Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-19
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent

powers in China strong proof of his
earnestness in wishing negotiations
for settlement to get under way
when he directed Acting Secretary of
State Hill to inform Ii Hung Chang,
who has authority to conduct the
negotiations in cooperation with Prince
Ching, that this government would in
struct it's army and navy officers in
China to facilitate in every way his
journey from Shanghai to Pekin, and
to protect him if protection is neces-
sary, either on the journey or after he
gets to Pekin, and to publish the dis
patch sent to Ii Hung Chang. This
step is in keeping with every act of
the administration since the begin
ming of the Chinese complication
open and above board-and places
the responsibility for any delay in
opening the negotiations upon the
other powers, which for some reason
or other have appeared to wish to de-
lay doing anything. It is now be-
lieved that the other powers will tie
compelled to show their hands.
Those Democrats who have been
predicting on guesswork that General
Russell A. Alger womld take no part
In the campaign this; year are some
what chagrined over the positive an
noumcement that General Alger would
take the stump in Michigan for the.
state and national tickets. Republic
ans never had any doubt of General
Ayers being on the firing line when
the real fighting began
United States Fish Commissioner
Bowers, who has just returned from a
visit to his in West Virginia, thinks Mr..
Bryan's recent visit to the state was
more beneficial to the Republicans than
to the Democrats, and predicts that the
state win give Mckinley and Roose-
welt a majority of not less than IA, 900.
Mr. E. B. Reeve, a prominent New
York drummer, who was in Washing
ton this week, thus disposed of one
Democratic claim: This talk of the
great majority of travelling men be-
ing opposed to President Mckinley is
untrue. / cover the entire United
States Or a good part of it, and in my
journeyings meet hundreds Of brother
knights of the grip. l find very few
men who are on the road against the
present administration. Every young
man who is clerk in wholesale
house has an ambition to go on the
road and believes that selling goods is
about as easy as checking off bills or
working at anything else in the office.
If he sticks to work he gets the de-
sired promotion in due course of time
and starts out to show the old boys
how to send in orders. If he is a
man, hustler, and knows how to
handle customers, he gets along, but
if he can't sell goods he is laid off and
generally put back in the shop. Now,
this is sort of man who belongs to
the Mckinley and anti-adminis-
tration crowd. He blames his lack of
success on the road to the trusts. If a
man has good line of goods and is a
good salesman he is going to succeed !;
if he has a poor line and can't sell
goods, he is going to be discharged,
and that's all there is about it. But
very few of the regular men on the
road who have been Republicans have
emulated Senator Wellington in his
sensational flop. believe that in the
coming turnout of Republican travel
ing men in New York there will be
fully as many in the ranks as appeared
four years ago."
Attorney General Griggs, in an
opinion asked for by Postmaster Gen
eral Smith, holds that the so-called
'scard chain" schemes now being adj
vertised are violations of the lottery
law. The conductors of such schemes
will be notified and given an oppor-
tunity to discontinue them. If they
fail to do so, their mail will be
stopped.
Representative Loudenslager, of
New Jersey, vice-chairman Of the Re-
publican campaign committee, recent
ly sent letters to men upon whom he
knew he could rely in nearly all OF the
| congressional districts, outside OF the
South, asking an uncolored and I'm
biased answer to two questions
| whether there was threatened de-
lection of the German vote and wheth-
er Imperialism was accepted as the
| paramount issue, and if it was injuring
i the Republicans. He has bushel of
answers and they are highly satisfac-
tory. The answer may be stated in
substance as saying that the German
vote is not disaffected and that the
Republicans welcome the issue of i'm
| perialism because they are certain
they can win on it alone, even if there
were no others.
Senator Cullom, who knows the
politics of Illinois as well as any man in
the state. said: ''Our majority will be
in the neighborhood of Is, 900, prob
ably higher. The little wind that
| has been raised over the so-called
issue of imperialism has not attracted
much attention in Illinois. The tariff,
finance and prosperity are the main
issues, and the people are fully awake
to the situation. The Democrats
haven't scared any one with their
bogies, and the people are contented
and happy, and they are going to