The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-10-28
ashingtOn Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. G. Oct %, 1898.
Chairman Babcock, of the Republi-
can Congressional Campaign Commit
tee, is getting good news these days.
Like Senator Hanna, he was awhile
back afraid that over confidence would
keep so many republicans at home
that control of the next House might
be lost, but from reports he is now re-
celving the republicans in all sections
are becoming thoroughly alive to the
necessity of getting out the full vote
and keeping control of the House, so
that when the Senate becomes repub-
lican, as it will after the fourth of next
March, both branches of Congress will
be in condition to put through the
necessary legislation to carry out the
domestic policy of the administration,
which will continue the prosperity
that the country is now enjoying, as
we'll as show the world that the coun-
try is behind President Mckinley in
carrying out the new foreign policy
made necessary by the results of the
war, just as it was behind him in the
| conduct of the most successful war in
all history. The country knows just
what the republican party offers it,
both at home and abroad, while no.
body knows what the democratic party
would give it, further thar that demo-
cratic success would mean renewal
of the uncertainties which were 50 dis
astrous to our commercial and indus
trial interests during the last Cleve-
land regime. There has never been
any doubt during this campaign as to
the feeling of the majority of the vot-
ers; only fear that feeling of over.
security might result in too many re-
publicans not taking sufficient inter-
est to make sure of success in the Con-
gressional campaign. Thanks to hard
and intelligent work on the part OF
the party leaders that fear is daily be-
ing lessened, and bids fair to entirely
disappear before election day.
The Treasury Department has grant
ed a request made by General Franco
Sanchez, commander of the Cuban in
surgent army at Mayari, Cuba, that
one hundred thousand pounds of to-
bacco, captured by that army, be adj
mitted to the U. S. free of duty, in
order that it may be sold for the bene-
fit Of the men under Gen. Sanchez,
who are in need of almost everything.
The commission engaged in investi-
eating the conduct of the war, which
has started for Jacksonville, Fla. where
the work of hearing witnesses in the
camp will this week be inaugurated,
was preceded by the ringing assertion
of Gen. Dodge. chairman of the COM
mission, that the commission would
see that every witness was protected
who had anything to tell that might
arouse enmity on the part of his super
ior officers. These words of Gen.
Dodge are all the answer that is need
ed to the senseless charge that wit
nesses have been afraid to tell the
commission what they knew. There
has been no such fear on the part of
any witness, but there has been wide
differences IN the stories told to the
commission and those published as
having been told by the same witnesses
to yellow journals. A notable case of
this sort was that OF DR.. Seaman, who
arrived in New York, from Porto
Rico, last week, and whose alleged
sensational statements to yellow re-
porters caused him to be summoned
to Washington, by telegraph, to testify
before the commission.