Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-10-28

Representations White.
wash" - No Agreement of the
! Peace Commission Until After
Election.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. u, 1898.
Next to Doodle, Boss Hanna rate:
Mr.. Mckinley, as Republican vote
getter in the present campaign. Con.
seIuently he has decided that Mr.
Mckinley shall take swing through
the East, in order to arouse the voters
in that section. Like the western trip
the eastern trip is to be scheduled as
strictly non-partisan, but that did not
prevent Mr.. Mckinley begging sup
port for the administration in almost
every speech he made, and it will not
prevent his doing the same thing in
the east. 1t may be possible, OF
course, that Mr.. Mckinley has made
votes for his party among the crowds
that have turned out to greet him on
his trip to and from Omaha, but,
judging from the effects OF similar
trips by other Presidents, it is not
probable. There are a number OF
good reasons for crowds turning out
to see the President, entirely aside
from political considerations-respe
for his official position, admiration of
his personal qualities, apd last, but
by no means least, idle curiosity.
That all of these reasons added to
the number Of persons that turned
out to see Mr.. Mckinley in the West
is certain, and it is equally certain
that they will do the same in the East :;
but there is nothing in sight to sh ow
that the whole business will enable
the Republicans to carry single Con-
gressional district that they would not
have carried had Mr.. Mckinley re-
manned in Washington and attended
to his duties.
Democratic expectation OF wrestling
the control OF the House away from
the Republicans is not based upon
visionary hopes, but upon figures care
fully prepared to show how each Con-
gressional district in the country will
vote on the Sth of November. Ac-
cording to those figures. there are
sixty-one districts that may 60 either
way by very small majorities. An
attache of the Democratic Con-
gressional Campaign Committee, who
came within three of estimating the
result OF the Congressional election of
'96, estimates that Al of these doubt
full districts will be carried by the Re-
publicans, and 90 by the Democrats.
Should this estimate, which is ultra.
conservative, turn out to be correct,
the next House would contain 40 Re.
publicans and 1S7 anti-Republicans.
Democrats and Populists combined.
This estimates leaves out conditions
in Pennsylvania and New York which
may result in sending the anti-Re-
publican majority as high as 40, be.
cause those conditions are contingent.
and may be changed before election.
Secretary Alger received hurry
call from Pingree, and has gone to
Michigan to see what he can do to
save the Republicans of the State
from the defeat which Pingree fears
they are going to get.
Tho NEar nana,t,~,n.
tending all the protection it can to
officers appointed from civil life, who
are under suspicion or have been
proven to be inefficient or negligent.
Advantage was taken of the absence
of Mr.. Mckinley, who held up n SIM
liar order few weeks ago, to order the
honorable discharge from the service
OF Lieut.. Col. Rush Huidckoper, the
horse doctor who was chief surgeon at
Camp Thomas, ChicEamauga Park,
and whose administration of medical
affairs in that camp was so openly
criticized by officers and men. 1t was
believed 10 have been Mr.. Mckinley's
intention, when he prevented this
mans honorable discharge. that he
should appear before the Dodge Com
mission. Why he did not, is probably
known to Secretary Alger and other
War Department officials, if not to Mr..
Mckinley. Capt. James G. Blaine,
the young man who made such dis
graceful exhibitions Of himself and his
jags at Honolulu and at Manila that
he was ordered home, turned up in
Washington this week, and he also is
to be given an honorable" discharge.
Chaplain Mcintyre, of the battle ship
Oregon, must be friendless poor
devil or that court-martial sentence,
dismissing him from the service,
would be set aside and he would get
an honorable discharge.
Secretary Long has made public the
report of the board of naval officers,
presided over by Commander Vain.
wright. locating the ships that
participated in the destruction of
Cervera's fleet. The report does not
differ materially from the reports
made by the Captains of the ships,
and will not change anybody's mind
as who is entitled to credit ior that
brilliant victory.
A great bluff is being put up by the
administration by the pretence that
Judge Day is making extraordinary
efforts 10 compel the Spanish Com
missioners to hurry up their end OF
the negotiations, at Paris. 1t is
dollars to ginger cakes that Judge Day
is doing nothing of the sort. No
matter how anxious the Spanish Com
missioners should be to reach an
agreement on the treaty of peace,
they would not be able to do SO before
the Congressional election, as it was
a part of Judge Days private instruc-
tions to prevent an agreement being
reached before that time. Should the
Spanish Commissioners wish to pro-
tract the negotiations after election,
Judge Day may put the screws on
them, but he isn't doing so now, for
fear that the treaty might add to
the probabilities of Republican defeat