The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-08-23
Washington Letter.
(From ocr Regular Correspondent J

(From our Regular Correspondent
Frequenters of the War Depart
ment, which continues to be the
busiest of them all, are reminded by
the present situation, Of the adage
about the difficulty of teaching old
dogs new tricks. There is new
head to the department, but the ma
chinery is just the same that it was
during the Alger regime, and there
is the same dlsiuclination to tell the
public anything that can be hid. al
though it is well known that more
men have already been enlisted than
will fill the original announced num-
Der OF Philippine regiments of volun-
teers, ard that en!istments are still
being made as rapidly as possible.
War Department officials say that no
official decision has been made to in
crease the number Of regiments, and
that no additional call for volunteers
is likely. This is nothing more than
quibbling. 1t is so certain that more
regiments will be organized that lists
of their officers have been made out.
As to issuing a new call for yolun-
teers, none is necessary to continue
the recruiting up to the limit fixed
by Congress-35,000 men. AS mat
ter of TACT, no call was issued when
the present recruiting was begun-a
simple order of the Secretary OF War
was issued.
Senator Clay expresses the belief
that there will be an ti.expansion
Republican presidential ticket in the
field next year, and that such men as
Tom Reed and ex-Secretary OF the
Treasury Boutwell,, Of Mass, will sup
port it, and that its votein New Eng
land will be large enough to throw
tue electoral votes of those States to
the Democrats.
That nearly all of the negroes
trouble has its origin in bad advice,
given sometime thoughtlessly and
not few times with the malicious
intention to make trouble is well
known to those who have taken the
time to study the race problem. a
Washington lawyer deserves place
among the bad advisers OF the negro.
He stated, in an argument in defence
of negro who was charged with be-
ing disorderly and found guilty and
fined, that his client would have been
justified had he shot the policeman
who arrested him. If some negro
desperate who heard that statement
should kill the first officer who at
tempted to arrest him for some petty
crime, wouldn't that lawyer be an
accessory to the murder?
The administration crowd is really
becoming alarmed at the extent If
the "nigger" animosity to Mr.. Nc
Kinley, and the word has been passed
around to the "nigger" Office hold
ers to whoop it up for the admins
tration at every turn, and especially
to try to counteract the anti-Mchin-
ley talk at the gathering, in Chicago,
to be known as the Afro-American
Council The negro voters of Ohio
have it in their power to make it i'm
possible for the Neutrality-suspicious.
candidate for governor to be elected;
consequently, they are being ',jollied"
by everybody connected with the
administration, but some of those
"niggers" are just smart enough to
make it plain that an Office with
good salary attachment is the only
sort Of jolly they will take from the
administration.
The revival of the story alleging
the intention of ex-Czar Reed to re-
main in Congress and lead the fight
against expansion, on the floor Of the
House, probably had no more sub
stautial basis than desire to worry
those republicans who for one or
another reason welcome his retire
ment from Congress. Even if he re-
NAMED in the House, he would not
lead the fight on imperialism; that
patriotic duty will be performed by
democrat
Representative Bankhead, of Ala,
was III Washington this week. He
was indignant because Of publica-
ton several days ago alleging that
he attended an anti-BrYan meeting