Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-10-19
FREELAND, Pa, OCTOBER 10, 1s9!
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, October II. IS!

Washington, October II, 1899.
There is no limit to the claims that
Republicans are willing to make for the
administration, but there is a limit to
the imposition that can be practiced
upon intelligent men. 1t is simply
ridiculous for the administration to
claim credit, as it is now doing, for the
acceptance by Canada of the temporary
boundary line between Alaska and
Canada, which was sometime ago
agreed upon by representatives of the
United States and England, when it is
well known that the Canadian govern
ment was compelled to accept by the
English government. 1t is equally well
known why. England has trouble
some war on hand with the Transvaal
republic, in which it wishes the moral
support of the United States govern
ment, and, as sort OF bribe, it ordered
| Canada to accept the temporary bound
airy line, which the Canadian premier
had declared he wonld fight rather than
accept. Certainly there is nothing in
that to entitle the administration to any
| credit. While the acceptance of the
temporary boundary line is advanta-
geous to Americans, it is after all
merely postponement of the dispute
to some future time, when England has
| no war ON its hands.
t / i
Admiral Schley's response to a com
mittee from the Womans National In
dustrial League, which called on him to
presant copy of a resolution adopted
| by the league, asking contributions
from industrial workers to purchase a
home for him, was worthy of the man
and his record. He said: "While l
feel deeply touched by the desire of
your committee, which the resolution
brings to my attention, and sincerely
appreciate the purpose and wishes you
so kindly suggest to- me, | feel that |
ought to ask you to defer this matter
until the wants and needs of cold
winter now coming on, have passed,
and its demands in the households of
workers have first been met before any
| provision is made for me. With express
sions of deep gratitude to you, the
matter is left to your consideration.
t t
The Dewey fright of the McKinleyites
is fast reaching an acute stage. 1t is
no longer secret that Senator Proctor
is grooming Dewey for the presidential
nomination, next year, and statement
| made to Vermont friends that ''no man
has ever yet refused to accept the presi
| dency," is significant of his belief that
he can count upon Deweys acceptance,
| If he can show him that he can be nomi-
mated. Proctor's political shrewdness
is unquestioned, and II the Democrats
carry Ohio, he will get all the assist
ance he wishes in booming Dewey for
the Republican nomination next year.
Nothing short of overwhelming Re-
publican success in Ohio can give Mr..
Mckinley reasonable degree of GER
tainty that he will be renominated and
that seems doubtful indeed, at this
| time.
/
| hepTeSeUbdJlVe-eleCb hODeTlS, vi u JdI,
now in the East, says the fight against
| him is largely political and that he
intends to stand up for his rights all
the way through. He says he was
elected as Democrat, not as Nor
mon; that prominent Mormons were on
the stump against him, and that he
carried number of non Mormon voting
districts. He denies that he came east
to avoid warrant issued for him in
Utah; also that he has ever violated the
anti-polygamy law. He expresses con-
fidence that he will serve his full term
in the house. The fight against Mr..
Roberts promises to be one of the Bit
terest ever made against any mans
retention of his seat in either branch of
congress.
The administration has announced
strict neutrality in the war in South
Africa, and it would better live up to
that announcements, as there is
powerful sentiment in this country,
especially among those of Irish and
German descent, against the attitude of
England in that war, and those who
entertain that sentiment will quickly
resent any departure from neutrality by
this government.
G0ndv n Rov1o