Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-08-01
Miles Should Command,
WILL Try re PERSUADE
DEWEY TO ACCEPT
NOMINATION.
Census for Cubans. Then They Ca,
Vote.
tfrom our regular correspondence


as a duffer by sports. Well, Alper
Is an unsuccessful political buffer
aud the result will be his retirement from
public life on August |. Somehow tb;s
blutling phase of the question has been
overlooked. But a close friend Of AL.
gers Is responsible for the statement
that Ayers resignation was handed ~
Mr' Mckinley as big bluff, will, the ex.
pectation that he would decline it in a
nice little note that Alger could have
published to refute the charge that he
was remaining in the Cabinet aoa;nst
Mr.. Mekinley's wishes, and that Aleer
was the most surprised man in Washing.
ton when he received Mr.. McKinley's
note accepting his resignation to take
elect August |. The same man saws
that Alger is very mad, although pre-
tending to be greatly pleased, and that he
may toss few bombshells administra-
honward, after he drops official harness.
and that their explosion will not make
pleasant music for Mr.. Mckinley. If
the new Secretary of War-Mr. Root
Is merely to look after the legal questions
connected with our military occupation
OF Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
leaving military affairs to be controlled
by Meiklejohn and Corbin, and that is
the present understanding, Aleerism
isn't likely to depart with Alger.
Unless Mr.. Elihu Root of New York
can pursuade Mr.. Mckinley to shake up
the War Department clique and TO give
ten. Miles the say that properly be-
longs to him as Commanding General of
the Army, in all strictly military matters.
he will live to regret the day he so eagerly
accepted the War portfolio to perform
duties properly belonging to the Attor-
ney General, after two members of the
Cabinet, fully conversant with the situa-
ton. had declined to do so. and to stand
before the country as a fgurehead re-
sponsible for the conduct of the War De-
partment.
Perhaps 1t was fellow feeling that
caused Corporal" Tanner. who was
kicked out of the Pension Bureau by
Harrison, after a few months service as
Commissioner, to rush into print with
fuisome praise of Aiger and Algerism.
Whatever it was, it was creditable To
Tanners heart, if not to his sense of
Thrift, to stand up for the under dog in
thus ffacas, because he liked him person
ally, although he knew when he did il
that 1t was likely to lessen his own pull
on the administration
Mr.. Nj. l.. Lockwood OF PENNSYLVANIA
President of the American Anti Trust
League. which although a non-partisan
organization, proposes to take an impor
tant part in the Presidential campaign. is
a strong Bryan Democrat, and he saws of
the sentiment of Pennsylvania Demo-
Gratis: II am in touch with the true
Democrats of Pennsylvania, and it is
safe to say that ninety five per cent OF
them are loyal to Bryan and the princi-
pies of the Chicago platform The real
Democracy of the State and of all the
other States must be on the alert, for il
the trieksters get one vote more than one
third of all the members of the National
Convention they will accomplish their
end, which is the defeat of Bryan. The
monopolistic and trust interests will bend
all their energies to defeat his nomina-
ton because they recognize that no hui
man power can prevent his victory at the
polls, If he be again declared the nomi-
nee of the Democratic party.
The statement that Hon. W. G. Whit
ney, whose shrewd manipulation pro-
cured the last nomination of Mr.. Cleve-
land, in spite of seemingly invincible OBJ
stacles, had gone to Europe for the pur-
pose of trying to persuade Admiral
Dewey to allow his name to go before
the next Democratic National Conven-
ton. as a candidate for the Presidential
nomination, while interesting. was not
regarded in Washington as of any i'm
portancc. Mr.. Whitney has been hunt
ing for some time for anybody to beat
Bryan. and has sounded number OF
men as to their willingness to contest
the nomination with Col. Bryan. No
body with the slightest political knowl-
edge has shown any disposition to try to
do the impossible, and it is among the
possibilities that Mr.. Whitney, banking
upon Admiral Dewey's ignorance of poll
tics and existing political conditions, may
intercept him somewhere in Europe and
try to persuade him to attempt it. Those
who know him best say that Admiral
Dewey never changes his mind after
having once decided question. and that
he will give Mr.. Whitney the same an
swer he has already given to others to
the same question.
General Carlos Garcia, son of the late
General Calixto Garcia, is in Washing
ton. as a representative of the Cuban Re-
publican League, which advocates COM
plete political independence of Cuba.
He asked Mr.. Mckinley for authority to
hold elections for municipal Offices
throughout Cuba, in order to demon
strate the ability of the Cubans to gov
ern themselves Mr.. Mckinley did not
give him decided answer, but it had
been previously said by officials that no
elections would be held in Cuba until a
census of those entitled to vote had been
taken.