The Opelousas courier., 1900-10-06
Washington, ID. g., News.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Oct. |, 1900

mere VIII D0 - DomOCFHJlC ma
jority of not less than ten in the
next House. That is tho Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign
Committee figures it out, and in
doing the figuring allowance has
been made for every reasonable
contingency. Republicans private
ly admit that these figures are very
conservative, and that they have
almost gwen up hope in public sen
timent amounting almost to a STAN
pede before election day. Even the
Republican Congressional Comittee
has not been putting out any claim,
except in the most perfunctory way,
of Republican majority in the
House. On the contrary, it's chair
man, Representative Babcock, has
been preparing his party for de-
feat. Among the contingencies al
lowed for by the Democratic Com
mittee are loss of seats in New
York and Pennsylvania, which the
party managers in those States are
c0nndent OF saving. ....
Mad as the Republican leaders
are with the lust of power and
conquest, and as determined as
they are to try to turn this liberty
loving republic into % world con-
qucring empire, founded Oh no
higher principles than that which
dominated tho dark ages of youth
"might makes right"-they do not
dare to publicly proclaim that pur-
pose as plainly as ex-Congressman
DUNCAN, of Ohio, once Democrat,
did in d speech made in Washing
ton, in which he attempted to jnsti-
fly Mr.. Mckinley and his imperial
istic policy in the Philippines. The
following sentence from Mr.. Dun
gan's speech reveals the true in
wardness of the Republican policy,
which they have been so anxiously
trying to conceal by general talk
about bettering the condition Of the
poor natives and improvement in
American commerce: EEIn my opin-
ion, the title is fixed only by the
survival of the fittest, and that is
why America is going to rule the
earth" In other words, no peoples
title to their country is good
against the greed and avarice of a
stronger country. Surely q major
ity of Americans are not willing to
enter the Goth century championing
such a document.
Representative Livingston, of
Georgia, thus sums up the attitude
of the two parties towards the
trusts :"In a recent speech made by
Senator Beverage, this statesman
says that the Republican party, as
we'll as the Democratic party, is
opposed to trusts, only the Repub-
lican party proposed to limit and
regulate trusts, while the Demo
cratic party would do nothing.
Now, this statement was made to
intelligent people. If this is so,
how could Mark Hanna go to Bal
timore and get from the trusts of
that city alone $4,000, while Bry-
an, even had he tried, could not
have got 80 cents. Senator Hanna
has said there are no trusts. He
knows and so does every thinking
man or woman that this is false.
Here is evidence of the trusts.
This year it takes 80 per cent more
wheat to buy plow than it did
last year. 1t takes 20 per cent
more corn and it takes from 81 to
to $3.50 month more to live now
than it did u year ago. Why is
this ? 1t is because OF the trusts
How desperate the Republican
managers are getting may bejudged
| from their having ordered the party
press to try to make political capi'
tai out of the experience of Teddy
in Colorado.
When the Navy Department re-
Eiected the bids for armor for war.
ships, put in by the armor trusts
and announced that Secretary Long
would exercise the authority con
ferred upon him by Congress to es
tablish an armor-making plant, il
better bids were not submitted, il
was predicted that the armor trusts
would get the contracts, if they
/ made a satisfactory contribution to
the Republican campaign fund
That prediction is in a fair way tc
be verified. Secretary Long has
been diekering with the agents o1
the trusts, and it is officially an
nounced that he expects to make a
satisfactory contract with them fol
the armor, which doubtless means
that Hanna has already made sat
isfactory arrangement with them
for campaign contributions.
! The Chinese Minister to the U
s. having succeeded so well in get
! ting the administration to act in
accordance with his private advice.
has gone step further and is now
giving the administration public
advice through the medium of news
paper interviews. He wants this
government to act as a mediator
between the powers and China, ant
says if it doesn't it may in the enc
4 find itself shut out of China com
merclally. That 'tchink" has go
nerve to thus threaten the man Wht
has been as friendly to him and his
government as Mr.. Mckinley ha'