Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-03-29
rom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 90, 1901

w AShlNGION, MaTcn Il, 1871.
Mr.. Mckinley, Senator Hanna, an
Representatives Dick and Grosyeno
got their heads together this week an
arranged the programme that will b
carried ont months hence by the Re
publican State convention of Ohio
Of course, the Ohio Republicans vii
thank these gentlemen for having re
lieved them of all responsibility in tn
matter OF nominating State ticket
thus enabling them to turn the con
vention into Il ratification picnic. |
was decided that the entire Stat
ticket, except Lieutenant Governo
Caldwell, should be re-nominated
He will be turned down because hi
being the attorney for the Stat
Liquor Dealers Association has 90
him the enmity of the temperance ell
emeut. Senator Foraker was not
party to this White House conference
but he dropped in while it was goin,
on and asked whether the bosses in
tended to have the State conventio,
endorse him for reelection. They as
sured him that it was, knowing tina
the Republicans would have no vote,
to spare in Ohio this year and thai
Foraker had following enough to
make trouble il he was antagonized
Mr.. Foraker then left the Ohio big
four to complete their programme.
The deadlock Of the powers, in Pc
kin, on the question of the amount oil
indemnity that shall be demanded oil
China, is causing the administration
to realize that it has been placing too
much confidence in Ii Hung Chang
that crookedest of all Cinnamon,
Commissioner Rockhill has asked for
new instructions and the administra.
ton is in quandary as to what to
say to him.
The death of Hon. Mark S. Brewer,
member of the Civil Service Commits
sion, added to Mr.. McKinley's worries
by making another desirable vacancy
for him TO fill and for the Republican
bosses to fight over. So many of the
high-salaried position will be retained
by hold-overs that the fight is extra.
ordinarily bitter over everything in
sight. This has been shown by the
cat and dog scrspping over the United
States CommissiOnerships of the St.
Louis Exposition, and the office of
Commissioner of Patents, which Mr..
Duell has resigned.
In discussing another matter, in a
private conversation, a prominent
Senator incidentally said of an affair
that has been more or less talked
about in Washington-the admins
tration's favorite for the Republican
nomination in 1904: President Nc
Kinley is now serving his second and
last term, and everybody is casting
about to decide the all-important
question OF his successor. In the
Senate there are various gentlemen in
whose bonnets the bee is buzzing, but
it is evident that the Senator who at
present has the best chance of being
nominated is Fairbanks, of Indiana.
OF course, it is too early to attempt to
positively pick the winner, but OF the
Senatorial candidates Fairbanks seems
to be the coming man. He is gener-
ally regarded as the administration
candidate, just as his wife was when
she was 30 easily elected to the Office
of President of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Everybody
who has an axe to grind has an eye
on Fairbanks, and is trying to get
next to him."
An official of the State Department
said OF Senator Morgan, whom he had
just met, leaving the private office OF
Secretary Hay: "Senator Morgan ia
q wonderful man, and you can depend
upon it that he will have ground bro
ken for an American Isthmian canal
before he leaves the Senate. I have
heard some criticism of his constan t
talking for the canal, and this reminds
me of Western Senator who blurted
out in the cloak-room on the Repub-
lican side OF the chamber that Nor
gan is dinging on the canal again.
He was Immediately snapped up by
one OF the oldest men in the Senate,
also Republican, who said: Don't
you worry about Morgan dinging.
We laughed at him when he dinged
on Hawaii-and he got Hawaii. We
laughed mole when he dinged for
years on Cuba--and we have Just
about got Cuba. We are laughing
now because he is dinging on the ca
nal, and you can depend upon it we'll
have a canal. II there were more
dingers and fewer ringers in the Sen
ate We would accomplish more.'"
Senator Bacon started this week for
the Philippines, where lie intends to
personally acquaint himself with con-
ditions on the islands. The informa-
ton he obtains will be utilized by the
Democrats at the next session of Con-
gress As he Is . close observer and
hard to fool, he will be apt to find out
just how things are before he leaves
the islands.
The plan of having Rear Admiral
SIMPSONS profile on the medals that
are TO be prepared by the Navy De-
partment, in accordance with an act
of Congress, for presentation to the
men who participated in the battle OF
Santiago, has. it is thought, been
headed off. The storm raised by the
announcement of the plan frightened
its authors.
Secretary Root has found out that
the politicians have no monopoly in
the job of worrying him over army
appointments. More than five hun.
dred preachers are after the twenty
three new chsplaincies in the army,
which carry the rank of captain and q
salary Of $1,000 year and which can
be made sinecures if those who hold
the commissions are so disposed, an
they and their preacher friends are
making life a burden for Mr.. Root.
About every known sect and denomi.
nation is represented among those
five hundred hungry applicants, and
some OF the denominations are fight
ing each other as viciously as rival
factions of q political party ever did