The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-04-05
Roosevelt For President.
MCKINLEY CROWD UNEA'
sY-..THE FIGHT ON
REED NOT ENDED.

for the purpose, when it was anounc
ed that Gov. Teddy" Roosevelt
was in the field for the republican
Presidential nomination, next year,
and that there was an understanding
between TEDDY" and Gen. Miles,
who has been credited with entertain
ing similar ambition himself Some
of MIR. Mckinley Is friends appear to
think that he is bound to be renoml
mated aud re elected, but those OF
them who are long headed and who
have had experience in politics, 90
not look at things that way; they
know that both Roosevelt aud Miles
have qualities which are calculated
to arouse the enthusiasm and support
of the young men in their party, aud
that with good management a com
bination of their following might give
the Hanna Mckinley machine q hard
fight, if not an actual throw down
If this announcement is straight, Boss
Plattt must have failed in his efforts
to keep "Teddy" off the Mckinley
track.
With all Czar Reeds faults, and he
has enough and to spare, he has never
been sneaky fighter, which is more
than can be said for the administra
tion crowd. which is afraid 10 come
OFT ip the open and try to defeat
Reed for the Speakership, but is en-,
gagged in trying to bluff him into not
being q candidate, by stating that
the administration has determined to
throw it's influence for Reed, but with
the express understanding that the
rules of the next House shall be
changed so az to cut out all the Gar
business. The idea is that Reed
would not care to be speaker, if he
is to be shorn of the autocrat power
he has welded. This is on par with
the talk which has at times been
heard ever since Reed first became
about republicans who were
going to unite with the democrats to
change the rules and curtial the pow.
er of the Speaker. They never did
so, and if the republicans elect Reed
Speaker of the House again, as they
Will almost surely do, he will be the
same old Gar
1t has been brought out in the tes
timony before the military court of
inquiry tha. Gen. Eagan told a Bos
ton contractor, and Texas cattle
raiser, who had in bid for furnishing
beef on the hoof, that Secretary Alger
had practically ordered him to try
the refrigerated beef, which Swift q
Co claimed to have secret process
of preserving, as an experiment
The logger the court sits, the worse
things look for the AIger Eagan
crowd, aad Maj Lee, who is repre-
sentipg Gen Miles says be has lots
more witnesses on his list But as
the meat has already been fully proven
to have been bad, the court may
beside that it is unnecessary to hear
ali these witnesses.
Mr.. Mckinley has apparently at
last become aroused to the danger, to
his own political fortunes, of retain
ing Alger in his cabinet, and, unless
ali the political "wise me" are at
fault, the SEX" is hot on the trail of
Alger and cannot fail to catch up
with him very soon 1t has been.
these men say, fully determined by
Boss Hanna and the other directors
of the administration machine that
AIger must go They prefer that he
should do SO willingly. but if he de.
clines to tender his resignation with
out being requested by Mr. McKin
ley to do so, Mr. Mckinley will make
that request From strictly selfish
point OF view. democrats would pre-
fer that Mr. Mckinley should keep
AIger in the cabinet, for then 1T
would be impossible for the admins
tration to deny responsibility for
AIgerism and all its horrors, bat
democrats are too patriotic to wish
to zee a man filling the resposibIe
office of secretary of war, who de
serves 10 be kicked out, just to make
political capital for their party they
wish, above everything else, to see
tie sfairs of the government prop
erly administered. and know that
they will not be in the war depart
ment, as long as Alger is at its head
A group of army officers were
discussing the cost and results of the
campaign OF Gen Otis against :ae
Filipinos, which has just closed with
the taking of Aguinaldo's capital,
and the driving of him and bis army
into the interior, when one of them
said /: "For my part, | don't think
the game worth the candle After a
considerable loss of life. we have the