The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-29
NOTES Dr. HE CAMPAIGN.
I. Hay to Go 6utf-Tbe impression

Is Hay TO Go Gutf-The impression is
growing stronger daily in Washington that
the Hon. John Hay has been wholly strip
ed of his powers as Secretary OF State and
that his resignation will be formally ten
dered soon after the election. 1t develops
that Mr.. Hay, instead of being the in
valid that he has been pictured since go
Ing to his summer home, The Fells,
in New Hampshire, is in the enjoyment
Of robust health, and that he daily scam
pers around his farm like youngster.
AT Canton, however, the story is sun
current that the Secretary of State is a
sick man, and that Mr. Mckinley regrets
very much that he is being deprived OF
his services at this critical juncture in
Chinese affairs. 1t is noticeable, 100,
that story TO the same effect Keeps pace
with the movements of the Hon marx
Hanna around the country. AS TO MT.
Hay himself. he is maintaining strange
silence on the question of his health, ana
is said to have refused to see divers ana
sundry newspaper representative VINO
have gone to The FEELS" during the past
two weeks to clear up he mystery of his
immurement. Why the President has felt
called upon thus to fall foul OF his Sec
rotary of State-for obviously that is
what has happened-nobody seems to
know. 1t is conteuded that If Mr.. Hay
has not been good not soul connected
with the Administration has been. go
far as known he has not been asserttve
of his privileges as Secretary of State
and has permitted his amiable chief to
take credit for everything creditable and
to repudiate everything unpopular that
the State Department has done. At the
ffr,1a fc lrro hat a
man of great pride and that he is rich
enough to entertain a becomingly naughty
contempt for all hustling and enterpris-
ing Americans who may want to impose
their schemes of exploitation in China
and elsewhere upon the unsuspicious Mr..
Mckinley. II is suggested that some OF
these Sound business men" have been
chatting under certain restraints imposed
upon the conduct of affairs in China and
have convinced the unsuspecting Chief
Magistrate that what he needs at this
delicate crisis In his fortunes worse than
anything else is new Secretary of State.
Now, Mr.. Mckinley has shown in his
treatment of his old friend, John Sher-
man, that he will risk a great deal OF
danger before wounding the feelings of
those he loves by intimating to them
that they have become incompetent.
Rather than do a thing like that the
President will pile work upon himself
which his friends should do. 1t is known
that he has been his own Secretary of
State ever since Mr.. Hay suddenly be-
came sick" and 1t is believed that the
President will continue to exercise these
functions, with their uIasual burden of
hard work, until Mr. Hay is entirely re-
stored to health-which is expected to be
soon after November 6. Then it is
thought the President will advise his
friend, the author of Little Brooches"
to quit public life for the more congenial
pursuits of literature. Who will be called
to succeed Mr.. Hay, in such an event, is
not known. 1t is generally believed. how
ever. that whoever is at the head of the
State Department. until the Chinese affair
is finally sestled,i the Hon. ElIhu Root,
aided by the sagacious Gen. H. c. Cor
bin, Will continue to conduct negotiations
with Pekin. OF course, this means that
Mr.. Mckinley will keep his own gloved
hand on the situation in the Orient until
affairs over there are Sc. right, according
to his lights and the aims and purposes
of the enemies ofythe Hon. John Hay are
attained.