The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-07-12
Washington Letter.
(From orr Regular Correspondent. }


Washington, July Tt seems that
s1r. Mckinley is going into the busi-
ness OF Senator-making, notwith-
standing the ill-fortune of other Pres
i,lents who have engaged therein.
Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
John is the administration candidate
for Senator Thurston's seat, he hav-
ing stated his intention to retire
March 3rd, 1901, when his term will
expire. OF all branches OF this ad-
ministration the War Department is
the worst from which a candidate for
anything could be taken, and the
Democrats of Nebraska, who already
had excellent chances for electing a
majority 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 gossip in Washington
has it that the Alger-Pinsree mix-up
is the personal work of Mr.. McKin.
ley, and that the entire influence OF
the administration is to be used to
help Alger defeat Senator Mcmillan,
provided, of course, that the Repuh-
leans can elect majority of the next
Michigan Legislature-a very i'm
portant proviso, by the way. In view
of what Alger has done to discredit
the administration, this seems to be
an astonishing sort of deal, but
those who have closely followed the
Hanna Mckinley political deals from
the spring of $50 to the present time
6nd it difficult to he astonished at
anything. According to this story,
which may or may not be true, AL
ger has succeeded in convincing Mr..
Mckinley that all of the attacks on
Algerism have heen 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 administration 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, b"t treachery to friends has
long been a Hanna specially, and ad-
ministration Senators will not be as
badly needed during the remainder
of Mr.. McKinleys term as they were
when the Republicans were short of a
majority in the Senate.
Democrats are citing the case with
which Ex-Governor Hogg Of Texas
converted the Tammsny Fourth Of
July meeting, which it had been gen.
orally understood was to ignore Col.
Bryan, if not directly autagonize him,
into wildly enthusiastic Bryan gath
eriug 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 attempt to engage in candidate
making. That meeting may prove a
valuable object lesson to those who
now imagine the possibility of pre-
venting the national convention regis
tering the will of the Democratic
party at large.
\ New Mexican who attended the
recent Rough Riders reunion in that
Territory has let brand new Roose-
velt cat out of the bag. He says that
Governor Teddy" told his old com
rades that brigade OF Rough Riders
would be enlisted for the Philippines
at once, and that he could commaod
it if he decided it advisable to resign
the Governorship of New York to
take it. Nobody in Washington had
heard word OF all this until the ar
rival of the gentlemen from New
Mexico. 1t may be merely product
OF the "silly season" or it may be
true, but if Governor Roosevelt is
willing to resign his present exalted
position to go to the Philippines he
will surprise those who give him
credit for knowing how to hold on to
a good thing when be has it.
There is hitch somewhere in the
program arranged for the giving out
of concessions for various sorts of
franchises in Porto Rico, and it was
this week semi-oficially announced
that the War Department would
probably not grant any concessions
on the island in advance of Congress
sioDal action. This announcement
would have aroused mole public in
terest if it had not been known that
NIr. Mckinley was almost, if not quite
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