Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-26
FREELAND, Pa, OCTOBER &c, 1879!
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, October "a, 1s9

Washington, October "a, 1899.
The man who has no weakness is yet
unborn. Mr.. McKinley's supporters
have taken advantage of Admiral
Dewey's only known weakness-fear for
his health-to shut off the flow of Dewey
enthusiasm, and thus, as they think,
lessen his availability as an anti-Mc-
Kinley candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination. They do not
wish Dewey to attend any more big
receptions because they keep him too
prominently before the public, and,
although Dewey looks much better than
he did when he first came to Washing
ton, and has been going to the club or
the theatre in the evening and attend
ing to his private business in the day
time-he helped the committee select
the house, which will this week be
bought for HMM as active manner
as any other man of his years could do,
he has been persuaded that his health
is in great danger, and that he must
absolutely avoid excitement of all kinds
for some months. This was so firmly
impressed upon him that he Cancelled
his engagements to go to Atlanta and
announced that he would accept no
more invitations until next spring.
And the McKinleyites think they have
killed the Dewey boom.
t
What Archbishop Chappele, apostolic
delegate to the Philippines, who has
announced his intention to 60 to the
Philippines to bring about peace, which
General Otis has so signally failed to do,
and Mr.. Mckinley said to each other
during the long conference they held at
the White House, while big politicians
were kicking their heels in the secre-
tarys Office, is what all the newspaper
men have been unsuccessfully trying to
find out. That they talked of conditions
in the Philippines is all that is positively
known, although much more has been
sent out by the imaginative news-makers.
The archbishop seemed very well
pleased when he left the White House,
and said that he would probably see Mr..
Mckinley again, before he left Wash
ington for Manila, which he will do in
few days. The archbishop is we'll
known and popular in Washington,
where he once had charge of church.
/ ~
The Washington Post, which has
practically been Mckinley paper
since this administration came into
power, sounded significant warning,
when it said: The president must
usher in new and healthier regime.
IL he cares for political future, he
must replace imbeciity with brains and
vigor. The people are worn out with
failure, bewilderment and disaster.
Humanity demands cessation of the
murderous bungling in Luzon. Good
faith and national honor require the
pacifcation of Cuba and the political
rehabilitation of the Cubans. This trag-
edy must end and end soon. Existing
conditions projected into the coming
year will put conclusive end to Mr..
McKinley's public life"
t
Notwithstanding the failure OF the
senate, at the last session of congress,
to act upon the batch of naval nomina-
tions which would have put Rear Ad-
miral Sampson ahead of Rear Admiral
Schley, and Of the public calling down
at Minneapolis of Secretary Long, when
he attempted to glorfy Sampson for
what Schley did, it is announced upon
seemingly good authority that the
attempt to jump Sampson over Schley's
head is to be again made by Mr.. Nc
Kinley as soon as congress meets. The
unjust attitude of the administration
towards Admiral Schley has so far only
added to that gallant officers reputa-
tion, and if it is persisted in, many be-
lieve that it will result in giving Schley
the second place on next years Demo
cratic national ticket. Stranger things
than that haye happened.
Ex-Governor Thompson, of South
Carolina, who has just returned from
Europe, said he was approached by a
native in village of Switzerland, who
said to him: Excuse me, sir, but will
you eFdIily my CuIlosIty ny teIllhS me
what it was that the governor of North
Carolina said to the governor of South
Carolina?" Asked what reply he made,
Governor Thompson said: why,
simply repeated the historic remark,
and gave a practical demonstration of
what followed it, but it beats me how
that fellow ever heard the story of the
two governors.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has given
notice that it will apply to the New