The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. l, 1900.


Sec'y Hay will this week return to
Washington and resume his duties at
the head of the Department of State.
This will effectually dispose of the
long line of Democratic stories about
his not being in accord with President
Mckinley on the Chinese policy of
this government. As a matter of
fact, Secretary Hay has kept in close
touch with every move made by this
government since he went away for a
needed rest and has been constantly
consulted by the President; and as
another matter of fact, the policy of
this government in China has not
been changed in the slightest degree
since it was first announced last July
to the powers in a diplomatic com
munication signed by Secretary Hay,
as may be seen by any one who will
take the trouble to procure and read
copy of that note, which was pub
lished in all the daily newspapers.
Senator Warren, of Wyoming,
brought good news from the states
west of the Missouri river to Wash
ington. He says that while only two
of them went for Mckinley four years
ago, six of them are certain to so this
year-California, Oregon, Washing
ton, Wyoming, South Dakota and
Kansas and six more - Nebraska,
Colorado, Nevada, Montana, Idaho
and Utah-may do so. Senator War
rem was with Governor Roosevelt's
party for awhile, and he said that the
governors trip, which has aroused
everywhere he has spoken, has done
wonderful lot of good, not only by
waking up Republicans, but by max
ing converts of those who were in
doubt as to how they would vote.
He says the Republican party was
never in better fighting trim in the
west than it is right now.
The New York State Republican
Club is one of the most enthusiastic
of the state organizations in Wash
ington. The following quotations
from speeches made at it's regular
weekly meeting, are both apt and in
teresting: Mr.. w. G. Conner, of New
York, 1.-The great paramount issue of
the Democratic party is the greatest
fake issue ever foisted before the
American people. Not one step has
been taken by our President but
what has been strictly within the
limits of constitutional power. There
is no imperialism under the Stars and
Stripes and there never will be-" Mr..
j. j. Weed, of Vermont, People can
only judge from the past. We know
what the Democratic party, with
free trade under Grover Cleveland,
did, and we also know what the Re-
publicans have done in the last three
years and a-half, and know all of us
are satisfied that only by casting our
vote for William Mckinley can the
present unprecedented prosperity be
continued" Hon. Irving DUNCAN,
of Ohio, who was Democratic Rep
resentative at the same time Mr..
Bryan was, in the last three and
one-half years more prosperity and
trade have come to the country than
at any other time in one hundred
years. Bryan admits this himself
and cannot account for it. We are
now lending country, and when the
Democratic party went out of power
we were borrowers. Expansion is
here, and the only thing to do is for
the American people to keep in front
that splendid man they placed in the
White House four years ago."
Senator Shoup has written friends
inWashington expressing strong hope
of Republican victory in Idaho, and
similar letters are being received
from Montana Republicans concern
ing that state.
That Mr.. Bryan is managing his
own campaign-one clever cartoonist
makes him constantly say, Il am the
Democracy''-has been apparent in
Washington for some time. Speak
ing of it, Col. A. J. Ross, of Indiana,
said: 1T is common talk about the
headquarters of both political COM
mittees that Bryan has practically
taken the management of the Demo
cratic campaign out of the hands of
Chairman Jones. Jones, it is said,
has been reduced to the position of a
clerk, who issues orders for the carry
ing out of plans laid by Bryan"
Those familiar with conditions in
Kentucky believe that the election
of Hon. John G. Carlisle, who was
Cleveland's Secretary of the Treas
ury, to be president of the New York
Lawyers Sound Money Club, which
declared in a resolution ''that in our