Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-02-11
HARD TO SATISFY
HUNGRY DEMOCRATS
(By Winfield Jones.)

Democratic pie-hunters have dis
cussed another place where the
can make raids on the salary list
of the Wilson administration.
The recent discovery by Demo
cratic leaders here that an inter
national conference of the Ameri
can republics is to be held at San
tiago, Chile, next fall, has causec
a new onslaught of the spoils
seekers upon the State Department
Every Democratic senator has a
least one constituent for whom ne
is demanding Of Secretary Bryan
appointment as a member OF the
American delegation to the fifth
Pan-American conference.
The pressure being brought to
bear on behalf of persons seeking
chance to make the free trip to
the Chilean capital with stop-over
privileges is said to be so strong
as to make it probable that all the
American delegation to the confer
on partisan political lines-all will
be Democrats.
Among those who look with con-
Germ upon the prospects of the
Rmerican delegation to the confer
ence being composed purely of the
politically favored are the members
of the Latin-American diplomatic
corps here. 1t has become common
talk among them that the Chilean
government will have the pleasure
of lavishing elaborate entertain
ments upon group OF the same
kind of Democratic citizens who
have been given diplomatic jobs in
South and Central America, that is,
men who never have been south Of
the Rio Grande, who have not the
slightest acquaintance with the
Spanish language, and no conception
whatsoever of the conditions in
Latin-America, political, social or
economic and who will know moth
ing and care less of the purposes
and principles OF the Pan-American
conference
The conference this year is con-
sidered OF more than usual impor-
lance, because of the many develop |
ments in Latin-America in the last
few years, accompanied by a
CT the domination Of
the United States. 1t is regarded /
as a foregone conclusion that at
tempts will be made by some of the
Latin-American delegations to throw
bombshells into the next conference,
in the way of political questions
embarrassing to the United States.
Only the most adroit management
upon the part OF the American dele
CATION will, in the opinion of expert
enced diplomats here, save the stu
alton for the United States.
Mr.. Bryan, as chairman OF the
program committee, already has per-
united the Latin-Americans to adj
vance d proposition which has been
he ambition of some of the smaller
republics for many years. The pro-
gram as agreed upon contains the
declaration, proposed for adoption,
that it shall be principle OF policy
among the American republics that
no alien in any OF the republics shall
have other rights or other recourses
han those enjoyed by the citizens
thereof.
This means that the small re-
Dublics are seeking - commit the
United States to the principle than
American citizens shall not have the
Of appealing to the Wash
ngton government IN case of con-
in those republics 1t is
predicted that questions even more
will be injected into
the conference, and passed over the
vote of the United States unless the
greatest care IS exercised in the Sc
lection of the American delegation.
From the incidents related in con-
lection with the effort OF Democrats
IN Washington to get positions N
The American delegation for their
1roteges, the applicants are not ex-
qualified. One man adj
nitted he wanted to go because his
wife had heard that delegates to the
were given free boxes
At the opera, in South America. An
other applicant said he would like
to go to Santiago, Chile, because he
understood that it was the capital
Of Argentina and a most interesting
city. A third said that he felt II
MS duty to inform himself about
Inc inhabitants of the "black repub-
lie" and that he thought nc could
well represent the United States
and acquire information at the same
time.