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New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
MR. HOAR AND HIS CRITICS.

Senator Hoar did not really need to reply to
the indecent anti-imperialist attacks upon him.
They were thoroughly discounted before they
were made and Senator Hoar was warned by
the Republican press that the fury Of this mar
row minded band would be more bitter against
one who had in part agreed with them, but
failed TO go to their wild extremes, than against
those whom they considered their real enemies.
In writing to Senator Hoar that his venerable
hand had been the first TO be suled with the
mud singing of the campaign of 1900" because
he spoke for Mckinley, and in denouncing Sen
ator Hoar for his 'apostasy" in not advocating
the cause Of Bryan, which he had repeatedly in
his anti-imperaIist speeches explained he could
not advocate, Mr.. Erving Winsow merely re-
vealed the colossal egOtism and fanatical i'm
pertinence of himself and the league for which
he speaks. This collection of noisy and abusive
persons seem utterly unable to discuss any
question OF policy about which honest men may
differ without Immediately attributing every
variation of opinion TO the wickedness Of their
opponent. They remind one of the densely
ignorant and half insane people who are often
seen hanging about cOurtrOOms or newspaper
Offices with tales Of how this reputable lawyer
or that eminent judge has entered into a ter
rible conspiracy TO cheat them out Of fortune
An epithet is their favorite weapon. If the
an assassin" A soldier who obeys orders
which do not suit them becomes murderer"
The politician who does not join them imme-
dately becomes a rascal" In raging against
Senator Hoar they only exhibit their own weak
ness and temper
Nevertheless Senator HOar has done good
service in his dignified letter Of rebuke to Mr.
Winslow for his impudence and pose of virtuOus
intolerance. He shows that the extremists who
now call him "apOstate" were never under
any misapprehension about his attitude On
one important question he differed from the
Administration, and maintained his views with
ability and an unfailing courtesy and reason
ableness in argument which offered a much
needed example TO his present critics who then
could find no words too eXtravagant for praise
AT the same time he gave them and the world
to understand that he not a Bryanite that
he had no intention Of helping turn this country
over 10 anarchistic and silverite domination
even if he did not approve the acquisition of
the Philippines Yet they continued to write
him honeyed letters and claim him for their
own. 1t is only when they feel the embarrass-
ment Of embra ing free silver, free riot and
the Chicago platform that they vent the irrita
ton caused by their own equivocal position on
the who does not share it with them as they
well knew all along he would not. Misery loves
company, and the sight If the Massachusetts
Senator maintaining his dignity frankly stating
his anti-imperialist views and at the same time
showing that Mr.. Bryan offered no alternative
and no remedy for what he regarded as evils
but merely an aggravntiOn of troubles was TOO
much for them. They were bound to believe
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
GOOD LORD, GOOD DETILr'

SO Mr.. Bryan is not to invade the "Enemy's
Country this year. He Will remain upon his
native plains, and within the bucolic precincts
of his Nebraska home and there employ his
profuent oratOry in declamatiOns TO the hosts
of pilgrims who at special excursion lates are
expected to approach him. His peculiar doc
trines concerning the debasement Of the cur
rency and the packing of the Supreme Court are
supposed 10 be less Unpalatable to Western than
to Eastern minds. They will therefore be pro
claimed to the farmers who have suffered from
chinchbugs and grasshoppers, and to the indus
trial reformers who have waged against
oppressive capitalism by stripping women naked
in the streets. But east Of the Alleghanies the
oracles of Populism will remain dumb Their
place here will be taken by the propagandists
of St Tammany. In the West it will be Bryan
and sixteen to one and anarchy. In the East
it will be Croker and anti-imperialism and Van
Wyck and anti-trusts, 0, sancta simpIicltas.
The game might work if all the people were
fools. But they are not. The people of Lincoln
know quite well what is going on and what is
being said in NewY York. and the people of New
York are equally Informed concerning the prog
ress of affairs in Lincoln. If Mr.. Bryan hopes
his Western hearers will judge him only by what
he says 10 them there, and by the planks of the
platform he emphasizes there, he is painfully
mistaken. So is he If he imagines the people Of
the East will listen only to what his agents
here declare. and will remain unconscious of
what is being said in the West. AS well rs in
other senses. this is a united country in respect
TO unity of information. Mr.. Bryan may cry
Good Lord" in one place and Good Devil!'
in another as much he pleases but those to
whom he cries Good Lord will also hear him
cry Good Devil!' There is no avoiding it.
1t is this consideration which marks with su-
preme folly the effort to play a chameleOn-like
part in National politics and to stretch sectional
policies to cover the whole land. Mr.. Bryan
knows there are States in which to emphasize
his paramount issue" Of anti-expansiOn would
be fatal to his campaign, and that there are
others in which the less said about free silver
the better for him. So he raises one cry in one
part of the country and another in another,
hoping thus to deude the people. There could,
in fact. be no more certain method Of disclosing
to them his real demagogism and Of disgusting
them all with it and with its practitioner The
only safe and profitable platform on which to
appeal to any part of the Nation is one which is
acceptable TO the whole Nation.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
AMERIcAy POLICY AND THE POWERS

The American policy in China has been vindi-
Gated. far as China herself is concerned, by
the progress Of events. But that policy does not
relate 10 China alone. 1t has reference to the
other Powers which are interested and are in
terVening in China, setting forth substantially
this Governments attitude toward them and
their Chinese policies; and in that respect it is
no less important than in the former There is
Of course no hint at dictation to other Powers
as 10 what they shall or shall not do. That is
not 10 be thought of by this or by fny other
Government There is the clearest possible
statement Of this Governments understanding
Of the situation, of its own plans and purposes,
and of the extent to which it will cooperate
with the other Powers. From that it may be
possible 10 draw automatically some pretty
definite conclusions 10 what this Government
deems it proper for the Powers to do.
The United States does not consider that
China has declared or begun war against it or
therefore against any other Power. Such war
as there is in Chill is civil war. insurrection
and riOting. This country is 10 protect its people
there from harm. But il is 10 do so by main
tanning amicable relations with the lawful forces
Of order in China, and not by indiscriminateIy
waging war against all China. The inference is
that il would not cooperate with any other
nation in thus waging war and would not regard
with favor the Waging Of such a war II looks
10 the Chinese Government to make full amends
for any injury that may have been done to
Americans, and it Will ineXorably require such
amends But beyond that II seeks no revenge"
II has no ambition to burn summer palaces or to
plant its wariike banners upon the walls Of the
Forbidden City. If any other Power wants 10
wage a campaign of simple vengeance the
United States may not interfere to prevent il
but il certainly viii not cooperate with it nor
give IFS approval TO such war.
The extent to which this Government will
cooperate with the other Powers is stated with
unmistakabe eXactness. 1t comprises the re-
opening Of communication with Peking the
rescue and protection of American life and
property throughout the empire. the safeguard
ing Of all legitimate American interests and
incidentally benevolent aid in saving the rest OF
the empire from the troubles which now yex
Chilli And at the end this Government ex-
poets 10 see in China peace territorial integrity
and the maintenance Of treaty rights and the
open door II viii not, therefore, cooperate In
or approve any war for the partition of China.
Tor the breaking down of existing treaties or
for the establishment Of any spheres OF infiu-
ence-" In such things ii has no interest save
TO regard them with disfavor II sees no reason
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
A BRYANITE LETTER.

We have just received the following anony-
nous letter concerning the political situation,
and reproduce it exactly as it was written:
Editor of Tribune. England is at the bottom Of
the China war, Bearsfod planned 1t at Elk
Mayor Huet's; under the open door scheam,
England wants the T. s she has been wanting
it go years she caused ioGr the spanish
Cuban now the China war, she aims to
rouse up the Roman Catholics, she has failed
in Cuban war now the plan is send all the
Irish men to China raise some fTecuS here say
it was the Irish Cathoice, did it, then offer her
help TO come here to quell the disturbance Eng
land is bound to make rdr in some way YOU
news paper men care only for money, and the
Republican party today would the united
ST sould to England. queen Vic sent a carriage
TO McRiHV at Canto with the English Coat of
arms on it, our Constitution wont allow that
write to Canton and find out for yourself
Hanna tells the English he ownes all the Boats
and owns all the Lakes. we want change in
the Govmt no use for the L. s. to allow sucb
freedom with England our bttreSt Enemv tell
me about England. go through white Chapple
in London. all the freedom given there to
there's cuft hrodtS; not a word said, the English
women don't know what virtue is what DGrr10e
is or ichO their Father Is; English Detective
now here in N Y City tell me thew are re-
had ten thousand recruited, to purpose: I
know him. but l cannot give the name; no use
about China the trouble will be here and Eng
lands agents will make II, they aim to rouse
the Roman Catholic and the Irish
The vaporing of ignorant crank" every
body will say. Clearly ii is. But it Is probably
the work of something more, 1t is probably
the thought of an American citizen who has
been reading the ant-imperiallst. antitrust.
anti English. anti administration demagogy till
his poor brain is turned. And he will probably
vote accordingly next November This letter is
simply the reductiO al absurdum Of half of the
Bryanite speeches and articles. II is the work
ing over OF the teachings which they spread
broadcast for the purpose of exciting shallow
and i'll balanced brains. Such brains are the
volcano of ignorance, passion, prejudice and
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
Ietu2lurk DAILY Gribn,te.
THURSDAY. JULY 12, 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-According TO the German Consul
at Tien-Tsn the Chinese bOmbarded the city
from July D to July s. on July a fierce attack
was repelled by the Russians. TWO hundred OF
whom were killed - Ii Hung Chang and
other NiceroYs sent word that the Legations
safe. and that the revolt of the Boxers was
being gradually checked. = DR.. Won Mumm
Won SchwaTzenstein was appointed German Min
lister al Peking 10 succeed the late Baron Won
ketteler an action taken TO mean that Germany
Goes not consider a state OF war existing. -
II is reported that BlOcmfOntein Will be made the
head city Of the South African Republics when
reorganized under British rule. = Advices
from Pretoria say that the Beers. realizing the
hopelessness Of their struggle, are preparing to
sue for peace. == a Royal garden party
held at buckingham Palace. Nearly five thou
sand people, including the Queen, were present.
- The third-class British battleship Con
queror went ashore on The Shambles, near Port
land but afterwards f1oated. == com
mittee of the Paris Municipal Council reported
against a grant Of land TO the American Ma
uonai Institute for Artists.
DOMESTIC President Mckinley has decided
not TO make any speeches in the present political
campaign; arrangements for the notification
ceremonies in Canton to-day were completed.
- The State Department received from the
Chinese Minister an edict of the Imperial Gov
eminent IN Peking, giving its view Of the pres
ent disturbances - The West Virginia Re
publican State Convention met TO nominate a
candidate for Governor and full State ticket;
e speech on campaign issues was made by Sen
ator Elkins who seeks reelection. AS
ststant Secretary Vanderl!p addressed the Penn
sylvania State Bankers Association. == Ad-
made before the National Educational Associa-
ton in Charleston. - Governor Roosevelt
dismissed the charges brought against Controller
Coler - Indications point To an interesting
struggle for supremacy in Democratic State
politics between Hill and Croker.
CITY.-Stocks were dull and strong - He
hobas, Commander Miller. Bounteous, Briga-
der, Tower Of Candles ana POsthaste won the
Brighton races. =- The steamer Saale was
noated and twenty-foUr more bodies were found
on board, fifteen persons having been drowned
in one room == 1t was said Croker had called
for liberal campaign contributions from Office
holders; there was gloom at the Democratic
Club as e consequence. - Colonel Bates, of
the list Regiment, aided by his staff officers
defeated the line officers in attempt TO fill
TWO vacancies among the officers Ground
was leased 10 extend the Hotel Savoy along the
whole block front between Fifty-ninth and
Fifty-eighth SITS in Fifth-ave. - Prepara-
tons were made by the Notification Committee
10 go to Oyster Bay to-day and inform Gov
ernOr Roosevelt Of his nomination.
THE WEATHER: Forecast for to-day:
Showers; cooler The temperature yesterday:
Highest, So degrees; lowest, 6S degrees, aver
age, 7612 degrees.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
PERSONAL.

DR.. Winthrop F. Stone has been chosen presi-
dent of Purdue University successor to DR..
James H Smart, who died last spring. DR.. Stone
has been vtce-president of the university for sew
eral years
Professor L. c. Hills. OF Rollins College Win
ter Park. Fla, who has in charge the general
tea3hng OF English tC the Cuban teachers in
Cambridge, has extensive knowledge of Span
ish.
Engshmen who were with Lord Charles Beres-
ford at Alexandria viii remember Major Waller,
commanding the United States marines in the re-
lief Of Tien-Tsin. says the American correspondent
Of The London Standard" Lord Charles Beres-
ford assigned TO Major Waller the duty of clear
ing two sides of the principal square. Waller in
struCted his men not to shoot without orders. and
then to shoot to kill He took a place behind the
ranks, saying that he would shoot the first man
firing without orders. His command did its work
bOOdessly, and at the opposite side of the square
met that Of Lord Charles Beresford which had
also been successful in the task, though after fir
ing several vOlleys.
Lieutenant John NJ. MacKinley. of the Argentine
Navy, who lost his life in Cambaceres Bay during
squaI, was a Canadian, and has relatives living
in Kingston. Ont A Buenos Ayres paper says
the Government has been asked to have the name
MacKinley given TO the bay in which the fatal
cident occurred.
The King of Denmark and his brother Prince
Hans of Glucksburg expected to arrive in
Paris in a few days and are to stay there for a
the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12

Visitors at the Paris Exposition 1OHI find
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a month.
4 reGder can insure himself against
losing any copy Of The TRIBUNE through
tie increased demand IN Presidential year
6y IsaTlng an 0rder for regular deiiVety 1cith
the nearest HelCSdeaLer.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The United States Supreme Court on adjourn
ing recently for the summer, left S04 cases unds-
posed of on its docket The number were left
undisposed Of on its adjournment for the summer
last year Three hundred and seventy new cases
were filed during the term now finished and in ex-
aCtly the number of cases the Court heard
arguments accepted briefs.
smithers-May pat your darling little puggy
Miss Marianne, and caress 1t?
ers, if you are sure you have no neas.-(Cornwail
On. V Schoolmaster.
The Italian Parliament is considering a plan to
provide the three southern provinces of Foggta
Bari and Lecce with water from Caposele in the
Apennines by building aqueduct 1853 miles long
with branches, which will bring the total length
up to $50 miles
Crtc--Yes, the play is fine. It's the most splen-
did vindicaton of true womanhood l ever saw
Yes; l think every woman in this country should
'Wel-er-then, viii you intimate in your critique
OF it that it's very Frenchy in parts?-( (PhiladeI-
Despite the statement recently made that IiIiu-
okalani, the deposed Queen of Hawaii was rapidly
falling in health and had gone back to Honolulu
to die, Honolulu newspaper notes the arrival on
the steamer Australia of automobile for her
,o Jumping d9 e at Concusions @ @-Bagsley is awfuy
Yes, he takes him out to the golf links every
';Then that's where he's learning to swear
cleveland Plain Dealer
The telegraph poles along the Savannah and
StatebOrO railway in Georgia are growing They are
made of cypress and must have been planted with
the roots. They sprouting at the top and
a double purpose. They are shade trees as
well as support for the wires.
Harmless Illuson.-"Your typewriter girl is a
very gay and picturesque dresser
We'll that's all right h If she can make it appear
party, have no objection. ."-(Chicago Record
good story always he adapted to suit the
occasion. In the course of recent sermon at
St PauTs Cathedral London. the Bishop OF Stem
ney told aneCdote Of occurrence on one ~
the transports bound for South Africa An officer
much struck with the energy displayed by an
Imperial Yeoman who scrubbng the deck
during gale of wind. He therefore said TO him
You seem to have very good sea legs" Yes
sir" was the reply. you I've kept a yacht nv
self for the last eight years" This story or
one exactly like it. told Of an American
yachtsman of wealth and position who served as
a volunteer in the Spanish two years ago
Too Hard "a Task-'You are a carpenter they
asked nterrogatively
The nodded
we have mere" they went on '.some very 6re
planks with which We would have you construct
a platform"
They Of unequal lengths and not all nf tho
an ak. and plane | might
Here they interrupted him. The planks they
said, must remain exactly as they were.
Then said the carpenter. as he prepared n
leave, Heaven help the man who has to stand on
the platform" and he hied himself away from
Kansas City.-(Chicago Post
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12

anarchy which the demagogues are trying to
stir to eruption
This letter seems insignificant and crazy ms
to be worthy of only laughter or pity But is it
much different in essence from the utterances of
some of our men of pretentiOusly superior learn
ing and morality? Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison
spells correctly. is prOfessed rhetOrician and
has pretty taste for poetry. But are his state
ments in prose and verse about tools and tyrants
and murderers, his comparison of President
Mckinley with Abdul Hamid, and his whole
sale abuse of everybody in power as bloody
minded and corrupt widely different in spirit
from the similar sentiments blunderingly
expressed in feeble imitation by this poor
crank? Is Mr.. E. L. Godkin. who, as he him
self cOnfesses from deep seated prejudice
"and without the facts means Of getting the
"facts," expresses the opinion that the President
and his advisers are "the most dangerous set
"of scOundres by which civilized country was
"ever beset" on a much higher plane than this
ignoramus in the discussion of politics? Are
they and their kind not rather responsible for
leading the unbalanced and illiterate astray by
their reckless and unmeasured slanders founded
on mere prejudice dislike or difference of
opinion? Men who ought to know better give
utterance to things calculated to infame igno-
rance and stir up disorder, and then, like phi
losOphers, lament the tendency of the unin-
structed to blunder In their thinking and won
der when they see the storm they have pro-
Voked
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12

that Mr.. Bryan their savior, and for one
whom they had hailed a leader TO show that
Mr.. Bryan's antl-imperialism was only sham
filled their cup of woe
Senator Hoar is perfectly right in saying that
"the treaty was the great battle-ground in this
matter. If we desired really to defeat imperial
"ism and not simply to make political capital
"fOr party out of it," Mr.. Bryan did as much
rs any one man to pass that treaty, annex the
Philippines, and, according to his own theory
extend the Constitution of the United States
over them. The policy which he now proposes
is an impossible one for him to carry out with
out violating his own pledged Interpretation OF
the Constitution and setting himself up as an
extra-constitutional dictator, even as he says
President Mckinley has done. Ant-imperial-
lists who are mad for revenge because they have
not had their way may be expected to support
him blindly, but intelligent men like Mr.. Hoar,
who act from reason rather than prejudice
rightly see that Bryan means nothing good for
the country, even concerning this one matter,
while he is a tremendous danger in other ways.
Some of those dangers Senator Hoar sums up
follows:
If you think you best Eelp the cause OF
liberty and true republiCanism by voting Tor the
who are for the free coinage of silver at
is to l. by voting for men who are for refusing
ten millions of American citizens Suffrage at
home, for OVerthrowing the independence OF the
Supreme Court and for destroying the safe
guards of property and American labor, very
well. Go your way and do your duty as you see
it. I shall do mine see It, and l think can
best do it by speaking a Republican to Re
pubcans; by keeping my right TO speak as a
counsellor and a associate Of the men who have
wrought everything that has been wrought for
liberty in this country since the Treaty of Peace
in 1873, and not the associate or through the
instrumentalities OF the party or men who have
been ranged for sixty years on the side Of
despotism and oppression, Of diShonor and Of low
wages.
What contrast that calm, tolerant statement,
go your way and do your duty you see
it." makes with Mr.. Winslow's vituperation of
the "apOstate' 'sullied" with mud Singing!
Which is more worthy 10 be followed by
thoughtful, cultivated self-respecting men?
New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
A SCENE IN THE COMMONS.

London, July 1.-THE garden party gave rise .
an extraordinary scene in the House OF Commons
The usual hUmdrum Wednesday business vas iH
progress when adjournment was moved o.
enable the members attend the function az
Buckingham Palace John Dillon. Irish National
tst objected. saying that business inrerfersd with
such a purpose. but Frederick Madison Radical
who followed, protested in an excited manner
against what he considered TO De "hagranJ abuse
or governmental power and gross waste q the
time OF the House" He declared that a singl-
clause Of the Agricultural Holdings Dill. the-
under discussion. was worth more than al The
royal garden parties with all royalty thrown Oh.
These remarks brought forth angry shouts 01
Withdraw and the demand of the Speaker
William Court Gully, Mr.. Madison Withdrew his
sNpreSsiOnS.