The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-24
Mark Hanna Seems to
II Have Gone Daft.
90ARE5 THE REPUBLICANS.
Whenever He Opens His Mouth
He Puts His Foot In It.


VeolA He,a Cube Regardless of Our
rssniss ana the Desires Of That
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Especial washington Letter.
The consensus OF public opinion even
Amcng the Republicans appears to be
mat when Mark Hanna opened bis
mouth u. Chicago he put his foot In It
Moro and worse than this, q great
oany people assert that the handling
- much Doodle hath made Mark mad.
- u plain everyday American he IL
y ~ooefy." Governor Mount OF indiana
oopDed On to him with both feet and
J fsszsd about him In as vicious man.
~ - any anarchist could do. While
am neither the legal. political nor spir.
NAL adviser OF Mark. I advise him to
eonslder the wisdom. Of the old saying.
LET the shoemaker stick to his last"
which being interpreted In this IN.
oeance means that Mark should stick
- HE barrel. Before he delivered his
Gseat historical oration at Chicago he
ahould bove remembered the Rev. Mr..
Burciard and been warned by his ex
, ample. When the votes are In and IL IA
esceytained that Bryan Is elected.
MARX win be the most thoroughly exc
4 erated man In America. Now he is
hing. emperor. car. tycoon, sultan and
everything else that Is high and
mighty: then there win be none 80 poor
- to do him reverence.
ns Cst 0st os the Das.
Senator Beveridge let the cat ont of
the bag In his Chicago speech. That
e6ort Is Imperialism pure and simple.
The young senator from the Wabash
contends that only one mistake has
ceen made by us In all this Spanish
CubAn-Philippine business, and that
was the resolution solemnly passed by
congress and solemnly signed by the
president proclaiming to the world that
the Cubans are and Of right ought to
DO free and Independent" and declar.
INC that we were not interfering In the
bpanSh-C Cuban imbroglIo for purposes
of land grabbing or territorial aggran.
dizement- He assevt rates that we
ought to hold Cuba forever, nolens vo-
lens. wonder II he thinks that con-
gress passed that resolution and the
president signed It just for amuse-
rnent! or was 1t done to accomplish
some great purpose? The latter Is the
uuth. 1t was passed for two reasons,
both good and sufficient TO sa,is.
~ our own consciences; second. to set
ourselves right I'm the eyes of other na-
tions, to secure their good opinion. to
allay their fears, to remove the suspi.
cSon that We were starting on q career
OF universal conquest. And that SOL
emn resolution accomplished all those
ends. We never did q wiser thing. and
10 resolution Of congress ever wrought
more good to this great republic. Now,
u Senator Beveridge and men of his ilk
had their way we would repudiate that
UsoIution, act with Punlc faith toward
the world In general, the Cubans In
particular. and write ourselves down In
history as set Of conscienceiess liars.
Senator Beveridge appears to be inca
pable OF recognizing the fact that any
body has any conscience. He advocat-
cd In his speech In the senate line of
policy IN the Philippines which Is prop
eriy denominated rs wholesale grand
larceny. When the Republican cam
paign committee burned 100000 copies
Of that speech because It. was afraid to
send them out. he ought to have learn
ed that there are still people I'm this
country who possess and cherish a
sense Of right. That was q severe Jolt
and would have taught q valuable les
son to almost anybody except Bever-
hge. Like Ephralm OF old. he appears
- be Joined to his idols and Is abso-
lufcly incorrigible.
A Brainy Democrat.
Among the young Democrats In the
house OF representatives there Is no
finer figure than the Hon. Thomas Nj.
Jett OF Illinois. He Is n splendid look
Ing young man, has bushels OF brains,
lots OF grit and IL as faithful to his con.
~NPes0h VI ot-s Us io tht hctuic tO tuc
pole. His manners are pleasant. and
he In what Is usually called good
mixer. He Is leading member Of the
great committee on military affairs.
which ut the present juncture Is one Of
the most important committees In the
house. TON" Jett, as he Is UNIVERSAL
ly named among MS aequaintances. Is
recognized rs a growing man In con-
gress. II the people OF his district keep
him there. he will establish lasting
reputation for himself.
In the debate on the army appropria-
tlon bill he made an extraordinarily
strong speech and tooS strong ground
against wholesale appointments and
retirements In the arny-that is. ap-
pointments to higher grade for the
purpose OF retiring them OIL n higher