Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-12
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent

Washington. A message from General
Chaffee was received this week saying
the military situation was satisfactory,
and, while there has been no official
communications to that effect, it will
not be surprising if the result of the
exchange Of notes between the powers
on the proposal of Russia to with
draw the allied troops from Pekin
pending negotiations with China is
that all the powers will endorse the
position of this government that it will
be better to keep the allied troops in
Pekin until negotiations with China
have been brought to a successful con-
clusion, It may be that President
Mckinley has received hint of this
unofficially from the interested govern
ments, but anyway it is quite certain
that he is much more confident that a
peaceful settlement will be reached
than he was as hort time ago.
Prominent members of the Women S
| Christian Temperance union, now In
| Washington, express themselves
strongly against the idea, which or
iginated with some members of the or
ganization in Indiana, of an ''endless
chain of prayer for the defeat of
President Mckinley because he stood
by the attorney-general's construction
of the law relating to the army canteen.
| Miss Jessie Alderman, who has made
two trips around the world in the in
terest of the w. G.. I. o., said: Il
am not in favor Of this endless CHAIN
| prayer movement OF of anything so
| ultra. The w. G.. 7. q. is not proper
| ~ factor in the political world aad |
cannot see what practical results can
| be gained by the crusade. 1t is not a
practical movement. / fear that it
will mitigate against the society; that
| it will hurt us in the eyes OF the
public. This movement is not ma
tional one by any means. 1t is located
| in one state and large per cent.
of the rank and file will con
slider it ultra. I am inclined to fe~
lieve that the great majority of the W.
| c.. I. y. members will not hein SYM
| pathy with the movement, bot, on the
other hand, will be against it. =
| Similar sentiments are expressed by
other members; one, an officer of the
| local w. c. I. o., added: I consider
| it sacrilegious to use God S name in such
a fad as an endless chain idea and /
| believe that the union will do itself
| considerable harm should the crusade
| spread to other states. -
| SenatOr-elect Blackburne. of Ky..
was candid enough to say, in Wash
| ington this week: The Goebel law
is the most odious law ever placed on
| the statute books of Kentucky. 1t
placed authority in partisan commits
sion of three men and denied repre-
sentation to the minority party Mr..
| Backburne might also have truthfully
| added that the Goebel law elected Joe
Blackburne to,,a seat in the-United State S
senate that would have been filed by
Republican had that law not been in
force, but naturally he did not care to
say anything about that phase of the
matter He probably needs the salary
of a senator.
General W. II. Jackson, of Nash
vile, Tennessee, a famous horse
breeder and a lifelong Democrat, has
some fat-footed opinions on the pre-
sent campaign. and doesn't hesitate to
express them. He said: Bryan has
no more chance of being elected presi-
dent than a stump-tailed crow in fly
time has of taking it easy. / voted
for Bryan four years ago, but it was
tough work. Now [ cannot stand for
| hot aro1v-n11ilt ia yun,.ly LOT
1t is not the money question alone, it
is the entire scheme of the resolutions.
The platform of four years ago, with
its isms, has been included this year,
and | cannot stand it. [ certainly
shall not vote for Mr.. Bryan again. |
don t take any stock in Imperialism,
and | know that if Bryan is elected
business will be ruined in this country,
and every man of good business sense
knows it just as well as | do"
Using cancelled revenue stamps
will shortly be an impOssibility. as ink
has been adopted for printing these
stamps which cannot be tempered with
by any sort of chemical without blur
ring the whole stamp. Fraudulent use
VI Wc1O1IOu OCdllPO IIoo OOSI
largely practiced, especially in the high
priced documentary stamps.
When that eminent turncoat Carl
Schurz, read Secretary Cages reply
to his attempt to weaken Mr. Cages
recent statement that Mr.. Bryan could,
If elected, carry out the threat made
in SO to throw the country on silver
basis by ordering his secretary of the
treasury to pay government obligations
in silver, which was published this
week, he probably wished that he had
not questioned Mr.. Cages statement
When it comes to financial questionsS
there is no Bryanite in the country
who is the equal of Secretary Gage in
either knowledge or ability. Secretary
Gage has gone to New England for a
month S vacation, the first long one he
has taken since he became secretary of
the treasury.