Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-05-23

who are manipulating the scheme
to make millions By unloading the
Panama Canal upon the United
States are now working to create
public sentiment Ia favor of the
Panama Canal and against the Nj
caragu Canal, and it cannot be de-
MED that they are doing it cleverIy.
Some high-priced brain work 10 be-
ing put into articles given to the
press, under Washington date lines
and otherwise, in which advantage
is taken to point out everything
that can be called al obstacle to
the Nicaragua Canal. and specious
reasons are being given for changes
of opinion among Senators and
Representatives who favored that
route. And the most is made of
the opposition Of England aud its
right to oppose the construction Of
the Nicaragua Canal, except upon
conditions OF which il approves.
The last reason 10 also being made
use Of by the administration in an
indirect way. Tips are given BY
prominent officials to the correspon-
dents Of influential republican
papers, limiting at the possibility of
political complication with Eng
land, making it necessary to aban-
don the idea Of O Canal over the
Nicaragua route, and, Of course,
those hints are reflected more or
less in the matter sent from Wash-
ington. As yet, neither the Pana-
MA Press Agents, nor the admins
tration men venture to use names
publicly, when speaking of Sena.
tors and representatives who have
changed their minds and now favor
the purchase and completion of the
Panama Genial, but privately the
former are not so discreet.
The news of this change in the
part of the administration towards
the Nicaragua Canal, has reached
Nicaragua, and the Nicaraguan
minister to the United States, who
had gone home on leave of absence,
has hurried back to Washington to
do what he can for the interest Of
his government. He has notified
the State Department that his gov
eminent and that Of Costa RIGA,
regard the procotol they signed last
year with Secretary Hay, as COM
hitting the United States to the
Nicaragua route, and barring the
Panama route from consideration.
That position is o strong one, too,
but Nicaragua and Costa RIGA
haven't the pull with this admins
tration that England has, and it
may not help them any. II the
administration isn't careful, it will
make this Canal question one of
the leading issues of next years
Congressional Campaign, as there
are men in both the Senate and
House-they are not all democrats
either-who will do some talking
that will stir the country during
the next session Of Congress, il the
administration uses it's influence to
prevent Nicaragua Canal legislation,
as it did &C the last session. Then,
it succeeded in keeping many quiet
by putting up the plea that it would
be a violation of international
courtesy to stir the matter up while
England was considering the Hay
Pauncefote treaty. There will be
no such plea to use next winter.
Notwithstanding the failure of
the experiment of placing the
Federal patronage of the state of
South Carolina. ct the disposal Of
Senator McLaurin, with the hope
Of building mp white administra-
ton party in that state, there are
reasons for the belief that the ex-
pertinent is to be extended to other
Southern States. In fact, it is
known that men, who have former
ly been active in the democratic
party in several other Southern
states, have been sounded to ascer-
tain whether they would be willing
to assume the role that McLaurin
is playing in Sonth Carolina in
their respective states. The re.
sponses have not, SO far, been salts
factory, but the sounding is still
going on, and men will doubtless
be found; but outside of admins
tration circles, nobody really ex.
poets any serious inroads to be
made upon Southern democracy,
by these experiments, bat they will