Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-05-25
OUR CAPITAL LETTER.
WASHINGTON is CELEBRATING ITS
PEACE JUBILEE THIS WEEK.
SpeaIsership Candidates Are Feeling for
votes-Alger as an Iugrato-Is Some
body Fomentipg u Rebellion in Cuba?
A Jersey Senator Lauds Trusts.

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body Fomenting u Rebellion in Cuba?
A Jersey Senator Lauds Trusts.
Washington, May 20, 1899.
Washington is decked out in inau-
guration toggery for the three-day Peace
Jubilee, which begins tomorrow, and
the additional beauty given by nature
furnishes another argument in favor OF
changing Inauguration Day from March
to about this season of the year, when
Washington is at its best, both for looks
and for the comfort of visitors.
Mr. Mckinley is finding the hot water
in which he has been ever since he got
back to Washington much more uncom
Portable than that in which he bathed at
at hot springs. The mess in Cuba,
where the Cuban army is almost on the
verge of open revolt, it is not conducive
to his peace of mind but it is no more
than might have been expected from the
| policy that he has allowed Alger to
attempt to carry out over there. Some
go as far as to charge that Alger is
trying to drive the Cuban army into
revolving for purposes of his own, al
though it is difficult to imagine what
purposes he could have that would be
served by such misfortune as that
would necessarily prove to be.
t / t
When Mr.. Mckinley went away he
expressed the opinion that Aguinaldo
would surrender and peace be estab-
lished in the Philippines before his
return, but he found things very much
as they were when he left Washington.
Aguinaldo is still trying to negotiate
and is still being refused by General
Otis.
Friends OF the several candidates for
speaker are trying to force Mr.. Nc
Kinley to declare himself and there is a
sort of understanding that in order to
square himself in both the East and
West, he has said that either Sherman
or Henderson would be perfectly ac-
ceptable to him. This understanding
has resulted in the formation of a com
bine of Henderson and Sherman sup
porters for the purpose Of shutting out
all other candidates, but that is not
satisfactory to the other candidates.
Payne is in Washington kicking hard
| against being left out in the cold, and
declaring that he intends to remain in
the field until the last, regardless of
orders from Boss Platt, Mr.. Mckinley
or anybody else. The friends OF Hop
kins also declare that he will not allow
himself to be froze out. 1t is all very
well for these gentlemen to talk, but
the question is how can they help them
selves; as soon as it becomes generally
known that neither is wanted by the
administration, neither will have any
supporters left.
The most amusing feature OF the
speakerShip campaign is the frantic
efforts OF what may be slangly called
the Reed push," to retain their grip
upon the plums in the house organiza-
tion. Their latest was an appeal to the
ex-czar to defer his resignation until
after he is elected speaker and has
named the committees. Whatever else
he may be, Mr.. Reed is not fool. He
knows that at best his election to be
speaker again would have been doubtful
not few believe that to have been
his real reason for retiring; and th- I
m NJ M hnr al
stand ghost of a show to be elected
speaker when it would be known that
his only object was to put the organiza-
tion of the committees into the hands OF
his friends and then get out.
t t
Although every body knew that Sena,
tor Kean, of New Jersey, was railroad
and cooperative lawyer, and therefore
naturally inclined to favor trusts of al
sorts, he surprised many by publicl,
; declaring, while he was in Washington
a day or two ago, that the people of New
Jersey would not support any party tha
condemned trusts, because the trust.
organized under their state laws paid Sc
; much money into their treasury. Surely
it is time to do some hard thinking whel
? senator publicly states his belief tina
his state has been bought by the trusts
to be exact, Mr.. Kean's words were
The annual revenue from the tax OF
the capital OF all corporations created
under our laws now amounts to between
$500, 900 and 5000, 900. You can readil
, see that the people who benefit iron
this influx of wealth are not apt to b
antagonistic to the corporations tha
contribute it,"