The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July -, lS9

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unsuccessful political buffer and the
result will be his retirement from
public life on August lst. Somehow
this blulling phase of the question las
been overlooked But a close friend OF
Ayers is responsible for the statement
that Ayers resignation was handed
TO Mr. Mckinley as a big bluff, with
the expectation that he would decline
it in nice little note that Ager could
have published % refute the charge
that he was remaining i'm the Cabinet
against Dir McKinley's wishes, and
that Alger was the most surprised
man in Washington when he received
Mr. McKinley's note accepting bis
resignation To take effect August lst
The same mau says that Alger is very
mad, although pretending TO be greatly
pleased, aud that he may toss "A few
bombshells administ0tionward, after
he drops official harness, and that their
explosion will not make pleasant
music for Mr. Mckinley. If the new
Secretary of Wm-Mr Roots merely
to look after the legal que. tons con-
nected with our military occupation
of Cuba Porto Rico and the Philip
pines, leaving military affairs to be
controlled by Meiklejohn and Corbin,
and that is the present understanding,
| Algerism isn't likely to depart with
Alger
Unless Nh Elihu Root, of New York,
can persuade Mr.. Mckinley TO shake
up the War Department clique and to
give Gen. Miles the say that properly
belongs to him as Commanding Cen
eral of the Army, i'm all strictly Military
matters, he will live to regret the day
he so eagerly accepted the War port
folio To perform duties properly be-
longing to the Attorney General, after
two members of the Cabinet, fully
conversant with the situation, had
declined TO do 20, and to stand before
the country as a figure head response
bile for the conduct Of the War Depart
ment.
Perhaps it was a fellow feeling that
caused Corporal Tanner, who was
kicked out of the Pension Bureau 10y
Harrison, after a few months service as
Commissioner, to rush into print with
fulsome praise of Alger and Algerism.
Whatever il was, it was creditable TO
Tanners heart, if not TO his sense Of
thrift, TO stand up for the under dog,
in this fracas, because he liked him
personally, although he knew when he
did it that it was likely to lessen his
own pull on the administration.
Mr.. NJ l.. Lockwood, of Pennsyl-
vania, President Of the American Anti
Trust League, which although nou-
partisan o-ganizstiou, purposes to take
an important part in the Presidential
campaign, is strong Bryan Democrat,
and he says Of the sentiment of Penn
sylvania Democrats: 81 am i'm touch
with the true Democrats of Pennsyl-
vania, and it is safe to say that ninety
five per cent. of them are loyal to
Bryan. and the principles of the
Chicago platform The real democracy
of the state and Of all the other states
must be on the alert for if the tricks
tiers get one vote more than 0ne-third
Of all the members of the National
Convention, they will accomplish their
end, which Is the defeat of Bryan.
The monopolistic and trust interests
will bend all their energies to defeat
his nomination because they recognize
that no human power can prevent his
victory at the polls, if he be again
declared the nominee Of the Demo-
cratic party
The statement that Hon. W. G.
Whitney, whose shrewd manipulation
procured the last nomination of Mr.
Cleveland in spite Of seemingly in
vincible obstacles, had gone 10 Europe
for the purpose of trying to persuade
Admiral Dewey TO allow his name to
90 before the next Democratic Conveu.
ton, as a candidate for the Presidential
nomination, while interesting, was not
regarded in Washington ar Of any
particular importance. Mr.. Whitney
has been hunting for sometime Tor
anybody 20 beat Bryan, and has sound |
ed a number OF men as To their willing /
ness TO contest the nomination with |
Col. Bryan. Nobody with the slight |
est political knowledge has shown any /
disposition to try to do the impossible. |
and it is among the possibilities that
Mr.. Whitney, banking upon Admira
Dewey's ignorance of politics and
existing political conditions, may i'm
tercept him somewhere IN Europe and
Try TO persuade him to attempt it.
Those who know him best say that
Admiral Dewey never changes his
mind, after having once decided a
question, and that he will give Mr..
Whitney the same answer he has
already given % others to the same
question.
Gen. Carlos Garcia, son Of the late
Sen. CallXto Garcia, is in Washington,
As representative Of the Cuban Re