El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-13
WASHINGTON LETTER
Mckinley Is Anxious To Win the
Support OF Conservative Demo
Gratis OF the South Whose Al
Ieqiance To the Democratic Par
~ Is Most Strange and UnaC-
counted For

neighborly political fences in the next
year.
Even democracy will learn some
thing from two defeats and Bryan with
his anti-crowd will probably have to
wander off into the sloughs of despond
and populism, where they really be-
long.
This will lead to realignment OF IT
self but il will be only the beginning
Down south there is what is called
the old whig element which. barring
the color line would vote with the re-
pubIicans. Ii is for expansion, gold
and protective tariff and has no sym
patty whatever with popodem vag-
aries.
Such men as Morgan have nothing
in common with such as Tillman anC
Altgeld and Bryan. and it is an anon
ally by which they are associated lt
has long been Il dream OF Mckinney
and Reeds and many another politi-
clan to break up the solid south by en-
listing these progressive men OF Nor
gan's type in the party of progress.
To do this il is necessary to cut the
negro vote adrift. However as the
negroes are practically DISTINGUISHED
anyways Mckinley figures 1t
there is everything to gain and notl-
ing to lose by such course. Myself
thiak that there is large element Of
error in such reasoning. Whatever is
done 10 gain southern white votes is
likely 70 result in more than u cores
pouGiuS loss in the north.
Every republican president has tried
something of the sort from Grant
down Grant sent for Longstreet and
a lot of the men who We're the real
backbone of the rebellion and made
personal appeal to them to help him
in reconstruction. They appreciated his
view of the situation. but only Long
street joined in with him. Hayes
made d melancholy failure of SINH
lar attempt Possibly the time Is ripe
now: Mckinley thinks it !
The south has Away eEhs Dited
something pathetic in its adherence to
the democracy. Receiving all kicks
and no halfpence. it has never halted
in its allegiance. When democracy was
saturated with free trade ideas. the
south voted for it. The south had cot
ton and rice that it wanted Il little pro-
lection for; Louisiana wanted duty
on sugar: Texas was against free wool
but the democratic party north was
for free trade and the south obediently
wheeled into line.
The legitimate ground for division
into parties in this country is really
the old Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian
lines; Capitalization and decentraliZa-
ton.
The original. fundamental idea of the
democratic party was that all powers
not expressly vested in the general
government should he exercised by the
states estates rights'D: that of the
republican party. that all powers not
expressly vested in the states belong
ed to the general government.
But they have both wandered away.
especially the present demo-popo-sil-
yer-contraction outfit. which wants to
make the general government play
providence in every line OF human
endeavor
Next after politics-and n long way
after-as a subject of interest to
Washington is what the Chesapeake
Beach people mean TO do. \ powerful
company. headed by Il Colorado man.
bought a tract of land on salt water
in Chesapeake Bay and has been spend
ing millions of dollars on it in i'm
prCvementS-and we want to know
why. steam railroad connecting the
place with Baltimore and with Wash
ington has been constructed at enor-
nous expense; miles of board walk
built out over the water: big casino
no connection with the ten of dia-
monds is meant-erected. and a fine
race track laid out. Ii is all complete
and very symmetrical. but it is far in
advance of visible utility. The current
theory is that the men behind the en-
terprise are planning a big gambling
resort ON the lines of Saratoga-an
American Monte Carlo. They have
comprehensive city charter from the
state of Maryland and can do pretty
much what they want Anyhow we are
TO have winter racing this season.
something on the rough-and-tough or
de- apparently.
One OF our old institutions has gone
glimmering. Washington is very
quiet city with it's asphalt streets and
lack of traffic. but ~ jmmemorial GUS
tom We have been allowed to keep any
given square even quieter in cases OF
illness by the simple process of stretch
ing a bit of string with rags on it
across at each end. thereby barring of
the milk men and the ice wagons and
all other vehicular traffic. II was a
quaint practice and would have been
impossible anywhere else where ordi-
nary commercial conditions prevail.
But the privilege was abused so much
that the district commissioners have
now done away with it.
Biggest Civilized Community.
The census count which was COM
pleted Wednesday gives us 76.295.22O
population. thereby making us the
largest civilized nation in the world.
Russia has more people-llS.0OO.0O 900
but they can hardly be called civil
liZed for the most part. speak multi
tude of languages and are mere heuer
ogeneous collection of diverse tribes.
China and India are also possessed OF
more people. but they are not civilized
in the ordinary sense Of the word All
our people speak the same language