Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-08-08
Washington Letter.
rom our Regular Correspondent

w aSntDgCOn mao nOCnlDS TO 40 WIN
the starting Of the march to Pekin;
in fact, no new orders have been sent
to General Chaffee since he left Nag
asaki Japan. The orders sent him
there were to the effect that this gov
eminent was DESTROYS of having the
march to Pekln begin the earliest
possible time and he was given full
discretion. 1t is gratifying to the
president thai General Chaffee has
getting the army on the move. No
fears are entertained in Washington
of the vague threats Of the Chinese
to kill Minister Conger and the other
foreign ministers st Pekin, If the al
| lied army continues it's march to
Pekin. The Chinese government
fully realizes that it will have diff
Guilty enough in satisfying the powers
| that it was not in sympathy with the
attacks upon the foreign legations at
Pekin, which resulted in the death Of
nearly one hundred foreigners. be
sides the German minister, and
is not likely to make things worse by
injuring those who survived those
attacks.
The president came to Washington
| ir pursuance of the underst sading
with members OF the cabinet when he
first went to Canton that he would
return occasionally during his stay
there for the purpose of holding a
cabinet meetig to discuss public
| business. He will return to Canton
| in 81 day or two.
Vice Chairman Loudenslager, OF
| the Republican Congress sional Cam
| paign committee, who is in charge Of
| the Washington headquarters. says
ne is satisfied from information he
has received that the Democrats are
merely bluffing IN expressing CON
fdence in electing Bryan and Stew
enson. and that they intend to con
centrate their efforts an TO spend
all their money in trying to elect n
Dem oeratic majority of the next
house. He warns Republicans that
vigilance is necessary.
Secretary Root this week issued the
official order setting the third Satnr-
day of September for the election of
delegates to the Cuban Constitu-
tional convention, to NEE in
Havana on the first Monday in
November The constitutional con
vention viii be composed of 81 dele
gates, divided according to popula-
ton among the six provinces OF Cuba.
The order states "A the work to he
done by. h | onvention, "to frame and
adopt constitution for the people
of Cnha, and. as part thereof. to
provide for and agree with the gov
eminent of the United States
upon the relations to exist between
this government and the govern
ment of Cuoa"
The announcement Of Senator
Wellington that he would oppose
Mckinley and Roosevelt was neither
surprising nor alarming. Mr.. Well
ington controls inst one vote-his
own. A. K. Rowley, of Balti-
more said: 1.-The loss of Senator
wellington will not be seriously felt
by the Republicans of Maryland He
has not been in sympathy with the
party for long time, and when he
| announced that he would not sup
port Mckinley it was taken as a
matter of course, much AS like an
nouncement from Pettigrew would
be taken. wellington never had a
strong following, and he will take
few votes if any, aside from his own,
away from the Republican ticket
The Republicans will carry Maryland
for Mckinley and Roosevelt this
year and when Wellington's term IN
the senate expires. some other Re
publican will succeed him."
S. G. Young, OF Denver, says
of the political outlook in his state:
colorado is going TO cast her cleo
toral votes for Mckinley and Roose-
Welt this year. The people ont there
have been thinking during the past
four years, and when people begin
to think you know they stop voting
the Democratic ticket"
| Hampton Collins, Minneap-
Oils. Gold Democrat who supported
Palmertand Buckner in '96, but who
intends voting the straight Republi-
can ticket this year, said of the Dem
ocratic platform: at seems to me the
! Democratic convention made a great
mistake In making the anti-expansion
issue paramount. for if there ia one
policy of the Republican party that
comes near being popular with all
classes of people in the west, it is ex-
pansion."
Senator Foraker, who is in Wash
ington looking after some private
business and nursing his left hand
which was accidently cut by the
breaking Of the glass door Of a cab in
which he was riding to a. railway
station, in Philadelphia, saws he re-
CARDS the reelection Of President
Mckinley as absolutely certain, un-
less he should die before election.
He also believes that the Republicans
will retain control Of the house.
The first Of the new 2 per cent.
gold bonds-the lowest rate of in
terest any country ever paid upon
its bonded Notwithstanding which
all outstanding United States bonds
are to be refunded, in accordance
with the Republican financial law
enacted at the last session of con-
gress, were sent out this week. Secre-
tary Gage hopes to get them all out
during August.