The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-03
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our O,cn Correspondent.

IL Is stated on authority which leaves
little doubt of its accuracy that Secre-
cary Hay will not leave the Cabinet at
present, desirous as he may be to re-
turn to private life, but will remain
uHHi he mas submitted to the Senate o
treaty for the construction of the Mica
raguan Canal. At the same time, it is
known that Mr. Hay is by no means
si.IIsneG with the attitude of the .Ad-
mlnlstratlOn on number of points,
and would have reSigned during the
last campaign had it not been that he
feared that his retirement would have
Injured to the injury of the Republican
par At present he is seriously dis
gruntled by the light hearted way in
which Secretary Gage has embroiled
the United States with Russia, with
which country Mr.. Hay has strlven SO
hard to cultivate the warmest rela-
tions) and has then stepped from under
leaving it to the State Department. to
straighten out the tangle. At the same
time, Mr.. Hay is very desirous of hav-
ing his name linked with the building
OF the Nicaraguan Canal and has at
last reached baaie of agreement with
Great Britain which will he thinks be
acceptable to that country and will
also pass the scrutiny of the Senate.
This treaty, it is understood, does not
differ very materially from the amend
ed Senate treaty, except that it offers
reciprocity with Canada as quid pro
quo to Great Britain for surrenderipg
her alleged rights under the Clayton
Eulwer treaty.
The nerve of Republican spoils hun
ters has been illustrated within the
last few days by the insolence with
which Secretary Gage has been ad-
dressed by Senator Lodge and others
in reference to the removal of the
Democratic Secretary of the Board of
appraisers in New York and the az.
pointment of Mr.. Lodges private Sec
retary in his place. Ono OF Mr.. Lodges
colleagues recently wrote "peremp-
tory" letter to Secretary Gage ordering
him to make this change and Senator
Lodge himself called the Secretary ND
on the 'phone and demanded" to be
informed why the change had not been
made already. The letter and the tele-
phone message were insolent, going far
beyond the line of permissible haughti-
ness and contempt. Possibly if Sec
retary Cages column of vertebrae had
been thicker and more rigid he would
have resented the efronts. He shrunk
from the quarrel with either Senator,
for it is notorious that spoils- hunting
Senator thwarted will take mean and
vexatious revenges.
Mark Hanna's efforts to secure har-
mony in Ohio differing 30 radically
from his usual methods, have started
all sorts of conjectures as to whether
lie is already laying his wires to have
solidly harmonious State behind him
when tho National Convention names
candidate for the Presidency in 1908.
II he is not after this, Washington is at
loss to know what he is after. He is
not noted for being forgiving person,
yet he went out of his way to bury the
hatchet with his old enemy, Ex-Mayor
McKisson, and caused his Convention
to praise Senator Foraker up to the
skies and endorse him by name for re-
election. The only explanation that
Washington can think of is that Mr. |
Hanna intends to be the candidate of
OHIO in 1908, and to secure fair treat
ment at the hands of the Foraker fac
ton, consents to bury old animosities
and tie Foraker to his chariot by max
ing the senior Senator his candidate
for reelection. Without the help of
Hanna every one knows that Foraker
could not get back to the Senate. If
reelected with Hanna's aid common
decency will compel him to help send a
Hanna delegation to heconvention of
1904 and probably toig 60 there in person
to make nominating speech. If Mr..
Hanna really aspires to the Presiden-
cy, he Is certainly going at his campaign
in masterly fashion. A. Presidential
aspirant wants harmony and loyal sup
with enthusiasm and earnestness. If
Mr.. Hanna is not q candidate for the
Presidency, he is at least. in Washing
ton Opinion, acting very much like n
man who ls or who may wish to be, and
who is planning to have things we'll in
hand in anticipation of the fatefnl hour
Or not.
The investigating committee of the
National Civil Service Reform League
has been looking into the Maryland
census frauds and declares that they
are due entirely to the politics involv-
ed IN the selection of the supervisors
and enumerators, the former being
named by the congressman, were anxo
ious to help their ''influence,n and pass-
ed On this spirit to the enumerators,
whom they selected. The COMMITTEES
explains in detail the efforts to so pad
the returns from Congressman Mudd's
resentation in the Maryland Legisla-
ture, whereby Mr.. Mutld "would ac-
quire additional influence both in the
Republican caucus and in the final
vote, whereby United States Senator
should be chosen to succeed Senator