The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-06-30

WAohANuTONs y. W. june 44s loOos
Having been soldier himself Pres :
dent Mckinley knows the difference bs.
tween moving an army In an enemy's
country and moving IL on paper, and
does not share the impatiencs expressed
BY those entirely ignorant Of military
movements because Gen. Shafter has
not yet attacked Santiago. He knows
that Gen. Shafter is not wasting any
time, and that he will strike the min
ute that his army IL in the position to
strike decisive blow, be that today,
tomorrow, or next week Our army 10
there and Il is going to win, and to clinch
the certainty Of victory several thousand
troops are now on their way to reinforce
Shafter. They are being sent on the
fast auxiliary cruisers Yale aud Harvard.
President Mckinley is at loss 10
know why the reports Of his lack Of COZ /.
fdence In Gen. Niles continue to be cit.
culated. He has several times recently
taken occasion to express the confiden,e Q
Miles, and Secretary Alger has done
likewise.
It is not at all likely that the newt
paper correspondents who are with Gen.
Skaters army will make use of the
cable station at Guanatanamo Bay to
send fish stories to their papers, as the
cable rate from that point to New York
is $1.48 per word. The cable ID now
open to press and commercial matter,
subject to censorship by U. officer,
but only when the cable is not being
used for government messages The re.
opening Of this cable which belongs to
and il now being operated by . French
Co., was decidedly pleasing to Presi-
dent Mckinley and everybody else in
Washington, as it keeps the government
in direct communication with Admiral
Sampson and Gen. Shafter, and in touch
with every movement in the campaign
against Santiago, now being energetically
pushed.
The principal trouble with all the
a-auments 60 far made against the an.
n .xation of Hawaii. in the Senate. has
been that they belong to the same order
as those made by the juror who called
the eleven men who opposed him pig
headed and obstinate. The opponents
arr already whipped, and the prediction
is heard or all sides that the annexation
will he voted for and adopted by the
Senate inside of ten days. The large
vote for annexation in the House, and
the tone of the press throughout the
country has convinced the anti-annex
ationists that'an extended filibuster on
their part to prevent . vote would be
political suicide for those who partici-
pate therein.
There must be numerous anti English
voters in the Memphis, Tenn, Con-
gressional District, and Representative
Carmack wants to please tksm very bad,
or he would not have offered such .
needless resolution as that declaring
that this country looks with disfavor on
every suggestion of an alliance with any
European power.
There is an ugly row among the Dem.
ocrats of the House on account of the
efforts Of Representative Bailey, Of Tex
as, to set himself up as party dictator.
It has been brewing for long time, and
eliminated when Is Democrats, in def.
ance of their caucus, voted for the an
nexation of Hawaii Mr.. Bailey had
another caucus called, for the purpose of
adopting rule compelling all psrtici-
pants in party caucus to abide by its
decision. 1t was decidedly lively eau.
Gus. and it adjourned without taking
action. Another is held next week.
The following statement by an official
shows how the Post Office Department
is keeping up with the war procession:
"The postal service is breaking all
records during the present war. Two
months ago who in the land, or world
for that matter. would have thought 1t
possible for as to have q post Office in
fine working order at Manila, thousands
of miles away, by this time, or at Camp
McOalla, on the southern coast of Cuba?
Before three more weeks are gone it is
almost safe to cay that the soldiers and
private citizens may be calling for their
regular mail ct San Juan, q. s. A. (San
Juan is the principle city In Porto Rico }
the way the postal department ID
expanding these days would make
Ben Franklin our first Post Master Gen
eral. fall dead with amusement"
While there are honorable exceptions,
the bulk OF the Democrats In both
branches Of Congress are rapidly drifting
into . state Of opposition to everything
proposed by the administration for no
other reason than that the administration
u Republican. This va ahoxn hx thu