The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-21
Mark Hanna Seems to
Have Gone Daft.
SCARES THE REPUBLICANS.
Whenever He Opens His Mouth
He Puts His Foot In It.
BEVERIDGE WANTS IMPERIALISM.

Would Hold Cuba Regardless of Our
Promise and the Desires of That
COuntry-COngressm Jett on Ar
my Abuses - Officers Promoted to
Give Them Higher SaIaries-A Cen
eral For One Day-McKin1ey Loses
SuppOrter-NIisIead the People.
Especial Washington letter.
The consensus Of public opinion even
among the Republicans appears to be
that when Mark Hanna opened his
mouth in Chicago he put his foot in it.
More and worse than this, a great
many people assert that the handling
OF much Doodle hath made Mark mad,
or in plain everyday American he is
"dotty." Governor Mount of Indiana
hoped on to him with both feet and
talked about him in as vicious a man
ner as any anarchist could do. While
am neither the legal, political nor spir-
itual adviser of Mark, l advise him to
consider the wisdom of the old saying,
Let the shoemaker stick to his last"
which being interpreted in this in
stance means that Mark should stick
to his barrel. Before he delivered his
great historical Grafton at Chicago he
should have remembered the Rev. Mr..
Burchard and been warned by his ex-
ample. When the votes are in and it is
ascertained that Bryan is elected,
Mark will be the most thoroughly exc
Grated man in America. Now he is
king, emperor, car, tycoon, sultan and
everything else that is high and
mighty; then there will be none so poor
as to do him reverence.
The Cat Ont OF the Bag.
Senator Beveridge let the cat out of
the bag in his Chicago speech. That
effort is Imperialism pure and simple.
The young senator from the Wabash
contends that only one mistake has
been made by US in all this Spanish
Cuban Philippine business, and that
was he resolution Solemnly passed by
congress and solemnly signed by the
president proclaiming to the world that
1.-THE Cubans are and of right ought to
be free and independent" and declar-
ing that we were not interfering in the
Spanish-Cuban imbroglio for purposes
of land grabbing or territorial aggran-
dizement. He asseverateS that we
ought to hold Cuba forever nolens vo-
lens. / wonder if be thinks that con-
gress passed that resolution and the
president signed it just for amuse-
ment? Or was it done to accomplish
some great purpose? The latter is the
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both good and suficient-first, to salts
fy our own conscienceS; second, to set
ourselves right in the eyes of other ma
tons. to secure their good opinion, to
allay their fears, to remove the suspi-
cion that we were starting on career
Of universal conquest. And that sol
emn resolution accomplished all those
ends. We never did wiser thing, and
no resolution of congress ever wrought
more good to this great republic. Now,
if Senator Beveridge and men of his ilk
had their way we would repudiate that
resolution, act with Punic faith toward
the world in general, the Cubans in
particular. and write ourselves down in
history as a set of constituencies liars.
Senator Beyeridge appears to be inca
pable of recognizing the fact that any
body has any conscience. He adyocat-
ed in his speech in the senate line Of
policy in the Philippines which is prop
erly denominated as Wholesale grand
larceny. When the Republican cam
paign committee burned 100000 copies
OF that speech because it was afraid to
send them out, he ought to have learn
ed that there are still people in this
country who possess and cherish a
sense of right. That was a severe jolt
and would have taught valuable les
son to almost anybody except Bever-
idge. Like Ephraim of old. he appears
to be joined to his idols and is abso-
lutely incorrigibe
A Brainy Democrat.
Among the young Democrats n the
house Of representatives there is 10
finer figure than the Hon. Thomas NJ.
Jet of Illinois. He is splendid look
ing young man. has bushels of brains,
lots of grit and is as faithful to his con-
ceDtion of duty as is the needle to the
pole His manners are pleasant, and
he is what is usually called a good
mixer. He is leading member of the
great committee on military affairs,
which at the present juncture is one OF
the most important committees in the
house. 'Tom'' Jett, as he is universal
" named among his acquaintance, is
recognized as a growing man in con-
gress If the people of his district keep
him there, he will establish a lasting
reputation for himself.
In the debate OH the army appropria-
ton bill he made an extraordinarily
strong speech and took strong ground
against wholesale appointments and
retirements in the army-that is. APP
pointments to higher grade for the
purpose of retiring them on a higher
salary. He said inter ALA:
desire simply to call the attention OF the house
to the list to show the number of retirements that
took place within short period after the APP
pointments made In many instances after
the officer had been promoted to the rank Of
brigadier general he was placed Immediately, al
most, upon the retired list In some cases he
onlv in fhe canacitv NJ n hrioadfer general