The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-08-03
Conduct of War and General
Prosperity of Country As
sure His RenOmina.
ton.
Bryan will Lead FOrl0rn Hope
President Ignores Round Robin
Otis Has Been Misrep-
resented.
WASHINGTON, July 81, 1899.

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not surprising that he should not feel
called upon to take any official notice
of the complaint Of certain newspaper
correspondents, at Manila, that Gen.
Otis has not conducted the war against
the Filipinos to suit them and that his
military censor has not allowed them to
cable anything they choose to write to
their papers. The President knows that
the same sort Of complaints were made
against Gen. Grant, Gen. Sherman, Gen.
Sheridan, and in fact every officer who
conducted a campaign during the Civil
War. He knows that those officers
managed to get along Notwithstanding
such complaints, and he has every con.
fdence in the ability of Gen. Otis to do
the same. Information from civil and
naval sources, over which Gen. Otis had
no control, have coincided too closely
with what he has sent for any unpreju-
diced person to swallow the story of his
having at any time misrepresented the
situation.
Secretary Alger has placed his resig.
nation in the hands Of President Nc.
Kinley, to take effect whenever the
President wishes that ought to stop a
lot of fool talk, but, of course, it won't.
Senator Nelson was given hearing
by Secretary Hitchcock, Assistant Sec
retary Ryan and Indian Commissioner
Jones, concerning the order of June %,
fer the withdrawal of all intruders and
white tresspassers from the Cass Lake
Indian reservation. Senator Nelson
took the ground that the reservation
was public land and that settlers had q
right to enter it, and asked that the car.
rying into effect of the order be post.
poned until their should be opportunity
for Congressional action Secretary Hitch.
cock has not announced bis decision yet,
but will do so in day or two.
Secretary Hay has granted permission
to the Civic Federation, Of Chicago,
through its secretary, to request all u.
s. Consuls in Europe to respond to a
series series Of questions as to the ex-
istence and workings Of trusts and trade
combinations in the countries in which
they are stationed.
That President Mckinley will be re-.
elected is as certain as anything in the
future cen be. Even if there had been
no war with Spain, this would still be
certain, on account Of the prosperous
condition Of the country. The matter is
thus briefed by a resident of Washing
ton: Gall elections in this country are
carried by the laboring vote, the men
who follow the plow and the mechanics
and artisans are the ones who elect
Presidents. This class of voters are not
yet ready to again embark upon the sea
of approximate free trade, which is the
chief corner stone of the socalled Demo-
cratic organisation. The laboring man
is too near the time when he walked the
street, looking for work, living in soup
houses that were maintained by public
charity, while his wife and children
were at home without the necessary
food to sustain life, and without fuel to
keep them warm, to be yet ready to join
the party which closed up the factories
and threw them out of employment
during the last Cleveland administration.
If William Mckinley had nothing to re.
ly upou except the fact that he had CIV
en- employment to every lsboring man
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, he could rest assured of re-
election"
Mr.. K. J. Vincent, of California, who
thinks Senator White of his State would
be the strongest man the Democrats
could nominate for President, said: "But
there is no use expecting any such good
luck. Bryan is already picked out, and
if he hasn't any more show in the rest
of the Union than in California, he will
make worse race than in '96."
The fourth treaty for reciprocity with
British colonies was this week signed by
representatives of the United States and
Great Britain. They provide for trade
reciprocity with Barbodoes, Bermuda,
British Guiana and Jamaica. The text
OF none of these treaties will be made
public until they have been acted upon
by Congress, the Dingley law, under
which they were negotiated, requiring
that they shall be approved by the
House as we'll as the Senate before they
become effective. The time within
reciprocity treaties under the Dingley
law could be negotiated expired last
week, but that will not prevent a re-
sumption and completion OF the negoti.
ations for nimilar treaties with France
and Germany, which were begun some
time ago, but never completed. The
Constitutional authority of the President
enables him to negotiate commercial
treaties at any time.
Hundreds of private letters from SOL
disrs in the Philippines give the lie to
the claim that the militayv consorahin N