Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-08-03
A FAIR FORECAST.
CHAIRMAN RICHARDSON TALKS
CONSERVATIVE

No Disposition to Indulge in RAINBOW Chas.
ing The Truth is Good Enough. and the
Prospects Cheering Investigation
Of Cuban Expenditures Held Up"-Ths
SteaIinss Of Nicely and acknowledgements
atives LittIefield and Mccall Sent Out to
Repair FeRces"-The China Situation.
From our Regular Correspon lent.
WASHINGTON, July 81, 1900.
Chairman Richardson, of the Dem
ocrstic Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, returned to the Washington
headquarters this week from trip to
New York, aud is now engaged upon
the speech he will make as chairman
of the committee to notify Col. Bryan
OF his nomination, at Indianapolis,
August 8. Mr.. Richardson reports
the Congressional campaign in New
York to be entirely satisfactory to the
Democrats, but says he will not 60 so
far at this time as to claim more than
fighting chance for the electoral
votes of the State. Information sent
to Democratic headquarters from the
Middle West is decidedly cheering.
Instead of claiming Illinois and Indi-
ana to be doubtful States, there is now
a disposition to put them in the GER
tain Democratic column, and many be-
lieve that the desertion of the Repub-
lican party by German voters who
cannot stand imperialism will also
give Wisconsin to the Democrats. H.
linois has "a electoral votes, Indiana
Is, and Wisconsin II, all of which Mr..
Mckinley received in '96. Democrats
around headquarters are not really
claiming as much as the news received
would justify them in doing, because
they do not wish to create the impress
sion that they are chasing rainbows.
Every day the probabilities increase
that the next House will be Demo
cratic and that Bryan and Stevenson
will be elected, if the Democrats
throughout the country keep up their
present aggressive attitude.
The statement previously made in
this paper, that the Senate commit
tee ordered to investigate receipts and
expenditures OF money in Cuba would
not begin work in time to make re.
port before the election, has been
practically confirmed by Senator Plat,
of Connecticut, chairman of the com.
mittee. Directly after Congress adj
journed Mr.. Plat said he would call
the committee together as soon as a
detailed statement of expenditures
and receipts, which the War and Post
Office Departments had been asked to
prepare as q basis for the committees
work, was ready. Now, he says that
the war and Post Office departments
are conducting Investigations and that
he will not call the committee to-
gether until they have finished and
furnished him copies of the result.
This is all twaddle. Mr.. Plat knows
that the party bosses have ordered the
Senatorial investigation held up until
there will be no danger of its affecting
the election and that everybody else
knows it, too.
Although carefully edited by Post.
master General Smith before it was
made public, the report of Fourth As
sistant Postmaster General Bristow on
the stealings Of Nicely and Rathbone.
and their gang, and other crookedness
connected with the Cuban postal ser
vice shows that a disgraceiul state of
affairs existed in Cuba, in which ras-
cally Republican officials sr wed the
Cubans that they could Guido the
Spanish officials In stealing and ex.
travsgant expenditure of public
money. Still, there are persons who
express surprise because Cubaus do
not recognize Americans to be supe
rior to them.
Representatives Mccall, of Massa-
chusetts, and Littlefield, of Maine,
both OF whom voted against their
party on the Porto Rican tariff bill,
are to be sent into the Middle West to
stump, their respective districts being
Overwhelmingly Republican, in order
to try to keep the large number of Re-
publicans in that section who thought
80 they did about the Porto Rico tariff
in line for Mckinley.
Senator Jones, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
stopped in Washington on his way to
New York to hold q conference with a
number of prominent Democrats on
the conduct of the campaign, which is
to be at once started and pushed ag-
gressively until election day. He is
full of enthusiasm over the outlook,
which be says is far brighter than it
was at this time four years ago.
A message from Minister Conger,
dated July 4, has been received At the
State Department, saying that Pekin
was in state of anarchy and that the
foreigners who were all cooped up in
the British legation and under con-
slant fire, were bound to be killed il
help was not at once had. This mes
sage seems TO corroborate the opinion
OF those who think that the admins
tration has allowed itself to be COM
pletely hoodwinked by the Chinese
minister in Washington. Mr.. McKin.
ley has been negotiating with the gov.
eminent OF China and promising to
act as a mediator in it's behalf, when
according to Mr. Conger's dispatches.
there is no government of China, the
capital being in state of anarchy.
Some go so far rs to express the opin-
ion that the Chinese minister at
Washington, who still insists that the
foreign ministers OF Pekin are safe,
has never received line from Pekin
since the trouble began. Dem.
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