Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-04
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Washington, November 4
Admiral Walker, president of the
Islhmian Canal Commission, this morn
ing received cablegram from Francis
Lee Stuart, division engineer at Man.
qua, Nicaragua, stating that Frank
3. Clark, of Fulton. n. Y, chief of 40
engineering party; 0. G. Mimmock, Of
Washington, rodman, and two laborers
we're drowned at Machuca rapids on
Sunday, October 49, The bodies were
DOT recovered. No further details are
given.
A democrat from the 7th Virginia
congressional district, here this morn
Ing, who had seen at home by the Ga.
zette that Mr.. Willard of Fairfax
county would not be candidate for
Congress from the 9Th district next
year, said Alexandria never had had a
congressman, aud that he didn't see
why she shouldn't have one. He knew
)ne mao, he said, who had a good mil
airy record and whose service in the
Virginia State Senate and whose sue
cess in the law showed that he would
make not only an efficient congressman,
out be a credit to his district and his
whole State.
The friends of Mr.. Carl Schurz here
say he has completely demonstrated the
unreliability of the report of the Philip.
pine commission by pointing out the
absurdity of sending an army of seventy
Thousand to,the Philippine Islands, il an
overwhelming majority of the people
there are in favor of American sover-
eighty; in proving the falsity of the
statement that there had never been any
cooperation OF the American and Fill.
pino forces; that the Flipinos have
wanted independence ever since the
Spanish surrender; that they are better
fitted for self-government than the Gu
bans, and that there is 60 danger OF
anarchy there if the q. 8. army shall
withdraw, all of which are proved by
the testimony of members of the COM
mission, Admiral Dewey aud others.
A we'll known and intelligent demo.
cratic politician from Maryland here
this morning said he was satisfied that
his State would go democratic. The
few SO called gold democrats, he said,
we're now republicans and would be al
ways; they wouldn't be democrats if
they could, and couldn't be if they
would; but that thousands of the dem.
ocrats there who left their party at the
last elections have seen the error OF
their way and have come back to it
and feel like being kicked for the com.
pany they have kept for the last two OF
three years.
The matter of appointing civil gov
ernors for Porto Rico and Cuba is Civ.
ing the administration no little trouble.
and, it is intimsted, is likely to give it q
great deal more.
Ex-minister Foster, now here, a
member of the Canadian commission,
says the Alaska boundary line as de.
lined by that commission is favorable to
American interests, but letters from
people on the line referred to say the
Canadians have bamboozled the Amer.
leans and have gotten the best of the
bargain by long odds.
All the republican offiseholders here who
are voters In either Ohio, Kentucky. Nebras.
ka or Mary land sre being sent home, and if
they say they have no money, are supplied
with enough to pay their expenses there and
back.
The general opinion on the subject here to.
day is that it Ohio. about carrying which the
republicans are in great doubt, notwithstand.
ing Chairman Dicks fifty thousand majority,
shall go democratic, Mr.. Mckinley will be as
Sharkey was last night, and that Admiral
Dewey will take his place as the republican
nominee next year.
Philip c. Hanna, of Des Moines, lows, who
was american Consul at San Juan, Porto
Rico. and who was legislsted out of Office by
American acquisition of the island, was to-
day appointed o. S. Consul General for North.