The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-04-15
NEXT YEARS CAMPAIGN.
WILL NOT BE A wALK-ovER
FOR THE REPUBLICANS.
Fighting in the Philippines Like
Iy to Continue Officers De-
clare the Army Beef Was
Bad.

Washington, April 10.-It is
daily becoming palmer to close
observers that Mr.. Mckinley and
his advisers do not regard next
year 5 campaign as a republican
walk-over. They are diligently
studying ways and means for
coralling electoral votes that they
consider doubtful. The trip that
Mr.. Mckinley is now arranging
to make this summer to the Pa
cific coast is one of the ways that
has been decided upon. They do
not expect to be able to carry
Delaware, Maryland or Kentucky
again, but they hope for Kansas
and Nebraska, both of which
states are likely to be visited on
Mr.. McKinley's western trip.
They are also beginning to real.
ize that some sort of a bluff
against trusts must be made.
Representative Lands, of Indi-
ana, has come to Washington es-
pecially to urge upon the admin
istration the necessity of doing
something to convince the voters
of the middle west that the ad-
ministration is antagonistic TO
the trusts. Mr.. Lands has done
some very plain talking about the
danger to the republican party
and it is evident that he has
frightened some of the admins
tra.ion men.
Attorney General Griggs,
doubtless acting under orders
from Mr.. Mckinley, has made a
play to shift the responsibility
for his recent queer letter about
trusts from the shoulders OF the
administration, by proceeding
against the Chesapeake and Ohio
Association, generally known as
the soft coal trust, under the
Sherman anti. trust law. The
suit was instituted in Cincinnati.
and will be directed by the solicit
tor general of the United States.
The public will watch the prose-
cution of this case closely, owing
to the attorney general having 50
recently stated, in writing, that
trusts could not be reached by
federal laws.
Evidently Admiral Dewey isn't
one of those who believes the
end Of the Philippine troubles to
be in sight. OF course he is tc
diplomatic to discuss such a ques-
ton where his opinion would be
likely to get out, but when he
cabled the navy department to
send him six months engineering
supplies for his fleet, every en-
ploye of that department knew
that it was just az though he had
cabled that it would not, in his
opinion be safe to materially re-
duce the strength Of the fleet at
Manila for sometime to come.
The latest Philippine news
seems to justify the opinion Of
those who believe that the fight
ing over there is likely to 90 on
for an indefinite time. Gen.
Lawton has started on a cam
paign with picked force, with
the intention of trying to run
down the Filipinos.
Democrats are not the only
ones who regard the Philippines
as on undesirable possession.
Representative Steele, of Indiana,
a staunch supporter of the ad-
ministration, who passed through
Washington a day or two ago,
said of them: $50 far as am
concerned, ! would like to trade
the Philippine islands for yell
low dog, and then kill the dog,
if there were nothing else in
volved but possession of the
islands. -
In naming one of the new bat
tleships Georgia, although no Pc
tition had been sent from that
state while they had been sent
from a dozen other states, Mr..
Mckinley is said to have been
actuated solely by a desire to
show his appreciation of the
courtesy with which he was
treated during his recent visit to
that state. This is creditable
alike to the president and the
people Of Georgia. The other
names chosen were, for battle-
ships-Pennsylyania and New
Jersey: for armored cruisers
West Virginia, Nebraska, and
California; for ordinary cruisers