The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1899-05-20
Washington, p. c., News.
Washington, May Is, 1899.

these men, who have worked an,
fought SO continuously that man
of them are now unfit for duty
when it knew that another thin!
was to be done. 1t has told tn,
country that Gen. Otis hac
been ordered to send the volun
teers home as fast as transporta
ton could be secured for them
when Otis had really been in
structed to keep the volunteers
as long as he needed them anc
could make them appear to stay
willingly. This has been suspect.
ed 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 soldiers
aboard, it became 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 sur
rendered, and that the bluff
about bringing them home as fast
as vessels could be made avail
able 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 peo-
pie 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 adj
mlnlstration circles over the fail
ure Of the expected surrender of
Aguinaldo to materialize is so ac-
'te that it cannot be hidden, and
o:6cials who have been glib for
several weeks past, in predicting
the speedy finish of Aguinaldo,
cannot now be coaxed to talk
about the probabilities over there
at all.
Mr.. Mckinley still holds to his
policy Of rewarding the Gold
Democrats for making him presi-
dent. The first Census plum
given to Ohio was the appoint
ment of Gen. Americus V. Rice,
by direct order of Mr.. Mckinley,
to be purchasing agent of the
Census Bureau.
Hon. E. L. Russell, President
of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
who is visiting Washington,
thinks the chances for promotion
of Hon. John NJ. Allen ("Private
John Allen of Tupelo") from the
House to the Senate are excel
lent, and he has circulated among
the people of Mississippi suff-
ciently to be we'll posred. He
said: "The people of his State
approaching Mr.. Aliens merit
and long and useful career in
the House, mean to promote him,
and in so doing, they will honor
themselves"
Admiral Schley has accepted
an invitation from Ex-senator
Manderson to pay him a visit, at
his Nebraska home, and will
leave for the West at once. He
will probably take advantage of
the opportunity while in that Sec
ton, to visit a number other
Western points, to which he has
been cordially invited.
Ex-Representatlve Hartman, of
Mont, who voluntarily retired
from Congress at the close of the
last session, is in Washington.
He says the wish was father to the
story that the silver Republicans
Of his section were not friendly to
the denomination of Col. Bryan,
and that Col. Bryan has taken ex-
actly the right position towards
those who bolted the Chicago
conventions; that the silver Re-
publicans who bolted McKinley's
nomination and platform and sup
ported Bryan would have just as
much right to attempt to dictate
to the Republicans as the gold
Democrats to the Democrats.
Continuing, he said: 81 would as
soon think of going to Mark
Hanna for information as to Dem
ocratic faith and principles, AS to
go to Perry Belmont. They are
both supporters of the same in
terests, advocates of the same
financial policy, and brother op-
ponents of the producing and
wage-earning classes of the U. S.",I
1Lr, Hartman thinks that if the
election was this year, instead of |
next, there would be no doubt of |
tie tickets being headed by Bry-
and Mckinley again, and expects
that they will be any way. Speak
ing of next years Democratic
platform, he said: The three
most prominent features in the
platform, in my judgment, will
be first, it's declaration for indie
pendent bimetalism, against the
retirement of the greenbacks,
against interest-bearing bonds,
and against transferring to the
banks the right to issue or control
the issue of paper money; second,
a strong declaration against