Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-05-30
From our Regular Correspondent.

President Mckinley put in consider
able time this week towards making
a success of the big peace jubilee,
which closed tonight with an i'm
mense patriotic concert. He re-
viewed the military, the civic, and
the historic parades, upon success.
sive days, attended the opening night
of the fireworks, held a public even
ing reception and received the mem
bers of a number Of visiting organiza-
tions during his office hours. The
cele bration was a success, although
the attendance from outside was be-
low expectations.
Official dispatches from General
Otis and from President Schurman
OF the Philippine commission prove
the falsity of the report that there
was a serious difference of opinion
between the civilian commissioners
and General Otis as to the terms
that should be given the Filipinos.
Two of the leading candidates for
speaker of the house Sherman, OF
New York, and Hopkins, OF Illinois,
are in Washington. Both of them
express confidence in being elected.
OHIO Republicans who come to
Washington these days are very near
unanimous in saying that the Demo
cratic machine of that state is be-
hind the movement to run Sam.
Jones as an independent candidate
for governor, the foresaid machine
having discovered some time ago the
mpossibilIty of carrying out their
first scheme, which was to make
Jones the regular Republican candi-
date. M. j. Wardner, of Cincln-
natl, said Of the new scheme: Con
gresham Lentz and other aspirants
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination are anxious to have May
or Jones, of Toledo, run as an indie
pendent candidate for governor.
Their aim is SO apparent that no.
body is deceived. They think Jones
would draw off enough Republican
votes to allow a Democrat to win
But they are nursing a deusion. for
even should the Toledo man be
foolish enough to run, his race will
be Il very weak one, and the regular
Republican nominee can beat both
with the greatest ease"
Elk preventative Cadmus is one
of the numerous Democrats who is
disguised with the present attitude
of that party, of which be said:
1.-The trouble with the Democratic
party is the failure of the leaders to
realize that the great issue on
which the battle Of 1896 was fought
is virtually dead. It looks as though
the free silver men were bent on re-
nominating Mr.. Bryan, which in my
folly, since there is no earthly chance
to elect him. he will Oe worse
beaten in 1896. New Jersey and
New York are Indispensable TO the
election of a Democratic president. In
all time the electoral votes of those
states will not go to Mr. Bryan or
any one who advocates his views on
money. II the South and the West
want to make Of the Democracy
perpetual minority party, all they
need to do is to keep up their present
program. Until some glimmer of
common sense returns to the Demo-
Gratis OF those sections, Eastern Demo-
Gratis will keep on voting the Republi-
can ticket
representative Gillet, of Massa-
chusetts, secured a promise from
President Mckinley to visit Spring
field when he and Mrs. Mckinley 90
to Mount Holyoke to attend the
graduation Of their neice, Miss Grace
Mckinley. The president said that
it would give him pleasure to meet
the people Of Springfield.
representative Cannon, Of Illinois,
who Is now in Washington working
for his colleagues election to the
speakership, is just as frank as ever.
When asked about his withdrawal as
a candidate he said: Eyes, [ am out
of the race. Hopkins beat me by
one vote in the Illinois delegation; he
is a better politician than [ an. I
always play fair, and so l am doing
everything [ can for the election of
Hopkins; we Illinois people think he
ought to be elected and will be
elected. [ should have liked the
honor; it is the next Office to the
presidency in Importance"
OeCf0Udry wilson, VINO mas lust re-
turned from an extended trip through
the South, speaks we'll Of the agri-
cultural and manufacturing prospects
of that section, in which the Depart
nent Of Agriculture is engaged in
many interesting experiments. He
said among other interesting things:
cit is only question of time when
the South will produce all the tea
that the people in the United States
will want. This department pro-
poses TO push experimentation along
that line. We intend to establish a
tea farm in every Southern state
as soon as that can be done intelli-
gently. We propose to get the finest
varieties of tea to be found in the
Orient and to have the planting done
where growth can be forced through
irrigation, SO as to get plenty OF
tender shoots. The young people of
the South can earn enough to clothe
and board themselves during the
school peri d by picking tea Mr..
Shepard, of SummervilIe, S. c., now
has fifty acres success sfully cultivated
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