The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-08-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent


W,suvcroy. July Is, l900.-lt is be-
leyed here that something definite Will be
known in regard to China by the end oil
next week. Earl Iii has declared that the
missionaries are safe and on their way 10
the coast, and this statement should DE
proved or disproved before long. AT pres
ent, the State Department does not know
what TO think. Officially, it accepts Min
lister Wus reports as accurate and-coh-
tinues TO send troops to China and to urge
An advance on Picking by the allies.
There is no doubt that what news mas
been received recently tends to discredit
Chinese concentrations, which offer no
proof and may depend entirely on mere
assertion. Admiral Kemph has caOieu
positively that the Imperial authorities
are in sympathy with the Boxers, and that
anyway, they are powerIess and incapao'e
of controlling the situation. This is the
first official declaration to reach the l ut
ed States Government contradictory OF the
Chinese representations that the Imperial
Government had steadfastly and from the
first opposed the Boxer movement tx
changes in constant progress between the
powers are tending more and more to cast
suspicion upon the genuineness OF the
MANY communications that have come
from Picking through Chinese Government
sources If it should he established that
there has been an attempt on the part ot
the Chinese to practice gigantic fraud
upon the world, this fact may call Tor
change of attitude on the part OF the IN
tied States Government toward Chiha'
This would not affect the military policy
already under way, but merely the techh'-
cal relations between the two governments
which would approximate state Of Tor
NAL war.
The official determination of the gold
democrats not to put ticket III the heId
this fall, is a great triumph for the demo-
cratic party, as it is evident that nearly
all those who voted for Palmer and Buck
ner in 1896, will this year return to their
old allegiance. Some few gold democrats
NAV vote for Mckinley, but they will
nearly all he men who supported him IN
1896 and not those who put up at the hall
way house in that year. As everyone
knows the Palmer and Buckner movement
was engineered with the direct intention
of getting votes for Mckinley ard not Tor
its own ticket. Senator Palmer, himself,
towards the end OF the campaign, advised
his supporters to vote for Mckinley in
stead of himself, and his appeal, coming
from an alleged democrat, was spacious
enough to lead away many men who would
never have yielded to republican repre-
sensations. This year there will be no
chance to repeat that sort of thing The
leaders of this faction, who have been
continually breaking into print with the
bOastful claim that they are democrats
and that they can not support the party,
can do so no longer. They have shouted
this from the hastings whenever they
were favored with ar audience, and
screamed it from the street corners aud IN
the market places. With the disbandment
of their organization they are left without
distinct political entity, and will be swal-
lowed up in name as well as in fact by the
republican organization. This renders
them comparatively harmless, because
without even pretence TO the old name
they cannot confuse the public mind or
deceive unthinking people. In other
words, the gold democrats. as an harassing
factor in national politics, have passed out
OF existence. From now on II they vote
with the republicans on the currency is
sue, they belong to the republican party,