Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-15
INTERESTING NEWS
Fresh and Direct From The National Cap
tai,

To the Leader.
Washington. September IA, 1900.
President Mckinley gave the allied
powers in China strong proof of his
earnestness in wishing negotiations
for settlement to get under way
when he directed Acting Secretary of
State Hill to inform Ii Hung Chang,
who has authority to conduct the ne
gotiations in cooperation with Prince
Ching, that this government would in
struct its army and navy officers in
China to facilitate in every way his
! journey from Shanghai to Pekin, and
to protect him, If protection is neces-
sary, either on the journey or after he
gets to Pekin, and to publish the dis
patch sent to LII Hung Chang. This
step is in keeping with every act of the
Administration since the beginning of
the Chinese omplicatons-open and
above board-and places the response
bility for any delay in opening the ne
gotiations upon the other powers,
which for some reason or other have
appeared to wish to delay doing any
thing 1t is now believed that the 9TH
their hands.
Those democrats who have been pre-
dieting on guesswork that Gen. Rus
sell A. Alger would take no part in the
campaign this year are somewhat
chagrined over the positive announce
ment that Gen. Alger would take the
stump in Michigan for the State and
National tickets. Republicans never
had any doubt of Generals being on
the firing line when the real fighting
began.
United States Fish Commissioner
Bowers, who has just returned from
visit to his home in West Virginia,
thinks Mr.. Bryan's recent visit to the
State was more beneficial to the Re-
publicans than to the Democrats, and
predicts that the State will give Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt a majority of
not les sthan $4,000.
Mr.. f. B. Reeve, prominent New
York drummer, who was in Washing
ton this week. thus disposed of one
democratic claim: This talk of the
great majority of travelling men being
: opposed to President Mckinley is un-
true. | cover the entire United States
or good part of it, and in my jour-
neyings meet hundreds ct brother
knights of the grip. find very few
men who are on the read against the
present administration. Every young
man who is a clerk in wholesale
house HAS an ambition to go the road
: and believes that selling goods is as
easy as checking off bills or working
D att anything else in the office. If he
= sticks to work he gets the desired pro-
1 motion. in due course of time and
| starts. out to shaw the old boys how to
Y send iii orders. If he is g good man,
hustler, and knows how 20 handle
customers, he gets along, but if he
; can't sell goods he is laid off and gen.
orally put back in the shop. New, this
, Is the Sort of man who belongs to the
anti mckinley and ti-Administra-
, tion crown. He blames his lack OF
success on the road TO the trusts. If a
ha= 0f nd ic q
good salesman he is going to succeed;
if he has a poor line and cant sell
goods, he is going to be discharged
and that's all there is about it. But
very few of the regular men on the
road who have been Republicans have
emulated Senator Wellington in his
sensational flop. | believe that in the
coming turnout of Republican travel
ing men in New York there will be
fully as many in the ranks as ap-
peared four years ago."
Attorney General Griggs, in an opin-
ion asked for by Postmaster General
Smith, holds that all of the so-called
"card-chain" schemes now being ad-
vertised are violations of the lottery
law. The conductors of such schemes
will be notified and given an opportun-
ity to discontinue them. If they fail
to do so, their mail will be stopped.
Representative Loudenslager, of
New Jersey, Vice-Chairman of the Re-
publican campaign committee, recent
ly sent letters to men upon
whom he knew he could re-
ly in nearly all of the Con
gressional districts, outside Of the
South. asking an nncolored an I'M