The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1899-10-21

From our Regular Correspondent
W ashIngton, Oct. lh. 1899.

, klnleytes i, fast reaching a
. acute stage. 1t is no longer secre
: that Senator Proctor is groomin;
Dewey for the Presidential nomi
, nation next year, and a ,tatamen
, made to Vermont friends tha
'no man has yet refused to ac
cept the Presidency, is signiti
cant of his belief that he cal
count upon Deweys acceptance
if lie can show him that he can E,t
nominated. Said Il prominen'
Republican official proctor's, :, at
titude must be highly enjoyable
to Tom Reed. whom he be
trayed in 1896 As Il reward
for bctrayins Reed at a time
wh~n MckinIey,s nomination was
in doubt. Proctor has been
given the disposition Of more
patronage under this admin
istration, than any one man
excepting Hanna, of course, has
had and now he is showing his
gratitude Proctor's political
shrewdness is unquestioned, and
if the Democrats can only carry
Ohio, he will get all the assist
ance he wishes in booming Dewey
for the Republican nomination
next year. Nothing short Of
overwhelming Republican sue
cess in Ohio, can give Mr.. Nc
kinlsy reasonable degree of
certainty that he will be re-nomi-
mated, and that seems doubtful
indeed at this time. A Vermont
er, who claims to know Senator
Proctor's plans, says he has no
intention of bringing Dewey out
as a candidate unless he is certain
that he can be pomlnated-that
he is only preparing things SO that
he can use him to supplant Mr..
Mckinley, if he thinks it avail
able to do so.
Col. Isaac Hill. who has been
an official of the House for many
years, says of the Ohio campaign,
i'll which he has been participa-
ting The Democrats have the
best chance they have had ia
years TO carry this falls election
il1 the buckeye State. They will
rsll the full strength of the party
ssss11lsl capture many votes besides,
while the disaffection among the
Republicans will keep several
thousand of them from the pells.
The Mclean forces are thorough
ly united, and are makeng the
greatest canvass ever conducted
by the Democrats in Ohio. | am
going back again in Il few days to
again take a hand in the cam
pampaign.
Admiral Schle?'s response to
committee from the Woman's
National Industrial League, which
called on him to present u copy
of 4 resolution adopted by the
League, asking contributions
from industrial workers to pur-
chase home fer him, was worthy
of the man and his record. He
said while feel deeply touched
by the desire of your committee.
which the resolution brings to
nay attention, and sincerely APP
preciate the purpose and wishes
you Sc kindly suggest to me, |
feel that | ought to ask you to
defer this matter until the wants
and needs of a cold winter now
coming on, have passed, and its
demands Ii the households of
some of the great army of indus
trial workers have first been met
before alv provision is made for
me. With expressions of deep
gratituts to you, the matter is
left to your consideration
Th\re is no limit to the claims
that Noublicans are willing to
make foa.he administration, but
there is limfe.>SSs the imposition
that can be practieed upon intel
ligent men. 1t is simply ridicu-
lous for the administration to
claim credit, as it is now doing,
for the acceptance by Canada of
the temporary boundary Between
Alaska and Canada, which vas
some time age agreed upon by
Representatives Of the Z. S. and
England when it is we'll known
that the Canadian government
was compelled to accept by the
English government. 1t is equally
we'll known why. England has
troublesome war on her hands with
the Transvaal republic, in which
it wishes the moral support Of the
U. S. government, and as d sort
of bribe, it ordered Canada to
accept the temporary boundary
line, which the Canadian Pre-
nier had declared he weuld fight
rather than accept. Certainly
there is nothing in that to entitle
the administration to any credit.
While the acceptance of the tenn
porary boundary line is advan-
tageous to Americans, it is after
all merely pestponement of the
dispute to some future time,
when England has No war on its
hands.