West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-06-28
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No Enthusiasm for the Rspubli.
can National Ticket
The Administration Likely 10 Blunder
Into More Entangllng Foreign Com
plications-The Cost OF Running the
Government Has Been Increased
1900, 900. 900 Annually.
iIrom our ReeuIar corre.ponnent


outstanding the juggling by the
Republican leaders with the Vice
Presidential nomination, which
everybody saw through, the Hanna
made ticket which was nominated
at Philadelphia and the Washington
made platform adopted have evoked
not the slightest enthusiasm in
Washington, although the numerical
strength of the bread and butter
brigade at the National Capitol, and
Roosevelt's considerable personal
following, led many to suppose that
there would be at least bluff made
at some sort of an enthusiastic
demonstration. About the only
hurrahs heard in Washington have
come from delegates to the conven-
ton who stopped on their way
home, and those hurrahs were not
the result of enthusiasm but of
whiskey or other intoxicants. But
that, of course, does not worry Boss
Hanna. 1t is Doodle, not en-
thusiasm, that he relies upon to
duplicate his go business.
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Nothing more contradictory was
ever put into party platform than
the declarations of the Republican
platform that "We endorse the ad-
ministration of William Mckinley, "
and eve favor the construction,
ownership, control and protection
of an isthmian canal by the govern
ment of the United States" Mr..
McKinley's administration is re-
sponsible for the Hay Pauncefote
treaty, which, if ratified, would
make the carrying out of that plank
of the platform an impossibility.
The platform did not dare endorse
by name the Hanna. Payne ship
subsidy job, but merely asks for
Legislation which will enable us to
recover our former place among the
trade-carrying fleets of the world. +"
1t is certain that Hanna's subsidy
job won't do it,
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Mr.. Mckinley did not take kindly
to the suggestion that an extra ses-
sion of Congress be called to
determine the policy of this govern
ment towards the proposed invasion
of China by an allied army. He
preferred to jump head foremost
into an alliance with the imperial
governments of Europe, and Japan,
and United States troops are now
being hurriedly sent to take part in
the invasion. If his action does
not lead to entangling foreign com
plications, many shrewed men will
be mistaken in their predictions.
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One of the reasons for Republi-
can alarm about the great Middle
West was concisely given by Mr.. J.
V. Beal, of Akron, Ohio, now in
Washington, when he said: "The
industrial situation in some of the
manufacturing States of the Middle
Western States is decidedly gloomy.
The big trusts which one hears so
much about in the East, and the
evil effects of which are felt com
paratiyely little here, have been
destructive TO large number of
factories in our section of the coun.
try. Their is hardly manufac-
turing city of any size in Ohio,
Indiana, or Illinois, where one or
more factories have not been closed
down on account of the combination
in some particular line of goods.
The result has been that a good
many people have been thrown out
of employment in recent months.
Little has been heard Of these
matters, because nearly everybody
had been making good money and
had enough left to support them
selves for some time, while they
looked for other employment. But
a great deal Of hardship has re-
suited"
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Some of Boss Hanna's millionaire
allies have undertaken the contract
Of aiding the Philadelphia ticket by