St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-03

$20,000,000 secured American sovereign
ty in the Philippines. Indeed, when 1t
promises independence to the Cubans 1t
gives ground FIR hope that eventually
the Fillpinos will be treated in the same
way.
Mr.. Carnegie main hope in the mat
ter is Mr.. Mckinley, who has shown
remarkable insight and facultyfor grasp
ing at once the true bearing OF public
affairs, and who if reelected, is not likely
to be so much uider the control OF the
party leaders as ne has been. The Dem
ocratic platform while right in many OF
It's planks, is fatally wrong in its attl-
tude toward the Supreme court, and its
doctrine, if carried out in practice,
would be subver,ive of law and order;
while an income tax, which the DEM
ocrat1c platform recommends, would in
augurate an absolutely un-Amerlcan
espionage over tie private affairs of the
citizens. On thes grounds Mr.. Carnegie
concludes that even if he adhered to his
1mperlalistic policy the reelection Of Mr..
Mckinley is preferable to electing Mr..
Bryan and putting it into his power to
effect his radical plans.
| Senator Hanna to Work the Western
states.
Chairman Hanna spent last week in
New York city and leaves for Chicago
this week. Unless the political situation
here changes radically in the next five
weeks Senator Hanna will remain in
Chicago and give his thought chiefly to
tive other states-Missouri, Minnesota.
o,1I Tod, ;OI,
need looking after more than New York
does. Nor that Senator Hanna believes
that the Republicans can afford to let up
tor an instant in New York, but that
everything that can be done to carry
New York for Mckinley and Roosevelt
will be done by Senator Platt and State
Chairman Benjamin B. Odell Senator
Hanna is ready to leave now because he
believes the Empire State is safe in the
hands of these men.
The speedy settlement of the strike,
which is assured now, makes it easier for
Senator Hanna to give his attention
hencetorth to the middle west. Senator
Hanna has done everything he could to
bring about settlement of the strike,
and it is pretty certain that if his efforts
had not been successful he would pro-
long his stay in this city. Mr.. Hanna
was not alone in trying to restore nor
NAL conditions in the anthracite regions.
Many other influential men, having the
continuance of prosperity at heart have
seconded him, and the settlement of the
strike is now in their hands. Altogether
Senator Hanna leaves with with the
prospect of Republican success in the
east distinctly brighter thanit was when
he arrived here on Monday.
The reports from Illinois during the
past week have caused some worry at
Republican headquarters. Organism has
been gaining ground in Cook County
and in the cities generally in that state.
The Republicans realize that hard fight
is before them there to check the drift
away from the cause of sound money
and prosperity. Senator Hanna and the
Republican national committee are max
ing determined fight to wrest Missouri
away from the Democrats, and so far
the reports from that state have been en-
couraging. Indiana is very doubtful
state. In Minnesota a factional fight
amUng tue Republicans is rnuangrT7Ig
portions of Michigan the voters seem to
be carried away with the anti-imperial-
list issue New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
Missouri and Kansas,
The news received at republican ma
tional headquarters from Missouri con-
tinues uniformly favorable and encourage
ing. Letters arrive daily from we'll
posted observers in all parts Of the state,
predicting republican success. One letter.
from the southeastern corner of the
state, says that all the silver republicans
have come back aud the gold democrats
still stick to Mckinley. There have been
no assertions, and the prospects of the
republican candidates for governor and
congress are bright.
From the Fifth Congressional district,
on the Kansas border, the news is en-
couraging. AS in the Thirteenth Dis
trict, the gold democrats are returning,
while the democrats are reported divided,
having two legislative tickets in the field.
Similar reports come from the Fourth
District, both from Populistic ranks as
well as from democratic ranks, and the
republicans hope to gain congressman
there. Letters from the First, -Four.
tenth and Fifteenth districts also record
popular drift toward the republicans.
In the Fifteenth the prospects are good
for the election of republican to con-
gress, and in Jasper county there has
been landslide Of prominent democrats
to the republicans.
The reports from Kansas are without
exception indicative of republican sue
cess.
Croker will Pay the Freight,
The national democratic committee
shocked Mr.. Croker the other day by
asking him to provide for the stumping
tour of Bourke Cochran. He shocked
the committee. 1t happened this way:
MIR. Cochran consented to tour tour
states. New York, Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky, for the sake of the party and
the principles. The committee was glad.
But the orator asked for two private
cars, one for himself, the other for the
servants. There was no money for this.
So the national committee, which is not
up on local history, bethought itself of
its rich man, Croker, and to Croker it
hurried with request that he provide a
suite of palace cars for the Hon. Bourke
Cochran.
WHAT" he asked. They repeated.
What I" He arose, and he was plainly
angry. Palace cars! Two! Two palace
cars for who? Bourke Cochran? No, sir.
I'll pay for one freight car-one red,
damn freight. and no more. See ?"
Then smile became paramount and