The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-27

From our Regular Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The man who has no
weakness is yet unborn. Mr.. Mckiney's sup
porters have taken advantage of Admiral
Dewey's only known weakness-fear for his
heaIth-to shut eff the flow of Dewey enthusiasm
and thus as they think, lesson his availability
as an anti Mckinley candidate for the Republic
can Presidential nomination. They do rot wish
Dewey to attend any more big receptions be-
cause they keep him too prominently before
the public, and, although Dewey looks much
better than he when he first came to Washing
ton and has been going TO the club or theatre
in the evening and attending to his private
business in the day time-he helped the COM
mittee select the house, which will this week be
bought for HMM as active a manner as any
other man of his years could dc, he has been
persuaded that his health is IN great danger,
and that he must absolutely avoid excitement
of all kinds for some months. This was so firm
ly impressed upon him that he Cancelled his en-
gagements to go to Atlanta and to Philadel-
phia, and announced that he would accept no
more invitations until next spring. And the
McKinleyites think they have killed the Dewey
boom.
What Arch Bishop Chappelle apostolic dele
gate to the Philippines, who has announced his
peace, which Otis has SO signally failed to do,
| and Mr.. Mckinley said to each other during the
| long conference they held at the White House,
while big politicians were kicking their heels in
Secretary's Office, is what all the newspaper
| men have been unsuccessfully trying to find
ont. That they talked of conditions in the
| Philippines is all that is positively known, al
| though much more has been sent out by the
imaginative news-makers. The Archbishop
| seemed very well pleased when he left the
| White House, and said that he would probably
| see Mr.. Mckinley again, before he left Wash
| ington for Manila. which he will do in few
| days. The Archbishop is well-known and
| popular in Washington, where he once had
| charge of church.
The Washington Post, which has practically
been a Mckinley paper since this administra-
ton came into power. sounded a significant
warning, when it said at the close of an editorial
full of praise of Mr. Mckinley personally ::
1.-The President must usher in a new and
healthier regime. If he cares for a political
future, he must replace imbecilty with brains
and vigor. The people are worn out with
failure, bewilderment and disaster.
Humanity demands a cessation of the muir
derous bungling in Luzon. good faith and
national honor require the pacification Of Cuba
and the political rehabilitation of Cubans. This
tragedy must end and end soon. Existing con-
ditions projected into the coming year will put
} a conclusive end to Mr.. McKineys public life
} Col. n. NJ. Bell, VINO was prominently con
} nected with the Postofice Department during
the first Cleveland administration, and who has
} been in private business in st. Louis, for some
years, is visiting Washington. He says that
people in the East have no idea of the intensity
of the feeling against trusts In the West, and
predicts that the trust issue will figure largely
III next years campaign. He also thinks that
there is increasing hostility toward militarism
t one of the aliases of imperialism, and towards
that sort of expansion involving the surrender
!. of the Monroe Doctrine.
e Notwithstanding the failure of the Senate, a
}. the last session of Congress, to act upon tn,
n batch of Naval nominations which would hav,
put Rear Admiral sampson ahead of Rear Ad
y mral Schlcy, and of the public calling down a
: Minneapolis of Secretary Long, when he at
t tempted to glorify Sampson for what Schle,
e did, il is announced upon seemingly goo
:, authority that the attempt to jump Sampson
70 over Schley's head is to be again made by MI
n Mckinley as soon as Congress meets. The un
just attitude of the administration toward Ad
y miral Schey has SO far only added to tina
gallant officers reputation, and il it is persste
d in, many believe that it will result in givin
IS Schey second place on next years Democrat
e nationel ticket. Stranger Things than tina
r, have happened. 1t may be said that Schley
II not Democrat, but that is no reason agains
ut i. Gen. Grant was not a Republican and h
1t was nominated and elected President by thu
E. party. The Army aud Navy officer who hs
r. enough political bias in his make up to becom
I a member Of political party, is an exception