The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-08-13
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Washington, July 80, 1897 The
Republicans are far from feeling the con-
fidence they express of carrying Ohio
this year, in fact, they feel so doubtful
of the result that in addition to the
whole power of the administration being
used to help Boss Hanna to carry the
state, nearly every Republican of ma
tional prominence in the country has
been asked to make speeches in Ohi'
during the campaign, and as they kn Nv
that to decline will he to incur the ill
will of the adminis t-atiOn most of
them will comply with the request. Mr.
Mckinley, it is said in Washington, l.
going to SO far forget his dignity as to
make speeches for Hsnna, and Car
Reed has promised to take the stump
for him. 1t is fully recognized that
defeat for Hanna will be defeat for
Mr. Mckinley, which would be very hu
initiating in bls own state during the
first year of his administration.
Every honest man has personal inter
est in the proceedings against John We'd
derhurn K Co on the charge of fraud
ulent practices, now going on before the
U. 5 patent Office. The patent offic.
has fully proven number of it's charges
W
one of which would furnish ample
ground for their disbarment from prac-
tice before that office, and lawyers who
who have attended the hearings are
unanimously of the opinion that the
firm will be disbarred. The nature of
their defense has made i clear that they
are relying upon the SKILL and shrewd-
ness of their lawyers, rather than upon
disproving the charges of fraud against
them, in their scant hope of wriggiine
out of their bad scrape. If they are dis
barred, their paper, the National Record
er, Will be shut out of the mails.
Prof Henry w. Elliott. Of the Smith
sonian Institution, who claims to know
as much about the sealing question as
any man living, charges in the plainest
and most emphatic language that the
conference to be held this fall on that
subject will be fake pure and simple
He avs that Ambassador Hay begged
Lord Salisbury to allow the British nat
uralists who have for six years been
studying the seals on our islands to meet
our naturalists at Washington and com
pare biological notes, in order to hide
ex-SecretaIy Fosters humiliating failure
to get the question reopened. and that
Salisbury agreed. He says further that
the socalled conference will have no au-
thor'ty to do anything whatever towards
settlement of the question. Prof FL
lott S assertions have attracted wide at
tentlon, and if what he says is true they
deserve still more Meanwhile Prof
Elll ut vii. probably lose his Smithson-
ian job
Mr.. Mckinley's amendment to the
civil service rules, forbidding the dismis-
sal of persons from the classified service
rules except for cause and upon written
charges. has not prevented number of
Democrats m the government printing
office getting a rough deal True they
wer. not dismissed, but some of them
were furlnughed for an indefinite period.
and nine of the most efficient proof read
ers In the office-all Democrats-were
transferred to the case There are
more ways of killing dog than hang
ing
When mathematics are brought to
bear upon Mr.. McKinley's extension of
the civil service rules it doesn' t seem to
have been worth the glorification given
1t by the worshipers at the shrine of civ
II service cant. He has increased the
exemptions from civil service rules in
the internal revenue service from 63 to
219 places, and while extending the
rules to 100 new places in the Custom s
service he has exempted 35S places in
the same service
If it's anything with money in it. tn s
administration is ready to be up and do
ing even in midsumer This week the
safe department presented an ultima
tum to Peru, through the Peruvian
minister requiring that the McCord
claim OF $50. 900 shall be at once paid.
a little of that sort of talk in behalf of
the struggling Cubans would be well re-
celved by the country, but there is no
money in it.
Officials of the state departm ent deny
that our Minister to Hawaii was instruct
ed to establish a protectorate over Ha-
wall as soon as he learned that the sem
ate did not act upon the annexation
treay at the extra session of congress,
but admit that he may have done so un-
der the general discretion that was given
hlm to act in certain contingencies
one OF those contingencies is
known to have been any move on the
part OF the japanese toward seizing the
islands.