Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-10-26


Quay and the Administration -Desperate Al.
ternativss to be Adopted by Republicans to
Carry the Electoral College.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1900.
Republicans, from Mr.. Mckinley
down, have made this campaign of
Misrepresentation from the start. Mr..
Mckinley himself started the false
pretense that the war taxes would be
repealed at the coming session Of Con-
gress, and the promise has been reiter.
ated and reiterated by Republican
speakers and writers in all sections of
the country. The war taxes will not
be repealed by the present Congress,
unless the election of Mr.. Bryan in.
cites the Republicans to do so with the
hope of embarrassing his administra.
ton, for the very simple reason that the
money they produce is necessary to
meet the expenses OF the Mckinley
policy OF imperialism. This is well
known 10 every prominent official of
the Treasury Department, although it
would be as much as his place was
worth for any one of them to publicly
say so. But they don't have to say
anything, the figures tell the tale.
The official figures show that the total
expenditures of the government for
the last fiscal year amounted to $685.
O99, $500, and the total receipts TO
$l7l ,27l ,45l.71. Subtract one from
the other and you have the immense
surplus" about which Republicans are
so fond OF talking. There will be no
repeal OF war taxes, but there will be q
reduction in the tax on beer, the
brewers having bought "a promise to
hat effect with heavy campaign con-
,rbutions. Still Republican speakers
will go on promising their hearers
that the war taxes will be repealed
They 60 ON the theory that vote OBJ
tanned by false pretenses counts for
just rs much as one bought for cash.
and is cheaper.
Echoes of the big Bryan meeting
held in Madison Square Garden, in
New York City, will reach the remot-
est section OF the country, and the en-.
thusiasm there aroused will spread I'M
til it takes on the qualities of Demo-
cratic tidal wave, which may be great
enough to sweep the trust.ridden adj
ministration out of power, or may just
fall short of that much to be desired
accomplishment. No man can say in
advance what the result of it will be,
but let it be what it will, il is admit
ted, even by the McKinleyites, that no
such OutpOuring OF the masses as that
which honored Mr.. Bryan has ever be-
fore turned out in that city to hear
any candidate; and old campaigners,
who were there, declare that they
were astonished at the intensity and
the amount of enthusiasm aroused by
Mr.. Bryan and the other speakers. It
was revelation to New Workers, and
it opened the eyes of many who have
heretofore refused to believe that
Bryan and Stevenson had chance to
carry the State of New York. One
enthusiastic Washington Democrat
who attended the big meeting said ::
That meeting was worth million
Democratic votes. It would have
been an absolute impossibility in that
town during the campaign OF 1896"
Why Mr.. Mckinley keeps an Amer.
lean minister at Pekin when he in.
variably turns down his advice and
recommendations and acts in accord
ance with what the Chinese minister
to the United States says, is one of
those questions which q whole bunch
OF Americans would like to have salts.
factor.ly answered. 1t bobbed up
again this week, when Minister Con-
ger sent dispatch warning Secretary
Hay that the Chinese government was
not "toting fair" After that dispatch
was received the Chinese minister, in
violation of all diplomatic usage, was
allowed to have a personal interview
with Mr.. Mckinley, in order that he
might present q dispatch from the
Chinese Emperor 10 the would-be
American Emperor, thanking him for
all he had done for the Chinese gov
eminent, while members OF that gov
eminent were melting the murder of
Americans and other foreigners in
China, and Mr.. Mckinley dropped the
political work in which he is now ex.
clusively engaged for whole hour to
swallow chunks of taffy presented by
the willy Chinaman.
Inasmuch as it has been we'll known
in Washington that there has been no
love lost between Mr.. Mckinley and
ex-senator Quay, who was kept out OF
his seat in the Senate by Boss Hanna,
there was much curiosity aroused
when Quay called at the White House
and had an hours private talk with
Mr.. Mckinley. 1t has leaked out
that Quay sought to make dicker
whereby the Administrations influence
would be used to help him in his fight
to control the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture and he returned to the Senate,
and that Mr.. Mckinley refused TO help
him, on the ground that he had
troubles enough. OF his own just now
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