The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-05-19
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
Communicated '
WASHINGTON, May Is, 1899

dealt honestly with the country
in regard to the volunteers in the
Philippines. 1t has given out
one thing about bringing home
these men, who have been worked
and fought so continuously that
many of them are now unfit for
duty, when it knew that another
thing was to be done. 1t has told
the country that Gen. Otis had
been ordered TO send the volun-
teer home as fast as transpOrta
ton could be secured for them,
when Otis had really been in
structed to keep the volunteers
as long as he needed them and
could make them appear to stay
willingly. This has been sus-
pected for some time, but when
two transports left Manila for
San Francisco last week, with
only sick and wounded men
aboard, and two more with no
soldiers aboard, it became Ger
tainty. 1t is now privately ac-
! knowledged by members Of the
administration that it had, from
the first, been the intention of
Otis to keep the volunteers until
the FilipinOs surrendered, and
that the bluff about bringing
them home as fast as vessels
could be made available was
thrown out because it was thought
that the surrender would occur
before there would be any oppor-
tunity to send them home. A
government of the people can
never add to its strength of popu
larity by deceiving the people.
Every such deception is an i'm
pugnment of the patriotism of the
people.
The disappointment felt in adj
miniStratiOn circles over the fail :
ure of the expected surrender of
AguinaldO to materialize is so
acute that it cannot be hidden,
and officials who have been so
glib for several weeks past, in
predicting the speedy finish of
Aguinaldo, cannot now he coaxed
to talk about the probabilities
over there at all.
Mr.. Mckinley still holds to his
policy of rewarding the gold
Democrats for making him Pres
ident. The first census plum
given to Ohio was the appoint
ment of Gen. Americas V. Rice,
by direct order Of Mr.. Mckinley.
to be purchasing agent of the
Census Bureau.
Hon. e. l.. Russell, president
of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
who is visiting Washington,
thinks the chances for the pro-
motion Of Hon. John Nj. Allen
("Priyate John Allen, Of Tupelo")
from the House to the Senate are
excellent and he has circulated
among the people of Mississippi
sufficiently to be well posted. He
said: "The people of his State
approaching Mr.. Aliens merit
and long and useful career in the
House, mean to promote him, and
i'll so doing, they will honor them
selves"
Admiral Schley has accepted
an invitation from ex Senator
Henderson to pay him a visit at
his Nebraska home and will leave
for the West at once. He will
probably take advantage of the
opportunity, while in that section,
to visit a number of other West.
ern points, to which he has beeu
cordially invited.
If the idea of popular sub
scription to buy a Washington
home for Admiral Dewey is as
well received all over the country
as it has been in Washington.
enough money is likely to be sub,
scribed to buy him a whole town,
instead of a single house. Dewey
has notified the Navy Department
that he will leave Manila in a few
days and will get to the United
States in about four months.
which indicates his intention to
make the hOmeward voyage in a
very leiSurely manner, as the trip
could easily be made inside of
two months. His friends saw
that the admiral wishes to give
himself a chance TO get good and
strong and the cool weather OF
fall to arrive before he tackles
the ovationS which he knows
await him in this country. Dewey
is a long headed chap.
Elk Representative Hartman. OF
Mont, who voluntarily retired
from Congress at the close of the
last session, is in Washington.
He says the wish was father to
the story that the silver Repub
licans of his section were not
friendly to the re nomination Of
Col. Bryan, and that Col. Bryan
has taken exactly the right DO
sition towards those who bolted
the Chicago convention; that the
silver Republicans who bolted