The aegis & intelligencer., 1900-11-16

From our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, November 12-Dcmocratic
Senators and Representatives who have been in
Washington since the election nave not been
disposed to talk for publication on the result,
not because they are discouraged or that they
consider the future of the Democratic party in
| either doubt or danger, but on the general
| principle that it is always good policy for the
defeated party to let the other fellows do the
talking for awhile, just as they will have Ia do
the egislatng and misunderstanding of the coun-
try for awhile. For the same reason they think
the talk about reorganizing the Democratic
party, which has been indulged in to II limited
extent since the election, premature at this
time. The best policy for the Democrats to
adopt for while is to keep a careful watch on
the Republicans, show up every hlunder they
make, and do a whole lot of thinking. 1t will
be two years before there is another Congress
sonal election, and until then, the Democrat
will have no opportunity to get control of any
branch of the National Government. The
gentlemen who are talking about holding
conventions. etc, for Il reorganization of the
party at this time ut doubtless perfectly honest
and wholly unselfish in their wishes for the
future welfare of the party. but ii they persist
they will surely be suspected by many of being
more anxious to get the party reins in their
hands than of really helping the purity. Party
reorganiZations, so far as leaders and principles
are concerned, are things which generally take
care of themselves, as has been demonstrated
mere than once in the history of the Demo-
cratic party, and doubtless will be again.
Party upheavals which are genuine, usually
start from the bottom-the rank and file of any
party know how to change leaders when they
consider it desirable or necessary to do SO.
Secretary Root has gone to Cuba, and for two
reasons his going has caused much gossip in
Washington, where it is believed to he connect
ed with matters of Importance relating to the
future of Cuba. The first of t ese reasons is
that the Cuban Constitutional Convention is
now in session in Havana, and the second is
that this is considered the unhe ealthy season in
Cuba. Mr.. Roots health has not been robust
since he had that operation performed on him
| a month or two ago, and he would hardly have
chosen this season for his visit to Cuba, unless
| his going was important.
Just 800. 900 more of good American money
will be invested in the Philippines ii the Senate
| ratifies the treaty signed by Secretary Hay and
| tine Spanish Minis er, which binds this country
| to pay Spain that amount for three small islands
located just outside OF the boundaries set by
the treaty which ceded the Philippine Islands
/ to the United States.
The orders sent to General Macarthur, from
Washington, to take the field in person in the
new campaign that is to be waged against the
Philippine insurgents as soon as the rainy seal
| son ends over there shows that the admniStra-
| tion takes no serious stock in the statement
| constantly made during the campaign that the
| reelection of Mr.. Mckinley would be followed
| by the collapse of the revolution. That WAS
| good enough talk for campaign purposes, but
| now the orders are to fight it to finish. In
| ordering General Macarthur TO take the field
in person, General Otis, who was so generally
criticized for not doing so, is indirectly given
| side swipe.
| Gossip has mortgaged several Cabinet port
| folios in the second Mckinley administration.
| As told in Washington, these stories make Mr..
| WV Gibbs, of Philadelphia, who helped rIanna
| squeeze the rich men and corporations of that
| town, just at St. ohm Wanamaker did previous
| to his entrance of the Harrison Cabi-
/ net, the holder of one of these mortgages, and
| some go so far as to say that Mr.. Gibbs is to
| become Secretary of the Treasury. If he does,
| it will be an awful throw down for Secretary
Gage, who had understood that he was TO re-
main at the head of the Treasury, or he would
not have fathered those freak interviews given
| out during the campaign to alarm the business
| interests of the country.
| 1t is now practically admitted by Repuhl-
| cans that the talk previous to the election of Il
| repeal of the war taxes was nothing more thar
a campaign bluff. A call for the Ways and
| Means Committee of the House to meet on the
Goth instant has been issued. The bill the conf
mittee will prepare will merely revise the war
| taxes-some campaign obligations are TO be
| paid that way-and will not repeal all of them.
| The Republicans know very well that with the
| total appropriated by the last session of Con-
gress of 1914, 100000 and the probability that
l Il larger sum will be appropriated by the com
ing session, all or nearly all of the money pro-
duced by the war taxes will be needed. The
bill prepared by the committee will probably
reduce the war taxes in the interests offavurcd
classes, something like 81 200. 900 or 900 ,OO0-
600 Il year, but the bulk of those taxes will
| have to be paid by the people for an indefinite
period.
The royalist Republicans, If such term be
| allowable, are already talking about making
Mr.. Mckinley's second Inauguration an event
of regal splendor and magniticence. Mr.. L. p.
Michener, of Indiana, who practices law in
| Washington in partnership with General W.
| W. Dudley, is franker than many of them. He
said in public interview about the inaugural
ton: I'VE should strive to excel in the glory
of that day, the splendor of the jubilee of Eng
lands Queen" 4.