The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-21

This is due TO the presence in the city
of Clark himself. He has been express
ing everywhere a confidence in the re-
suit that he in nc wise feels. judging
by the desperate hustling that he has
been doing here to secure help in the
way of appointments. documents and
the establishment Of a temporary mill
tary post at Sheridan. He has not yet
been known to exhibit any reluctance
to accepting assistance of a character
more in keeping with the new republi-
can platforms in Wyoming. The fact is
the republicans are badly frightened
about Wyoming. Congressional Can
didate Mondell will leave his desk in
the land office and rush out to do what
he can to ave the imperiled state. The
secretary Of the interior will. of course.
let hin go and will say lever a word
about his abstention from duty for
political purposes"
Both these gentlemen are deeply con-
cerned in the excellent campaign which
is being conducted under the auspices
of Vice Chairman Osborne of the demo-
cratic congressional committee. Ii is
the first time a Wyoming man has ever
had charge of a national campaign and
they are alarmed accordingly.
There Is still considerable doubt as
to the ultimate destination of the reg
ular troops after their return from Gu
pa. Some of the prominent army off,
GERS and war department officials are
strongly in favor of returning them to
their old stations. The general conten-
ton in favor of this course is that the
regulars are as much entitled to return
TO the comforts of home as the volun-
teers, and that their old posts are real
ly their homes. Adjutant General Cor
bin is also opposed to sending any reg
ular regiments to posts other than their
would result from such a course owing
to the fac that a portion of the equip
ment and supplies of each regiment OF
regulars were left at their old pos s
when they were ordered to the front.
On the contrary General Miles APP
pears to be strongly in favor of letting
the regular trops go to new stations,
believing that they will -ecuperate bet
ter in the new locations, and that the
change would be in every way benef-
cial. One thing seems to be certain,
and that is that If the regimental posts
are changed all the regiments which
were in the Rocky mountain states
when the Spanish war broke out will!
be located east of the Mississippi river
on returning from Cuba. General
Miles had the whole matter of these as
signments under consideration for sew
eral days, n his decision will soon be
cached. The general is now planning
an urgent recommendation to congress
providing for the increase of the stand
ing army to 100, 900 men.
The regulars from Montana will GER
tainly land in Cuba again within the
next six weeks, this time near Havana
But this need not occasion their friends
any concern for the reason tina Ha
vana in the fall and winter, under
American sanitary administrator. IS
likely to prove far more healthy than
any of the camps in the United States
in which large bodies of troops have
ben quartered. 1t is stated at the war
'partment that the government will
not only build hospitals in Cuba, but
will erect barracks, and under no cir
cumstances will occupy the quarters
vacated by the Spanish soldiers. which
may be rife with disease germs capa-
BILE of developing an epidemic even
during the healthy season.
HOSFORD.