Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-04

w LETTER
STICK TO HANDs.oFF POLICY
BY H. p WALKER
Star stan Correspondent.
Star Bureau,
Metrop olltan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.

az meaning that the administration In
tends TO stick TO Its hands-eff policy
In connection with that country,
There Is CONSERVATION among the
1Inroists and Indignation among the
Monroe dostrinlsts. Washington Is
full of dire predictions OF foreign In
teryention and diplomatic complica-
tons, The Inconsistency of the do
nothing program in Mexico and the
dollnr-diplomacy protectorate pro-
posted for Nicaragua and turned
down by the Senate Is beng made tho
subject of many editorials and
speeches.
Amid all the fuss, the least concerned
men In official life seem to be the
President and the secretary OF state
Mr.. Bryan is off again on Chautau-
qua tour. without leaving his timer
ary with the newspapers, and Mr..
Wilson expressed more chagrln over
his failure to get to saturday Dali
game In time to see the cup presenta-
tion TO Walter Johnson than ne mas
over any phase Of the Mexican situa-
ton.
Get the Americans out OF the coun-
to a finish. This seems to sum up the
administration Mexican policy at
present. Since the request from the
White House to shut off the fire
works. the jingoists in the House have
been tame and subdued in their dis
cussion of the war. Even Senator
Marcus Aureius Smith, or Arizona
who used to go to the White House
every day with new alarm over the
border troubles, has subsidized, and
now contents himself with telling ms
troubles and fears to sympathetic
members of the foreign relations COM
nittee, at informal sessions on the
shady side of the Capitol balconies.
Senator's Take Cue.
The Senate has a number of Next
can resolutions pending, and the Ior-
eign relations committee Is gamer
ing a lot of information, after nav
ing persuaded Mr.. Bryan, with some
difficulty that 1t was entitled 10 know
what was going on. Later there may
he some Mexican talk in the Senate.
lust now senators are taking their
ono from the White House and saying
nothing. 49,,
Henry Lane Wilson, who has been
suddenly called to Washington again,
has not been on the good DOCKS OF the
a administration. He Is Republican
of the old standpat type. fond OF DOL
lar diplomacy and dollar Legislation,
and indifferent as to whether or not
he keeps his job. His brother' John
l.. Wilson, owns the Leading reac-
tionary Republican newspaper on the
pacific coast, and 1t is thought by
avervhodv to be dollars to doughnuts
tbo+ in the nresent condition of at
fairs the President will send new
Ambassador to Mexico who has the
confidence and sympathy of the ad-
ministration and is in harmony WIFI
its program and purposes, when
Henry Lane most certainly is not. IN
everything he has said and done, polh
in Mexico and here, Ambassador VIII
son has shown his belief that the
Tinted States should either recognize
Huerta or send troops into the couh-
try to force peace.
President Wilson has made II PLAIN
that he doesn't intend to 90 eltner Vi
these things, IL he can aVold IL Dy any
means. 1t is an open secret that the
president has been suspicious OF the
aftiliations and actions of the ampas-
sador as,, and
,,nexnected turn Mexico is to be al
lowed 10 take care of itself Tor
while longer.
Rack to the tariff.
Walsh Back In Fold.
Senator Walsh, of Montana, VINO a
few weeks ago was threatening 10 polt
the caucus and raise ructions because
the free wool program would ruin the
sheen Industry In his State, has
stopped ghost dancing, come back
onto the reservation and promised to
be good. There was no halfway do
ings about 1t, either. Walsh quali1ed
a little, to save his face, by proposing
that the national forests must be
thrown wide open for grazing 10 save
the sheepmen IT, wool Is free, but is
now sure that the whole country, even
the Louisiana sugar growers, will
not he hurt by the tariff revision.
since Chamberlain, of Oregon, recant-
ed and went back into the fold. after
q. few days of sidestepping, there are
now more than enough Democratic
votes to insure the passage OF the
hill. The two senators from Louisiana
re the only Democrats who Will vote
against its passage.
The Republican opposition is going
to pieces badly, and the end of the
tariff talkfest is in sight. So far, the
Republicans have done practically all
of the talking, and haven't said much
They are so badly divided among
themselves that the calamity bowling
of the standpatters, led by Smoot, Of
Utah. is pretty thoroughly offset by
the half-dozen to dozen Progressive
Republicans, who on most schedules
have been voting with the majority
To sustain the action of the finance
committee and the Democratic eau
Gus.
Republican Chasm Wldens.
Every day the chasm between the
two wings of the Republican party
becomes more impossible of bridging.
LaFollette, Cummins and the other
members of the Progressive wing are
as much at variance with Smith,
Lodge, Gallinger. Penrose and the
other standpatters, as they were IN
the making of the Payne-Aldrich bill,
which marked the breaking up of the
Republican party. The idea that these
two factions can ever be brought to-
gether in a national convention and
campaign Is ridiculous.
LaFollette. as usual, is waiting
until an effective late hour to enter
the tariff debate. and is preparing a
speech intended to form the keynote
of the fight of the Progressive wing
of the party for control in the next
presidential fight. He will devote his
main effort to urging again the COM
promise wool schedule upon which the
democrats agreed and Taft vetoed a
year ago. Should the majority take
his rates on wool the result would
probably be to gain most of the Pro-
gressive Republican votes for the
Underwood bill, and allow them to
share in the credit. or responsibility,
for the new revision. Mainly for the
reason that the administration does
not want to share the credit, and in
sists upon undivided party RESPONSE
bility for results. the LaFollette COM