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THE SOUTH AND PANAMA.
In seeking to array his party against the Panama
canal treaty, Senator Gorman evidently misjudged
both the temper and interests of the south, says the
New York Tribune. In his opinion, apparently, the
president's canal policy could be turned to signal
partisan advantage. Opposition to it might offer
a leading and adequate democratic issue for 1904.
So the Maryland leader planned to use the solid dem
ocratic vote of the senate to defeat the new canal con
vention. At first glance, such a program might
have seemed both specious and attractive. The dem
ocratic party is so bereft of issues that it can scarcely
be censured for grasping at any and every fortuitous
straw. But it is rather surprising that a shrewd
and experienced democratic manager like Mr. Gor
man should have been tempted to exploit a policy
so unwelcome to the section to which the democratic
party owes nine-tenths of its present political power.
. Historically, the south has been the most eager
advocate of those views of American trusteeship in
the region of the Caribbean which has been avowed
and acted upon in the administration's dealings with
Colombia and Panama. The doctrine stated by Sec
retary Casa and quoted by President Roosevelt in his
recent message to congress had the enthusiastic en
dorsement of southern opinion in 1858. It has the
equally enthusiastic endorsement of southern opin
ion now. The south, through its leaders and spokes
men, has constantly adhered to its policy of terri-'
torial expansion. ' It invented and applied the
theory of "manifest destiny." It advocates the as
sertion at every opportunity of our virtual guardian
ship of the western world. What good ground was
there for thinking that the southern people, in re
sponse to' Mr. "Gorman' ffe'mergeney summcm, would"
suddenly abandon all their rooted political prepos
sessions and ideals?
Interest weighs even more in-politics than' tra
dition. Mr. Gorman made the grave error, there
fore, of ignoring the smith's material concern in the
construction of an isthmian canal. No section has
more to gain that the south through the shortening
and cheapening of thansportation routes to the
Pacific. No section has more to lose through delays
in the completion of a transisthmian waterway,
Could the south reasonably be expected to sacrifice
its commercial interests and prospects to furnish
the democratic organization with some dangerous
and doubtful campaign ammunition for 1904?
There is nothing equivocal in the sonth's repudi
ation of Mr. Gorman's leadership. The legislature
of Louisiana met in special session a few weeks ago
to make an appropriation for fighting the eotton boll
weevil. Its attention was directed to Mr. Gorman's
manoeuvers, and both houses passed, without dissent,
rvMiiiuum insirucnng um Jmisiana senators to
support the canal treaty. M'msisMippi'a new logis
laiure mei mis weox, ana one of its first acts was to
give similar instructions to Senators Money andMe
Laurin . In the state senate the vote was 31 to 1 ; in
the lower house the vote was Sf to 37. No other
southern legislature has had jui opportunity, to ex
press an opinion on the merits of the -canal treaty
But in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Texas com-
mereial bodies have enthusiastically favored ratifi
cation, and public sentiment, as voiced in the news
papers, rims almost unanimously the same way. The
south wants the canal and sustains the1 policy which
has made its construction possible under conditions
exceptionally favorable. It repudiates as undemo.
cnitie and unpatriotic an obstructive program de
vised only for temporary partisan profit.
POLITICAL DIFFER KNCKS.
The faihtr of the democratic party to make good
with ita 'witv" planks has evidently impressed lead
ing democrats, who are' manife'1 iug a disposition to
refrain frooiu fighting the good things tlw republi
can party has accomplished. Here in Oregon we
have lately hud an example of this. At a "harmony
meeting". Governor Chamberlain expressed the new
sentiment, while Chairman Sam White, of the state
committee, could see no particular reason for the
democrats letting up In their plan of attacking in
discriminately the policies of the republicans. For
mer Governor Geer, discussing the matter in the
Statesman says:
At the harmony meeting the other night Governor
Chamberlain said: "the democrats should not tight
the good things the republicans haw done," Suits
us. If the advice is followed it will put the demo
crats out of business before the first tap of the bell.
In political acumen the governor is easily the first
democrat of the state. Hut there was Sam White,
Captain Sam, who, in his seeeh which immediately
followed, didn't seem to haw heard of anything
good the republicans had ewr accomplished. In
vaguely hinting that there might be something of
good the republicans may have done, the governor en-J
tered a domain the very esistance of which never .
dawned on the bewildered mind of the belligerent!
captain. Iudeed the good things which the repub-j
licans have done which the governor mentioned were
the very things the captain named as,bcing especially 4
worthy of unceasing and unmeasured denunciation.
The governor specifically mentioned the Philip
pine policy and the attitude of the republicans on
the Panama question as being "good things which
every democrat should support." while the captain
declared his kind of democracy by saying: "I am
neither a prophet nor the so,n of a prophet, but I
will foretell that before many years we will be forced
to give those islands back." .
So there you are. Although, as we were saying,
While the utmost divergence of opinion prevailed
on all questions, and no two of the speakers seemed to
agree upon any one proposition, save that the re
publicans are still to be viewed with the same de
gree of alarm that stamped them as rascals, even
during Lincoln's time, yet the prevailing sentiment
seemed to be that if the democrats can be induced
to"fight like cat" "within the party"-the repub
licans may be called upon next spring to meet a foe
with all the belligerent characteristics of the un
mixed Maltese strain. And the fur may be turned
the wrong way. Who knows?
Wfc4 upon UMch
(M a million tastes Ss
KIOttE WAN A J
RUUJON SOW A DAY.
When a Kenr,:.r enters an elevator in the senate
wing of the laplt.n, he is carried directly to his des
tinati: withov.; npiivl to the intentions of the
other passeiiK.v;. This senatorial prerogative de
layed the pre ideiil's message to congre recently
in an amusing vvy. Mr. Barnes, the assistant sec
retary to the president, stepped uloard a senator
elevator from the ground floor. In a portfolio un
der his arm he carried a message from the president
of the United States to congress. "Senate floor,"
said Mr. Barnes, as the conductor shut the door.
Just then there were three rings (the senator's nig
nal) of the bell, and the indicator showed that a sen
ator wanted to be lifted out' of the terrace. The el
evator wat duvtu instead of up, and Mr. Barnes went
along. The senator in the terrace only wanted to
go to the ground floor. As he stepped off; however,
there was another sena torial ring from the terrace.
This Sionator wanted to go to the gallery floor, and
the elevator went there without stopping. As the
car started down there were three- rings from the
ground floor, and again the car failed to stop at the
destination of the president's secretary. Fortun
ately for Mr. Barnes, this senator wanted to get off
at the senate floor, and the congress, after long delay,
received the message from the president.
Senator Gorman is said to be worried over a report
that the X-rays can turn negroes white. If the col
or line were obliterated, the Maryland aspirant for
the democratic nomination would lose his political
capital .
It is no doubt a great consolation to Br. Bryan
to think that if he had been successful in the last
campaign he would have been deprived of his trip
to Europe. ,
Chances of leading the democratic ticket next fall
are about evenly divided between the Jim Crow and
Yellow candidate for the nomination.
Colombia has become less warlike. Perhaps she
feared the invasion of troops carrying a flag, that
is likely to stay put.
For a long time war between Japan and Russia
has Jieen inevitable, and many people think it will re
main so.
Senator Morgan's canal speeches occupy more time
than attention in the house.
The south has become strenuous in its demand
for the canal.
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