The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-11-16
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 10, 1899

policy of the administration has made
the issue, with Republican Senators
and Representatives who have called
on him since the elections. Among
his more recent callers was Senator
Kyle, of South Dakota, who said of
the campaign in his state: 1.-THE issue
was the support of the administration
and expansion, and the result was an
emphatic endorsement of the admin
istration and its policy in the Philip
pines" Representative Grosvenor, of
Ohio, another caller, said: sit is my
honest opinion that even before Con-
gress meets the Instruction in the
Philippines will be ended, and the
situation be such as to allow the Pres
ident to turn the matter over to Con-
gress for legislation. 1t looks to me
as though it would not be many days
before our army has captured Aguin-
aldo and ended his rebellion. With
the downfall of Aguinaldo will end
all this talk of the so-called imperial
istic movement. The elections have
already shown the weakness of the
anti-expansion policy and | do not
think the Democrats will dare to go
to their national convention, and
declare against expansion in the face
of this years elections. By that time
anti-expansion will be so dead that
even the Democrats will not try to
revive it, Senator McCumber, of
North Dakota, said: Expansion in
North Dakota doesn't mean imperial
ism and a big standing army. 1t
means development of trade We
want, of course, an army of sufficient
strength for ali important nation"
Representative Barham, of Cal, said:
The President and his policy has
the approval of the majority Of the
people, and the result of the elections
make it certain, if it was not so before,
that Mckinley and Bryan will run
against each other again. Mckinley
will defeat him easily"
Mrs. Elizabeth l. JOY, wife Of Rep
resentative Joy, of Missouri, is act
lively engaged in working up senti-
ment against allowing Roberts, the
polygamist Representatives. from
| Utah, to retain his membership of the
House. She has prepared a petition,
a copy of which she has sent to the
of Of bn Of
the Fifty-siXth Congress, requesting
| that it be signed and returned to her.
This petition reads as follows I'VE,
the wives of the members-e of the
incoming Congress, hereby urge our
respective husbands in their official
capacity, and the Fifty-Sixth Con-
gress as an organized body, to eXpel
from membership therein Brigham
H. Roberts, of Utah. The spirit of
our civilization and of our laws, as
well as the dignity of American
womanhood and the purity of the
American home, demand that neither
he, nor any such as he, shall ever take
part in the councils of the law makers
of our beloved country"
DIR. Wise. of the Second District of
Virginia, who was seated in the last
House after a contest, will contest the
same seat, against the same opponent,
in the next House. Speaking of the
frauds practiced in his district, in
order to make an apparent Demo
cratic majority where everybody
knows the majority is overwhelming
ly Republican, DR.. Wise said This
outrage on the purity of the ballot
cannot be indefinitely continued.
There are signs of a revulsion of feel
ing among Democrats of the better
class, who are tired of seeing this ras-
cally work done year after year. And
when election day in 1900 comes
around hundreds of Virginia Demo
Gratis will cast their votes for VIM.
Mckinley, for they are anxious to see
a continuation of the present prosper
ity, which they fear would be changed
to adversely if their party should get
in power"
Senator Foraker said of the result
in Ohio, which he played so important
a part in bringing about, and of the
general result: 1T was a victory for
the administration, and will greatly
strengthen President Mckinley and
in that way have decided effect
upon Congress and the whole country.
Prosperity will continue and nobody
will think of any other Republican
than Mckinley as our candidate for
the Presidency in 1900. Changes in
the political situation will come, no
doubt, within The next twelve months,
but the probabilities are that they
will strengthen the Republican party.
The most likely changes will be the
suppression of the instruction in the
Philippines, the enactment of the
necessary legislation to reform and
improve our monetary system, to re-
store our merchant marine, build an
Oceanic canal across the Isthmus, etc.