The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-10-05
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

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Unless Mr.. Mckinley exhibits
little IN Ore backbone than usual, his
party managers are going to compel
him to drag Admiral Dewey along
with him on the stumping tour upon
which he is to start next week. They
are now trying to get him to promise
to ask Dewey to accompany him,
knowing that Dewey would have to
regard such arequest as an order he
must obey, regardless of his own wish
es. Mr.. Mckinley has not yet agreed
to become a party to this attempt to
use the country's admiration for Ad.
miral Dewey as a republican vote
maker, but there is danger that he will
do SO, Notwithstanding all the admin
istration talk for months past about
Dewey being allowed to dispose of
his time in any way he pleased when
he got back home.
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The administration is very glad Of
the Dewey excitement, which is now
at white heat. 1t serves to distract
public attention from the humiliating
fact that the Filipinos, who have no
navy, succeeded in sinking a U. S.
gunboat and killing or capturing its
entire crew, within IS miles of the city
of Manila.
If the Cubans all feel as strongly
concerning the action of Gen. Lud-
low, in pushing aside the civil author.
itles in Havana and putting an end
to labor strike by arbitrary military
authority, as Gen. Carlos Garcia, who
is now in Washington, does, there is
danger ahead When the news of
Ludlow's action reached Washington,
Gen. Garcia sent Ludlow a telegram
saying: 81 beg to remind you that you
are not IN Russia, and speaking of
that action he said: "Of all the blum
ders and arbitrary acts committed by
the military authorities in Cuba this
act of Gen. Ludlow, approved by
Governor General Brooke, is the
most vicious. Gen. Ludlow has been
most unwise in taking military charge
of affairs in Havana without being
asked for help by the civil authorities.
There was absolutely no need for such
a display Of brutal authority. The
strike was as pedceable as any peo-
pies gathering can be. Gen. Ludlow
has taken wrong view of the objects
of government in Cuba. He ought
not to have meddled in the strike.
The civil authorities ought to have
prevented his action, taking in ad-
vance the necessary precautions to
settle the differences between the en-
ployers and laborers. The charging
on helpless laundry women, reported
in the newspaper dispatches, shows
that brutal force has been unneces-
sarily used in Havana. | protest
against such outrages and denounce
them as violation of the rights my
people are entitled to under the guild
ance OF the American government.
Gen. Ludlow's ukase, in which he
threatened to plunge into the Cub
ansas fortress thousand or more men,
is the most abusive ostentation of
power that have ever heard, includ-
ing those issued by Weyler. | hope
that the administration will take this
matter up Immediately, so as to pre-
vent serious complications that may
arise from the inability OF Gems.
Brooke and Ludlow to cope with the
situation in Havana.
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The Census Bureau is to be the
same old political machine the re-
publicans have invariably made it,and
those who control the appointments
don't care how much it will cost the
people. An indication of this has just
been given by the choice of a tabuat
ing machine to be used. The Com
mittee decided to use the same ma
chimes that were used ten years ago
although a new machine was ottere(
which would do the work much faster
The decision is said to have beer
made because the new machines, i
adopted, would have largely reduced
the number of clerks required, which
republican Congressman protested
against.
According to the talk of citizens o
Michigan, who have been IN Washing
ton recently, the passing of Pngree
more pleasing than otherwise. ON
of them-Mr M. l. Duke, of Crane
Rapids, SAID: "Hon. Hazen Pingree'
Deafness Cannot be Cured