The Winslow mail., 1900-10-18
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Items of Interest Relating to AT
fairs of National I'm
portance.
WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION is DOING.
Sacrifice of the Presidents Chosen
Policy to Save VOters-EIkins'
Fight for Official Life-How the
Trusts Squeeze the Consumer -
Voters Are Thinking.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
There has been a radical change. ap-
parently, in the foreign policy of the
administration, and Secretary Root
has been brought to the front as the
mouthpiece of the president in discuss
ing the American" policy on the Chi
nese question. Secretary Hay has been
put in the background, not because the
president does not believe in the abil-
ity of the author of Little Breeches, ~
but because that official stands for the
AngloAmeric alliance, which has
always been unpopular with the masses
of the people, and which, in the pro-
posed settlement of the Chinese trou-
bles, was being given a tritie too much
prominence by Mr.. Hay.
Secretary Hay has been relegated
and the presidents chosen policy has
been sacrificed because of the political
eXigencies and the need of some new
idea through which the voters might
be diverted from the British alliance
and their thoughts of vengeance, be-
cause of the infamous settlement of the
Alaskan boundary question, the undis-
guised sympathy of the administration
for the British in their efforts to wipe
out of existence the Boer republic and
the Numerous other acts that have en-
phasized the alliance established by
Secretary Hay and approved by Pres
ident Mckinley.
1t was Elihu Root, the New York
m n chr reyy1 and Eoa0 yarc,p n
in practical politics, who first saw that
a grandstand play must be made. He
saw that the Irish-Americans resented
the existing policy and that the Ger
man-Americans, many of whom were
counted upon to support the ticket this
year. were in revolt at an alliance that
boded i'll for the land of their adoption.
These citizens had seen too much of the
evils of entangling alliances before
coming to this country and understood
too well the dangers that would follow
if such a party were kept in power.
Mr.. Root plainly tod the president that
partiality for England meant loss of
votes and advised a turning about that
might bring the disgruntled again
into line.
Russia, for selfish reasons, furnished
the preteXt. She advocated the with
drawal of the troops from Peking and
asked the United States to join her
Here was the opportunity. The pres
ident, insisting that he had sent troops
into China only to rescue our ministers,
agreed that that had been accom-
plished and that further operations
of a hostile character were unneces-
sary. He>agreed with Russia, and all
additional troops en- route were or
dered to proceed to Manila. The ad-
ministration presented this as a rebuff
to those who charged him with waging
war without the consent of congress,
and the party organs have been hailing
it as an evidence of the lofty motives
that inspired the administration.
The whole business is a preteXt, an
expedient to save votes. This admin
istration will withdraw no further
than the seacoast. There the troops
will await negotiations and further or
ders. When the election is over the old
programme will be taken up and pur-
sued to its legitimate end and the ex-
pansion of McKinleys empire" will
proceed. Voters who have been look
ing with suspicion upon the policy of
the republican administration will not
be caught by this seeming retreat from
an established and fixed policy. There
is financial gain to the republican man
ayers through a British alliance.
There is nothing of this sort through
an alliance with the czar. The man
ayers will insist upon the compact
made by Hay being lived up to, and it's
temporary abandonment is nothing but
Q political bluff.