Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-11-16
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WASHINGTON INCIDENTS.

Elections Policy En-
dorsed- Virginia to be in Line for
rlcKinIey i'm 1oOO-GeneraI Capitol
Talk.
President Mckinley takes time from
the work of preparing his message to
Congress, now well under way, to ex-
change congratulations on the strong
endorsement of expansion given by
the voters in every state in which the
policy of the administration has been
made the issue, with Republican Sena-
tors and Representative who have
called on him since the elections.
Among his more recent callers was
Senator Kyle of South Dakota, who
said of the campaign in his state: ''The
issue was the support Of the admins
tration and expansion, and the result
was an emphatic endorsement of the
administration and it's policy in the
Philippines" Representative Gros-
venor, of Ohio, another caller, said:
''It is my honest opinion that even
before Congress meets, the insurrection
in the Philippines will be ended, and
the situation be such as to allow the
President to turn the matter over to
Congress for legislation. 1t looks to
me as though it would not be many
days before our army has captured
Aguinaldo and ended his rebellion.
With the downfall of Aguinaldo will
end all this talk of so-called imperial
istic movement. The elections have
already shown the weakness of the
anti-expansion policy, and I do not
think the Democrats will dare go to
their national convention, and declare
against expansion in the face of this
years elections. By that time anti
expansion will be SO dead that even
the Democrats will not try to revive
it," Senator McCumber, of North
Dakota, said: Expansion in North
Dakota doesn't mean imperialism and
a big standing army. 1t means de-
velopment of trade. We want, of
course, an army of sufficient strength
for an important nation. Representa-
tive Durham, of Cal, said: "The
President and his policy has the ap-
proval of the majority of the people,
and the result of the elections make it
certain, if it was not SO before, that
Mckinley and Bryan will run against
each other again. Mckinley will
defeat him easily"
Mrs. Elizabeth 1. Joy, wife of Rep
resentative Joy, of Missouri, is actively
engaged in working up sentiment
against allowing Roberts, the polyga-
mist Representative elect from Utah,
to retain his membership of the House.
She has prepared a petition, copy of
which she has sent to the wife of every
member of the House of the Fifty-sixth
Congress, requesting that it be signed
and returned to her. This petition
reads as follows: "We, the wives of
the members elect of the incoming
Congress, hereby urge our respective
husbands in their official capacity, and
the Fifty-sixth Congress as an organized
body, to expel from membership therein
Brigham II. Roberts, of Utah. The
spirit of our civilization and of our
laws, as we'll as the dignity of Ameri-
can woman and the purity of the
American home, demand that he nor
any such as he, shall ever take part in
the councils of the law makers of our
beloved country"
Dr. Wise, of the Second District of
Virginia, who was seated in the last
House after contest, will contest the
same seat against the same opponent,
in the next House. Speaking of the
fraud practiced in his district, in order
to make an apparent Democratic
majority where everybody knows the
majority will be overwhelmingly Re-
publican, DIR. Wise said: ''This out
rage on the purity of the ballot cam
not be indefinitely continued. There
are signs of a revulsion of feeling
among Democrats of the better class,
who are tired of seeing this rascally
work done year after year. And when
election day in 1900 comes around,
hundreds of Virginia Democrats will
cast their votes for VIM. Mckinley, for
they are anxious to continue their
present prosperity, which they fear
would be changed to adversely if their
party should get in power"
Senator Foraker said of the result
in Ohio, which he played so important
part in bringing about, and of the
general result: 'It was victory for
the administration, and will greatly
strengthen President Mckinley, and
in that way have decided effect on
Congress, and the whole country
Prosperity will continue and nobody
will think of any other Republican
than Mckinley as our candidate for