The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-06-16
RIGHTLY OBJECT
Missouri Republicans Opposed to
Division of Census Supervisors
to Democrats.
Special Correspondence Of The Gazette.

eracy. held at Glen Echo, near Wash.
ington. on Wednesday and Thursday
Of last week. The encampment would
have been a dead failure in point of at
tendance had not a fair crowd of Wash
.ingtonians turned out. The first day,
which was on the programme as
"Virginia Day." was a failure ANYWAY.
maryland Day. the second, which
was attended by the president and a
number of prominent men, was a little
better, but neither was successful
enough to warrant the holding of
another encampment in the vicinity Of
the national capital.
IT Colonel Henderson could have
heard all the. good words that have
been said Of him since it became GER
tain that he would be unanimously
nominated by the republican caucus for
speaker of the house he would have re-
allied how very popular he is. 1t is no
Encouragement of the other gentlemen
who were candidates before the senti-
of the republicans of the hoase
was so overwhelmingly expressed for
Colonel Henderson. to say that no
better choice could possibly have been
made. He has every qualification need
ed to make a good speaker, and he is SO
we'll acquainted with the merits Of all
of the old members Of the house that
be can arrange all the committee as
before congress meets, or
nearly all of them, and being entirely
free from pledges to any II he can
make his selections strictly upon merit,
something that every speaker has not
been able to do.
Senator Hanna, whose physician has
ordered him to Europe ID account Of
his health, has expressed the wish that
he would not be asked to remain at the
head of the republican national CON-
mittee in the presidential campaign.
He says that President Mckinley is
bound to be triumphantly elected, even
if there were no national committee i'll
existence. But, unless Mr.. Hanna's
health gets a great deal worse than
some rheumatic pains, he is likely to
be chairman Of the committee again, as
he admits that he will accept if it is in
sisted upon, and with the same ticket
and the same issue, it will be natural
enough to insist on having the same
manager who won the first fight.
1t doesn't take much to build a rumor
in the atmosphere of Washington. Just
because e%x.Speaker Reed did not send
his resignation as a representative to
the governor of Maine before leaving
for Europe, the Washington rumor-
monge1s built up a long story alleging
Mr.. Reeds intention to retain his seat
in the house in addition to his member
ship in that New York law firm. One
of Mr.. Reeds strongest points is his
thoroughness, and t~horoughness and
that story do not gee at all.
An influential delegation of Missouri
came to Washington this
week to protest against the intention of
Superintendent Merriam of the census
bureau to give half the census super
visors for the state to the democrats.
Elk. Representative Frank, one of the
handled the subject without
when he said: Imagine a dem
census superintendent giving
half of the best offices at his dipsosal to
republicans The thing is absurd. We
have not yet reached the political
and when that golden era
dawns there will be no further need of
opposing parties. Until then it is but
natural and right for the party in
power to administer the government,
and it can do so most et~fectually
through the agency of its partisans.
Missouri is a state in which the repub-
lican party needs encouragement from
the national administration, In its
total of republican ballots it next
after Pennsylvania and Ohio, Under
such conditions we do not believe that
the democrats are entitled to share in
the offices, which, if given them, will
be used for party purposes in the cam
paign of 1900, 1t is chivalrous not to
eXteIminate u foe, but | fail to see the
of giving your enemy a club
which he may use for your own de-
,fruGIion," A number of protests have
been received from republicans of other
states against the division policy, hut
10 far as known that policy has not
aANlESNt WV WV PFp"s4pAp 'ss "
lnder consideration,
Colonel George n, Peck, 4 prominent
western railroad man, said Of sentiment
his seetion' 1.-THE almost universal
of the western country IL in
'ay0r of sustaining the policy of Presi-
lent Mckinley, Even those who arc
to the idea of colonial possess,
ons are patriotic en0ugh to say that
he circumstances Of tho case forbid our
eaving tho Philippines, for to do so
would make us tho laughing stock Of
iha nations, Thu great body Of Amari'
'an citizenship ia IN hearty accord with
he Mckinley administration on this
question, and all the Atkinsops Of the
and could not swerve this honest mass,
Who ava the hone aud sipew of the 70,