The Opelousas courier., 1899-07-29
WASHINGTON, ID. C., News.
FromIhr Regular Correspondent.

y The unsuccessful buffer
= spoken Of ash. duffer by sports
Well, Alger is an unsuccessful
buffer, and the result will be hi
retirement fronr public life o.
August |. Somehow this bluff
iing phase of the question ha
been overlooked.o But a clos,
friend of Algers is responsible
for the statement that Al lger' res
lgnation was handed to Mckinle,
as big bluff, with the expecta
tlon that he would decline it in ,
nice little note that AIger couIt
have published to refute tn,
charge that he was remaining il
the Cabinet against Mr.. Mckin
ley $ wishes, and that Alger was
the most surprised man in Wash.
lngton when he received Mr.. Nc
klnley's note accepting his res.
ignatlon to take effect August |
The same man says that Algel
is very mad, although pretending
to be greatly pleased, and that he
may toss a few bembshells ad-
ministrationward, after he drops
official harness, and that their ex-
plosion 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 mil
itary occupation of Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines, leav-
ing military affairs to be con-
trolled by Meiklejohn and Cor
bin and that is the present un-
derstanding. Algerism isn't likely
to depart with Alger.
Unless Mr.. Elihu Root, of New
York. can persuade Mr.. McKin-
ley to shake up the War Depart
ment clique and to give Gen.
Miles the say th4f properly be-
longs to him as Commanding
General of the army, in all strict
ly Military matters, be- will live
to regret the day he so eagerly
accepted the War portfolio to
perform duties belonging to the
Attorney General, after two mem
bers of the Cabinet, fully cover
SAINT with the situation, had de-
clined to do so, and to stand be-
fore the country as figure head
responsible for the conduct of
the War Department.
Perhaps it was fellow feeling
that caused Corporal Tanner,
who was kicked out of the PEN
sion Bureau by Harrison, after
few months services as Commits
sioner, to rush into print with
fulsome praise of Alger and AL
gerism. Whatever it was, it
was ereditable to Tanners heart
if not to his sense of thrift,
to stand up for the under dog, in
this fracas, because he liked him
personally, although he knew
when he did it that it was likely
TO lesson his own pull on the ad-
Mr. NJ. L. Lockwood, of Penn
sylvania, President of the Ameri-
can Antitrust League, which al
though non-partizan organiza-
lion, purposes to take an i'm
portant part in the Presidential
is strong Bryan Dem
ocrat, and he says of the senti-
nent of Pennsylvania Democrats:
Il am in touch with the true
Democrats of Pennsylvania, and
t is safe to say that ninety-fve
Der cent of them are loyal to
Bryan and the principles of the
Chicago platform. The real
Democracy Of the State and of all
'ther States must be on the alert,
or if the tricksters get one vote
more than one third of all the
members of the National Conven-
ion, they will accomplish their
nd, which is the defeat of Bryan.
rhe monopolistic and trust inter-
'sts will bend all their energies to
lefeat his nomination because
hey recognize that no human
,ower can prevent his victory ut
he polls, if he be again declared
he nominee of the party |,
The statement that Hon. w. G..
Whitney, whose shrewd manipu-
alton procured the last nomina-
ion of Mr.. Cleveland, in spite of :
eemingly invincible obstacles,
Iad gone to Europe for the pur-
'ose of trying to persuade Admi-
al Dewey to allow his name to
o before the next Democratic
as candidate for the
residential nomination, while in
eresting, was not regarded in
Washington as of any particular :
Mr.. Whitney has !
cen hunting for some time for ,
nybody to beat Bryan, and has {
ounded a number Of men as to :
heir willingness to contest the
with Col. Bryan.
Iobody with the slightest politi-
al knowledge has shown any dis
osition to try to do the impos-
ible, and it is among the ,
that Mr.. Whitney, {
anking upon Admiral -Dewey's