The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-10-05
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent.

From our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. October There will he
Democratic majority of not less than ten in
the next House. That is the way the Demo-
cratic Congressional Campaign Committee
figures it out, and in doing the figuring allow
ance has been made Tor every reasonable con-
tingency Republicans privately admit that
these figures are very conservative, and that
they have almost given up hope of retaining
control of the House, unless there is q change
in public sentiment amounting almost to
stampede before election day. Even the Re-
publican Congressional Committee has not
been putting out any claim, except in the most
perfunctory way, of Republican majority H.
the House. On the contrary, its chairman,
Representative Babcock, has been preparing
his party for defeat. Among the contingencies
allowed for by the Democratic Committee are
loss of seats in New York and Pennsylvania,
which the party managers in those States are
confident of saving.
Mad as the Repub lican leaders are with tho
lust of power and conquest, and us determined
as they are to try to turn this liberty-loying
republic into world-conquering empire,
founded on no higher principles than that
which dominated the dark ages of youth
might makes right" they do not dare to pub
licly proclaim that purpose az plainly as Ex-
Congressman DUNCAN, of Ohio, once Demo-
crat, did in a speech made in Washington, in
which he attempted to justify Mr.. Mckinley,
and his ilnperialistic policy in the Philippines
The following sentence from Mr.. Dungan's
speech reveals tire true inwardness of the Re-
publican policy, which they have been SO
anxiousy trying to conceal by general talk
ABOUT beltering the condition of the poor
| natives and Improvement in American CON-
| merce: I'm my opinion, title is fixed only by
the survival Of the fttest, and that is why
| American is going to rule the earth" In
| other words, no peoples title to their own
| country is good against the greed and avarice
| of Il stronger country. Surely majority of
Americans arc not willing to enter the Goth
century championing such a document.
| Representative Livingston, of Georgia, thus
/ sums up the attitude of the two parties towards
trusts: I'm recent speech made by Senator
| Beveridge, this statesman says that the Repub-
\ lican party. as well us the Democratic party, is
| opposed to trusts, only the Republican party
proposed to limit and regulate trusts, while
the Democratic party would do nothing
| Now, this statement was made to Intelligent
people. If this is so, how could Mark Hanna
go to Baltimore and get from the trusts OF
that city alone ss0,0uO, while Bryan, even had
he tried could not have got 80 cents. Senator
Hanna has said there are no trusts. He know:
and so does every thinking man or woman that
this is false. Here is evidence OF the trusts
This year it takes so per cent more wheat II
BUY plow than it did last year. 1t takes q
per cent. more corn and it takes from - tt
1 $3.50 II month more to live now than it did /
year ago. Why is this? 1t Is because Of the
trusts BE-. .s,...,
\ How desperate the Republican manager
are getting NAV be Judged from their having