The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-24
FRoM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our O.Or Correspondent.

ETOW OHF OtOT correspondent.
WASHINGTON. D. c., April %. 1901.
While Southern men here appreciate
President McKiniey's selection of gold
Democrats rather than disreputable
negroes for high office in certain South
ern States, they realize fully that the
appointments are made chiefly in the
hope OF splitting the Democracy open
ind organizing white maD's Republi-
can party in the South, and in the
ultimate hope of carrying some South
ern States. Unfortunately for the
President, however, he is likely to find,
80 it is said, that the job of creating q
decent Republican, annex iu the South
will not be made the easier by asso-
ciating change of political allegiance
with cash consideration in the shape
of official salary. A respectable whito
Republican party in the South must be
based on convictions, not OH bribery.
With the bribe openly displayed, it
will be useless for the hrihed &c ttaa!!kk
about the workings of bis conscience.
The venal may be attracted by til.
spoils, but their very venality will be a
warning, and men who have respect
for Themselves, ard, therefore, iniiu-
ence with the people, will be slow to
challenge the suspicion Of improper
motives by joining tho organization
The South may some day be split by
the wedge of Office, but it is thought
more than likely that several wedges
will be crushed in the crack before
anything much is accomplished.
The information should be circulated
among the Southern negroes that there
is no demand at all for laborers in Lii
IBERIA and that all emigration societies
designed 10 ship negroes to that coun-
try are little better than catch penny
cancerns. AS many of the emigrants
as can find money to pay their passage
back have returned to this country,
showing evidences 0f great hardship
and suffering and telling tales that
ought to discourage the movement.
The method of the societies are to send
plausible agents among the colored
people of tho South with brilliantly
illuminated posters and pamphlets
representing Liberia to be a land Of
milk and honey, like Canaan of the
1sraelites. and selling tickets to those
who wish to go. The tickets are paid
for on the installment plan, so much q
month, but if the full price is not paid
within certain time all previous pay
ments are forfeited. In this way the
companies have made profitable en-
terprise of tho Librrian cause, because
not ono in tenDf their subscribers ever
succeeds in complying with the condi-
tions Of the contract. A man with
515, 900 or 100000 can make n fortune
in the coffee trade there but labor ia q
drug in the market
In one case at least, the whirligig Of
time has brought in its revenges with
speed and certainty. When the reciD-
rOclty treaty between the United States
and Nicarauga, negotiated by MIR. Kas-
son, was submitted to the Senate last
winter, CalifOrnians raised such howl
that it was laid aside with the other
documents Of the kind. Nicaragua
then set to work and made an almost
exactly similar treaty with Chile, and
now CallfOrnians are protesting bitter
ly to- the State Department at their
loss OF trade to both countries. 1t 40
happens that the United States has no
trade With Nicaragua of recent date,
and under the old treaty there ie no
by our government for equal rights
With Chile, inasmuch as We have not
seen fit to enter into o similar special
arrangement with Nicaragua.
California business men who are suf-
fering severely in their trade with
Nicaragua, owing to the favorable rates
given TO chilean merchants under the
there seems no way of satisfying them,
save by again extending to the Senate
the opportunity to ratify the treaty
already referred to as between the
United States and Nicaragua, which
Will cure the Discrimination cOmplain-
ed of.
The looting of consular and dipi,
natlc posts, Dy the removal of trained
men in favor of Republican political
appointees, continues, despite Presi-
dent McKinley's intimatlOn that no
manf would be removed except for
cause The latest ia the dismissal of
the Secretary. OF our legation to Vienna
und tES appointment thereto of Chand-
Ter Hale. SON of Senator Hale of Maine.
ihe present occupant, MIR. Herdliska,
Is an Intelligent and capable officer,
aud has given full satisfaction to ali
concerned since his original appoint
lnent. in 1897. Americans who have
had business with him speak of his
zeal. efficlency and courtesy in the
most cordial manner On the books of
the Department., Mr.. Herdliska in credi-
ted to tho District of Columbia, but
came originally from Dayton, where
his father is attached to the Soldiers
Home. Senator Foraker was his ..in-
fiuence," but he was personally known
to Judge Day. who was at that tin Q
Ass,s liant Secretary of State and the
excuse for Senator Hale's claiming the
office as belonging to his State, as the
Senators from Connecticut claimed the
cpnsnlate at Glanch::::::s.: when they de-
manded the removal of Consul Sawtcr.
He simply wishes to find an agreeable
placa for hia ann md haa nIIuntnd