Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-27
OUR CAPITAL LETTER.
ALGER'S RESIGNATION WAS TEN
DERED AS A BLUFF.
Mr.. McKiniey's Acceptance Was a Sad
Surprise to the Secretary of War.
Whitney Securing the World for Man
To Defeat Bryan-Other Topics.

Surprise to the Secretary of War.
Whitney Securing the World for Man
to Defeat Bryan-Othor Topics.
Washington, July 95, 1899.
A close friend Of Alger is responsible
for the statement that Ager's resigna-
tion was handed to Mr.. Mckinley as a
big bluff, with the expectation that he
would decline it in a nice little note that
Alger could have published to refute
the charge that he was remaining in the
cabinet against Mr.. McKinley's wishes,
and that Alger was the most surprised
man in Washington when he received
Mr.. McKinleys note accepting his resig-
nation to take effect August 1. The
same man says that Alger is very mad,
although pretending to be greatly
pleased, and that he may toss bomb
shells adminstrationward, after he
drops official harness, and that the ex-
plosion will not make pleasant music
for Mr.. Mckinley. II the new secre-
tary OF war-Mr. Roots merely to
look after the legal questions connected
with our military occupation of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines, leaving
military affairs to be controlled by
Meklejohn and Corbin, and that is the
present understanding, Algerism isn't
likely to depart with Alger.
The statement that Hon. w. G. Whit
ney, whose shrewd manipulation pro-
cured the last nomination Of Mr. Cleve-
land, in spite of seemingly invincible
obstacles, had gone to Europe for the
purpose of trying to persuade Admiral
Dewey to allow his name to go before
the next Democratic convention, as a
candidate for the presidential nomina-
tion, while interesting, was not regard
ed in Washington as OF any particular
Importance. Mr.. Whitney has been
hunting for some time for anybody to
beat Bryan, and has sounded number
OF men as to their willingness to contest
the nomination with the colonel.
Nobody with the slightest political
knowledge has shown any disposition
to try to do the impossible, and it is
among the possibilities that Mr.. Whit
ncy, banking upon Admiral Dewey's
ignorance Of politics and existing
political conditions, may intercept him
somewhere in Europe and try to per-
suade him to attempt 1t. Those who
know him best say that Admiral Dewey
never changes his mind, after having
once decided question, and that he
will give Mr.. Whitney the same answer
no has already given to others to the
same question.
General Carlos Garcia, son Of the late
General Calixto Garcia, is in Washing
ton, as a representative Of the Cuban
Republican League, which advocates
complete political independence of Cuba.
He asked Mr.. Mckinley for authority
to hold elections for municipal Offices,
throughout Cuba, in order to demon
strate the ability OF the Cubans to
govern themselves. Mr.. Mckinley did
not give him decided answer, but it
had been previously said by officials that
no elections would be held in Cuba,
until census of those entitled to vote
had been taken.
!
Governor Roosevelt was reminded by
the turning down of several men whom
he had recommended personally, to Mr..
Mckinley for appointment to be officers
in the volunteers, that there are other
politicians in New York, who have a
pull with the administration. Not only.
were some of Roosevelts men turned
down, but there were New Workers ap-
pointed whose name were not even re-
ferred to him, by Mr. Mckinley. The
authority for this statement is an
official OF the war department, who
knows the endorsement on the papers
on every man who was appointed.
Perhaps Roosevelt would have had
better luck If he had withheld his de-
claration in favor OF Mr.. McKinley's
denomination little longer. Publicly
committing himself probably weakened
his pull.
Perhaps it was a fellow feeling that
caused Corporal Tanner, who was
kicked out Of the pension bureau by
, Harrison, after few months service as
commissioner, to rush into print with
fulsome praise for Alger and Algerism.
Whatever it 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 per-
sonally, although he knew when he did
it that it was likely to lessen his own
pull on the administration.
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