The Opelousas courier., 1899-05-27
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 90, 1899.
Washington is decked out in Inaugu
ration toggery for the three day Peace
Jubilee which begins tomorrow, ant
the additional beauty given by nature
furnish another argument in favor o
changing Inauguration day from Marcel
to about this season of the year., whel
Washington is at its best, both fol
looks and4or the comfort of visitors.
Mr.. Mckinley is finding tho hot water
in which he has been ever since he hal
got back to Washington much more uu
comfortable than that in which he
bathed at the hot springs. The mess il
Cuba, where the Cuban army i~sWos'
on the verge of open revolt>is not ian.
ductive to his peace of mind, but it's
NO more than what might have been ex-
pected from the policy that he has
allowed Alger to attemp1 to carry out
over there. Some go as far as tQcharge
that Alger is trying to ~driva~tle Cuban
army into revolving for purposes of his
own, although it is difficult to imagine
what purposes he could have that would
be served by such a misfortune as that
would necessarily prove to be.
When Mr.. Mckinley went away lie
expressed the opinion that Aguinaldo
would surrender ant. peace be estab-
lished in the Philippines before his re-
turn, 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 Gen. Otis.
Friends OF the several candidates for
| Speaker are trying to force Mr.. Nc
Kinley to declare himself, and there is
- Govt ~ lornfn,l ttok in ,rIn, ~
| square himself in both the East and
| West, he has said that either Sherman
or Henderson wonld be perfectly &C
ceptable to him. This understanding
has resulted in the formation of q COM
bine Of Henderson and Sherman sup
porters for the purpose of shutting out
all other candidates, but that is not sat
isfactOry to the other candidates. Payne
is in Washington kicking hard against
being left out in the cold, aud 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 Hopkins also de-
clare that lie will not allow himself to
be frozen out. 1t is all very we'll for
these gentlemen to talk, but the ques-
ton is how can they help themselves /;
as soon as it becomes generally known
that neither is wanted by the admins
%tration. neither will have any supper
ters left.
The most amusing feature of the
efforts of what may be slangIy
called the Reed PUSH" to retain their
grip upon the pIums in the House or
gaDization. Their latest was an appeal
to the ex-Czar to defer his resigna-
ton until after he is elected Speaker
and has named the committees. What
ever else he may be, Reed is not II fool.
He knows that at his best his election
to be Speaker again would have been
doubtfnl-not Il few believe that to
have been his real reason for retire
ing and that neither be o any other
man would stand a ghost Of a show to
be elected Speaker when it would be
known that his only object va to put
the organization of the Committees into
the hands of his friends and then get
out.
Although everybody knew that Sen
ator Kean, of N. j., was II railroad and
corporation lawyer. and therefore ma
turally inclined to favor trusts of all
sorts. he surprised many by publicly de-
day or two ago, that the people of New
Jersey would not support any party
that condemned trusts, because the
organized under their state laws
paid SO much money into their Treasn-
ry. Surely it is time to do some hard
thinking when IL Senator publicly
states that his State has been
bought by the trusts. To be
exact, Mr.. kean's words were: "The
annual revenue from the tax on the
of all corporations created I'M
der our laws now amounts to between
100000 and $4,000 600. You can read
lily see that the people who benefit from
this influx Of wealth are not apt to be
antagonistic to the corporations that
it,"
According to the current gossip, Sec
rotary Alger is ungrateful along with his
numerous other faults. He has an
bounced himself a candidate for Sena-
tor McMillan's seat, and the latter has
announced his candidacy tosucceed him
'elf, it is said, at the request of Mr.. Nc
So the country is likely tn see
The man who has been kept in the Cab
net against the almost general protest
# the country. running for the Senate
is an mckinley candidate. This
8 explained by the friends of Mr.. Nc
by saying that the President is
pound by promises to keep Alger in the
unless lie will voluntarily re-
ign, but is determined to get even by
ieeping him out of the Senate.
Did you stop to think that you ought
o do some advertising? Did you stop
0 think that when a man keeps his
mouth shut no one knows even that he
as a tongue 2 So it is with business.
f you do not advertise people do not
now, or they forget, that you are in
Advertising is the legitimate