Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
wAsHrNoroN, Oct. 9th. 80.
EDITOR CRAWFORD AVALANCHE.

ing places:-Going, Canton, Akron
and Fostoria. Ohio; Fort Wayne and
Logansport, Ind; Decator, Spring
field. Quincy. Peoria, Galesburg and
Chicago. Ill; Evansville. Ind; Min
neapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, MINI;
West Superior, Vic; Fargo. North
Dacota; Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Returning: Sioux Falls and Yankton
s. Dakota; Sioux City and Dubuque,
Iowa; Galena, H.; Madison, Mil
waukee, Waukesha, Racine, Ke-
nosha, and Waukegan, Wis; Kala-
mazoo, Mich; Cleveland, Warren,
Niles, and Youngstown, Ohio.
Those who profess to believe that
Admiral Dewey Is lukewarm on the
expansion question have another
guess coming to them. He has too
true a conception OF the duty OF a
naval officer to speak publicly at tn s
time on such al important question,
but 1t eau be stated on good author
itv that there Is no stronger expan-
sionist In this country than Admiral
Dewey. President Mckinley. his
fellow members OF the Philippine
Commission and others, know this
now, and 10 due time all the world
will know it.
Representative Babcock, of Wis. i,
was in Washington, this week, hav-
ing recently returned from q trip
through the west and northwest. He
said: @West of the Missouri river the
people are unanimous in their sup
port of the administration, and are
the most pronounced advocates of
expansion. have never seen such
enthusiasm as they manifest, In the
northwest there is every bit as much
loyalty and support OF the admins.
tration; though there are possible
more men who are doubtful as to
what the future of the Philippines
should be. There is not the least
question that the entire country will
support every step OF the admiIistra-
ton. They will do so in the Presi-
Dental election in an unmistakable
manner"
Representative Boutelle, of Maine,
who was chairman of the House COM
mittee on Naval affairs in the last
congress, participated in an informal
conference with President Mckinley
on Philippine matters, before the
departure Of the presidential party to
the west. After this conference, at
which the President talked freely,
Mr., Boutelle said: "The administra-
tion policy is to carry out the mani
fest will OF the American people IN
furnishing troops TO go to the Philip
pine Islands to sustain the fruits of
Admiral Dewey's victory. The duty
that now devolves upon this govern
ment, is to maintain our sovereignty
over the islands, surtain our soldiers
against any enemy, and against any
disturbance of law and order, every
thing being for the purpose of estab-
fishing rightful government for the
people of the island In such manner
as the American government, through
the congress, shall determine. The
campaign must be pushed actively
and vigorously and the opposition to
our army must be ended as rapidly as
possible. Peace must be established
by this government and maintained
until Congress shall determine what
shall be done with the islands. From
what the President sayd, it is pro-
posed to bend every resource to the
stamping out of all opposition to our
authority, the settlement Of the war
and the establishment and maintain
ance of peace"
Admiral Dewey who will leave
Washington FOR visit to Vermont
next week, was one OF the last
men who talked with President Nc
Kinley before he started to the west,
and their talk was about the Philip.
pines, the Admiral having been
ESPECIALLY invited to go to the White
House and freely express his views
on the subject, an invitation that
was accepted and acted upon in the
same spirit IL was given.
Hon. Charles S. Hernley, chairman
at the Indiana State Republican Com.
mittee, attended the Dewey festiv.
tiles In Washington. He was in 9
ljubilant state of mind, because oi
the great material prosperity OF In
diana, both In the manufacturing
and agricultural sections. After
telling OF the increase of manufac
turing In the natural gas district
and OF the good times among tn,
farmers, he said. at is hardly ne
cessary to say, that the majority O.