Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-08-30

TO reinforce them, and that no
troops are to be sent home un-
Gil further notice. IL that does
not indicate an intention on the
part Of Mr. Mckinley to play O
further hand in the Chinese game,
what does it indicate?
Nov that il has been authenti-
callY announced that ex-senator
German, nov at Saratoga, will re-
turn to Maryland about the middle
OF September and take an active
part in the campaign until election
day. those republicans who have
been actively circulating stories Of
his lukewarmness towards Bryan
and Stevenson must feel that they
are veiy clumsy liars. 1t has never
been doubted in Washington that
MIR. German would do his full duty
towards the party that has honored
him in the past and that 10 likely
to honor him in the future.
Evidence continues to multiply
showing that Illinois will be found
in the democratic column this
year. After expressing his opinion
to that effect, Mr.. w. III. Broad, of
Chicago, said: "There are num-
Der of reasons for believing this,
but | am convinced that opposition
to Imperialism will have q greater
influence in the undoing of the re-
publicans than any of the other is-
sues. There is big German vote
in Illinois, especially in Chicago,
and the Germans, almost to man,
are opposed to the lmperialistic pol
icy of the present administration.
There is also q very bitter faction.
al fight among Illinois republicans,
and although it doesn't come much
to the surface, the feeling is so
strong that it will be impossible for
them TO make progressive and har-
monious campaign in the state.
Opposition to the trusts will also
lose the republican ticket q good
many votes, and with the labor
troubles in Chicago and all the suf-
fering that has resulted from them,
the republican orators will find it
difficult to convince the workingmen
there that the country is blessed
with an over.abundauce of prosper
ity."
That the democratic leaders are
thoroughly posted on what the re-
publicans are doing and are meet
ing every republican move, is made
apparent BY the following remarks
OF one of them: against the pros.
pcritY statistics which are being
manufactured BY the Census Bureau
We will place some hard facts which
indicate that many classes of men
who have to depend on their labor
for q living are not prosperous.
Take for instance the anthracite
coal miners. The coal trust has
cut down the number of work days
30 that miners are expected to live
on three days work o week. This
means that they can barely exist.
In New England, some of the cot
ton mills are shut down and others
are running on half time. The
silk mills of New Jersey are run
ming on short time, and one of the
big silk manufacturing companies
has, within the last week, closed.
We are looking for the scare which
the republicans have intimated they
will give the country, that atten-
ton may be called to the money
question. 1t may come at any time,
and the small volume of trading in
Wall street, indicates fear there
that money squeeze may be i'm
pending. When the West begins
the moving of crops and calls upon
the East for money to do it with,
and if coincidentally, o Russian or
any other European loan should be
placed, making drafts upon our
gold supply, very little artificial
encouragement would produce the
scare which think the republi-
cans contemplate"
Representative Vandiver, of Mo !
has been investigating the cost Of
government by Commission, under
the Mckinley administration. Ow-
ing to mixed systems of book keep
ing he has only partially succeeded.
bat he shows that more than two
and half millions Of dollars have