The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-11-24
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent.

From our regular Correspondent
Washington d. c., Nov. 19 1899.
President Mckinley takes time from
the work of preparing his message to
Congress, now well under way, to ex-
change congratulations on the strong
endorsement of expansion given by
the voters in every state in which the
policy of the administration has made
the issue, with republican Senators
and representatives who have called
on him since the elections. Amorg
his more recent callers was Senator
Kyle, OF South Dakota, who said of
the campaign in his state: "The is
sue was the support of the administra-
ton and expansion, and the result was
an emphatic endorsement of the ad-
ministration and its policy in the
Philippines" Representative Gros-
venor, of Ohio, another caller, said:
"It is my honest opinion that even
before Congress meets, the insurrec-
tion in the Philippines will be ended,
and the situation be such as to allow
| the President to turn the matter over
to Congress for legislation. It looks
to me as though it would not be many
days before our army has captured
Aguinaldo and ended his rebellion.
With the downfall of Aguinaldo will
end all this talk of the SO called i'm
perialistic movement. The elections
have already shown the weakness of
the anti-expansion policy, and I do
not think the democrats will dare to
60 to their national convention, and
declare against expansion in the face
OF this years elections. By that time
anti-expansion will be so dead that
even the democrats will not try to re-
vive it," Senator McCumber, of North
Dakota, said: Expansion in North
Dakota doesn't mean imperialism and
a big standing army. It means devel-
opment of trade We want, of course,
an army of sufficient strength for an
important nation" Representative
Barham, OF Cal. said: "The President
and his policy has the approval of the
majority of the people, and the result
of the elections make it certain, if it
was not so before, that Mckinley and
Bryan will run against each other
again. Mckinley will defeat him
easily"
DIR. Wise, of the Second District of
Virginia, who was seated in the last
House after contest, will contest the
same seat, against the same opponent,
in the next house. Speaking OF the
frauds practiced in his district, in or
der to make an apparent democratic
majority where everybody knows the
majority is overwhelmingly republi-
can. DIR. Wise said: "This outrage
on the purity of the ballot cannot be
be Indefinitely continued. There are
signs of revulsion of feeling among
democrats of the better class, who are
tired of seeing this rascally work done
year after year. And when election
day in 1900 comes around, hundreds
| of Virginia democrats will cast their
votes for VIM. Mckinley, for they are
anxious to see continuation of the
present prosperity, which the feared
would be changed to adversely if their
party should get in power"
Senator Foraker said of the result
in Ohio, which he play played SO i'm
portant part in bringing about, and
of the general result: at was vic
tory for the administration, and will
greatly strengthen President McKin
ley, and in that way have decided
effect upon Congress and the whole
country. Prosperity will continue
and nobody will think OF any other
republican than Mckinley as our cam
didate for the Presidency, in 1900.
Changes in the political situation will
come, no doubt, within the next
twelve months, but the probabilities
are that they will strengthen the re-
publican party. The most likely
changes will be the suppression of the
insurrection in the Philippines, the
|enactment of the necessary legislation
to reform and improve our monetary
system, to restore our merchant
marine, build an Oceanic canal across
the Isthmus, etc. These are all great
measures, to which the American peo-
pie are already committed, and the
democratic party cannot we'll afford
to oppose them. Yet, except in the
opposition 10 such measures, the
democrats win be without any impor-
tant issue.