The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-09-06
Mckinley and Cabinet
Are Holding Daily Sessions to Wrestle
With the Foreign Problems.

are in Washington, have been Civ
ing continuous diplomatic per-
formance this week. They have
been holding daily sessions--one
day they held two sessions-to
wrestle with communications from
the imperial partners with whom
Mr.. Mckinley has been doing bust.
ness in China. The contents OF
those communications have not
been made public, hut The semi.of
fetal news disseminators say they
relate to united agreement for a
settlement of questions relating to
China, and that the Emperor of
Germany now stands obstinately
in the way Of an immediate settle
ment. That may or may not be
true, but there are reasons for the
belief that the Emperor of Ger
many, or anybody else, who pre-
vents an agreement that would
necessitate a show down of the ad-
ministration's Chinese hand until
after the Presidential election
would be regarded by Mr. McKin-
ley as an almighty good find.
Washington is entirely in the
dark as to what is going on in and
Pekin, as no kilograms have come
through that were not more than a
week old when received and they
have contained little that was i'm
POI tant.
History teaches that it is the
usual thing for nations to do what
their rulers had declared they
would not do. Perhaps that is
why so little attention has been
given to the declarations of the
diplomats of the allied nations as
to the intentions of their respective
governments in China. This gov
ernment was first to declare that it
wanted no Chinese territory and
that it was opposed to any other
nation taking any; that was follow.
ed by similar declarations from
Germany and Japan, and now Rus.
sia has come forward to say that it
wants nothing but peace and the
preservation of the Chinese en-
pire, and that 1t stands ready to
give up the Chinese territory it re-
Gently seized to restore order
These have heen official statements
publicly made. England is said to
agree with them, although no of.
fetal statement to that effect has
been made public and there are
some rumors to the contrary. 1t
must be apparent to the observant
that if those five governments real
ly held the sentiments expressed
by them, there would be no further
talk about general land grab in
China; they have the power to
compel settlement on the lines
they wish. That there is contin.
ued talk is why it is believed that
these official utterances have mere
ly been made for effect-to keep
the world in the dark while the
plans for cutting up China are per-
fected.
Representative Davey, of La :,
was at democratic Congressional
headquarters this week. He said
of the republican claim of La. Con-
gressional districts: "The Repub-
lican National Committee were
told sometime ago that the second
and third districts would be repub-
lican; also the sixth. do not uu-
derstand why all the La districts
were not included in the claim.
Personally, I have no doubt about
all six of the La. democrats being
reelected. The republicans in La.
are united this year, but that will
not win them any Congressional
seats"
The Democratic Campaign Text
Book is ready for distribution, 1t
is very warm book of fifty chap
ters, seventeen of which are d. >.vot-
ed to Imperialism. One chapter is
devoted to evidence showing the
existence of a secret alliance be-
tween the Mckinley administra-
tion and Great Britain; the Porto
Rican legislation, which is describ-
ed as imperialism applied" gets
several chapters and one of the
longest chapters is given up to re-
publican stealing in Cuba. Other
chapters show the attitude of the
republican party toward trusts; (;
railroad determinations in favor of
trusts, the proposed ship subsidy
job, etc. The book is a corker.
| Representative Hay, of Va, who
is recognized as one of the best
friends of the National Guard in
Congress, says in signed state