The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-20
MACRUM HOLDS PROOFS
DAAINING EVIDENCE OF SECRET
ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND.
HAY GOT HIS FINAL ORDERS IN LONDON
And They Came Not From Our Government but
fror Salisbury, the PRIMER Of Great
Britain. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty;
What il Means.

Washington, Feb. 19-(Special If
the Democratic leaders had planned a
policy for the Mckinley Administration
for the express purpose of leading it to
"a humiliating and disastrous defeat they
could not have contrived so we'll as Nc
kinley himself has managed that conclu-
sion.
Recent Developments accentuate the
fact of the secret alliance with Great
bntaln. The charges of Chas. T.. Ma
crum, .ate United States Consul at Pre-
dorie give sufficient proof of the under
standing with Great Britain to bring
about McKinley's impeachment We're
Congress anything but the Administra
tons subServient tool.
Senator Mason says this is the last
straw which will break the camels back.
1t IS whole beam which falls like the
arm of derrick across the back of the
Mckinley pro-Brtish Admins ration.
Mr.. Macrum charges that official mail
bearing the seal of the United States
was opened and held up by the British
censor at Durham and delayed in trans
stamped by the British censor in his
possession to prove this.
His dispatches to the State Department
were held up for weeks by the British
authorities.
On account of the secret understand
ing which the Administration has with
Great Britain, Mr.. Macrum states that
ke was called upon as American consul
to perform acts in behalf of Great Bri
tain at Pretoria, derogatory to his Amer
man manhood, distinctly injurious to AM
erican interests and in violation of the
principles of neutrality which should be
whe guide of his conduct. Because he
endeavOred to secure permission to return
nome and lay important facts in his pos
session before the State Department,
he was jockeyed ont of lin position by
Secretary Hay, who appointed his own
son to fill the place. Young Hay stop
ped in London ON his way to Pretoria
and there received his final instructions.
not from the American State Department.
but from Lord Salisbury in person. Mr..
Macrum did not discover that he had
been removed from his position until he
reached this country.
ATTACKS ON MACRUM.
For weeks Secretary Has has not only
countenanced but also instigated vicious
and Ebellous attacks upon Mr.. Macrum's
character and conduct. The cold fact is
that Mr.. Macrllm has conducted himself
with dignity, propriety and unusual re-
straint. He owed his appointment to the
fact that he and his people We're Ohioans
of prominence, high character and
standing. Congressman Tayler of Ohio.
who represents McKinley's district and
who Endorsed Macrum for appointment
vouches for his character.
Both President Mckinley and Sccre-
tary Hay have refused to see Mr.. Ma
crum or hear his statements. The Adj
ministration's only reply to his array of
facts, is sneering intimation that what
he says is unworthy of credence. 1t
dares neither to investigate nor deny,
much less resent the insults of Great
Britain. The thinking people of the
country will accept the facts at their true
value and the Administration stands con-
demned for having entered into a secret,
dishonorable and injurious alliance with
Great Britain.
HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY.
With it's usual stupidity the Admins
tratiOn did not seem to comprehend that
the HayPamcefote treaty in relation
to the Nicaragua Canal, was simply an
additional proof. of the people of the alli-
ance with Great Britain. The storm of
popular Indignation aroused by the
treaty has at last reached the Admins
tration and the doubt that the Senate
would confirm the treaty has grown SO
near certainty that the vote on The
matter is to be postponed indefinitely. 1T
looks as though the treaty Were dead.
Think of asking the people of the United
States to spend S150,00O,OOO to build a