The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1904-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
New ard Comments From Our Correspondent
at National Capital.

Assem- ing of the great nominating
conve lions, the political situation be-
come more interesting, and some of
the { pected changes are noticed.
Tb Cabinet Ministers who have
been ast and east are returning and
repor ng at the White House.
They ring good news and are satisf-
ed h the situation. Secretary
Hitcl ock is back from St. Louis; and
Secre y Cortelyou has returned from
a tol of inspection in and around
New rork. The question of who
shoul oe of the republican ticket for
vice esident will be left for the
Chic. , convention to determine. A
Repr ntative from Indiana, who
callet t the white house Monday, in
forme the President that while Sen
ator J jrbanks will not strive for the
nomi ion, he will not decline it if it
come: him as the voluntary wish of
the p y. Congressman Hepburn of
Iowa, lso saw the President yester-
day. [e says that Speaker Cannon
under 10 circumstances will consent
to b me vice president. Little is
now & | regarding Mr.. Hit for that
office
On question which it was thought
woule ccupy subordinate place in
the c. ing campaign is rapidly COM
ing t. he front owing to variety of
unexl ted circumstances, and that is
the I 1Iippine. The recent decision
of tn supreme court handed down
last \ lday, that not even American
citize if they happen to reside in
the P ippine Islands are entitled to
a tria jury, together with the Wig
'orous ssent Of Mr.. Justice Harlan,
attrae wide attention. 1t has long
been ! open political secret that the
anti-i noerialists will support the
party rhich denonnces imperialism
and I omlses freedom and self-govern-
ment the FiIipinos. This the
Mary nd Democracy, inspired by
the Fl hand of Senator German has
done. In few days a large Philip
pine Commission will arrive in Wash
ingtol and be entertained at luncheon
by tt President, as we'll as by the
busin men of the city. No politi-
cal sp ches may be made, but from
June : to 1S the Filipinos will be
the g' st of the New York Stock Ex-
chang with big banquet at Del
monic ). The editor of the Manila
Times IS in Washington, to urge free
trade. He thinks the people Of the
Island- will be glad to come into the
Unio1 as Territory, with the priv
ileges of citizenship. All these
matte are somewhat perplexing and
indica q that there must be a mod
ificati n,'of policy. But the republi-
cans s-te always equal to the situation
and VII hardly stand by and allow
thems lives to be out bid by the cp-
positit n.
As republicans look at the dem
ocratio situation it appears to be full
of complications and possibilities.
Thus far Jud ge Parker has 1874
delega tes; 220 are instructed; Hearst
has 81; while the states of Mass,
Wis, Nd, and Nebraska have favor
ite sons. The democratic state plat.
forms run through the whole scale,
from the platitudes of the New York,
to the radical statements of Nebraska
and Maryland. One represents the
silent Parker, the other the open
moutbad German and Bryan. The ,
question is whether to put conserva-
tive ioan on a radical platform, or
vica versa. We give it up.
Handsome, wealthy, and young
Congressman Nicholas Longworth of (
Cincin natl, who was often seen in the G
company of Miss Alice Roosevelt {