The Washington times., 1901-07-11
PREY FOR THE SPOILSMBN.
A New Movement on Foot in the
Republican Party.
Alleged Plans of Hanna. EIkinls,
ManIey. KereBs, and Others-Seere-
tary Hitchcock. Postmaster Gen
eraI Smith, and Evans Slated to 60

KEW YORK. Itiy-= 1a-aslse Evening
Post prints the following from its
Washington correspondent:
'One of the stauchest Republicans in
the United States. who enjoys a national
reputation for loyalty to country and
party and for yeracity and general per-
saTtai worth as a man. is your eOTre-
spondent's authority sor saying that
scheme is on foot for restoring TO power
the sort of a national partisan machine
which led in Grants time to the revolu-
ton of 1875. For several years the Repub-
hcans. while dominated by small cliGucs
within State boundaries. have kept ns-
tionally fairly independent Mr. Hanna's
work in procuring the nomination Of Nc
kinney in 1895. though characterized b.
machine methods. was. after all. only the
welI-planned campaign Of a single mana
ger in behalf Of a single candidate select
ed long before; and the denomination in
1900 was matter of course.
THE rev movement proposes a union
Of several managers. of whom Mr. Hanna
is chief. with EIkins. Manley, Kersns.
and two or three other members Of the
old guard as lieutenants. Recognizing the
futillty Of the talk about Mckinley and
a third term. these men wish so to organ
ize a party within a party as 10 ensure
control by them of the next candidate.
They have not yet selected him, but II
win be soon enough to do this when they
have 50 made their other arrangements
that whoever they select will be certain
to obey their bidding.
THE programme of these men starts
with the dismissal from Office of everyone
now in a position to dispense patronage
who refuses to use. or let them use. his
authority for their special ends. The
men they have marked for retirement are
Secretary Hitchcock Postmaster General
Smith. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Bristow, and Pension Commissioner
Evans, and for their places they have in
view politicians of the yielding sort. or
sympathiEers with their purpose. When
they h.sye obtained control of all the
Postofiice patronage. and looted the PEN
sion and Indian Bureaus and the Land
Office of all there is in them worth having
for political proyender, they viii be in a
position to look about for a candidate
To the man who viii consent to keep his
hands off and let them have their way
with patronage and money distribution
during the succeeding four years, they
will be able to offer the nomination, to-
gether with a support for election which
they believe Will prove invincible.
Watch the four officers have named
said the Republican above referred to-
Evans has had much good luck, the at
tack Gp0n him having been made prema-
turely and with almost brutal stupidity
by Sicl<les. who, as a Tammany pOliti-
clan, is, of course, outside OF the deal.
and was probably quite unconscious of
the kettle of fish he was overturning. [
am sorry to say 7 fear that the ring had
President McKinley's ear for while:
possibly they have 1t still 1 have been
a friend of Mckinleys all of my life. and
well as | know him. i cannot understand
his motives in letting these fellows ride
him. He has nothing personal TO gain, and
he must have read history 10 enough pur-
pose to realize that he would be making
the worst possible mistake for the party
in turning it over to another machine.
such as almost wrecked IL under Grant
/ hope that the Evans incident, with the
chorus of popular protest il has drawn
forth, Will turn his mind back 10 the right
course. If il has really been Inclined to
wander.
. But. as I said. watch the four victims
marked Tor slaughter. If the head of one
of them falls, you will know the reason
why. The number Of times the report has
portfolio and Hitchcock to return TO pri-
Vate IIfe and resume the care OF long
neglected. business interests" I" must have
struck every outside observer as remark
able. The reSuScitated machine will not
be satisfied till it has promoted" or de
noted every obstructiOnist out of harms
way. It doesn't care much which method
is employed, so long as the man goes
After that look out for the deluge OF
spOlls and corruption, and the slavery OF
the Republican party till it purchases its
redemption with another thrashing at the
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