The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-05-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 18th.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 18th.
Mr.. ED1ToR:-The administration has
not dealt honestly with the country in re-
gard to the volunteers in the Philippines.
1t has given out one thing about bringing
home these men, who have been worked
and fought so continuously that many 'f
them are now unfit for duty, when it knew
that another thing had to be done. 1t has
told the country that Gen. Otis had been
ordered to send the volunteers home as
fast as transportation could be secured
for them, when Otis had really been in
structed to keep the volunteers as long rs
he needed them and could make them APP
pear to stay willingly. This has been
suspected for some time, but when two
transports left Manila for San Francisco
last week, with only sick and wounded
men aboard, and two more with no sol
diers aboard, it became 4 certainty. 1t is
now privately acknowledged by members
of the administration that it had, from the
first, been the intention of Otis to keep
the volunteers until the Filipinos surren-
dered, and that the bluff about bringing
them home as fast as vessels could be made
available was thrown out because it was
thought that the surrender would occur
before there would be any opportunity to
send them home. A government of the
people can never add to its strength or
popularity by deceiving the people.
Every such deception is an impugnment
of the patriotism of the people.
The disappointment felt in administra
ton circles over the failure of the expected
surrender of Agunaldo to materialze is
50 acute that it cannot be hidden, and Off
Gals who have been so glib for several
weeks past in predicting the speedy finish
of Agunaldo, cannot now be coaXed to
talk about the probabilities over there at
all
Mr. Mckinley still holds to his policy
of rewarding the god democrats for
making him President the first Census
plum given to Ohio was the appointment
of Gen. Americas v Rice, by direct order
of the Census Bureau.
If the idea CT a popular subscription to
buy Washington home for Admiral
Dewey is as we'll received all over the
country as it has been in Washington
enough money is likely to be subscribed
to buy him whole town, instead of a
single house. Dewey has notified the
Navy Department that he will leave
United States in about four months, which
indicates his intention to make the home
ward voyage in very leisurely manner,
as the trip could easily be made inside of
Admiral wishes to give himself chance
to get good and strong and the cool
weather of fall to arrive before he tackles
the ovations which he knows await him in
this country. Dewey is long headed chap.
ExRepresentative Hartman, Of Mon
tana, who voluntarily retired from Con-
gress at the close of the last session, is in
Washington He says the wish was father
his section were not friendly to the re-
nomination of Col. Bryan, and that Col.
BRYAN has taken exactly the right position
towards those who bolted the Chicago
convention; that the silver republicans
| who bolted McKinley's nomination and
| platform and supported Bryan would have
| just as much right to attempt to dictate to
the republicans as the gold democrats
have to dictate to the democrats. Con-
tinuing he said: Il would as soon think of
going to Mark Hanna for information as
to democratic faith and democratic prin-
clples as to 90 to Perry Belmont. They
are both supporters of the same interests,
advocates of the same financial policy,
and brother opponents of the producing
| and wage-earning classes of the United
| States" Mr.. Hartman thinks that if the
election was this year, instead of next,
there would be no doubt of the tickets
being headed by Bryan and Mckinley
again. and expects that they will be any
way. Speaking of next years democratic
platform he said: The three most promi-
nent features in the platform, in my judg-
ment, will be, first its declaration on the
money question. which will include Il re-
affirmation of the Chicago platform, a
declaration for independent bimetallisnl,
against the retirement of the greenbacks,
against interest bearing bonds, and agains st
transferring to the banks the right to
! issue or control the issue Of paper money;
second, a strong declaration against trusts,
and third, anti-imperialism."