The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-13
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Afraid of the g. a. R.-Mr Hama
has had prepared with great care and has
just issued by the million statement de-
Tending the Hon. H Clay Evans admins
tration of the Pension Bureau He shows
with pride that during the Mckinley Ad-
ministration pension expenditures have
reached the high water mark, and that at
the present time one-fourth of the reve-
nues of the Government are paid out in
pensions He also shows that there are
now on the pension rolls 993,529 names,
representing by many thousands an army
bigger than was ever in the field or I'M
Ger arms at any one time during the war
which has entailed upon the nation this
prodigious eXpense-an expense that eX-
ceeds the total yearly cost of any OF the
big standing armies of Europe, whers
every waga-earner carries one soldier upon
his back Mr. Hanna also proves by tae
records that during the Mckinley Admin
fstration only 48 per cent OF pension claims
have been rejected while during the last
Cleveland Administration IS per c2ut If
the claims We're rejected. Wherefore, ar
CUES Mr.. Hanna, Comrade H. Clay Evans
should not be criticised, censured, or coz
demned at the forthcoming annual en-
campment OF the c. a R. at Chicago To
make assurance double sure,
| Comrade William Mckinley VIII
attend the encampment and
ride a horse in the grand parade. Alzo
viii Comrade William Mckinley paTtici-
pate in the election of officers for the en-
suing year, as he did at the Philadelphia
encempmeEt last yer, when by throwing
the weight of his influence in the scale for
Comrade Shaw of New York, he secured
the election of that veteran as national
commander -chief, and saved Conrad :
Evans from the public condemnation that
had been planned In his elaborate state
ment Mr.. Hanna does not call attention TO
the interesting fact that at the p eselt time
pensions paid to citizens of Ohio exceed
by more than SO. coo, 0G0 annually the pen
sions paid to citizens of New York in spite
of the fact that New York fushishe1 so 900
more soldiers 10 the Union Army than
were furnished by Ohio. Some Of the com
Tades who will be at Chicago are talking a
good deal about this discrepancy, and even
threaten to ask Comrade Evans or Com
rade Hanna to explain it, If the question
Is raised there II is thought lively de-
bate will be precipitated, and that in the
| melee ComTaGe Evans will get the worst of
it. regardless Of the awe-inspiring pres
eGce of Comrade Mckinley.
South Africa there comes story that will
| be very gratifying to hard pressed states
] nzsn everywhere in America. It is to the
! effect that Dom Paul Kruger has contrib
uted TO the Bryan and Stevenson campaign
/ fund between s.. 500 600 and $4,000, 600, The
| small matter of q miNicn dollars discrep-
ancy in the reported amount makes no dig
ferer2e. The same story also alleges that
TIE Hon. Webster Davis has received from
Dom Paul the bagatelle OF $4,000 to con
duct a sort of independents campaign for
Mr. Bryan. This, then, shows that Mr. Da-
/ Wis viii have at his disposal during the
| campaign the small sum of $3.50 Geo, for i;
| was given out from Republican headQ-iar-
| tiers nGarIy q month ago that Davis had re-
| ceived $125, 600 from the Democratic mana
! gers for the speech he made al the Kansas
/ City Convention. The South African story
! does not state 10 whom Dom Paul sent his
/ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO Mr.. Bryan or tc
/ the Hon James X. Jones, Chairman OF the
/ Democratic National Committee This
/ however. is a detail of no importance. Th5
/ feature of supreme Importance IN the story
/ is that the Bryan campaign managers
! will have millions Of South African
! money with which 10 operate. 1t Will now
! be proper to learn within a million OF Two
/ what the contribution of the Hon. G.. W
Aguinaldo to the Bryan campaign fund is.
! II AguinaldO has done as well as Kruger
| there can no longer be any doubt of d stu
| pendous increase in the wave of Mckinley
! prosperity that will engUlf the country be-
| fore the ides Of November. There is I'M
| easinGsS in some quarters that when poor
/ Mr.. Hanna learns the source and the
amount Of the Bryan campaign fund he
Will clcse up shop and advise Mr., McKin-
! ley TO withdraw from the race. Mr.. Hanna
! friend, General Apathy seems 10 have
! turned against him, or at least Mr.. Hanna
/ says he has With Dom Paul Kruger
/ Aguinaldo and their millions together
j with General Apathy, arrayed against him
| it is thought Mr.. Hanna and his impecuni-
Gus trusts soon will take to the woods.
/ Chandler in the Rmce-The Hon
/ William Eaton Chandler is not as coy as
! he once was Until a few days ago the
/ distinguished Senator bIushed and chang
ed the subject whenever the matter of his
| successor was mentioned. He has been
known at times to say indinerentIy that ii
! the people of New Hampshire wanted him
| again 10 serve them in the Senate he would
| take their request under advisement and
/ give them his answer before the next Leg
| islatUre meets at Concord. But it has
/ been made obvious 10 Senator Chandler
| that the Boston and Maine Railroad wants
| to succeed him in the Senate, aud this be-
ing the case it behooyes the Senator To
! discard his coyness and hump himself
| lively for reelection He has announced
| his candidacy in plain terms, and the Bos-
| ton and Maine has announced its candi-
| daey in equally plain terms The contest,
| it is expected, will be fast and furious to
! the close, and when il is over K is be-
| lieyed that, in the language Of the Irrev-
erend Sam Jones, there VIII be in New
| Hampshire blood and hair and the ground
tore up" Large pieces of the euticIe and
huge wisps of the hair and whiskers of the
Hon Jacob Fl. Gallinger and the Hon Cy
| Sulloway are expected to be mixed in the
debris. Both of these eminent statesmen
are opposed to Senator ChandIer-the first
named because of personal dislike, together
| with high sense Of obligation to the
| Boston and Maine, and the latter be cause
| he thinks he has right to run fo- the
Senate. 1t is believed to be not impossi-
| bic for the combination to defeat Senator
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