Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-05-02

Mr. McKinley's record breaking
Presidential free excursion left
Washington today on its little jaunt
OF 1O, 5S1 miles. The special train
consists Of seven Pullman Gers, each
selected 40 the most elegant Of its
kind. The trip will cost thousands
Of dollars, but it 10 don btfal whether
q cent OF it will come out OF the
pocket Of any one OF the 80 pas.
sengers. Secretary Cortelyou was
thoroughly alive to the advertising
possibilities Of the trip, when he
arranged that more than one fourth
Of the passengers should be news
paper men, and he took care that
there should be artists among them.
Also, that q good photographer
should be on the train, as we'll as
telegraph operators. There are
nine ladies to keep Mrs. Mckinley
company, and DR.. Rixey 10 on
hand to look after her health, and
that Of the rest of the party.
The members Of that Cuban
Committee left Washington hug.
ging the delusion that Mr.. Nc.
Kinley's promise to appoint Com
missioners to negotiate q recipro-
city treaty with Cuba, as soon as
Cuba had q government to negoti-
ate with, meant something tangi-
BILE. Unless the Senate should
treat it better than it did the whole
bunch Of reciprocity treaties nego.
tiated by the present administra-
ton, the actual negotiation of such
treaty would be meaningless.
Still, the promise sent the Cubans
home in q good humor and that
was doubtless ell it was intended
to do. The Cubans on their side
promised to do their best to get the
Constitutional convention to &C.
cept the Plat amendment. 1t
will soon be apparent whether their
promise was worth any more than
Mr.. McKinley's.
Ii the movement that has been
started in Washington to make the
daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton an auxiliary to the machine
that is booming Senator Fairbanks
of Indiana, for the republican Pres
idential nomination in 1904 lie sue
cessful, the d. A. R., will probably
have a split on it's hands and will
certainly suffer in the esteem of
those Who are on principle opposed
to the participation in partisan
politics OF such organizations.
This movement, which ia under
stood to have been started With the
knowledge Of Mrs. Fairbanks.
President General of the d. A. R.,
and wife Of the Senator, is to have
the ID. A. R.. National Board I'M
officially request every chapter in
the country to use the influence of
its members with fathers, sons,
husbands and friends, to secure
support for the Fairbanks boom.
1t was because they wish to keep
the movement secret that the Ma.
tional Board Of the d. A. r., re.
Gently decided that the press should
be rigidly excluded, not only from
the Board meetings, but from
future National Congresses of the
organization. That decision pro-
voked such adverse criticism that
the Board has since announced
that it had been temporarily
abandoned. 1t has from tie organi.
cation been plain that the d. A.
H., had nothing to do with partisan
politics, but the same claim has
been made for organizations Of
men, which are constantly dabbli1g
in partisanship.
Nothing but praise 10 heard of
the action of Mr.. Mckinley, taken
in response to q written request of
senator Daniel, Of Va in ordering
that the Washington relics, which
have for some years been on exhi.
bition in the National Muesum,
be restored to their proper owner,
Gen. q. W. O. Lee, Of Va, o son