Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-07-14
The Politician.


Chinese Minister, and made public
this week, that the Chinese govern
ment was doing everything possible
to protect the foreigners, 1t has not al
lowed 1t to cause any cessation of the
efforts to hurry American troops to
China. The statement merely confirms
what has been assumed by this gov
trnment from the first, that the trouble
was owing to the inability of the Chin
ese government to control the revolu-
tionary mobs and was not therefore
cause to declare war on China. This
government does not, however, and
will not accept that portion of the
statement which charges that the
guards of the foreign legations in
Pekin brought on the attacks by their
conduct towards the Chinese. Nothing
short of an official report from Mr..
Conger, our Minister to China, will
cause that statement to be accepted.
This government would also like to
know why when the Chinese govern
ment was getting that statement out
of Pekin it did not allow the foreign
ministers to send some word to their
governments.
Representative Loudenslager, of New
Jersey, who is in charge of the Wash
ington branch of the headquarters of
the Republican Congressional Com
mittee, from which all eastern cam
paign matters will be looked after, was
asked how the Congressional camp
align was progressing, and said in re-
ply: mo definite idea of what is to
be the chief fighting ground in this
section of the country can be had yet,
because the nominations are not all
made and the character and strength
of the candidates of both parties are in
many instances unknown quantities.
think, however, that the nominations
this year are being made earlier than
usual, although there are large num-
Der of conventions that will not meet
until August or later" 1t is not
claimed by even the widest Democrats
that the Republicans will lose any
Congressional strength in the east, but
the Republicans are figuring on carry
ing a number of districts now repre-
sented by Democrats.
Hon. Otis H. Cutler, of New York
who was a delegate to the Philadel-
phia convention, said to a Washing
ton friend of the outlook in his state:
II believe McKinley's plurality in New
York State will be $4,000 larger than it
was four years ago. 1t would not sur
prise me to see him carry the state
by plurality over Bryan of more than
100000. Every condition that con-
tributed to McKinley's great vote in
New York four years ago still exists,
and he now has many elements of
strength he did not have in 1896. You
see materialism is creeping more and
more into our national life each year.
Americans are coming to look at poll
tical questions through business eyes,
to vote as they think their best inter-
ests dictate"
Senator Foraker arrived in Wash
ington this week. He says he finds
Republican enthusiasm everywhere
and feels confident that Mckinley and
Roosevelt will receive larger electoral
vote than was given Mckinley and Ho-
bart. He expects, OF course, to take an
active part in the campaign, not only
in Ohio, but in other states.
Gov. Allen, of Porto Rico, is in
Washington to report on conditions in
the Island and his administration as
far as it has gone. He said he did not
care to talk for publication about the
working of the new tariff, further than
to say that its results bid fair to ex-
ceed the claims of its most ardent ad-
vocates. AS to general conditions, he
said that the Island was slowly but
surely getting upon a solid and sub
stantial business footing and that all
The indications pointed to an era of the
greatest prosperity in its history.
Not since the Monroe Doctrine was
enunciated has a boiler or more plain
spoken document been issued by this
government than that defining the at
titude of the United States towards
China, which was sent to all foreign
governments ten days ago and was
this week made pubic. Following is
portion of the last paragraph of this
important document: THE policy of
the government of the United States is
to seek a solution which may bring
about permanent safety and peace to
China, preserve Chinese territorial
and administrative entity, protect all
rights guaranteed to friendly powers
by treaty and international law, and
for the world the principle
Of equal and impartial trade with all
parts of the Chinese Empire" 1t
means business all the way through
and is a notice to the world that the
United States will not allow any
changes to be made in China that will
affect our commercial rights.
Steeple Climbers May Or
panize.