Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-10-19
A DRUMMER'S STORY.
HE is COMPELLED TO DISSENT
BILE TO HOLD HIS JOB.

he will Vote Right. However, when Elcetio
/ Day Comes-Thousands of Others will d
Likewise Presidential and Cabinet Schem
ins-Compeled to Raise the Mask LittI
to Secure Larger Military Appropriation
Corporations Must Lend Active Service -Th
Supreme Court Again Subordinated b,
Party-The Armor Trust has Been Broueh
Up to the Feed Trough by Promises.
From onr Regular Correspon lent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. -, 1900.
Those whose votes cannot be bough,
must be coerced into voting for Nc
kinley. That is the motto under
which the Republican managers ar,
working now. How it works in som,
cases may be judged by what promi
nent dru MINER said to Washington
friend: "Ninetyiive per cent. Of tn,
commercial travellers in the Unite,
States and about Hooper cent. OF those
who were commercial travellers unit
the on-rush OF trusts drove them from
the road, will vote for BRYAN and Ste.
venson. This is in confidence, so fal
as my name is concerned. / have to
appear rs Mckinley man. am
one of the few Of the once large army
Of travelling statesmen whose services
were considered valuable enough TO be
retained by the assimilsting combine
that wiped out our old firm. And Iye
got wife and babies to support. ]
want to hold my job. S, / say NC.
kinlev' and appear to like it before
the trust spies. But wait until get
into the voting booth! Wait until
the thousands of 'has been CONNER.
cial travellers and the hundreds OF
those who still are, get behind the
curtain in the voting places Won't
We swat en- at the pollsw The secret
ballot makes it possible for the coer.
ciOn scheme to prove boomerang to
the Republican managers, and it may
do so. There are probably many who
are like this drummer.
Mr.. Mckinley has given himself up
almost entirely to politics since his re.
turn to Washington, JUS: rs he has
been doing in Canton, although the
newspaper men who 60 to the White
House have been told that he and the
members of the Cabinet have been
told that he and the members of the
Cabinet have been very busy studying
the French proposals as to China and
preparing reply thereto. That is all
moonshine. There was nothing in the
French proposals that required half
hours consideration as to what the re.
ply OF this country should be. Mr..
Mckinley and his advisers are, and
have been, studying up schemes to
save him from the defeat which he
breads, and fears because OF his knowl-
edge that he has done things to de.
serve it.
The McKinleyites are finding il
necessary to uncover their imperial
programme to the extent of preparing
the country for the establishment Of
militarism through legislation by the
Republican Congress for large in
crease in the standing army. The
War Department made public this
week the annual report of Major Gen.
ersl John r. Brooke, Commander OF
the Department Of the East, which
urges the increase OF the regular army
to "enable this nation to maintain the
position in which it now finds itself
placed" The idea is to inform the
people that the proposed increase in
the army is to meet the demands of
the general officers Of the army. 1t is
perfectly natural that army officers
should favor an increase of the army
1t means to them speedier promo
ton and more opportunities to win
glory; but the fact remains that the
real reason for increasing the army is
to maintain the imperialism into
which the country is being carried
by the plans OF the Mckinley admin.
istration.
Our army and navy, according to
official estimates for Congressional ap-
propriations, is going to cost 5000 ,OOO,-
600 for the next fiscal year. What
would the voters Of the era of Jeffer.
sonian simplicity have thought Of
spending that much money, in time OF
peace, on the war-making branches of
our government?
The coercion Republican tactics of
go are being repeated upon an even
more extensive scale this year. In
addition to the big trusts, banks and
corporations, the officers OF savings
banks, life insurance companies and
building and loan associations, are
having pressure put upon them not
only to use their personal influence to
make votes for Mckinley but to use
the influence of their companies, or
organizations. to compel their patrons
to vote for him.
The prediction that no case involv-
ing the cons:itutionality of the Re-
publican Porto Rican tariff bill would
be heard by the United States Su-
preme Court before election, was veri-
fed when Solicitor General Richards
asked for the advancement of the
case on the docket OF the court with
out even naming a date for the hear
ing of arguments. In asking that the
Nicely case be advanced and argued on
November 10, Solicitor General Rich.
ards made sure that no decision wou d
be handed down in that case before
election. Nicely is the Republics
postal official who stole Cuban funds
by wholesale and has so far not even
been sent to Cuba for trial.
Secretary Long had another confer.
ence this week with representatives OF
the armor trust, and afterwards it wa
stated by the semi.official news-mon.
gers that while an agreement had not
been reached as to the purchase OF ar.
NOR for the new warships, Secretary
Long Was satisfied that they would
get together and that be would not
have to establish government armor-
making plant. This is really laugh.
able and fools nobody. It is practical.
~ certain that the steel trust 10 going
to get those contracts at very near its
original price and that it fixed the
whole business up before it paid its
contribution to Hanna's campaign
fund. Mr.. Long is only going
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