Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-25
WASHINGTON LEI TER.


aEnf&L OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CT THE MONITOR
President Mckinley had most in
teresting conference with Major Gen
eral E. S. Otis, who came direct from the
Philippines TO Washington. Gen. Otis
warmly thanked the president for his
PROMOTE aad the president quite as
warmly assured him that the promo
ton was given because his good work
in the Philippines deserved it, and in
addition extended his personal thanks.
Gen. Otis gave the president and
members of the Cabinet many details
of his work in the Philippines which
had necessarily been left out of his
official report, and the information
added to the high esteem already felt
for Gen. Otis in Washington. When
the whole history Of our occupation
of the Philippines is Written, Gen.
Otis will be shown to possess Won
derful combination of military and
executive ability, both exercised under
difficult conditions.
President Mckinley's Instructions to
our Minister to China and to the
American naval officers in Chinese
waters as to the policy to be pursued,
during the revolution in China by the
stBoxrs'' an anti foreign secret or
ganization, are short, plain and pat
riotic, "act in concert with the naval
forces of European powers for the
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lives and poperty, but form no en-
tangling alliance" In other words,
the President is willing to have our
naval forces help protect lives and
property, but is fully determined that
the y. S. shall not be dragged into
any European schemes having for
their object interference with the in
ternal affairs of the Chinese govern
ment. That is a policy which every
American should be willing to endorse
and stand by, but the democrats are
already trying to destroy it SO that
they can make political capital out Of
it. Their desperate need for political
capital makes them reckless Of facts.
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for proposals for armorplate for the
battleships that will be ready for it
during the coming fiscal year, he
raised the club which congress placed
in his hand over the heads of the two
companies which have plants to make
this armor. Whether he will strike
depends entirely upon those COM
panies IF they will submit bids for
the armor needed at what he con-
siders fair and reasonable prices, Sec
rotary Long will give them the con-
tract. If they are too greedy in their
prices he will exercise the authority
conferred upon him by congress,
high compliment to his integrity, and
ment armor- making plant, which
would mean the end of private armor-
Il those armor- makers ex-
ercise good business sense, they will
meet Secretary Longs idea Of what is
a fair price to pay for armor.
Democrats are not doing so much
talking about the ordering Of several
regiments Of the regular army to the
since they found out that
the only object of Secretary Root in
sending the regulars was to allow
some of the volunteer regiments
which have seen the hardest service
to come home.
Hon. J. P. Dolliver, Iowa's popular
member of the house, is being strong
ly pushed for second place on Nc
Kinley's ticket, and if Iowa was not
a sure republican state, he would
be sure Of winning, and he may do
so anyway. Personally, no better
man could be nominated.
Senator Hanna has consented to
remain at the head of the republican
national committee during the COM
ing campaign. This statement is
made on authority only second to
that Of Senator Hanna himself, who
still declines to discuss the matter for
publication, further than to say that
the chairman of the committee will
be announced after the state delega-
tions to the Philadelphia convention
have chosen the members of the new
committee.