The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-07-19
WASHINGTON.
e-or ,ur Regular Correspondent.

'aSh'hstoi, July ), 1900.
The issue OF imperialism thrust
forward by the democratic national
platform is already worrying the
republicans. The making public
of a circular note sent to the great
powers by this government, defin-
ing its policy toward China, was
intended by the administration to
counteract the charge of imperial
ism. While nominally prepared to
inform other governments Of the
policy of this government toward
China, that circular note was really
prepared to try to convince the
people of this country that the Nc
Kinley administration has no i'm
perial designs against China, and
more of the same sort Of stuff may
be looked for. Mr.. Mckinley knows
that the Chinese question can wait,
but that the Presidential question
has got to be settled i'll November.
The administration has been
wobbling again. One day it Off
cially announced that in Difference
to the advice of Gen. Macarthur,
no more troops would be sent from
the Philippines to China, and the
next it ordered a regiment of infan-
try and battery of artillery to be
sent from Manila.
Praise for the manner in which
the democratic platform is written
is very frequently heard, some
times even from republicans. Ex-
Senator Faulkner, of w. Va, said
of it: Il have never read better
national platform than that adopted
at Kansas City. 1t Is written in
plain language, says exactly what
it means and without indirection.
Although he has been as harshly
criticized as any officer in our army
for various shortcomings, from the
time that he was in charge of the
construction of the big tunnel for
the increase of the water supply of
the city of Washington, which al
though constructed years ago is
still being tinkered with and has
never been put to any practical use,
to his more recent service as mill
tary governor of the City of Hava-
ma, Bragadier General Ludlow has
had pull enough to get promoted
right along and to get the most de-
sirable assignments. His latest is
one that any officer in the army
would like to have. He has been
ordered to Europe for the purpose
of visiting the great military schools
to obtain information to be used in
the establishment of war college
sor our army officers. He was made
president Of the war college board
as soon as he was relieved as mill
tary governor of Havana.
One of the signs that the Repub-
licans are not so cocksure OF Ohio
as they pretended to be is tae
announcement that Hannas man
Dick has been made chairman of
the. State Republican Executive
Committee. That means that Dick
will retire from the secretaryship of
the Republican National Committee
which he has held since the last
campaign and which carries salary
OF S., 900 a year, while the position
he has accepted in Ohio has no
salary. Who will succeed Dick as
Secretary of the National Committee
has not been announced, but, of
course, it will be some man thor
oughly trained in Hanna methods
of securing political ends. It
wouldn't cause any surprise in
Washington if Perry Heath resigns
as First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral and succeeds Dick.
Mr.. Henry Ault, of Boston, now
in Washington, said of politics IL
his State IF Massachusetts, was
not 50 overwhelmingly Republi
can it would go Democratic this
year. The press and Republican
party leaders are inclined to sneer
at the anti-expansionists of the Bay
State and to intimate that they are
of no consequence politically, but
when the election returns are in it
will be seen that anti-eXpansion has
more adherents than it has been
given credit for having. The quest
ion is not looked upon as purely
government policy, as is the tariff
or coinage of silver, but as one in
which deep principle of right and
justice are involved, and the people
OF Massachusetts are not to be laugh.
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