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fus is free 10 go with his family
wherever he chooses, and if he comes
to the United States it is certain he
will have a. warm welcome
Washington Letter.
! From our Regular Correspondent

to visit Aberdeen, 3. D., and Sioux
City, Ia, after he goes to St. Paul
and Minneapolis, where he will be
over October IL, to receive the Mime
sofa volunteers on their return from
the Philippines. He expects to be at
Galesburg, H., on the 7th OF October,
and in Chicago from the 9Th to the
1lth, unless the celebration SEIZED
uled for the 10th in that city is, aban-
doned. He was compelled to decline
the pressing invitation extended by
Senat or Fairbanks to attend the re-
union of the Blue and the Gray, to
be held at Evansville, Ind from the
10th to the 18th.
| While the enemies Of the admins
tratlon were seeking to make it ap-
pear that Rear Admiral Scnley was
being sighted by being offered the
command of the South Atlantic
squadron, that officer called on
| President Mckinley and expressed
his perfect willingness to accept the
command, and also accepted an IN
vitation to attend the state dinner
to be given by the president in honor
of Admiral Dewey. Admiral Schley
requested he president, if it could be
| done without interfering with plans
already made, to attach his old flag
ship, the Brooklyn, to the South At
antic squadron, and the request
will probably be granted.
No special Importance is attached
to the q anting of permission by Gen.
eral Otis for two Filipino officers to go
to Manila to negotiate for the sur
render of the few American prisoners
in the hands of the Filipinos. 1t is
merely an incident, and will not in
terfere in the slightest degree with the
preparations which are being made
to whip the Filipinos into submission
just as soon as the wea( her will allow
aggressive military operations to
begin.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, chair
man of the Senate committee on for.
egn relations, is in Washington. He
says Minnesota never WAS SO pros
porous, and that a goodly portion
of the citizens of the state will turn
out to welcome Presiden; Mckinley,
who has been such II powerful factor
in bringing about general prosperity,
when he goes to Minneapolis and St. |
Paul, next month. he also said |
that the antl's We're SO few in the
state that the sentiment was practi- |
cally unanimous in support IF the |
Phil ppine policy of President Nc
Kinley.
Senator Warren, Of Wyoming,
passed through Washington on his
way to Boston, but stopped long
enough to say that the good times
prevalent all through that section
had completely knocked out Bryan
ism in the West OF the pplltical
outlook he said: I'm my judgment,
Mckinley will yet the delegates Of all
the western s! ates and the electoral |
votes of nearly all of them. | do not
believe that Bryan could possibly win
on any issue The Republican ma
it was in 1896. The sentiment regard
ing the Philippines is practically all
one way. The people everywhere
favor expansion. The policy of the
president to prosecute the war with
more vigor than ever is especially en-
dorsed."
Representative Dick, who AS chair
man of the Republican state COM
mittee will have charge of the Ohio
campaign, stopped in Washington
long enough, this week, to say Of the
outlook: I'VE are quite satisfied
with the political situation in Ohio.
We are convinced that we shall carry
the state for the Republican ticket
by an exceedingly large majority.
We have not done much talking SO
far. but we have been steadily at work
mapping out the campaign and or
ganizing the party throughout the
state. am sure we have got the
party machinery in as good shape
today AS it has ever been during the
last thirty years. Republicans in
every county are alive to their duty
and they will perform it in the Nov
ember election to the high satlsfac
ton of the people OF Ohio. [ believe
that there is now no friction any
where in the party, and ! am con-
WINGED that we shall elect our candi-
date for governor, Judge Nash"
The Bryan or-bust Democrats are
more than ever convinced that Nc
Lean means to throw Bryan down
if he can. The statement, seemingly
correct. that Mclean had personally
requested Bryan not to take the
stump in Ohio, because he feared that
his presence would result in making
the silver question too prominent in
| the campaign, has intensified their
belief in McLean's treacherous lnten
| tions.
Senator Heitfeld, of Idaho, now in
Washington, said: "Fifty per cent.
of the silver Republicans in my state
who went out of the party several
years ago have come back, and | be-
| lieve that more of them will come in
right along. Many are coming back
on account of the administrations
expansion policy, refusing to 60 with
| the Democrats on that ISSUE"