Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-10-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. d. O.. Oct. II. 'aS.

Chairman Babcock, of the Repub-
lican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, is getting good news these
days. Like Senator Hanna, he was
awhile back afraid that over conf
dence would keep so many Repub.
licans at home that control of the
next house might be lost, but from
reports he is now receiving the Re
publicans in all sections are becom-
ing thoroughly alive to the neces-
sity of getting out the full vote and
keeping control of the House. so
that when the Senate becomes Re
publican, as it will after the fourth
of next March, both branches of
Congress will be in condition to put
through the necessary legislation to
carry out the domestic policy of the
administration, which will continue
the prosperity that the country is
now enjoying, as we'll as show the
world that the country is behind
President Mckinley in carrying out
the foreign policy made necessary
by the results of the war, just as it
was behind him in the conduct of
the most successful war in all his
tory. The country knows just
what the Republican party offers 1t,
both at home and abroad, while no.
body knows what the Democratic
party would give it, further than
that Democratic success would
mean renewal of the uncertain.
ties which were so disastrous to our
commercial and industrial interests
during the last Cleveland regime.
There has never been any doubt
during this campaign as to the feel.
ing of the majority of the voters !;
only fear that feeling of over Sc
curity might result in too many re-
publicans not taking sufficient inter
est to make sure of success in the
Congressional campaign. Thanks
to hard and intelligent work on the
part of the party leaders, that fear
is daily being lessened, and bids
fair to entirely disappear before
election day.
The Treasury Department has
granted a request made by General
Franco Sanchez commander of the
Cuban insurgent army at Mayari,
Cuba, that one hundred thousand
pounds of tobacco, captured by that
army, be admitted to the U. S. free
of duty, in order that it may be sold
for the benefit of the men under
Gen. Sanchez, who are in need of
almost everything.
The commission engaged in inves-
tigating the conduct of the war,
which has started for Jacksonville,
Fla, where the work of hearing
witnesses in the camp will this
week be inaugurated, vas preceded
by the ringing assertion of General
Dodge, Chairman of the Commits
sion, that the Commission would
see that every witness was protec-
ted who had anything to tell that
might arouse enmity on the part OF
his superior officers. These words
of Gen. Dodge are all the answer
that is needed to the senseless
charge that witnesses have been
> afraid to tell the commission what
they knew. There has been nc
such fear on the part of any witness
but there has been wide differences
in the stories told to the commits
sion, and those published as having
been told by the same witnesses tC
yellow journals. A notable case O
this tort was that of DIR. Seaman
who arrived in New York from
Porto Rico last week, and whose
alleged sensational statements t.
yellow reporters caused him to b,
summoned to Washington, by tele
graph, to testify before the Com
mission.
9 American furniture is gettinI
control of even such far away mar
> kets as South Africa. In a repor
= to the Department of State Consu
Gen. }. g. Stowe, at Cape Town
. says the value of American furni
: ture imported into South Africa, i
: '97 was 1854, 979 90, being secon
e only to Great Britain and ahead c
Germany, and that Americans ca
easily control the market, if ou
r. manufacturers will ship their furni
> ture knockdown and 80 made tina
n it can be put together easily, mum
? bering each corresponding piece
y Concluding Mr.. Stowe said "TheT
is no fault with the prices charge
by American manufacturers, eve
n with the duty added but it is tn
excessive freight on account of bul
and the difficulty of putting .togetL
er, shipped knockdown, of which tn
] dealers complain.