Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-01-22
WASHINGTON. Ian. IL IlOI.
From our regular correspondent

tion-Gen. Wood Condemned Service
Receives Black Eye in the House.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. II, 1901.
The Democratic National Commit
tee met at the Shoreham on Tuesday
full house. The first hours were vast.
ed over the insignificant contest for
committeeman from this District. The
Hobbies were crowded with familiar
faces. There were Senator Clark,
slight of figure, keen-eyed, jocund,
volatile with the Western manner !;
Senator Jones, serious and dignified,
conceding at last that Bryan was not
elected; Senator Dubois and his COM
rade, ex-senator Charley Towne, both
buoyant and confident OF the future !;
McCarren, the new boss of Brooklyn,
tall and smooth-shaven received effus-
lively; Ex-Governor Peck, of Wisconsin,
who alluded to Chicago as the twenty
third ward of Milwaukee; Charles F.
Murphy, Tammany leader, NOUS
tached, solid, commanding Tillman,
shaggy, pugnacious, loquacious and OF
opinion that cit is high time the
South was conceded vice PRESIDENT;
Sulzer, brisk, laxative, chockful of
opinions; Bryan, belated and well
coined affectionately but not vocifer-
ously. The Committee selected ST.
Louis. July 9th, for the convention to
nominate President. In the lobby
Judge Parker was undeniably regarded
as the name to conjure with. Neither
Clevelands friends nor Bryan's object.
Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, Vice
President OF the Anti-lmperlalist
League, stirred up the crowds every
where by his appeals in behalf OF
General Miles for President.
When the committee adjourned
for refreshment, your correspondent
walked round the square to Lafayette
Theater and attended one of the most
remarkable meetings ever held in this
city-in behalf of international arbi-
tration, especially between England
and the United States Their flags
were hung side by side in the pro-
scenium arch. From the stage the
audience was very distinguished, in
GLIDING hundred members of the
Senate and House, and to the audience
the six famous publicists ranged in
rank back of the footlights seemed
even more remarkable. Mr.. Cleve-
land, who lost his little Ruth the other
day, was not present to preside, and
his place was taken by our foremost
diplomatist, John w. Foster. often en-
bassador to foreign countries and re-
Gently active in the settlement of the
Alaskan boundary. Slender, alert,
facile, he is at 70 the ideal presiding
officer: Thomas Nelson Page acted
as Secretary and vigorously read the
resolutions. There was little that was
strictly novel in any of the speeches,
but they we're impromptu and deeply
earnest. Cardinal Gibbons. tall, lean,
grave, conventional, made favorable
impression, the key OF his thought
being the necessity OF peace between
the great English speaking races.
General Miles WAS received with ap-
plause long continued, and his COM
manding voice and vigorous person
ality drove home his sentences. The
gem of his speech was that armies
should not be organized and armed for
the purpose OF limiting down weak
peoples and that arbitration had its
noblest service in protecting the feeble
against the powerful. The situation
was unique; the foremost soldier OF
America speaking for liberty and JUS
tice instead Of conquest and pleading
for peace against all warlike methods.
Edward Everett Hale, the venerable
author and chaplain of the Senate,
was an agreeable but almost q start
ling presence, unfamiliar to the people
Of Washington. Tall, giantesque, hir-
suite, explosive in speech, abrupt in
manner, with the mien, the gesture,
and the lusty calculations OF the prim-
tive man, he trumpteded forth his
denial that arbitration was a new in
vention. The Constitution adopted in
1887 was an arbitrament, providing a
Supreme Court; now we need worlds
| Supreme Court. J. M. Dickinson
spoke for the South most eloquently.
He was counsel for the American
boundary commissioners in the Alas
kan dispute. He said that the South
is more interested in arbitration than
any other people on earth, for it will
be fully 100 years before the South re-
covers from the destruction OF her
young manhood wrought by the Civil
War. DR.. Slverman spoke for the
Jews. and warned the audience against
any ruler "who proclaims peace and
permits thousands of his people to be
butchered. Andrew Carnegie, under.
sized, close-clipped, fire in his eye and
laugh on his face even when most in
earnest, warmed the audience into a
real Scotch conhagration OF enthusi-
asm. It was good to be there and
made one feel for moment as il the
world was progressing.
While the Democratic committee
and the International Congress were
in session within a block of the White
House, the Senate was stirred to its
depths mile off on Capitol Hill by a
resolution offered by Senator Bacon OF
Georgia advising the President to ne
gotiate a treaty with the Republic OF
Colombia looking to full and complete
compensation by the United States for
the loss of her sovereignty and prop.
erty rights in Panama. Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, denounced the reso.
luton and all reference to the matter
as being pernicious. but debate was
permitted. Something like consterna-
ton was caused among Republicans
by remark of Senator Hale that he
was in favor of compromising Colon.
bia.
Senator Scott, OF West Virginia,
strongly opposed the appointment of
General Wood to be MajorGeneral,
denouncing that officer in caustic Ian.
guage. He said "Condone his con.
duct, and the character and morale OF
the army will be gone"
The annual rebellion against the