The age-herald., 1899-08-13
Politics Has Taken the Center
 of the Stage CONVENTIONS 10 MONTHS OFF Enemies of MT. Bryan Come
 Out in the Open. FRIENDS OF ScHLEY WORKING Few Push Him for First Place, But Many Think He Should Tail the
 Ticket Mckinley Will
 Also Have Troubles
FRIENDS OF scHLEY WORKING

Washington, August 12.--(Special)-Pol ties has again taken the center of the stage here in Washington. The dog days will not be allowed to pass without cor responding heated period of political dis cusson. It Is now less than ten months before the national conventions are to be held, and one can't see how the fight is going to be made and where the lines are to be drawn. The enemies of MT. Bryan have come into the open, while the clique which will make some effort to sidetrack President Mckinley on the Philippine question as an issue are still concealed. The convention of democratic politicians at Saratoga will be the signal for the tackle The Bryan and anti-Bryan forces will clinch and the weakest will go under or else both fall hopeless before a superior enemy.
 There is no longer any question that there is a large clique in the democratic ranks that want to throw William Jen- nings Bryan overheard but good political prognosticators here do not believe that anythink known to politics can defeat Bryan for the next nomination.
 The Schley movement started in Penn
 
 the party. One set is credited with think ing that he should be given first place, while the other express the belief that he would add strength to the ticket as the yice-presidenual candidate I met prominent democratic politician here who told me that he had been commissioned to ask Schley informally and unofficially if he would accept second place. He was one of the men who attended the Chicago committee meeting and knows the admiral intimately. How far his question would commit the national committee to the Marylander I am unable to say. His name is not given because he was not talking for publica tion, but the fact can do no harm and shows to what extent Schley's name is being considered
 President Having Troubles
 In the meantime the president is having troubles peculiarly his own. Those of his own party who arc opposed to his foreign policy are preparing to attack him bitterly in the very outset of congress. He is con- scous that this opposition is stronger than appears on the surface. The statement of Senator Burrows has been calcium effect upon the plotters It did not last long but it revealed the number and some of their faces.
 The next session Is going to be a stormy one for the president. His hopes now, are that by December he will be able to em- body in his annual message the statement that the Filpinos have been put down. Senators Hoar, Mason, Burrows, and others of that set, are gathering statictics of the dead, not so much of those of our
 
 the Filipinos. They wish to accentuate tho barbarity of the warfare. For instance the other day General Otis reported that a hundred Americans met four hundred Filipinos. One American was killed and over a hundred natives This is the aspect these republican anti-imperialists are going to put the war before the public in their speeches
 There Is the question of the government of Cuba. Even General Wilson has re- yolted from the practices of Brooke and his soldiers. General Wilson has issued an order that the soldiers and Americans are not to disturb the Cubans and that the Cuban police must not be interfered with. Matters must have been pretty bad when one general will thus rebuke another and the other his superior at that The trouble is as hear 1t from Cubans who come to this city to complain, but who are mot heard officially, that the soldiery of Brooke is even worse in point of arrogance than the bedizzened soldiers of General Weyler. They have not even the sympa- thy of race or. bond of former relationship to inspire them to anything like friendly treatment. The papers here are urging the president to substitute civil authority for military rule in Cuba and let the mili- tia be subordinate to the civilians. The belief is growing daily that no man trained in tue Martinet school of arms is capable of administering laws equally and justly, but this is especially so when the com manding general has risen from the ob- scurest ogigin and had not the affiliations of gentlemen in his early days. Such a man seldom becomes anything more than tyrant in a little way if given brief au- thotity with soldiers and bayonets back of him. lassl -.-t 4.i
 General Brooke never went through West Point. He was wagoner In the beginning of the war, Ills status then was in, keeping with his early environments He secured a commission and time has done the rest in placing him ii, :, position