The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-07-21
Republicans Gan Garry the State
on an Honest Republican
Platform.
OHIO SURE REPUBLICAN
Says u Prominent Man Of That State.
President Receives Delegation
from Temperance Society.
Special Correspondence to The Gazette.

tion Of officers for the new regiment
Of volunteers, and he Ia reoeivinI
many compliments for having stuck I
his plan Of giving those commission
only to men whose military experieno
At them to properly I'LL the positions
Not a single commission has gone to
man without military experience
Secretary Alger aud Mrs. Aleer let
Washington last week for Long B1anol
to spend q couple Of days with the vic,
president and Mrs. Hobart. Before
leaving the secretary said Of the las,
newspaper attempt to retire him from
the cabinet. ~ shall not resign thi,
year certainly, and cannot say az tt
the future, My private business and
the state Of my health will govern my
future course, Nothing that I have
ever heard OF or know Of has been &C
cruel az these attacks upon me. II my
critics can point to one thing In my
official career I have done that | ought
not to have done, or where I have not
done what I should have done, I shall
be very glad to surrender my present
official duties"
Captain John j., ,Eaves Of North Gar.
olina, now IN Washington, said Of poll.
tics IN his state: "If the republican
party IN North Carolina would make
the fght In the coming campaign solely
OF az honest republican platform, Civ.
ing the gold standard and protection
planks the prominence to which they
are entitled, tho chances Of victory
would BE- reasonably sure. Mokinley's
policy Ia popular with the milling,
banking. railroad, moneyed and pro.
gressive element. and prosperity Ia n
more important issue nov III the south
than effete party lines"
Attorney General Griggs has gone to
New Jersey for a short vacation, which
he has earned by n great deal OF hard
work, made necessary BY the many
knotty law points brought up in non.
neoti0A with the results Of the war
with Spain,
tt was In a Washington hotel. A
democrat was RECALLING Il crowd with
stories indicating his belief that the
democrats had a show to carry Ohio
this year. After awhile q quiet gentle.
man, who Ia q prominent Ohio business
man, quietly remarked: II sec that
you don't know. The democrats have
no chance Of carrying the state, no
matter what sort OF n ticket they put
up. ] have been Ia more than half Of
the counties OF the state during the past
four months and have taken especial
care to get the drift Of public senti.
ment. The dissensions within the re-.
publican party are neither 40 wide
spread nor 10 serious as the democrats
think, m they do not extend to the
mass Of voters. Some individuals aIe
sore. but they will not affect the result, /
The state will 20 republican BY about
the usual majority, although u big vote
for an of year Ia likely to DO polled.
In Judge Nash the republicans have q
candidate who does the party credit,
He II an amiable man, aud yet has
nerve enough to meet any situation,
A delegation representing the Ma
tionRl Temperance society aud kindred
organizations, called on the president
Last week and requested him ia aet
aside tho opinion Of Attorney General
Gviggs on the ''oanteen" clause of the
army not Of the last congress, The
president told them he would make a
persona! investigation to satisfy him
self ~ to the correctness OF the con-
struotiop put upon the law by the at,
t0rney general, that II found correct 1t
would stand, II not 1t would be set
aside,
This government will not pay dam
ages on account of the detention of pas
sangers, on their sickness, on the
vessels seiaed during the Cuban
blockade, Such in effect was the reply
made by Secretary Hay to the French
Ambassador who had filed u claim for
$4,000 on behalf 0f q French paSsen,
ger on one at the French steamers CAP
tured and held until released by \ de-
pisi0n OF the admiralty court, 1t was
considered rs merely an incident Of the
war,
Commissioner Evans not only gave a
cordial welcome 10 tho q, A, h, COM
mlttae which came to Washington to
investigate the pension bureau, hut he
detailed expert clerks IN the hurnaH to
assist tho committee and ordered all
aMployas to give any information tho
committee might desire, This inyesti-
cation IL heiHg made largely because
nj charges which have beep made by
members Of tha g. A, II, against Com
missioner Evans and his methad ut nd
miaisteriRg tho business of the bureau,
and tho committee IN composed Of some
nj the most prominent meMhers nf that
organisation, Including Qalanel n, h,
Rr0Wn Of Haaesvilla, Ohio, who il
chairman General John W, Palmer III
ALBANY, former GlMMaHdaf 1Ghiaf,
and W, q, Jahasaa Of Cincinnati, pres
aaf eaMmaAder'iA,phlefr pommissiapr
~ Evans Sass ,thg more tharaagh tho
investigation u made the stronger viii
he biz viAdiaAtiQA, p0laAel Brown
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