeling. He bears
with him a letter to Mr.. Bryan from
Chairman EIlyson asking the Democratic
candidate if he cannot spare the time 10
make brief speech at Clifton Forge on
the night of October %. This is the Tenth
district, where H. D. Flood is making
gallant fight against Colonel Hubbard. the
Republican nominee for Congress, GOV
eFnor Tyler in discussing the Virginia
situation, said he has no reason to doubt
that Rhea will win in the Ninth district
and that the State is perfectly safe.
"Mr. Bryan has confessed that he can
live very comfortably under a Republican
Administration. That is one OF the pc
culiar things about Republican Admins
trations; everybody is comfortable"
The above is from the philadelphia
Inquirer Republican newspaper
printed in the State where 150,0o0 coal
miners are on strike to have their wages
increased from so cents to 81 per day and
for the right to purchase supplies neces-
sary to their work at prices that Will not
give the Coal Trust 100 per cent proht on
every sale.
John G. Woolley, the Presidential can
didate of the Prohibition party, said in an
address at Havre de Grace, Md, yester-
day that the Republican Administration
| is out to make money. They have taken
| poss session OF the Philippines and their In
| habftants they are numbering people
there and destroying our own soldiers all
| for the sake OF gain Washington. he said.
| i.1r. xyff6
| of the White House, aud the only defence
| he can offer is that we are making money
| In an address delivered at Chicago yes
| terday. ex-senator Hill said concerning
the issue OF imperialism that it was case
of Republic VS.. Empire. He continued:
Some things are so plain that they
ought not , be disputed. and among them
are these:
i '.First-That this is a government by
| the people, embodied in a union Of States
and based upon the consent OF the govern
| ed
acknowledgement and aggrandizement
are repugnant to the genius OF our free in
stitutions. and cannot be-sanetioned
'.Third-There is no place for American
colonies under our Constitution.
when the plain citizen asks why we
must maintain immense standing armies,
why national debt must be created so
| large that II is never expected to be paid.
why we must enter into foreign alliances
and attempt to govern other countries. be
yond the seas, it is no-adequate answer TO
| sly that il is because of our manifest
destiny That is an attempt TO unload
upon Divine Providence the errors, tae
weaknesses the corruption, the selfishness
- IT--rra +FEl
worthy National Administration
| A thirteen-year-old New York school
boy has challenged the Hon. Richard Gro
ker to joint debate on the political is
sues of the day. In a letter to Senator
Hanna Eddie McCallig, of No. 516 Canal
| Street. says:
"As / see that Mr. Croker is willing TO
debate any opponent Of his living. I viii
challenge him to debate me. When he is
ready am ready, too
| Mr. MeCalIig is evidently a young per-
| son of ideas, for he offers a number OF
suggestions with reference to celebrating
the prospective victory of Mckinley and
| Roosevelt He says:
| IF Mckinley is reelected we should
| have a parade on March 8, before inaugu-
ration day. It should be like the sound
| money parade OF 1895, and it should have
| boys whose fathers are influential politi-
| clans, and they should be on small ponies
| and dressed as rough riders, cavafrymen,
| infantrymen, artillery, marines, Red
| Cross nurses, male and female; signal
| corps and sailors Of ships who took part
| in any event of note during the late war.
/ The party should have a National motto
| something like this: Our motto is In
| creasable Prosperity and Prosperous
| Times "
At last accounts Mr.. Croker's accept
ance of the challenge had not been re-
| eeived-
This despatch from Albany tells how the
affairs of state are being conducted dur
ing the absence of Governor Roosevelt:
'iCoI George Curtis TreadwelI, the wan
| dering Governors military secretary, was
on duty again most OF today. He raced
the Executive Chamber for two hours with
military stride and used up another houE
opening mail. This was completed early
and he saluted Governor Roosevelt's pho
tograph and departed,
For the remainder of the day Pardon
Clerk Joyce, StenogTaphers Hill and Ma
guire. and Messengers O'Connor and Lam
| born represented the authority and dig
nifty of the State government.
"At 9 o'clock the long distance phont
rang with the accustomed Woodruff ring
The Lieutenant Governor made his dali.
| request to be permitted to do something
| Colonel Treadwelf had gone, but Messen
ger Lamborn who knows how the gov
ernment has been run for three months
answered curtIy: There's nothing at al
for you to do, Mr.. Woodruff. Colone
TreadweIrs gone home after turning
things over to the stenographers. The.
have gone home after turning things owe
to me- l guess can run things all righ
until tomorrow morning or longer if no
| body else shows up.
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