The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-09-28
WASHINGTON LETTER

troin our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. %, 1907.
Whether Mr.. Mckinley part
, nership with Ii Hung Chang is To
be permnent or is merely to be
used to try 10 postpone the action
OF the other powers in China, until
after the election, is question cf
much interest just now. 1t is sip
n!fican that st before the adm n
istration decided to practically sever
its connection. with the allied pow
er- in China, Mckinley ha long
private conference with -Secrv
tary OF State, John W. Foster, who
was III Hung Chang's attorney and
adviser when that shifty and crafty
chap was negotiating for peace with
Japan and who is believed to be
acting in the same capacity now.
McKinley's decision that the Amer
lear troops should, with the excep-
.tian Of a heavy legation guard, bs
at once withdrawn from China, had
a double purpose. 1t wa. a con
cession to that portion OF public
opinion which has be an asking why
they we're not withdrawn ever since
Pekin was taken and all American
citizens were out of danger, and It
at the same time gave the admins
r tration about { 900 soldiers who can
be sent to the Philippines, where
s war IS again raging, notwithstaad-
ing administration assertions that il
was over many months ago. The
partnership with Lii Hung Chang
crops out in that portion Of the
, diplomatic note to the powers which
informs them that the u. 5 min
lister to China has been instructed
to arrange the preliminaries for
; ropening negotiations with Lii.
The extent of McKinIey's control
. Of Mr.. Hanna will be shown by
/, Hanna's future conduct. Mr.. Nc
Kinley lett Washington last week,
: fully determined to stop Hanna's
, sp ech-makine, having been con-
; vinced that it WAS making Bryan
. votes by tie thousand all over the
! country. Since then, Mr.. Hanna
has spent a day with Mckinley at
: Canton. II Hanna makes no more
sspeeches, it will show that Mckin-
! ley retains some say in the conduct
Of the republican campaign; if
Hanna continues to make speeches,
. it will show that he is the supreme
boss Of the whole republican outfit,
Iircluding Mckinley.
n Hon. Dominick l. Murphy, Ex-
! Commissioner of Pensions, painted
! this picture o. Mark Hanna and his
, methods: "You never hear him
prating of his reliance on Divine
Providence to carry his party through
an election. He is the type of the
buccancer and the freebooter in
politics. He bluntly puts it that
money i, the essential thing. In
/, this campaign let US hope and pray
that Hanna and his fellow manipu-
lators all spend their money in vain,
but let us do more than hope and
pray; let us work from this time ON
until the polls have closed on cleo
! siou dBy, .or you know that heaven
helps those who help themselves. "
Of the republican propensity to ring
the changes on our having become a
, world power through the Philippine
policy of this admi ,istraticn, Mr..
T Murphy said: 1--WE. became a
world power more than "A hundred
years ago, when we issued the Dec
laration of Independence, and as
long as we uphold that declaration
and stick by the constitution, we
will continue TO be a woild power.
THE American people will never
consent to policy that makes the
gattliag gun, and not the school
house the means OF ofenlightcnment." I"
Representative BABE ock, Chair
man Of the Republican Congress
sional committee, stopped in Wash
ington long enough on his way from
New York to Chicago, 10 throw a
fresh scare into the republicans, by
telling them that unless something
could be done to head off the rapid
growth of anti republican sentiment,
the next House was bound 10 be
democratic. The Information in
possession of the democratic com
unitiee shows that MIR. Babcock's
scare is the real thing. G. A. >.
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August Flower.