The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-02-25

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10 time Of bongts made hr Snanlards
In Havaua, since the Maine went
there, that at the first intimation Of
war between Spain and the United
States they were prepared to blow
the Maine to atoms with torpedoes,
and of the treachery of the late
Spanish Minister towards his great
and good friend, Mr.. Mckinley, it is
not surprising that the suspicion
that the destruction of the Maine
was the result of Spanish treachery
should be expressed by more than
than half the men one meets. A ma
tion which could deliberately plan
to surround the house of a Cuban
with several regiments of troops and
cody shoot down an old man and
his children, in order to kill a Cuban
officer whose sweetheart was the
daughter of the old man, as the
Spaniards recently did in Cuba,
would not hesitate to use any sort { {
treachery to destroy warship of a
nation it both feared and hated. Mr..
Mckinley processes to regard these
suspicious with horror, and express
es the belief Will be justified by the
result of the investigation, for if it
isn't, Spain will not only be driven
out of Cuba, but will be in danger of
being driven out of existence as a
nation, by relentless Americans bent
on revenge.
Congress is disposed to allow the
administration to conduct the in
vestigation of the cause of the loss of
the Maine, only asking that it be
prompt and thorough and that its
result be made public as soon as ar
rived at.
1t having been arranged that Fri
day and Saturday of this week should
be used by the House to discuss the
Bankruptcy bill, reported as a sub
stitute for the bill that was passed
by the Senate at the extra session,
Gar Reed did not find it necessary
to make the House adjourn from
! Thursday to Monday, in order to
prevent there being a private bill
day, which under the rules should
be Friday.
The National Council of the Farm
ers Alliance, once a power in the
political world, now scarcely heard
of, was in session in Washington
this week also the annual conven-
tion of the Woman Sutfragists,
which always manages to occupy it's
full share of'newspaper space.
Senator Murphy of New York who
has gone home on business, said be-
fore leaving Washington that the re-
solution censuring him for voting for
the Teller resolution, which was
adopted by the aid Of republican
votes in the New York legislature,
was not worrying him the slightest
little bit, as he had written evidence
from prominent democrats in every
section of the State endorsing his
course in voting for the Teller resolu-
ton. He regards the censure as
nothing more than an attempt by
the republicans to make political
capital in the State, which their
party badly needs.
EX- Gov. Patterson, of Colo, has
been telling his many friends in
Washingtonthat the largely increas-
ed and constantly increasing gold
production of his State has not alter
ed the univ rsal sentim, mt of it's
people in the favor of the free COIN
age of silver at l6 to |. He made
this prediction of the next demo-
cratic national convention: st will
be held in Chicago; it will reaffirm
the platform of 'a6, without the dot
ting of an "i'' or the crossing of o
st" it will nominate Bryan by ac-
clamation, and it will be the most
unanimous national convention ever
assembled in the u. s."
II was at first intended that the
National Committees of the demo-
cratic party, the peoples party and
the silver republican party should
unite in a joint address to the voters
who are friendly to the free coinage
of silver, but as some objection was
raised to that course it'was decided
that each committee should issue an
address to the voters of its own party
advising, general cooperation of all
the friends of silver in this years
congressional campaign, and this
week the three addresses, were made
public. The first time that the full
effect of this cooperation will be
seen in Oregon, where the compress
sional elections will be held in June.
and the campaign is already prac-
tically begun. The issue is going to
be squarely made in that State, and
the silver men are confident of win
ming.
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Laurel Ridge.