The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

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send or receive cipher messages, on
account the fighting at Tien Tsin, is
not officially taken as an answer to
Secretary Hays vigorous demand,
through Ii Hung Chang, to be put
into communication with Minister
Conge,r it is unoficially regarded as
such. There is difference of opin-
ion whether it is sort of an
eleventh hour bluff to prevent The
march of the allied army to Pekin, or
an open defiance of the allied powers.
So far as this government is concern
ed, it will make no change in the pol
icy of pushing on to Pekin at the
earliest possible moment. Notice
has already been served on the
Chinese government that it will be
held responsible for the safety of
Minister Conger.
Secretary Root has received an i'm
portant message from Gen. Chaffee,
relating to the march on Pekin, but
for two reasons, it has not been made
public. First, it is not desired that
the Chinese should have an opportu-
nifty to learn anything of the move
ments of the allied army, and second,
it contains details of the lack of har-
mony among the officers of the allied
army, which this government does
not care to take the responsibility of
making known to the world, because
to do so, would be in a measure, to
impeach the sincerity of one or more
of the powers which are in the al
lance, notably Russia and Germany,
ard to cause friction and diplomatic
complications which could do no
possible good and might do much
doubt whether the march to Pekin
has really begun, although some
press dispatches have reported the
army to be half way to Pekin, which
those familiar with the grounds and
existing conditions consider an i'm
possibility. Ii Hung Chang has sent
a message saying that the foreign
ministers would be sent under an
escort from Pekin to Tien Tsin, but
that story gained no credence in
Washington, because nobody believes
that the foreign ministers who are
known to have twice refused a
similar offer, would trust themselves
to a Chinese escort.
Since President Mckinley left
Washington to return to Canton,
Secretaries Hay and Long have gone
away on their vacation. This makes
it as plain as the nose on ones face
that no immediate crisis is looked for
in China, and that orders covering
every possible contingency have been
sent to our army officers in China,
and our naval officers in Chinese
waters.
Col. G. B. Wing, of Cincinnati, who
usually knows what is going on in
Ohio politics, is in Washington.
When asked his opinion of the poll
tical outlook in his state, he said:
"Ohio will give Mckinley and Roose-
welt not less than 10000 majority, and
in the present spirit of the people, |
should not be surprised to see their
majority exceed 100000"
Mr. Edward Lee Hanscomb, a New
York business man who has been
spending sometime in Cuba, where
he was when the official order for the
election of delegates to the Consti
tutional Convention was promulgat-
ed, said of the situation on the island:
The people of Cuba are generally
we'll satisfied with the provisions laid
down by the administration for the
formation of the Cuban government.
There is a class of agitators and
adventures, many of whom have
been placed in government positions,
who would, no doubt, like to build
the republic along lines of their own
choosing, but the conservative and
solid classes are more than willing
that the government of the United
States shall have hand in launching
the new ship of state, such as editing
the proposed new Constitution and
looking, for time at least, after the
foreign relations of the infant repub-
lic.n
Senator Hoars manly words in
answer to a question as to his politi
cal attitude, surprised none of his
Washington friends and admirers.
He said; 'Of course shall speak for
Mckinley am as zealously in favor
of President McKinley's reelection as
anybody in the country. | certainly
do not mean to join the party that
has just carried the state of North
Carolina ON the sole issue of suppress
ing civil liberty at home, in the in
terest of civil liberty elsewhere.
Representative Tawney, of Mimi,
speaking of the Democratic claims of
carrying that state said: For a
long time the Minnesota Democrats