Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-10-22
REPUBLICAN OUTLOOK.
The War Investigating Commission
at Florida American Furniture
Exported Other Notes.
from our Regular Correspondent

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4NVtEcs
(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. I7.-Chairmau
Babcock, of the Republican Congress
sional Campaign Committee, is get
ting good news these days. Like
Senator Hanna, he was while back
afraid that over confidence would keep
SO many Republicans at home, that
control of the next House might be
lost, but from reports he is now re-
ceiving, the Republicans in all sec
tions are becoming thoroughly alive
to the necessity Of getting out the
full vote ard keeping control Of the
House, SO that when the Senate be-
comes Republican, as it will after the
fourth of next March, both branches
OF Congress will be in a 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 new foreign policy made neces-
sary 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 it, both
at home and abroad, while nobody
knows what the Democratic party
would give it, further than that DEM
ocratic success would mean a renewal
of the uncertainties which were so
disastrous to our commercial and in
dustrial interests during the last
Cleveland regime. There has never
been any doubt during this campaign
as to the feeling Of the majority Of
the voters; only fear that feeling
of over-security might result in too
many Republicans not taking suf-
ficient interest 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 cleo
ton day.
The Treasury Department has
granted 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 United
States 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 wit
nesses in the camp will this week be
inaugurated, was preceded by the
ringing assertion of Gen. Dodge,
chairman of the commission, that the
commission would see that every wit
ness was protected 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
sepseless charge that witnesses have
been afraid to tell the commission
what they knew. There has been no
such fear on the part of any witness,
but there has been wide differences in
the stories told to the commission and
those published as having been told
by the same witnesses to yellow
journals. A notable case of this sort
was that of Dr. Seaman, who arrived
in New York, from Porto Rico, last
week, and whose alleged sensational
statements to yellow reporters caused
him to be summoned to Washington,
by telegraph, to testify before the
commission.
American furniture is getting CON
troll of even such araway markets as
South Africa. In report TO the De