The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-27
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
(Conmunicated).
WASHINGTON. Oct. %. 1899.

w ASHlNGTON, OCG. 20, 1oSS'
The man who has no weakness
is yet unborn. Mr.. McKinley's
supporters have taken advantage
of Admiral Dewey's only known
weakness-fear for his health
to shut off the flow of Dewey en-
thusiasm, aud thus, as they. think,
lessen his availability as an
nti-McKinley candidate for the
Republican Presidential nomina-
tion. They do not wish Dewey
to attend any more big recep-
tions because they keep him
too prominently before the public,
and although Dewey looks much
better than he did when he first
came to Washington, and has
been going to the club or theatre
in the evening and attending to
his private business in the day
stime-he helped the committee
to select the house, which will
this week be bought for, HMM
as active manner as any other
man of his years could do. He
has been persuaded that his
health is in great danger, and
that he must absolutely avoid ex-
element of all kinds for some
months. This was so firmly, i'm.
pressed upon him that he cancel
ed his engagement to go to At.
lanta and to Philadelphia, and
announced that he would accept
no more invitations. until next
spring. And the McKinleyites
think that they have killed the
Dewey boom. - ~ .l.I,., aeod..
What Archbishop Chappelle,
Apostolic Delegate to the Phil
ippines, who has announced his
intention TO go to the Philippines
to bring about peace, which Gen
eral Otis has so signally failed to
do, and Mr.. Mckinley said to
each other during the long con
ference they held at the White
House, while big politicians were
kicking their heels in the Secre-
tary's office, is what all the news
paper men have been unSuccess-
fully trying to find out. That
they talked of conditions in the
Philippines is all that is positive
ly known, although much more
has been sent ont by the imagi-
native news-makers. The Arch
bishop seemed to be very well
pleased when he left the White
House, and said that he would
probably see Mr.. Mckinley
again, before he left Washington
for Manila, which he will do in a
few days. The Archbishop is
well known and popular in Wash
ington, where he once hadcharge
of church. gsit oaaoa a
The Washington Post, which
has practically been a Mckinley
paper since this administration
came into power, sounded a sig
nificant warning, when it said at
the close of an editorial full of
praise of Mr.. Mckinley person
ally: 1.-THE President must usher
in a new and healthier regime.
If he cares for political future.
he must replace imbecility with
brains and vigor. The people
are worn out with failure, Devil
derment and disaster he aaq
Humanity demands a cessation
OF the murderous bungIing in Lu.
zon. Good faith and national
honor requires the pacifcation of
Cuba and the political rehabilita.
tlOn OF the Cubans. This trag.
edy must end and end soon. Ex-
listing conditions projected into
the coming year will put a con.
elusive end to Mr.. McKinley's
public life."
Colonel n. M. Bell, who was
prominently connected with the
Post office Department during
the first Cleveland administra,
ton, and who has been in private
business in st. Louis, for some
years, is visiting Washington.