The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-05-05
Home from the Grant Ami
versary Celebration at
Philadelphia.
WILL LOSE SUPPORT
Bryan's Opposition to Expansion Will
React Against the Free
Silver Leader.

secretary Vl1nOus VIII Is III ouuUu OoI
olina; Secretary Alger, who has gone
to Detroit, and Postmaster General
Smith, who went to Galena, ILL.,, to
deliver an address ut the Grand ami.
versary celebration, went to Philadel-
phia to witness the unwilling Of the
monument to General Grant. They re-
turned to Washington Friday and are
all enthusiastic over the handsome
monument and their own pleasant re-
ception by the Pennsylvanians. The
unwilling of this fine equestrian statue
of General Grant has called attention
anew to the regretable fact that no
statue of him has yet been erected at
the national capital, for which he did
so much, and which is the home of his
widow, daughter and grandchildren.
That there will be a Grant monument,
worthy of the man and Of the city,
erected in Washington some day, is
hardly to be doubted.
The military court of inquiry has
completed it's report and as soon as
President Mckinley can look it over it
will be made public. An official who
knows the nature of the report said Of
it: "Those who expected the report to
contain any whitewashing of wrong
doing Oh the part Of anybody that was
exposed by the testimony will be disap.
pointed. 1t is a straightforward, bust
ness document from start to finish, and
contains language that will make I'M
pleasant reading for some officers who
neglected to perform their duties prop
arly; it also contains sharp structures
for those contractors who profited by
the failure of officers to properly look
out for the interests of the govern
ament."
Predictions are being freely made
that Mr.. Bryan will lose much support
Wy reason of the position he has taken
III opposition to expansion as a whole
and to the policy that this government
is pursuing in the Philippines in par
'ticular, Senator Clay of Georgia was
asked what his people thought Of the
Philippine policy, which Mr.. Bryan is
almost daily attacking, and he said:
"They realize that we cannot leave
these people to the mercies of a savage
government, nor can we leave them a
prey to foreign nations, but at the same
time they hope that the time is not far
distant when we q establish the Fill
pinos on q firm foundation and then
leave them" Senator Clay ia
what of al annexationist when it comes
to Cuba and Porto Rico, of which he
said: ~ am sure that we can develop
Porto Rico and as for Cuba I confident.
ly expect to see it a state inside of ten
years" When asked the direct ques-
ton whether Bryan would control the
Georgia delegation to the democratic
national convention next year, Senator
CLAY replied: ~ cannot say and
when asked who he intended support.
ing, he said: ~ do not yet know. I
have not made up my mind. The con-
vention is a year distant aud many
things may happen. Silver may not be
the paramount issue next year.
Another southern senator said: IF the
democratic convention adopts a plat.
form conforming to. Bryan's speeches
on the expansion question. Mckinley
will get the unanimous vote of the next
electoral college"
Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma. WHO is
in Washington on private business, said
of the political outlook: mckinley
will have the enthusiastic support of
the western republicans. His admins.
tration is extremely popular with the
masses and no one else will be in it for
the nomination. We are all for him in
the territory aud one of the first dis
tricts to instruct for him will be Okla
homa, az we recognize his worth and
greatness and his wonderful grasp OH
the great events through which this
country is passing. Not to renomi-
nate him would DO the acme of lmbecil-
ity, for not in many years has the re-
publican party had such "a leader"
Mr.. d, G.. WOrtheu, a prominent
Cincinnati republican who is visiting
Washington, said of Sam Jones, the
socialist mayor-elect of Toledo, who is
being doomed by the Ohio democrats as
the republican candidate for governor
of the stare: He simply isn't a factor
in tile struggle for the honor. His OK,
IRENE sGcialistic views have put all the
conservative people of the state against
him and outside of his own city he has
no following. The democratic papers
of Ohio are starring him to try to make
trouble for the republicans, but they
may be laying up misery for their OWL
party, since the effect of SO much lioniz'
ing may be that Jones will be forced
upon the democratic convention as iti
candidate for governor. Jones isn't q
party man, anyway, and his recent
local triumph may cause him to think
that he can run on any kind of 4 ticket
and win, II he should try the expert
ment of buokipg against the republican
candidate ha will emerge from tie con-
test a sadder but wiser man"
While the speakership contest il
muoh talked about in Washington, II
can hardly be said to have vet reached