Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
From or Regular Cores pom lent.

the Fortunes 81 war?-McKiniey Aspires to
Be King of the Antilles.
From orr Regular Cores 9onlent.
WASHINGTON, July Z, 1899.
1t seems that Mr.. Mckinley is GO
ing into the business of Senator max
ing, Notwithstanding the ill-fortune OF
other Presidents who have engaged
therein. Assistant Secretary OF War
Meiklejohn is the administration can
didate for Senator Thurston's seat, he
having stated his intention TO retire
March Sd, 1901, when his term will ex-
pire. OF all branches of this admins
tration the War Department is the
worst from which candidate for any
thing could be taken, and the Demo-
Gratis OF Nebraska, who already had
excellent chances for electing a ma
jority of the next Legislature, and
Thurston's successor, ought to, and
doubtless will, thank Mr.. Mckinley
for making their task easier by back
ing the Assistant Secretary of War as
the administration candidate for the
Senate.
The latest gossipin Washington has
it that the Alger-Pingree mix-up is
the personal work of Mr.. Mckinley.
and that the entire influence of the
administration is to be used to help
Alger defeat Senator Mcmillan, pro-
vided, OF course, that the Republicans
can elect majority of the next Mich
igan legslature-a very important
prOviso, by the way. In view OF wha,
Alger has done to discredit the admin
istration, this seems to he an astonish-
ing sort OF deal, bnt those wro have
closely followed the various Hanna
Mckinley political deals from the
spring of '96 to the present time find
it difficult to be astonished at any
thing. According to this story, which
may or may not be true, Alger has
succeeded in convincing Mr.. McKin-
ley that all Of the attacks on Algerism
have been in reality attacks on the
entire administration, and that unless
Alger can be vindicated by an election
to the Senate all these charges will be
placed against the Mckinley admins
tration by history. 1t is plain that
the support of Alger by the Mckinley
administration will be an act of
treachery to Senators Mcmillan and
Burrows, both of whom have been
steadfast administration men, but
treachery to friends has long been a
Hanna speciality, and administration
Senators will not be as badly needed
during the remainder OF Mr.. McKin.
ley's term as they were when the Re-
publicans were short of majority in
the Senate.
Democrats are citing the ease with
which ex-Gov. Hogg, of Texas, con-
verified the Tammany Fourth of July
meeting, which it had been generally
understood was to ignore Col. Bryan,
if not directly antagonize him, into
wildly enthusiastic Bryan gathering
as an evidence of the wonderful hold
that Col. Bryan has upon the rank
and file OF the Democratic party-the
men who cast the votes, but do not at
tempt to engage in Notwithstanding.
That meeting may prove a valuable
object Lesson TO those who now
imagine the possibility of preventing
the National Convention registering
the will of the Democratic party at
large.
A New Mexican who attended the
recent Rough Riders reunion in that
Territory has let brand new Roose-
welt cat out of the bag. He says that
Gov. TEDDY" told his old comrades
that a brigade of Rough Riders would
be enlisted for the Philippines at once,
and that he could command it, if he
decided it advisable to resign the Gov
ernorsbip of New York to take it.
Nobody in Washington had heard
word of all this until the arrival OF the
gentlemen from New Mexico. 1t may
be merely a product of the "silly sea-
son." or it may be true, but if Gov.
Roosevelt is willing to resign his pres
ent exalted position to 60 to the Phil.
ippines. he will surprise those who
give him credit for knowing how to
hold on to good thing when he has
it,.
There is hitch somewhere in the
programme arranged for the giving
out OF concessions for various sorts OF
franchises in Porto Rico, and it was
this week semi-officially announced
that the War Department would prob.
ably not grant any concessions on the
island in advance OF Congressional ac-
ton. This announcement would
have aroused more public interest if
it had not been known that Mr.. Nc
Kinley was almost, if not quite per.
suaded OF his right to promulgatc a
code of laws for Porto Rico in advance
OF Congressional action. In fact, it is
understood that the Insular Commits.
sion, which ended its official life with
the close OF the last fiscal year, has
been re-habilitated by Mr.. Mckinley
for the express purpose OF preparing a
code of laws for Porto Rico. If the
ooeuIIlcS tu6 10
make laws for Porto Rico, it will hard
ly leave the granting Of concessions to
Congress, especially when men to
whom it is under political obligations
are after those concessions.
1t has been officially announced
that all the new volunteer officers
above the rank of captain are to be
taken from the regular army; that
one captain and one first lieutenant
are to be appointed from the volun-
teers from each State, and all the Sec
ond lieutenants from the volunteers
at large. Dem.
A marriage license was issued Fri
day at Colfax to julius L. Bispring
and Emma Smith, both of Colfax.
The bride.to-be is only 16 years of age,
but has the written consent of her par