Arizona republican., 1899-08-05
While Yellow Journals Grew
ROarSe With HOWling
CAMPAIGN In GOOD SHAPE
The Filipino Rebellion IS Sc n TO &c
Suppressed in Reasonable
Time After the Close of The
Wet Season, with Honor TO the
Uniied SfafeS-EnCouraged From
Washington.

Washington. Aug. 4. (SpeciaD-
Wide awake as newspaper men are
generally, they do not always get ON
TO things as soon as they occur. For
Instance, none of the Washington cor
respondents knew until a day or two
ago. that President Mckinley had or
fered Il cablegram sent to Gen. Otis
more than Il week ago, telling him that
the President was entirely satisfied
with what he had accomplished and
believed that he had done all that
could have been done under the cir
cJ-1rstaEces. The following is a por-
tion of the answer of Gen Otis: 4 ap-
preciate very much the confidence the
President has expressed in me and
assure the President that l have no
other ambition or thought than to car
ry out his Instructions With the plans.
now matured l believe that we can
suppress The rebellion in reasonably
Short time, with honor to the United
States and satisfaction to the Presi-
dent" 1t is highly cretiitable to the
President thsh9 While the yellow jour
nals were demanding the recall of
Gen. Obs, because he had failed TO
please some of the correspondents
and to accomplish impossibilities. ne
should have shown his confidence in
him in such a marked manner That
the President and the entire admins
tratiol had Implicit confidence in Gen
Otis. has been known in Washington
all the time
There are nlany runOrs in circula-
ton as to what the policy of Secretary
Of War Root is to he, but they are
merely guesses, mostly wild There
is no occasion for a Secretary of War
to have any policy other than that OF
the President, under whom he serves,
and no reason to believe that in this
respect, Sectetary Root will differ in
any radical way from his predecessor
\ great many kind words accompany
Secretary Alger into private life, and
Icing spoken at this time. there is no
possible reason to doubt their. SINGER
ity. The following remark mratle by
Representative JOY of Missouri,
are fair sampla of what
is being said by many re-
putb-icans of prominence: Il am
not surprised to see Gen. Ayers elcc-
tion to the senate predicted. 1 make
the same prophecy. Instead of being
the target for all manner of abuse and
the victiin of everybody's persecution,
Gen. Alger will become the hero, and
this Will be especially true of his fu-
ture in his own state As Senator
Elkins has said, he was at the head
of the War Department during most
successful war. He equipped and
nut 2J0,G00 men in the field in an in-
credibly short space of time, and when
everything had to be obtained at al
most a moments notice. To lie sure,
the soldiers did moi have pie for break
fast. nor We're feather beds carried
around for them, but OH the whole, they
Jared remarkably well. The time will
come when Gen Alger will be given
credit for his great work and the
kindiness of heart which accomPan-
Representative Smith, of Ills, thus
summed up the amusing wabbling of
the democrats on the issues of the
preside ntial calEpaigm: The demo
Gratis may try to run their campaign
on Il dozen issues, but the moment
they nominate Brycn. they will force
the silver issue to the front They can
not escape it if he is the nominee, as
Uow seems practically settled. Mr..
Bryan canpot subordinate silver un-
less be descends to mere pettifogging
in politics. for he IS the embodiment
of the idea. If silver is not mentioned
in the platform. an1 Bryan is nonin-
ated the people will not be deceived.
They know R-yans position too WELL
Three hundred million bushels of
corn and $50.00G,C00 on deposit in its
banks said Rapresen ntative Curtis,
have drowned cut the calamity wall
ers.and restored Kansas 10 its old Place
the sure republican states.
who voted for Bryan in
SO, will vote for Mckinley next year,
and it can be claSsed among the GER
tainties that Kansas viii give the re-
publican presidential electors not less
than 25,0O0 majority
All the democratic talk about poll
tical favors to be bestowed by the
olIod u! ses!Q9ueIJ o!Iqnd 10 SupurIS
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