The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1902-03-21
HANNA ROOSEVELT
A PuEElinS Political Question
in Washington
CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT
Both are Working for Nomination by
Their Party.

Washington, March 17.-What are
the actual relations between Mr.. Roose-
velt and Senator Hanna? That is the
most puzzling political question of the
I t)ur in Washington. Mr.. Roosevelt
is now an avowed candidate for the
Presidential nomination of his party,
and Senator Hanna is generally be-
lieYed to be working secretly to build
up a following in order to get that
nomination himself. That would natu-
rally make the men antagOniStic to
each other. But within the last three
or four days the two men have held
two long secret conferences at the
White House, and the politicians are
Guessing at what it means.
Before Mr.. Roosevelt had chance to
shake hands with himself over his sue
cess in getting the kickers against his
Cuban policy in the House licked into
submission-the licking has been ad-
ministered, but they are still dickering
over the terms of surrender-he is
met by the announcement that there
is to be a similar revolt in the Senate,
led by Burrows, of Michigan, who
claims to have the pledges of eighteen
other Senators to stand by him in pre-
venting any legislation for Cuban re-
ciprocity by the Senate.
Representative Cochran, of Missouri,
made ringing speech in the House on
the policy of this government toward
the Beers and especially on Secretary
Hays refusal to ask for passports for
Rev. Hiram w. Thomas and his wife,
who were selected to distribute funds
contributed in Illinois for the suffering
Boer women and children. Of Mr.. Hays
action, Mr.. Cochran said: And now
it has come to pass, when the walls OF
the suffering wives and children of the
heroic Beers are borne to our ears by
levery gale provoking responsive chord
in the hearts of sympathetic people
throughout the world, and they are
willing to relieve the sufferings of these
unfortunates, that our Secretary OF
State discovers some rule of interna-
tional law that shuts the mouths OF
mercy and palsies the hand Of charity
democratic applause). Shame upoT
t1fs farce! Shame upon this hippo.
ldrOme by which the American republic
is yoked in the companiOnship of this
infamous power and made to seem tC
be a cOnservatOr of the brutal hand OF
TINS conquering army. Shame upon the
cowardice of the American people il
permitting it, and every day I say, How
long, o Lord, how lOng?" Demo
cratic applause.) The Democrats com
PEELED the Republicans of the House tC
vote for the resolution calling on Sec
retary Hay for an explanation of his
refusal to accede to such a humane and
reasonable request.
The Claytons seem to have stirred III
a lot of nasty gossip in Mexico City
First, it was Lieutenant Clayton, Jr.
u. s. A, who was military attache tC
the American embassy, who had to bC
brought away from there and assigned
to other duties because he had been eX-
PEELED from all the clubs and socially
ostracised for having declined to fight
a duel with a Mexican with whom he
had quarrel, and now it is Ambassa-
dor Clayton himself who is in hot Wa
ter, and who is likely to be recalled in
disgrace if he cannot fully disprOvt
the charges filed against him at the
.
with being associated with mining
company and with using his official
position in the interest of that com
pany, and against rival companies. The
charges are made by Senator Nelson, Of
Minnesota.
Having failed in its efforts to per
suade national banks not to take ad-
vantage of the profit offered by the
II recent prices of bonds to sell theiI
II bonds and reduce their circulation, the
administration has discontinued the
purchase of bonds, which was feature
of the last year of Secretary Cages ad-
ministration of the Treasury Depart
ment, for fear that trouble would be
caused by a continuance of the reduc-
ion of national bank circulation,
The House Democrats will hold a
caucus this week to consider the atti-
tude of the administration toward the
Beers, who are struggling for the lib
erty dear to all men, in South Africa
and to consider what course should be
followed by the Democrats in relation
thereto. Representative Randell, OF