Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-08-13
Washington august 9th, 1000.

government that the foreign ministers
In Pekin would not be allowed to
send or receive cipher messages, on
account of the fighting at Tlen Tsin, is
not officially taken as an answer to
Secretary Hays vigorous demand,
through Ii Hung Chang, to be put
into communication with MiDister
Conger, it is unofficially regarded as
such. There is a difference Of opinion
whether it is sort of eleventh hour
bluff to prevent the march of the
allied army to Pekin, or an open de-
fiance of the allied powers. So far as
this government is concerned, it will
make no change in the policy of push
ing on to Pekin at the earliest possible
moment Notice has already been
served on the Chinese government
that it will be held responsible for the
safety of Minister Conger.
Secretary Root has received an
important message from Gen. Chaffee,
relating to the march on Pekin, but
for two reasons, it has not been made
public. First, it is not desired that
the Chinese should have an Opportu-
ity to learn anything of the move
ments of the allied army; and
second, it con tains details of the lack
of harmony among the officers of the
allied army, which this government
does not care to take the responsible
ity of making known to the world,
A. hn
measure, to impeach the sincerity of
one or more of the powers, notably
Russia and Germany, and to cause
friction and diplomatic complications
which could do no possible good and
might do much harm. There are good
reasons to doubt whether the march
to Pekin has really begun, although
some press dispatches have reported
the army to be half way to Fekin,
which those familiar with the ground
and existing con ditions consider. an
impossibility. Ii Hung Chang has
sent a message saying that the foreign
ministers would be sent under escort
from Pekin to Tien Tsin, but that sto-
ry gained no credence in Washington,
because nobody believes that the
foreign ministers who have twice re-
fused a similar offer, wonld trust
themselves to Chinese escort.
Since President Mckinley left
Washington to return to Canton,
Secretaries Hay and Long have gone
away on their vacation. This makes
it as plain as the nose on ones face
that no immediate crisis is looked
for in China, and that orders covering
every possible contingency have been
sent to our army officers in China,
and our naval officers in Chinese
waters.
Col @. B. Wing, of Cincinnati, who
usually knows what is going on in
Ohio politics, is in Washington.
When asked his opinion of the politi-
cal outlook in his state, he said: ''Ohio
will give Mckinley and Roosevelt
not less than $4,000 majority, and
should not be surprised to see their
majority exceed 100000"
Mr.. Edward Lee Hanscomb, a New
York business man who has been
spending some time in Cuba, where
he was when the official order for the
election of delegates to the Constitu
tional Convention was promulgated,
1.-THE people of Cuba are generally
we'll satisfied with the provisions laid
down by the administration for the
formation of the Cuban government.
There is class Of agitators and ad
venturers, many OF whom have been
placed in government positions, who
would, no doubt, like to build the re-
public along lines of their own choos-
ing, but the conservative and solid
classes are more than willing that the
government of the U. S. shall have a
hand in launching the new ship of
state, such as editing the proposed
new Constitution, and looking, for a
time at least, after the foreign rela-
tions of the infant republic"
Senator Hoar's manly words in
answer to a question as TO his political
attitude, surprised none of his Wash
ington friends and admirers. He
said; ''Of course l shall speak for
Mckinley. am as zealously in favor
of President McKinley's reelection as
anybody in the country. I certainly
do not mean to join the party that
has just carried the state OF North
Carolina OF the sole issue of sup
pressing civil liberty at home, in the
interest of civil liberty elsewhere.''
Representative Tawney, of Mimi,
speaking of the democratic claims of