Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14

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Long Makes an Explanation Which Does Not
Explain.
From oll Regular Cores. on lent.
WASIIINGT0E, June 20, 1888.
one q the first acts OF Mr.. Mckin-
ley after his return to Washington was
to order the persecution OF Admiral
Schley, ty the Sampson clique in the
Navy Department. stopped. He did
not do so because OF any love he had
for Schlcv, but because OF statements
publicly made by Mar! land Eepubli-
cans that they intended 10 hold the
administration responsible for the
Navy Departments treatment Of
Schley. That frightened Mr.. Mckin-
ley, who is by no means as confident
OF his reelection as some other Re-
publicans profess to be. And, in adj
dtion to ordering let-up on Schley,
Mr.. Mckinley sent for ex-Postmaster
General Gary and asked him to help
keep Maryland in line. Unless
Marylanders, who ought to know, are
of in their judgment, nothing will
prevent Maryland returning to its old
place in the Democratic column.
In his anxiety to remain in the
Cabinet, notwithstanding his d al
with Gov. Pingree, who everybody
knows is not an admirer either OF Mr..
Mckinley or OF his administration,
Secretary Alger is-getting foxey. In
order to jolly Mr.. Mckinley, he pub
licly sad that his deal with Pingree
WAS solely for the purpose of obtaining
;ne Senatorship and was not binding
for any other purpose; that he was
a Mckinley man from start to finish
and was prepared to prove it at any
time that it might become necessary,
10y breaking with Pingree, if he should
show any disposition to antagonize
Mr.. Mckinley in Michigan. How
much of this Mr.. Mckinley swallows
nobody knows, but it is certain that
Alger has undertaken a difficult role.
IL is known that Senators Mcmillan
and Burrows are hard fighters and
that they will demand that Alger be
put out of the Cabinet, aud their de-
mand will be backed by many Repub-
leans whom Mr.. Mckinley will not
care to offend. Besides, it is believed
that Pingree is only using Alger to try
to get even with Senator Mcmillan,
and considered by no means certain
that he would allow Alger to go to the
Senate even if he succeeded in con.
trolling the Michigan legislature.
Nothing could more surely prove
the deception practiced by the admin
istration concerning the situation in
the Philippines than the orders issued
this week to all the regular recruiting
officers to enlist as many volunteers as
may present themselves for service in
the Philippines, and the official an
nouncement that Gen. Otis is to have
an army of 10000 men by the end of
the rainy season. In order to keep
the appointment of all the officers in
the hands of the administration, no
organizations are to be enlisted. The
men are TO enlist as individuals and
the regiments to be formed will be U.
S. volunteers. Although the an.
nounccment was made at the same
time that all the officers for these reg.
imeuts would be chosen from the vol.
unteers who have seen service in the
Philippines, il is a safe bet that they
will not be. Ex-Congressman Camp
bell, of Illinois, who is now in WASH
ington, tells his friends that he has
been promised the colonelcy of one
regiment, and he hasn't seen any ser
vice in the Philippines; and there will
be others.
Making virtue of necessity" said
Q Senator, "is what 1 call the an
nouncement Of Thurston, Of Nebraska,
that he would retire from the Senate
at the end OF his term. Knowing that
neither he nor any other Republican
has any show to be elected to the Sen.
ate by the Nebraska legislature, Thurs.
ton concluded to save some of the big
wad of corporation money he has by
not entering the field as candidate.
His talk about being tired of holding
Office was merely little grand-stand
play"
The adage, MAKE hay while the
sun Shines" appears to have been
changed by the inventors OF the coun-
try into Make money while the mer-
curry rises." The weekly receipts oil
the Patent Office are now averaging
5000 more than they did in the sum.
mer of last year, and this weeks issue
OF patents, trademarks and labels was
the largest since April, 1890, the total
being 633.
Secretary Long made public 8
signed statement, dealing with ru
NOR that he had made q statement t.
the cabinet deploring the killing o
Filipinos without provocation and thu
footing of private houses in pacifiet
communities, knowledge of which HI
claimed to have acquired from letter
from sailors, that was as extraordinary
for what it didn't say as was his oper
invitation TO Schley, day or two be