The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-06
G0RMAN IS
ENCOURAGED
Mr.. Olney's New York Speech on
Panama Affairs Gives Him
Renewed Hope.
Will Again Seek to Line Up Demo.
Gratis Against the Admins
tration Policy.
New York Sun Special Service.


Chicago, Jan. 6.-Walter Wellman,
in a Washington special to the Rec
ord-Herald. says:
Eahoes Of Nj onday nights dinner in
New York WeTe heard at the national
capitol yesterday. For one thing, the
members o: the minority in congress
are taking heart as to the coming
campaign and are making themselves
believe that the old party is in truth
getting 'iogether': and preparing for
Il bs,ule royal against President
Roosevelt. For another thing, there
is renewed interest in the canal
question and greater disposition on
the part of the democratic senators
to fight the treaty as the best way of
hitting the president, who is prac
ticaliy certain to be their antagonist
at the polls next fall.
To what extent the democratic sem
ators will carry their war upon the
treaty cannot us yet be told. They
do not know themselves. They are
talking the matter over and ere long
another caucus VII be held in the
hope of lining: UP two-thirds in ia
vor Of organized party opposition Mr..
German adheres to his belief that the
! best iWay'sto fight Mr.. Roosevelt is to
| fight the treaty; and he declines to
admit, us some other democratic SEN
ators do in private. that the pres
| dents message Of Monday has swept
! the, ground ont from under the feet
| of critics Of the administration pol
ley and action in the isthmus. Mr..
| German tells all his democratic
friends that successful fight can yet
be made. but quite a number of demo-
cratic senators ni'e not in favor of
this as a party program, and will
refuse to abide by the caucus action
in the event that Mr.. Gorman.ca can in
duca tWo-thirds Of the senate minority
to stand with hlm. .t
Little Doubt of Ratification.
There is very little doubt of the ulti-
| mate ratification of the treaty, tho
long and provoking delay, during
which almost any sort of trouble may
| break out .on the, isthmus, is to be
looked for. President Roosevelt and
| his advisers do not fear for the ulti-
mate, fate Of the convention. If worst
comes to worst they can put thru
canal legislation by joint resolution,
requiring only a majority vote in each
house. What they do fear is addi-
tional complications at Panama, due
to delay and opposition encourage
ment at. Washington.
! Eenator German and the other
democrats who are trying to tplay
politics. on the. canal treaty in the
hope tof embarrassing President
Roosevelt feel much encouraged by
the speeches made at the democratic
gathering in New York Monday night;
more particularly the declaration of
former Secretary Of State Olney that
| the course of the administration in
the istfmus has been "wanton."
| What David Bennett Hill said does
not count for so much, as Mr.. Hill is
not in: high favor with any party or
coterie4 Of the, democratic party at
| the present moment. But there is a
i tremendous respect in democratic
councils for Mr.. Olney, and, us a
diplomatist Of high reputation, his
words condemning -President5 Roose-
welt carry great weight With those
! argument.
German Is, Encouraged.x s,s,
The Maryland SENATOR whose 1aad-
ership of the minority wasHt1rea tened
by q former fiasco on this very Dues
ton, is again. plucking up courage.
He says he is still looking for light
He believes there are chapters Il. of
Panama history still unpublislred.ssHe
thinks Mr.. Roosevelt has rot been
| wholly frank. He thinks there are
damaging facts yet to come spltt, { and
he is trying to drag them out Ac-
cordingly; he introduced f3s<resolution
| GAZING upon the president for further
information and specifying with al
most impertinent 3particularitX.5 the
sort of information he wants, the
whole carrying by implication a sus-
picion that Mr.. Rooseve1t has up to
this moment been lacking in candor
and even in honesty. =" 81 . <Hgss4E
i 1T is well understood about the SEN
: ate chamber that Mr.. Gorman's activ-
Iity and persistency on this question
are prompted by two considerations:
.Fust-His inordinate hatred of
President Roosevelt personally, be-
cause Mr.: Roosevelt once dared to
question his veracity in a speech de-
tliyered at Baltimore, :.z
l. Second-His consuming desire to at
tach himself to some ISSUE" which
;, will further his ambition to be the
q democratic candidate for president.