El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-18
(BY D. OFF,
eecial Correspondence of the HERALD.

special Correspondence OF the HERALD
WASHINGTON, Aug 21.-With dai.
ly temperature running around the
100 mark-it's 101 this afternoon, off,
cially-in the shade and temperature
of plus just anything you please in the
sun, in conjunction with an at
mosphere like hot, wet towel in the
Turkish bath department of JOHN
Wanamaker's, Washin gton hasn't felt
disposed to bother discussing Bryan g
8 peeoh. Most of the men in the corrt-
doris are willing to accept Hanna's
terse dismisssl of it-thet he hoped the
democrats were as we'll satisfied with 1t
as he was. It Is voted weary weller
of Words" saying nothing in particular
at great length. Even the final prom
u noiamento won't stand analysis and
has lot of strings tied to it, say our
local neo.copperheads. AS for the rest
It 10 mai My pointless platitudes OF the
"virtue is its own reward" type, in
terspersed with praise of Lincoln. OF
course we all agree that Lincoln was .
great and good man, we republicans,
but to hear q democrat claiming him
as his model comes with jar.
At republican headquarters q man
says that Twelve always accused the
democrats of CAM ping On our old trails,
but this is the first time they've ever
owned up to it. Bryan claims his
party is the republican party as it used
to be and we're not republicans at all
we're something else" Which one
of his audience capped by retelling
the old story of two of my Kettle breth-
rem somehow it's always the Irish
that DO these ,hings) fighting each
other In q dark room. Each OF them
licked the other fellow out OF his boots,
then out Of the rest of his wardrobe,
captured the discarded raiment and
finally they emerged at the conclusion
each wearing the other mans clothes.
This ardent admiration OF Lincon
doesn't just please the southern men
here for some reason and it certainly
isn't hereditary. Brysn's father was
a Judge down In southern Illinois dur
the war and used to exhaust the diotion-
AIRY Of synonyms, finding epithets to
express his opinion Of the president. I
know q man who arrested the old gen.
tlenan during q general roundup of
oopperheads at one time, when ther e
were rumors of plot to burn Chi
cago.
However, Bryan will be president II
there's any trust in mascots. A Wash
ington man has sent him the left hind
foot of . rabbit, killed by red
cross-eyed darkey with q sassafras
stick in 3 country graveyard, during
the dark of the moon. He cent Q ditto.
ditto to Cleveland during his first pre-
sidential campaign and ascribes his
election thereto. 1 hope he regrets
IL.
OUR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
Secretary Hay is still giving heart
to-heart talks to the Chinese in way
which Is apparently more convincing
than the European style of diplomacy
Anyway, we get all the news first and
do all the business. The last "memo-
randum" In which we demand an i'm
mediate cessation of hostile attacks by
the imperial troops upon the legations
goes far beyond ordinary diplomatic
traditions in which "suggest" is violen,
language. But from all accounts that IL
the only way to produce An effect on the
mandarins-talkg good straight English
to them. In their little games, clubs are
always trumps.
wonder If there Is really a man In
the country today who would prefer to
have Bryan and . cabinet of BRASS
lunged populists in power in an emer
gene like this.
General Won Waldersee's selection
as commander of the allied forces ir
China Is assented to here on the same
basis as would the selection of anybody
else. AS sign Of unanimity among
the foreign nations, it is worth battle
for moral effect Some one has to be
chief, and as we'll Waldersee as an
other. His nomination pleases the
German military caste and
doesn't hurt anybody else except
the French. We should have prefer
rel Chaffee of course, because he has
seen more real, downright, give and