Middletown transcript., 1898-10-15

AS1 the battlestiI
A$$W.sSi, Oregon and low
NPR are being hel
N TN at New Yor
|, l1lEEt- ur til it is know
: M-kRA whether th
&-N Spanish Peac
. 'ssS& Commission r
. will refnse to accept our terms o
Peace, in order that they may, in tha
event, be available to accompany flee
to the Coast of Spain, to do some more
fighting, and says that the battleship
will start during the present week TO
Honolulu, just as they were ordered tt
do as soon as they get ready. AS mat
ter of fact, no member of the admins
trstion has the slightest doubt SIS to tht
acceptance Of our terms and the nego.
tiating Of treaty of Peace by the Peace
Commission, now sitting at Paris,
although they expect the Spanish
Commissioners to splutter and delay
doing SO as long as they consider |
safe to do so. The Spanish Commis-
sioners are not fools; they can see the
inevitable as we'll as all the rest of the
world can. The whipped nation al
ways has to bow before the conqnering
nation.
A number Of Washington labor Or
ganizations are openly repudiating the
attempt Of certain labor organizations,
controlled by Democrats, to make it
appear, through misleading publiea-
tions, that the organized labor Of
Washington is opposed to the re-elec-
tion to Congress OF Representative
Babcock, of Wise. Among the latest
to act was the Eccentric Engineers.
The resolution adopted by this asso-
citation arraigned the attack upon Mr..
Babcock as mean and contemplate and
said that it should be denounced by all
labor organizations which believed In
justice. It closed as follows: "We
have always found in the Hoe. Joseph
w. Babcock, of Wise, friend ever
ready and willing to advance every
matter presented by the representatives
of this organization for the best interest
of all classes" 1t is Mr.. Babcock' IS
great success as Chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee that has aroused the Demo-
Gratis into making extraordinary efforts
to prevent his election. He says he is
absolutely certain of reelection, and
he never makes predictions on guess
W ork.
It is semi-oficially announced that
the Executive order exempting several
thousand Federal positions, which
were placed under the civil service
rules BY Mr.. Cleveland, for no better
reason than to keep Democrats in
Office. will not he issued, until after
the Con gressional election. The war
prevented the issuing of this order sew
eral months ago, and President McKin-
ley is averse to issuing it now, because
he knows that the Democrats would
charge him with doing SO for effect on
the Congressional Campaign, il he
did.
The arrangements for President and
Mrs. Knley's trip to the Omaha
Exposition was sadly interfered with
by the killing of Mrs. McKinley's
brother, at Canton, Ohio. The Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley left Wash
ington Saturday night to attend the
funeral, after which the President will
join the party and proceed to Omaha,
in accordance with the original pro-
CRANE. 1t is probable that Mrs. Nc
Kinley will remain at Canton, al
though she may decide to accompany
the President.
Before leaving Washington, Presi-
dent Mckinley signed an order. au-
thorizing the free admission to all
Cuban ports, In possession of the U. s.
Of oxen for work purposes, animals
for breeding aud for food supplies,
plows and all agricultural implements,
except machinery. This order, as yet,
applies to only few ports, bat it will
apply to all Cuban ports very shortly,
as the Spaniards are to be hurried out
of Havana and the other POI is they
still control. The order is intended to |
help the Cubans by an immediate re-
sumption of agriculture.
Advices received by the War Depart
ment say that the Indian uprising In
Minnesota igunder contlol and that no
further trouble is anticipated.
Instead of heing humiliated by the
testimony given before The War Inses-
tigation Commission, as bis enemies
hoped be would be, Secretary Alger has
every reason to feel proud Of what the
witnesses, including such men as Gems.
Joseph Wheeler Fitzhugh Lee, Fl. v.
Boynton, and F. Y. Greene have said
Of the management of the War Depart-
ment. The war veterans on the conn
mission have been greatly surprised to
learn that In many cases published In
the yellow journals, as infiicting great
suffering and hardahips on the troops,
the soldiers had more Of almost syery-
thing than their own men had at
numerous times during the civil war.
Not q single witness has even implied
either neg glect or guilt on the part OF
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