The citizen., 1900-09-14
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
(Communicated). J.
WASHINGTON,
Sept. 10, 1900.


Somerset, Pa, where his niece
will be married this week, for an
indefinite stay. This either indi-
Gates that he understands what
the powers are going to do in
China, or that he is extremely
negligent of American interests,
as there is now no one in Wash
ingtOn to receive news from
China, higher than. an Assistant
Secretary.
Mr.. McKinlsE letter of ac-
ceptance is q p6st carefully pre-
pared document, especially that
portion of it which seeks to lull
the public fears of Imperialism.
1t misses none of the usual argu-
ments i'll favor of expansion, and
either omits entirely or CLOSES
over the acts of imperialism of
which the administration has
been guilty. That portion of it
dealing with the country's pros
perity is not so carefully put to-
gether and will be sure to arouse
smiles of incredulity among the
well informed, who know that it
was Providence, and not the Re-
publican administration, which
has given the country bountiful
crops and that wars and not the
Republican administration, have
largely increased the volume of
money in circulation and thus
helped along prosperity at this
time, at the expense of future
taxpayers.
Charges of the most serious
nature against the Quartermaster-
Generals office, made by j. o.
Cole, who voluntarily left a posi-
tion therein and whose standing
and responsibility are vouched
for by Senator Mason, have been
pigeon -holed for months. by the
War Department; and not even a
pretense of an investigation
made, although the charges were
specific as to time, nature, and
by whose orders the wrong doing
was perpetrated. Following is a
quotation from a statement Just
made by the man who preferred
the charges: "The water trans
portation business, as conducted
i'll the Quartermaster- Generals
Office contains the record of the
most shameful waste and misuse
of funds during the Spanish war.
1t shows how the government has
been robbed in different ways of
sums of money, as compared with
which the amount involved in
the Cuban postal frauds are a
mere bagatelle, and brands with
deplorable incOmpetency the
army officers connected with
them. An investigation will
also show rascality somewhere. ("
When asked why these charges
had been so completely ignored,
an official of the War Depart
ment said no attention had been
paid to them because they were
regarded as merely the spite
work OF disgruntled employe,
seeking to get even with some
body for some personal grievance.
However, that will hardly be the
view that Congress will take OF
the charges, which Mr.. Cole says
! will be brought up early in the
coming session.
Those who are we'll in-inform.
ed, politically, know that Mr..
Mckinley owes his election to
the gold Democrats. That is why
the accumulating evidence that
the bulk of the gold Democratic
; vote is going to be cast for Bryan
and Stevenson this year is so dis.
turbing to the Mckinley man
ayers. They know the gold
Democrats have it in their power
to elect the Democratic ticket.
Until the past week, the Republi-
cans have denied that Colonel
Bryan would get the support
OF the gold Democrats of promi,
nence, but since the publication
of letters over their own sigma.
, ture, of two members Of the
Cleveland cabinet Olney and
MISUNDERSTANDING in favor Of the
, election OF BRYAN and Stevenson