The Opelousas courier., 1898-08-27
Washington, ID. e., News.
IN our Regular Correspondent

From our Regular Correspondent
Washington, Aug, %, 1898.
''Lct Admiral Dewey dictate
our policy towards the Phillip
pine islands, That is the sum
and substance of the advice that
some of his most level-headed
friends, who have observed the
fact that Dewey has not made a
single mistake from the day he
destroyed the Spanish fleet to the
day he forced the surrender of
Manila, have been giving Mr.. Nc
Kinley, who apparently is still
without a policy of his own. 1t
has been urged upon him that
Dewey during the nearly four
months he has been in Man ila
bay, has thoroughly familiari1ed
himself with the condition on t he
islands, and would be better able
than any man who is not there,
to say what relations we ought to
maintain towards them. 1t has
also been pointed out to him that
the public confidence in Dewey's $
judgment and patriotism would
cause his decision to be received
without question by the people.
All of these things Mr.. Mckinley
has acknowledged, and he would
doubtless be glad to adopt and act
upon the advice were it not that
some of his political advisers have
aroused his jealousy of Admiral
Dewey us a possible rival in 1900,
and told him that Dewey must be
kept in the background if he wan-
ted to keep him out of the White
House.
Not satisfied with reducing the
salary of u man who was at one
time considered competent to fill
the position of Chief Clerk, !. the
Civil Service Commission has dis
missed the man for criticism of
his superiors in oficc-and awful
crime, in the minds of his super
iors. The aforesaid criticism
consisted of an answer made by
the clerk-E. d. Bailey, to pub
lie defamation of himself by the
Commission. The Commission
has never forgiven Bailey for
having exposed some of its hum
buggcry when Il witness before a
Senate Committee, and has prob
ably wasted much time, highly
paid for by the peoples money, in
scheming how to humble him, or
push him out of office, without
seeming to be actuated by any
other desire than the good of the
service, only to make fzzle of
it at last. Bailey may have de-
served dismissal-many think the
whole civil service outfit does
but he should have been gwen a
proper cause for his discharge
and it should have been so en-
tered on the record.
Gen. Blanco is showing a dis
position to take advantage of the
published disinclination of the
administration to send an army
of occupation to Cuba before cool
weather, to carry things with a
high hand at Havana, and to pre-
judice the rabble against the Z. s..
Blanco's intention to make fu-
ture trouble for us is so plain
that it is worrying the admins
tration no little, and demands
that Blanco be peremptorily call
ed down are reaching Mr.. Nc
Kinley from all sections of the
country.
That there is no limit to Span
ish gall was shown by the unoffi-
cial objection made by the COVER
nment of Spain to the selection
of Senator Davis, of Mimi,
Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on foreign relations, to be one
of the American Peace Commits
sioners, because his anti-Spanish
views were too strong and too
well-known. We're such an OBJ
lection held to be valid, Mr.. Nc
Kinley would have to choose for
Peace Commissioners such men
as Senator Wellington, of Nd,
and Senator Hale, of Me-, about
the only two Senators who made
their friendliness towards Spain
CONSPICUOUS during the debate
which preceded the war. 1t will
be all up with Mr.. Mckinley if
every one of the five Peace Com
missioners chosen by him, are not
known to be strongly anti-Span-
ish in their views. Already there
has been some criticism of the Sc
lection of Secretary Day, for that
very reason, but it has remained
within bounds because it is
known that Mr.. Day will advance
the opinions of Mr.. Mckinley,
and not his own, when the Peace