The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-11-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

W dsulIStOH, november 1891
President Mckinley takes time from
the work of preparing his message to
Congress. now we'll under way, to ex-
change congratulations on the strong
endorsement Of ex pansion given by the
voters in every state in which the policy
of the administration was made the
issue. with Republican senators and
represe natives who have called on him
since the elections. Among his more
recent callers was Senator KYLE, of
South Dakota, who said Of the cam
paign in his state: THE issue was the
support of the administration and ex-
pansIon and the result was an emphatic
endorsement of the administration and
its policy in the Philippines" Repre-
sentative Grosvenor, of Ohio, another
caller said: 1t 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 tue President to turn the matter
over to Congress for legislation. 1t
looks to me as though it would not be
many days before orr army has cap
tured Aguinaldo and ended the rebel
lion. With the downfall of ApuinaIdo
will end all this talk of the socalled inn
perlallstlc movement. The elections
haye already shown the weakness Of
the anti-expansion policy, and | do not
think the Democrats will dare to 90 to
the national convention and declare
against expansion in the face of this
years elections. By that time antl-ex-
pansion will be 30 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 large
standing army. 1t means development
OF trade. We want, of course. an army
of sufficient strength for an important
nation" Representative Barham, of
California, said " The President and
his policy has the approval of the ma
lority 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. Nc
klnley will defeat him easily"
Mrs. Elizabeth l. Joy, wife of Repre-
sentative JOY, of Missouri, is actively
engaged in working up sentiment
against allowing Roberts, the Polgamist
represe ntative-elect from Utah, to re-
tain his membership of the House. She
40 cd IL l.
she has sent to the wife of every MEM
Der of the House of the Fifty-sixth con-
gress, requesting that it be signed and
returned to her. This petition reads as
follows: 1--WE, the wives of the mem
bers- 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 Brig
ham II. Roberts. of Utah. The spirit of
ovr civilization and our laws, as well as
the dignity of American womanhOod
and the purity of the American home,
demand that neither he, nor any such
as he, shall ever take part in the coun-
ellis 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
frauds practiced in this district, in order
to make an apparent Democratic ma
jority where everybody knows the ma
jority is overwhelmingly Republican,
DIR. Wise said: This outrage on the
purity of the ballot cannot be indefin-
iteiy continued. There are signs of a
revulsion of feeling among Democrats of
the better class, who are tired of seeing
this rascaily work done year after year.
And when election day in 1900 comes
around hundreds of Nirginian Demo
Gratis will cast their votes for William
Mckinley, for they are anxious to see
continuation of tine present prosperity,
which they fear would be changed to
adversely if their party should get into
power"
Senator Foraker said of the result in
Ohio, which he played SO important a
part in bringing about, and of the gen.
administration and will greatly strength
Ell President Mckinley, and in that
way have decided effect upon Con-
gress. and the whole country. Pros
perity will continue and nobody will
think of any other Republican than
Mckinley az our candidate for the
Presidency in 1900. Changes in the po-
litical situation will come, no doubt,
within the next twelve months, but the
probabilities are that they will strength
en- the Republican party. The most
likely changes will be the suppression
Of the instruction in the Philippines,
the enactment of the necessary legisla
ton to reform and improve our none
tary system, to restore our merchant
marine, build an oceanic canal across
the Isthmus, etc. These are all great
measures, to which the American peo-
pie are already committed, and the
Democratic party cannot well afford To
oppose them. Yet, except in the oppO-
sition to such measures. the Democrats
will be without any important issues.
The Democratic party seems to he bot
tied up. like General Butler was at Ber-
muda Hundreds
The admission by two prominent
Democratic senators-Caffery, OF Lou
isiana, and Morgan, of Alabama-that
anti-expansion was killed and the re-
election of President Mckinley practi-
caly assured by the state elections.
was significant. 1t shows their ability
to properly gage the sentiment OF the
country, even when it is directly against
the party to which they belong.