Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — WASHINGTON LETTER. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our regular correspondent.) The man wfio has no weakness is yet unborn. Mr. McKinley's supporters have taken advantage of Admiral Dewey's only known weakness —fear for his health - -to shut off the flow of Dewey enthusiasm, and thus, as they think, lessen his availability as an anti-Mc-Kinley candidate for the republican Presidential nomination. They do not wish Dewey to attend any more big receptions because, they keep him too prominently before the public, and, although Dewey looks much better than he did when he first came to Washington, and has been going to the club or the .theatre in the evening and attending to his private business in the day time —he helped the Committee select the house, which will this week be bought for him —in as active a manner as any other man of his years could do, he has been persuaded that his health is in great danger, and that he must absolutely avoid excitement of all kinds for some months. This was so firmly impressed upon him that he canceled his engagements to go to Atlanta and to Philadelphia, and announced that he would ae= cept no more invitations until next spring. And the McKinleyites think they have killed the Dewey boom. t t What Archbishop Chappelle, apostolic delegate to the Philippines, who ■ has announced his intention to go to the Philippines to bring about Peace, which Gen. Otis has so signally failed to do, and Mr. McKinley said to each other during the long conference they held at the White House, while big politicians were kicking their oheels in the secretary’s office, is what all the newspaper men have been unsuccessfully trying to find out. That they talked of conditions in the Philippines is all that is positively known, although much more has been sent out by the imaginative news-makers. The Archbishop seemed very well pleased when he left the White House, and said that he would probably see Mr. McKinley again, before he left Washington for Manilla, which he will do in a few days. The Archbishop is wellknown and popular in Washington, where he once had charge of a church. t t The Washington Poet, which has practically been a McKinley paper since this administration came into power, sounded a significant w.-irning, when it said at the close of an editorial full of praise of Mr. McKinley personally: “The President must usher in a new and healthier regime. If he cares for a political future, he must replace imbecility with brains and vigor. The people are worn out with toilure, bewilderment and disaster.

Humanity demands a cessation of the mnderous bungling in Luzon. Good faith and national honor require the pacification of Cuba and the political rehabilitation of the Cubans. This tragedy mast end and end soon. Existing conditions projected into the coming year will pat a conclusive end to Mr. McKinley’s public life.”

Col. N. M. Bell, who was prominently connected with the Post Office Department during the first Cleveland administration, and who has been in private business in St. Louis, for some years is visiting Washington. He says that people in the East have no idea of the intensity of the feeling against trnsts in the West, and predicts that the trust issne will figure largely in next years campaign. He also thinks that there is increasing hostility towards militarism, one of the aliases of imperialism, and towards that sort of expansion involving the surrender of the Monroe Doctrine.

Notwithstanding the failure of the Senate, at the last session of Congress, to act upon the batch of Naval nominations which would have pat Rear Admiral Sampson ahead of Rear Admiral Schley, and of the public calling down at Minneapolis of Secretary Long, when he attempted to glorify Sampson for what Schley did, it is announced upon seemingly good authority that the attempt to jump Sampson over Schley’s head is to be again made by Mr. McKinley as soon as Congress meets. The nnjnst attitude of the administration towards Admiral Schley has so far only added to that gallant officers reputation, and if it is persisted in, many believe that it will result in giving Schley the on next year's democratic national ticket. Stranger things than that have happened. It may be said that Schley is not a democrat, but that is no reason against it. Gen. Grant was not a republican and he was nominated and elected President by that party. The Army and Navy officer who has enough political bias in his make up to become a member of a political part\, is an exception. As a rule, officers in neither branch of the service vote, even when they remain in one place long enough to acquire the right to do so.

Ex-Governor Thompson, of S. C., who has just returned from Europe, said he was approached by a native in a village of Switzerland, who said to him: “Excuse me, sir. but will you gratify my curiosity by telling me what it was that the Governor of X. C. said to the Governor of S. C. ?” Asked what reply he made. Gov. Thompson said: “Why, simply repeated the historic remark, and gave a practical demonstration of what followed it, but it beats me how that fellow ever heard the story of the two governors.” Tell your neighbor to take The Democrat for all county news.