The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1900-08-02
The WAR IN CHINA
Washington Expecting Definite
Information Soon
NO GOLD DEMOCRAT TO RUN
And the 1emberS of the Organizati on
will vote for Bryan.


will be known in regard to China by
the end of next week. Earl Ii has
declared that the ministers are safe
and on their way to the coast, and
this statement should be proved OF
disproved before long. At present.
the State Department does not know
what to think. Officially, it accepts
Minister Wu's reports as accurate
and-cOntinues. to send troops tC,
China and to urge an advance OF.
Pekin by the allies. There is nc,
doubt that what news has been re
ceived recently tends TO discredit
Chinese representations, which Offer
no proof and may depend entirely
on mere assertion. Admiral Kempf
has cabled positively that the In
perial authorities are in sympathy
with the Boxers, and that, anyway.
they are p0werless and incapable of
controlling the situation This is the
first official declaration to reach the
United States Government contra
dictOry of the Chinese representa-
lions that the Imperial Government
had steadfastlY and from the first
opposed Boxer movement. Ex-
changes IN constant progress be
tween the powers are tending more,
and more to cast suspicion upon the
genuineneSs of the many cOmmuni-
cations that have come from Pekin
through Chinese government sources.
| If it should be established that there
has been an attempt on the part of
the Chinese to practice a gigantic
fraud upon the world, this fact may
call for a change of attitude Oh the
part of the United States Govern
ment toward China. This would not
affect the military policy already
under way, but merely the technical
relations between the two govern
ments, which would closely approx
mate state of formal war.
The official determination of the
Gold Democrats not to put ticket
in the field this fall is a great triumph
for the Democratic party, as it IA eyi-
dent that nearly all those who voted
for Palmer and Buckner in 1896 will
this year return to their old allegi-
ance. Some few Gold Democrats;
may vote for Mckinley, but they wiII
nearly all be men who supported hfnr
In 1896, and not those who put I'D at
| the halfway house in that year. AS
everyone knows the Palmer and
Buckncr movement was engineered
with the indirect intention of getting,
votes for Mckinley and not for its,
own ticket. Senator Palmer, him
self, towards the end of the campaign,
advised his supporters to vote for
Mckinley instead of for himself, and
his appeal, coming from an alleged
Democrat, was SpeciOuS enough to
lead away many men who would
never have yelled to Republican
representations. This year there
will be no chance to repeat that sort
OF thing. The leaders of this faction.
who have been continually breaking
into print with the bOastful claim
that they are Democrats, and that
they cannot support the party, can do,
50 no longer. They have shouted
this from the hustings whenever they
were favored with an audience, ana
screamed it FROM the street corners
and in the market places. With the
disarmament of their organization
they are left without distinct poIiti-
cal entity, and will be swallowed NJ
IN name as well as in fact by the Re.
publican organization. This renders
them comparatively harmless, because
without even pretenSe to the old
name they cannot confuse the public
mind or deceive unthinking people.
In other words, the Gold Democrats
as an haraSSing factor in national
politics, have passed out of existence.
From now on if they vote with the
Republicans on the currency issue.
they belong to the Republican party.
and If they vote with the Democrats.
on the issues Of imperialism and trust
they belong to the Democratic party.
They have no party of their own anv-
longer. Meanwhile, Mark Hanna has
tried to split the anti-imperialists in
twaln by organizing the national
party, and so prevent the whole BODY
from endorsing Bryan. The new
party has apparently dropped dead,
however, and it seems at present that
It's corpse will have no effect.
The sympathy of the administra-
ton for Great Britain has been
shown in several ways recently; bv