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Washington Letter.
7
Front pur Regular Corresponder t.
Washington, D. C,
June 19th,
1899.
Secretary Io.rr tali
cs
a
deep interest in the arrange
ments that are being- mede
in Washington, and else
where, for the reception of
Admiral Dewey when lie re
turns. He told members of
the Committee which has
been appointed by the Com
missioners of the District of
Columbia, to arrange "for the
Washington
reception, to
write a
letter to Admiral
Dewey, asking his
w
shes,
and the Navy Department
would forward it to one of
the European ports to which
he, will stop, before starting
to cross the Atlantic.
Supt. Merriam,.of the Cen
sus Bureau, is being over
whelmed with applications
f or .clerical appointments, al
though it will be nany
months before any consider
able number of clerks will be
put to work in . the Bureau.
It will be just as well for ev
erybody to understand at the
beginning that it will be a
waste of: time to. put in ap
plications that are'-; not en
dorsed by either, .a Senator
or Representative, . because
no appointment will be made
from outside the District of
Columbia withoirtTsuch en
dorsement; The appoint
ments are to iie apportioned
as far as possible among the
states, and. when the c uoto
oi a state has been deter
mined upon, the Senators
and Representatives -from
that state will be. allowed to
name them with the under
. . . 50
so
)
standing that no person
named will be appointed if
they fail to pass the Exami
nation prescribed by the Bu
reau. The ' opinion is growing,
now that it has become cer
tain that Aguinaldo's alleg
ed Peace negotiations were
nothing more than a ruse to
gain time to prepare further
fighting, that the stajang
qualities of the Eilipinos
have been underestimated,
and that there is bound to
be much more fighting be
fore they are permanently
conquered. We whip them
constantly , but they continue
to fight. Adjutant General
Corbin sars he is confident,
however, that when Gen.
Otis gets the re-inforcement
it has been arranged to send
him, which will give him a
total of 35,000 men, he will
have all the men he will need.
The ' difference between
Cleveland times and McKin
ley times is strongly accen
tuated by the fact that Uncle
Sam's supply of gold is get
tmg so large tnat lie can
hardly handle it, and he has
been compellec th stop ex
changing notes for gold. U
S. Treasurer Roberts said
on this subject: "We have,
to day, about $236,000,000
in rrold and our vaults are
almost overflowing. The
Chicago sub-Treasury can
not receive more gold, as its
vaults are full." Treasurer
Roberts has issued an inter
esting statement showing the
amount of paper money in
circulation. The total is $1,
222,545,417, divided in de
nominations as follows: ones,
$55,482,479, twos, $33,836,
338, lives, $2S7,240,622, tens,
$322,311,717, twenties $229, -321,226,,
fifties, $50,934,000,
one hundreds, $5S,442,400,
five hundreds, $15,897,500,
one thousands, $54,797,000,
five thousands, $4,830,000,
and in ten thousand notes,
$10,420,000. I n addition
there are thirty-odd thousand
dollars in fractional paper
currency still in circulation,
although none has been issued
for years.
Mr. John R. McLean, who
lives in Washington, but
claims a residence in Ohio,
for political purposes, is pre
paring to spend some of the
millions he has accumulated
through his corporation in
vestments, to buy the empty
honor of second place on the
democratic ticket with Bry
an. A portion of the money
is to be spent in establishing
a McLean silver daily news
paper in Washington. Ac-
cording to present under
standing, this paper will be
for Bryan, McLean and free
silver, but it is predicted in
Washington that should the
movement to prevent Bryan's
nomination get strong enough
to promise success, it will
join it arid push McLean for
the head of the ticket. Im
pecuneous democrats will
doubtless do all they can to in
crease Mr. McLean's ambi
tion in this direction, as he
is known not only to have the
money to be willing to spend
it for anything he wants, a
spirit which they found en
tirely lacking in Mr. Bryan's
millionaire running mate of
.'96.
Senator Eoraker neither
looks nor talks like the dis
gruntled man the democrats
are representing him to be.
On the contrary, he looks
like a man who was very
well satisfied, and he expres
ses the utmost confidence " in
the election of Judge Nash,
by a large majority, and says
the Ohio republicans are har
moniously supporting the
ticket, and that all the diff
erences there were ceased to
exist when the nominations
were made.
ilro-uinjr with a mule is a-
bout as sensible
free silver.
as
talking
We don't want stamps on
subscriptions. We can't use
them. Say, do you hear?
It has been said that care
would kill a cat, but if you
don't care, a gun or a boot
jack will do just as well. .
The Prophet must have
had Bryan. in mind when he
said "the wind bloweth
where it listeth."
Kansas City wants the
next national democratic con
vention. We've got a slim
opinion of that city now.
Having proven himself a
bigger brute than Eitzsiin
monsl Jeffries now carries
the title of champion pugilist.
It may be said that the
United States favors a triple
alliance if it recognizes that
Utah Congressman with
three wives.
"Many souls with but a
single thought the horde
of democratic ofEce seekers.
The thought: How to get the
office. t
Col. Henderson is making a
remarkable race for the
Speakership considering he
has only one leg, but the most
remarkable thing about it is,
that he has not made a sing
le promise of a committee
place to secure support.
Billy Bryan talks like a
man who has doubts about
everything except who
should head the democratic
ticket next year."
In years to come some men
will feel heartily ashamed of
the opinion they expressed
about American occupation
of the Philippines.
It is notics.ble that not a
single republican party lead
er has condemned President
McKinley's civil service or
der. The criticism all comes
from the democrats.
S.H.Sutherland of Strat-
ton, Va., says he wants his
death to imitate the Savior's
as much as possible; he wants
to die between two demo
crats. Now that Germany has
bought from Spain all the
Pacific Islands we left -her;,
it becomes a greater commer
cial necessity than ever for
Uncle Sam to holdall he. has.
About half our lives are
spent in eating and drinking
things that make us sick,
and the other half in swal
lowing pills and drinking po
tions to make us well.
The Carter Harrison de
mocracy and the Altgeld de
mocracy are now busily en
gaged in making a nice
smooth bicycle path for the
republican party in Illinois.
Carter Harrison recenHy
declared that he didn't want
the democratic nomination
for president, next year, be
cause the re-election of presi
dent McKinley was certain.
Angels " and ministers of
grace defend us. An Arkan
sas newspaper likens Will
iam J. Bryan to Jesus Christ,
and a Montana sheet com
pares that arch traitor Agui-
naldo to George Washington .
The Statesville Mascot
says of the election next year:
4 4 It is our time to win, and
unless too many of us are
bought, we will .win. But
many of the boys have 4 been
bought" though,. by the im
provement of McKinley times
over democratic times, and
the Mascot sees this and is
muffin or crnrod.
t f "
The pen is mightier . than
the sword, if a nice lot of
healthy, fat pigs are in it.
G. Cleveland has been ap
pointed proffessor of politics
of Princeton Universit3 He
will tell the boys how to ro
in with a shoe string and
come out -with a tannery
same as he4iid.
Perpetual . motion rays
make paper, remarks an ex
change, and paper makes
money, money makes banks,
banks make loans, loans
make poverty, poverty makes
rags. Stop and read it over
again.
The fellows who condemned
the administration for not
pitching the country into
war head first, a' little over
a year ago, are the same fel
lows who are now howling
the loudest for the- return of
the troops from Manila.
The anti-administration
editors are playing in hard
luck. One week they, have to
abuse the President because
of the report that he will call
for more volunteers, and the
next because of the. report
that he will not.
It is said that in an out
burst of inthusiasm a young
professor in a certain Vir
ginia female college uttered
this earnest prayer: 4 4 Give
us all pure hearts; give us all
clean hearts; .give us all
sweet-hearts!" to which the
female part of the congrega
tion responded 4Aman."
Gov. Savers, of Texas,
uses some vigorous language
in a letter to the Attorney
General, against lynching. -He
says of the recent lynch
ings in that state: I regard
the occurrence in Henderson
county as not only wilful,
premeditated and deliberate
murder, but also a direct in
sult upon the dignity and
soverignty of the state."
A Wilkes county girl re
cently sent a dollar to a
smart New York man for a
reckles."
This is the recipe
4 4 Remove the free
he grot:
es care-
fully with
t knife;
m0
soak the
ht in salt
water; t
up in the
smoke hous
a good strong
smoke made of saw dust aud
slippery elm bark for a week.
Freckles thus treated - never
fail to be thoroughly cured.
m over nig
hn hang
em