The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-22
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
lCOmmunicated).
WASHINGTON,
June IS. 1900.


adelphia. which he has o. KID.
That is the only explanation of
the very bad taste he has shown
in sending two members of his
cabinet - Secretary Root and
Postmaster General Smith = to
Philadelphia, to help Hanna ma
nipulate the Republican COnven-
ton. Smith carried the plat.
form. which he wrote under or
ders from Mr. Mckinley and
Hanna. that will be adopted by
the convention. and Roots spec
ial business is to see that Boss
Platt does not get in his threat
ened monkey business with the
Vice Presidential portion of the
Hanna Mckinley program.
If We have not sufficient num-
Der of troops in the Philippines
to keep the Filipinos in subjec-
ton, how are we going to be able
to send lot of them to China to
help the Europeans whip the
Chinese boxers" into submis-
sioni That is the problem which
now confronts Mr.. Mckinley
and his cabinet. And after this
government helps the European
governments knock out the
boxers and set up new Chinese
government, what will come next?
That is the problem which may
in the very near future confront
the American people. Are we
ready to assume any new respon-
sibilities for the government of
more Asiatics? Have we not al.
ready more of that sort of thing
than is desirable?
/ He is very gullible chap in
deed, who will be convinced by
the number Of national banks or
ganized under the single gold
standard law, enacted by the Re
publican Congress, that the new
law is a good thing. But that
seems to be the Republican idea.
Comptroller Dawes has given the
press a statement periodically
showing the number of banks,
etc. The last says that 362 ap.
plications have been made and
l59 authorized to organize, with a
total capital of IS, 645, 600, and
that the increase in National
Bank note circulation has been
Sol, 997,9l0 a careful and cor.
rect statement of the condition
of these new banks a year OF two
from now will be much more i'm
pOrtant than the figures now
given out.
The administration was greatly
chagrined by the Indifference of
the people of Washington to-
wards General Z. o. Otis, and
took special pains to add attrac
lions to the. reception given to
him by the people of Rochester,
New York, his home city. Secre
tary Long sent the full Marine
Band at public expense, and Sec
rotary Root, virtually ordered
General Joseph Wheeler, now an
unassigned Brigadier General in
the regular army, to go to Ro.
chester to help add enthusiasm
to the occasion. Mr.. Mckinley
has been made to realize, by the
indifference of the public toward
General Otis, how unpopular his
Philippine policy is with the
people, and with the realization
has come alarm. He knows that
the people know that the respon
sibility for putting Otis in com
mand in the Philippines, and
keeping him in command after
his unfitness for the command
bad been shown up, belongs to
! Mr.. Mckinley, and he fears that
the people will be as indifferent
towards him on election day as
they have shown themselves to
be towards Otis now. The spec.
tire of doubt has become Mr.. Nc.
Kinley's constant companion.
Senior Nicholas Rivero, editor
of one of the leading papers Of
Havana, who has been in Wash
lngton for few days, thinks that
there has been wrong doing in
other branches of the Cuban
government as well as in the
POstOffice branch. He gave the
Senate Committee a pointer that
should not be overlooked, when
he said: 81 wish we could have
a thorough investigation of the
expenditures of money on SAM
tary and engineering works.
Such an investigation would re.
veal some interesting facts. The
reports Of fraud in connection
with these works are very per.
Sistent i'll Havana, and an inves.
tlgation might show that a great
deal of money had been improper.
ly expended
Admiral Dewey has found out
that he never was in the running
as a candidate for President, and
has scratched his name off the en-.
tries to the race. In reply to a
direct question as to whether he