The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29
IS TOO HEAVY A BURDEN
It Is Reported That Secretary
Alger Must Go.
MILES IS ALSO BOOKED
Experimental Freaks OF the Michigan
Man Have Reached a Limit-McKin-
ley Hungry for Expansion as
the Most Radical lingo.

New York, Jan. ga special dis
patch to the Herald says: 1t is de-
clared that Secretary Alger is to be re-
moved from the war Northumberland
the president will be forced to send him
back to Michigan
1t is also declared that General Miles
is to be removed for two reasons, first,
that when, as he alleges he found the
beef bad he did not so report to the
government; second, that he does not
work tremendously with the admins
tration. .f
If reports are true, this will be the
result of the investigation by the war
commission. It will report against the
charges that 'embalmed" beef was
supplied to the soldiers, and that the
canned and otherwise prepared meat
was bad or poisonous; also that the
charges that soldiers did not have
proper food are untrue.
With General Eagan court martialed
and as gracefully as possible relegated
into obscurity, and Alger put out of the
war department, and. better than all,
from an administration point of view,
General Miles removed, the admins
tration will have a chance to return
to its more important work of getting
its numerous islands upon a business
basis. Millions of capital and repre-
sentatiyes of the chief interests of the
country are anxious to begin drumming
up trade in the new possessions Of trop-
zeal America.
A1gerism at the Limit.
1t is said the administration has
stood by Secretary Alger with great
fnrhParanaa rtrip
cere personality and experimental
freaks in the war department have
reached the limit
It is said President Mckinley is as
hungry for expansion as the most ard
ent lingo, but he believes in making
haste slowly. He is a born diplomat,
with able men around him, and as an
administration syndicate they are not
only in full possession of the govern
ment, but largely in control of the poll
tics and business of the country.
So the situation may be summed up
in agraph-"Expansion and no
hauling down of the American flag"
Progression in the newly acquired
islands and victory for the next Nc
Kinley campaign is the programme of
the administration.
Any obstacle standing in the way of
this carefully prepared scheme must
/. go. Any little thing like the beef
scandal is only an incident in the
daily routine of spreading the Ameri-
can flag from Porto Rico to the Philip
pines u.
Success on these lines will mean the
reelection of Mckinley by an expan-
sive majority. 1t means glory and
prosperity for every man in the game.
Millions are at stake. The property Of
the country and the big combinations
behind it will tolerate no picayune in
reference 1t is considered a national
crime for any man, high or low, to him
der the harmony of the government
machinery.
Annoyed by Petty squabbles.
Never were the affairs of state so
nomentous. Hence the annoyance of
the intrusion of petty sauabbles into
war department affairs. The statesmen
outraged. The syndicate managers
who gave their money and hearts in the
= last campaign to elect Mckinley are as
much interested in expanding the bust
ness of the country and doubling the
demand for American products as the
president himself.
This explains why things are working
in one general direction. Senators, rep
resentatives. statesmen, office holders
and party leaders all over the country
have received their cue and are beating
their drums accordingly.
Harmony is the watchword. If things
are not right, keep your mouth shut
for the good of the country" What IL
there was bad beef and a general mud
die in the transportation service? We
whipped the Spaniards. new and glo-
rious history was made, and the gov
eminent takes it's place high among the
great powers of the world.
The situation may be compared to
petty crisis in a large business house.
A clerk, caught in an alleged inCliscre-