Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-12
OUR CAPITAL LETTER.
MR.. M'klNLEY'S CHANGE OF MIND
AGAIN IN EVIDENCE.

He Appears to Believe Every Fair,
That Is Sent From the Philippines
What the Next Democratic Platform
Ought to Contain-SpeakershipC Contest
Washington, June 0, 1899.
Mr.. Mckinley has given the country
D another exhibition of a lightning
5 change of mind. After allowing those
who talked with him during several
days to get the impression that he was
about to call for volunteers for the
Philippines, he suddenly changed his
mind and announced that the cabinet
had decided not to call for volunteers,
but to replace the volunteers now in the
Philippines with regulars, and to
authorize General Otis to enlist natives.
1t is believed that the principal factor
in bringing about this lightning change,
was cablegram from Professor Schur-
man, president of the Philippine COM
mission, containing fairy story an
nouncing the early surrender of
Aguinaldo. Similar fairy stories by the
same author were the basis of the hope
of early peace INDUCED in by the ad-
miniStration, some weeks ago. The
rainy season, which lasts three months,
is on in the Philippines, making it i'm
possible for General Otis to worry
Aguinaldo much for that length of time.
That's why no early surrender is at al
probable.
t t
Hon. A. j. Warner, president of the
Bimetallic League, is in Washington.
He said of the probable Democratic
platform of next year: THE Demo-
cratic party will stand by the Chicago
platform. The money plank will be
made as full and as strong as If there
were no other issues. l would be in
favor also of making a declaration
against trusts, as if they were the only
issue; and the same with our declaration
against Imperialism and the Philippine
war. Neither question can be said to
obscure or take precedence of the other,
but all combine to make an issue that
believe the people will support"
t t
Representative Gordon, OF Ohio, who
is visiting Washington, talks interest
ingly of the political situation in his
Republicans are invincible in Ohio, this
year, will be badly fooled There never
was time when the party was so badly
split by factional dissensions, as now,
and If the Democrats are awake to their
opportunity, they will beat Senator
Hannas candidate for governor.
have no idea who will be named as the
Democratic candidate, but we have
plenty of good material to draw from.
Ohio is naturally Republican, but the
people do take kindly to political bosses,
and they are going to show their resent
ment at the polls this year"
/
In Austria, process for making arti
fetal cotton out of the fibre of the fiji
tree has been discovered, and reported
( to the state department, by the United
States consul at Reichenberg. ii,
quotes description Of the process, con
cluding as follows: Artificial cottol
can be produced so cheaply that th
, genuine article can hardly compet
= with it, and one cannot say that it is
sham, for it is composed, exactly as TIL
=. natural cotton, of pure cellulose." Tn
y, consul says himself 'In countr
u such as this, where forests of fir tree
y. abound and are made perennial, by con
~ stant repanting as the large trees ar
y cut down, and where all the cotton use
in the numerous factories must
brought from far India and the Unite
. States, such a devise should be prof
able" This is decidedly interesting
but it need not alarm cotton grower
: undl it is known to have been put int
practical use. 1t may be like TIL
chemical process by which real dit
monds can be made, which works a
" right, but the made diamond costs MOI
NJ than the natural diamond OF the sam
'f size sells for, which renders the proce
l. useless to the commercial world.
t
=, The friends of Representative She
hldls vi -NC" IOINi ulC
he was buncoed by the HendersonShe
! man speakership combine, into whic
J. he entered a short time ago, and the
e appears to be foundation for the clair
a The combine has already made Hende
n son the only Western candidate f
- speaker and given him an appare
:, walkover for the speakership. 1t is i
y" timateda that it was formed to do tn
e very thing, and that the administratit
was a party to it, having decided tn
Sherman's friendship for Reed, al
Reeds influence over him, made hi
# undesirable speakership timber. The
70 may, of course, be slip up in the pr
~ gram, but it is the general impressit
in Washington that Henderson alreaC
4. II.