The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-08-02
ON LAKE
CHAMPLAIN.
THE PRESIDENT AND WIFE HAVE A
VACATION.
Representative lands, of Indiana, Tells
What the Situation is in His State
Kentucky Democrats will Flop Repub.
Iican.-Former Secretary of War Elkins
Speaks Concerning Alger.

speaks concerning AlSefs
Washington, July 28, 1899, President |
will enjoy his well-earned |
'acation all the more because of the |
that he left public business
n n very satisfactory condition, He
las secured a nan for secretary of war
n the person Of Hon Elihu Root, who |
viii take charge Of the department
August |, against whom no word of
criticism has been said even by his
PARTISAN opponents; Secretary Hay has
succeeded in getting the troublesome
Alaskan boundary question fairly on
the road to an early diplomatic settle
nent :, more than half of the volunteers
for the Philippines have enlist
ed, and General Otis has cabled that so
many of the volunteers already in the
wish to re-enlst, that II
third regiment-two have already been
can be enlisted from them
The length of the presidents stay on
Lake Ohamplain will depend upon
Mrs. McKinley's health and upon the
state of public business.
Representative Lands, of Indiana,
who was in Washington this week,
looking after some business for his
constituents, said of the situation in
his state: "Our people are too well
satisfied with the prosperity under this
administration to desire a change.
Everybody is happy and prosperous.
Farmers are paying off their mort
cages and loaning money. They have
seen that the price of wheat is not
dependent upon the price of silver,
and they have abandoned the belief
that free coinage is necessary for good
times. If the democrats have spoke
left in the wheels of their political
chariot, do not know it. / don't be-
lieve one hundred democrats will
march to the same music in any county
in Indiana. Expansion is very popular
in Indiana, especially among the coun-
try people. The farmer generally likes
to hold on to all he can get, and he
carries tAat idea in national matters.
The democrats will make a great mis-
take if they attack the administration
for determining to hold all we have in
the Philippines
Notwithstanding Bryan's attempt to
get all the Kentucky democrats to sup
port Goeble, Kentucky democrats who
have been in Washington this week ad-
NIT that the state will probably 60
republican. Representative Berry said
that it seemed probable a new conven-
tion would be held and ticket headed
by Ex-Governor Brown be nominated
by Independent democrats, and that il
that probability become a fact the re-
publicans would almost surely carry
the state.
Senator Elkins, who was once secre-
tary of war himself, had this to say of
his retiring successor: Secretary Al
ger has been compelled to endure a
series of undeserved, not to say brutal,
assaults. He did not deserve the
harsh things which were said of him,
but he bore them bravely, standing
manfully under the abuse which might
otherwise have been thrown Mt the
president. Time will vindicate him.
There will be reaction in his favor. /
say these things all the more readily
because Secretary Alger and have not
been of the same way of thinking in
our party. | Lam no apologisU for him.
do not want to be drawn into any
controversy, but l hope l may never
hesitate to do justice to any man.
Secretary Alger has gone to New York
on private business and will not re-
turn until next Tuesday, when he will
formally turn over the war department
to Secretary Root. The latter was in
Washington several days this week
and nothing but favorable words are
heard from those who met him.
The slight changes announced thi:
week in the plans of the battleship:
Maine, Missouri, and Ohio, now in the
course of construction, by the navy
board of bureau chiefs, were not made
necessary by errors in the origina
plans, as the yellow journals insis
upon publishing. They were made
simply to increase the efficiency of tht
vessels, by giving them speed of Il
knots, instead of l8, as under the orig
nal plans. The contractors agreed tt
the changes and made valuable sugges
tions to the board. That is the who'll
story.
The originator Of the story that Sec
retary Gage was not legally secretar.
of the treasury because he owns stool
in the Chicago National bank of whicl
he was president before he entered tn
cabinet, ought to hire himself out as
finder of mares nests. There is n
law debarring holders of national ban
stock from becoming secretary of tn
treasury, and as a matter Of fact ther
has probably not been secretary O
the treasury since the national bank
ing law was enacted who did not ow
some Of this stock, for the very simpl
reason that il would be almost if no
quite impossible to find man compe
tent to discharge the duties of the sec
retary Of the treasury who doesn
hold financial interest, il not an aC
tive connection, with bank Il
must be a financier, and the ablel