The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-07

@ERHAPS the plan operated by the
~ New York Evening Post will
force the president to remove
Secretary Alger from cabinet service.
That newspaper demands that Alger be
retired I'm order to avert "the terrible
national misfortune OF a Bryanite ma
iority in the next house Of representa-
tives."
This suggestion is significant; it shows,
that spite Of their protests to the con-
trary. the organs Of gold realize that
the silver question easily survived the
war. that II has not been obscured, that
it is a living issue, that the advocates
Of h single standard will be compelled
TO deal with II. In a practical sense
the presence Of a "Bryanite majority"
next session In the house Of representa-
tives could accomplish nothing. OF
course. the moral effect OF the existence
OF such a majority would be great, but
IL could not be a law-making majority,
as far as silver is concerned, because II
would not be, In human probability, a
majority large enough TO overcome the
executive veto. The fact remains, how
ever, that the result which the nervous
Evening Post describes as a terrible ma
tionaI misfortune is a possibility in the
campaign Of this autumn.
That is to say, the misconduct OF the
war by the administrations agents Is
likely to furnish n side issue in this
years politics: that is the reverse Of
what the administrations managers
had been hoping for and planning. Mr..
Hanna is one Of the white-house spon-
sors who have lately been declaiming
that questions growing out Of the war
have SEM silver to the rear and they
viii furnish the issues for approaching
politics. 1t Is not turning out that way.
except that the var departments Grim
inal shortcomings will furnish a cam
paiEn theme. Have you noticed how
suddenly. since the state-convention sea
son set in, the discussion of territorial
extension schemes has ceasedT Tina is a
question that will keep: the public
shows no disposition to take j
up until il presents Itself In tangible
form. as the result or the peace com
missions talk. or otherwise. ManifestlS
the proposition for wholesale annexa'
tion, under the proposition that where
our flag once files II must always fly. Il
In almost universal disfavor. Th'
American people have about made al
p their minds what the peace negotiation
will come to-they are not much dis
+, posed 70 discuss details.
With this question made quiesceR
g neither the war nor its saquels can fur
nlsh for the congressional elections o
his year An issue that viii be helpful
q To the ADMINISTRATORS side. Dewey
victory was his own; the administra
, TONS only relation TO 81 is its remark
. able Hardness IN sending him reinforce
"a ments. The naval operations at San
!, tiago are not even remotely associates
!. in the public mind with any service rem
dered by the Washington cabinet circle
Surely the administration will not un
r dertake 10 point with pride to its scan
Is daIous incompetenCy IN connection Wit
? the Shafter campaign. But. meanwhile
the misplaced camps. the unwarrant
able death rate. the successive hosp
tal-ship horrors. the dishonest commits
II sary. the political appointments, the al
ter collapse OF the supplies department.
these things viii figure IN coming pol
tics and they will serve 20 upset admin
istration plans for forcing war issues.
e So ms the New York Evening Poi