The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-06-29
Quay in Control of the Pennsyl-
vania Republican Con.
ventiOn.
Secretary Alger Will Not Resign Cen
sOrship Of Letters From Manila.
General Wood offered
q Position.
WASHINGTON, June %, 1899.

War Department upon his return to
Washington. The rumor of his early
resignation has become such regular
thing that he would really be disap-
pointed if it failed to meet him after
any little absence from his desk. The
rumor that Gen. Miles was to be sent to
the Philippines to command the army
was an entirely new one, and entitled to
medal for utter absurdity and sense.
lessness. Secretary Alger and the en-
tire administration are entirely satisfied
with Gen. Otis conduct OF affairs in the
Philippines and have no idea of placing
such an indignity upon him as the send.
ing of the commanding General OF the
army to the Philippines would be.
There were lot more senseless rumors
not worthy of specific mention. for the
simple reason that persons of average
intelligence should have known that
with the President and the Secretary
of War both away from Washington
there was no one left with authority to
decide upon anything important con-
nected with the army, but, of course,
everyone knows that the yellow journals,
which originate these rumors, are not
printed for persons of average intelli.
gence.
More or less amusement was caused
in Washington by the solemn announce.
ment of one of the big Chicago dailies,
which was duly telegraphed all over the
country, that it had succeeded in getting
trustworthy information that Represen-
tative Payne would continue at the head
of the House Ways and Means commit.
tee, Representative Cannon at the head
of the committee on Appropriations, and
Representative Hit at the head of the
committee on Foreign Affairs In Wash.
ington this great bit of news was fully
known from the day that Republican
majority of the House was elected.
These three men would have retained
their chairmanships no matter who had
been chosen Speaker of the House,
simply because their extensive expert.
ence made them the right men for the
places. There has been discussion
about other chairmansbips but none
about these, except by those who were
seeking to create pickering in the Re-
publican ranks by saying that it existed.
Mr.. Charles H. Mullen, we'll known
Pennsylvania Republican, who is visit.
ing Washington, said of politics in the
Keystone State: "The larger part of the
delegates to the Republican State Con.
vention, which meets in August, have
been elected. The Philadelphia men
have not been chosen yet, but they will
not be very large part of the conven-
ton, no matter what there affiliations
may be. 1t is safe to say, from the dele.
gates already selected, that the entire
convention of 2O3 members will not con-
tain more than 40 anti-Quay men, or in
surgents, as the regulars call them. The
sentiment of the party is really with
Senator Quay, no matter how much
noise the antis may make"
Col. Dick, who has been chosen to be
chairman of the Ohio State Committee,
has host of friends in Washington who
value him as friend as we'll as admire
him as political manager. He smiles
when anybody asks him about the ex.
tent of the alleged Republican revolt in
Ohio, which the Democrats are so fond
of talking about, and says wait until the
votes are counted. He declined to dis.
cuss the alleged Republican kicking be
cause he was made chairman of the
State Committee, but said OF the head of
the ticket: "The nomination OF Judge
Nash was the best that could have been
MADE. He is popular and strong man
all over the State, and his name on the
tici ct will be worth many votes to the
party" Col. Dick seems to take very
little interest in who the Democrats nom.
mate for Governor, because he doesn't
think that it will make the slightest
difference in the result.
Postmaster General Smith has made
public letter from F. w. Vaille, Direct
or of Posts, at Manila, concerning the
absurd story that volunteers letters to
the U. S. were being opened and cen.
sored before being forwarded. Follow
ing is an extract therefrom: SIT is not
necessary to assure you that l am not
risking personal liberty by allowing any
letters to be hammered with, and it will
be useless to assure the originator of the
absurd story of censorship of the mails
that he is mistaken, because he knows
that the story was manufactured for
political reasons"
Gen. Leonard Wood, who has such
brilliant record as commander of the
Rough Riders and as Military Governor
of Santiago, is in demand. The big syn.
dicate of capitalists, which includes ex.
Senators German, OF Maryland, and
Smith, of New Jersey, and which has
just bought nine Washington railways