The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-06-15
Master Charles Everitt.
WashiDaton Letter.
From our regular Correspondent.


WASHINGTON, juno 1.-THE administration
is worrying over the news from China. The
revolution of the Boxers" threatens to expose
Mr.. McKinley's Imperiai.tic programme con.
cernihg ChiLa in advance Of the Presidential
election, which he was inst anxious to avoid
In their anxiety to allay public suspicion al
home, members of the administration have
been doing some word Juggling that would be
amusing if the mat ers involved were not too
Serious to laugh about For instance, official
statements to the press from the State Depart
ment have emphasized the alleged Instructions
to our Minister at Pekin, aid To lear Admiral
Kemptf, our Naval Commander IN Chinese
waters, TO act IN concert with European powers
for the protection of Foreigners and their prop.
erty. but not to join a combination of the
powers for any purpose. Our representatives
over there must be clever indeed if they can
act in concert with the European powers with
out combining with them.,
n marked feature of the political situation is
the genuine scare OF the Republican leaders
over three States which they have heretofore
been claiming as certain 10 cast their electoral
votes for Mckinley. These States are New
York. Indiana and Illinois. in New York
with Croker to look after Greater New York,
and Hill to look aftertbe oth portions OF the
State, pulling Loyalty together, the Republicans
realize that the State will be doubtful. In In
diana. the State ticket nominated by the DER
ocrate, headed by Hon. John W. Kern, is so
strong that Indiana Republicans have notified
the leaders of the party that the State is in
danger. In Illinois, the tide has been running
anti Republican for some time, and appeals
for help are being received in Washington
This scare is so bad that prominent Republi-
cans are saying that 1t is useless to consider
candidates from other States fer the second
place on the Mckinley ticket; and he must he
taken from one Of those three States, and must
be man who will add strength to the tick ct.
Mr.. Mckinley has gone out of his way to make
friends with Senator Mason, OF Illinois, who
was INSTRUMENTATION during the recent
session of Congress, and has succeeded
in getting Mason to promise to take the
man who eau be won over by joIlyng, it is
likely that he has received some definite ard
iron-clad promises of future patronage.
The Industrial Commission, so-called, hiss
provided itself with pleasant summer juuket,
all OF the expenses OF which will be paid by the
"dear people," 1t has decided that the indus
SOuuitlOhEs anu
such. along the Northern Atlantic coast, must
be investigated during the summer, and has
arranged for meetings of the commission dur
ing the next three months, i'll Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York and the New England
States. One of the first duties of q Democratic
administration and Congress will be to abolish
the Republican Government Com mission hum
bug, which has become so rampant and so ex-
pensive under the Mckinley administration.
Chairman Payne, of the House Ways and
Means Committee, has given away the CLAIM, of
the Republicans that the reason they did not
reduce the war taxes at the recent session Of
Congress- was their desire to have that commit
tee grant hearings andstudy the question DUR
ing the recess, that the right sort Of bill FRO
yiding for the reduction might be reported to
the House, by the official announcement that
the committee would not be called together
until just before Congress meets. In ether
words. the question OF the reduction OF war
taxes is to be left open until after election. in
order that all the big interests may be taxed
for the Republican campaign fund.
Secretary Long has advertised for bids for
furnishing armor plate for battleships, under
the cowardy law forced through Congress the
last thing before adjournment, making Mr.
Long do what the Republicans of Congress
were ashamed to do-Bgree to the prices of
armor set by the armor trust, which willncccs-
sari.y be the only bidder tn respond 20 the adj
vertisemcnt. True, the law gives Mr.. Long
authority to reject the bids if he considers the
price too high. and TO use the Sd 100000 car
ried by the act, for the establishment Of gov
eminent plant to make srmUr plate. but if he
acted upon that authority, the Republican
lie ,ders who engineered the cowardly make
shift would throw few fits; they are figuring
On heavy campaign contribution from the
armor trust. =.
Mr.. Mckinley and Gen. E. s Otis have been
exchanging tnffy. Mr. Mckinley has b; en-
telling Otis that he wDs the Only real thing in
the Military way produced by the Philippine
war muny believe tha5 Otis produced that
war and that he would have been glad 10 have
made him, instead of Miles. a Lieut. General,
but Congress fixed it so that promotion had to go
to Miles; while Otis. overjoyci at his promotion
to ne d Maj Gen. has been telling Mckinley that
he is the greatest of all Presidents. Outside Of
the White House there has teen no attempt to
lonize Otis because of the prevalence Of the
opinion that he has already received MOI c than
was coming to him for anything he achieve !
during his blunder'ng career in the Philippines.