The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.

" W ~SSSs"sO 'uoJVsisy VI uOt 1883
than ten in the next house That is
the way the democratic congressional
campaign committee figures it out,
and in doing the figuring allowance
has been made for every resso onabe
contingency. Republicans privately
admit that these figures are very
conservative, and that they have
almost given up hope of retaining
control Of the house, unless there is
q change in public sentiment amout.
ing almost to q stampede before
election day. Even the republican
congressional committee has not
been putting out any claim, except
in the most perfunctory way, of
republican majority in the house.
On the contrary, it's chairman, Rep
resentative Babcock, has been pre-.
pairing bis panty for defeat. Among
the contingencies allowed for by The
democratic committee are loss of
seats 10 New York and Pennsylvsnis.
which the party managers in those
states are confident of saving.
Mad az the republican leaders are
with the lust of power and conquest,
and 40 determined az they are to try
to turn this liberty loving republic
into q world couquering empire
founded on no higher principles than
that which dominated the dark ages
of youth-"might makes right"--
they do not dare to publicly proclaim
that purpose % plainly as Ex. Con.
gressman DUNCAN, of Ohio, once a
democrat, did in speech made in
Washington, in which he attempted
to justify Mr. Mckinley and bis i'm.
perialistic policy in the Philippines.
The following sentence from Mr.
Duugan's speech reveals the true
inwardness Of the republican policy,
which they have been 90 auxiously
trying to conceal by general talk
about bettering the condition Of the
poor natives and Improvement in
American commerce f: 'In my opin
ion, title 10 fixed only bt the survival
of the fittest. and that is why
America is going to rule the earth "
In other words, no peoples title to
their own country is good against
the greed and avarice of q stronger
country. Surely q majority of
Americans are not willing to enter
the Goth century championiug such .
document
Representative Livingston, of
Georgis. thus sums up the attitude
of the two parties towards trusts
"ln recent speech made by Senator
Beveridge. this statesman says that
the republican party. as we'll as the
democratic party. is opposed to
trusts, only the republican party
proposed to limit and regulate trusts,
while the democratic party would do
nothing. Now. this statement wss
made to Intelligent people If thjs
is 90, bow could Mark Hanna 70 to
Baltimore and get from the trusts of
that city alone $50. 900. while Bryan,
even had he tried, could not have
got 80 cents. Senator hanna has
said there are no trusts. lie knows
and 90 does every thinking man or
woman that this is false Here 10
evidence Of the trusts. This year it
takes SO per cent more wheat 10 buy
plow than it did Last year. 1t
takes 20 per cent moro corn and it
takes from 81 to 81 so . month more
to live now than it did . year ago.
Why is this 1t is because of the
trusts." &.
How desperate the republican
managers are getting may be judged
from their having ordered the party
press to try to make political capital
out of toe experience of Teddy in
Colorado
When the navy department reject
ed the bids for armor for warships,
put in by the armor trusts, and
announced that Secretary Long would
exercise the authority conferred upon
him by congress to establish an
armor making plant, if better bids
were not submitted, it was predict
ed that the srmor trusts would get
the contracts, if they made a salts.
factory contribution to the republican
campaign fund That prediction is
10 fair way to be verified Secre
tary Long has been dickering with
the agents OF the trusts, and it is off
cialy announced that he expects to
make q satisfactory contract with
them for the armor. which doubtless
means that Hanna has already made
satisfactory arrangement with them
for campaign contributions
The Chinese minister 10 the United