The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-13
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, July 10, 1900


Washington, July 10, 1900.
1t seems that Mr.. Mckinley is 60
ing into the business of Senator.mak-
ing, Notwithstanding the lll-iortune of
other Presidents who have engaged
therein. Assistant Secretary of War,
Meiklejohn is the administration can.
dldate for Senator Thurstons seat, he
having stated his intention to retire
March 3rd. 1901, when his term will
expire. OF all branches of this ad-
mlnstration 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
Thurstons 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- Pringree mix.up
is the personal work of Mr.. Mckinley,
and that the entire influence of the
administration is to be used to help
Alger defeat Senator Mcmillan, pro
vided, of course, that the republicans
can elect majority of the next Michl-
gan Legislature, a very important pro-
viso, by the way. In view of what
Alger has done to discredit the ad-
ministraton. this seems to be an as
tonishing sort of deal, but those
who have closely followed the various
Hanna-McKinley political deals from
the spring of go to the present time
find it difficult to be astonished at any
thing. According to this story, which
may or may not be true, Alger has
succeeded in convincing Mr.. McKin-
ley that all of the attacks on Algerism
have been in reality attacks on entire
administration, and that unless Alger
can be vindicated by an election to
the Senate all these charges will be
placed against the Mckinley admins
tration by history. | is plain that the
support of Algcr by the Mckinley ad
ministratlon will be an act of treach-
cry to Senators Mcmillan and Bur
rows, both OF whom have been stead
fast administration men, but treachery
to friends has long been a Hanna
specially, and administration Senators
will not be as badly needed during the
remainder of Mr.. McKinley's term as
they were when the republicans were
short majority in the Senate.
Democrats are citing the ease with
which ex-Gov. .Hogg, of Texas. con-
verted the Tammany Fourth of July
meeting, which it had been generally
understood was to ignore Col. Bryan,
if not directly antagonize him, into a
wildly enthusiastic Bryan gathering
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 at
tempt to engage in candidate making.
That meeting may prove a valuable
object lesson to those who now i'm
agine the possibility of preventing the
National Convention registering the
will of the democratic party at large
A New Mexican who attended the
recent Rough Riders reunion in tina
Territory has let brand new Roose
welt cat out of the bag, He says tha
Gov. ''Teddy" told his old comrades
that brigade of Rough Riders woulc
be enlisted for the Philippines at once
and that he could command it. if h'
decided it advisable to resign th'
governorship of New York to take it
Nobody in Washington had heard a
word of al, this until the arrival of th'
gentleman from New Mexico. 1t may
be merely product of the "silly sea
SON., or it may be true, but if Gov
Roosevelt is willing to resign his pres
ent exalted position to go to the Phil
ippines, he will surprise those VIII
give him credit for knowing how t.
hold on to a good thing when he ha'
it.
There is a hitch somewhere in tn
programme arranged for the givinl
out OF concessions for various sorts {
franchises in Porto Rico, and 1t wa
this week semi officially announce
that the War Department would pre-
badly not grant any concessions o