The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-04-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ITrom the HERALD's Correspondent
- WASHINGTON, April 16, 1900.

9Trom the HERALD's Correspondent
- WASHINGTON, April 16, 1900.
The Dewey cat is now out of the bag
and in full sight of everybody. The
Admiral has simply allowed himself to
be used by those democrats who still |
have hopes of keeping Mr.. Bryan out
of the democratic nomination. It is
the democratic nomination that the
Admiral expects to get. He has de-
clared himself to be democrat, al
though he has never cast a vote, and
says the only time he ever desired to
vote was when Mr.. Cleveland was a
candidate for President. The only
effect of his candidacy will be humili-
alton for himself. 1t is now known
that the announcement has fallen as
fiat everywhere else as it did in Wash
ington, and the democrats in Congress,
who ought to know the sentiment of
their constituents, say that Dewey has
no more chance of being nominated py
the Kansas city convention than Gro
yer Cleveland has. Among Admiral
Dewey's real friends much regret is
expressed that he should have listened
advice that must end in bringing
him great humiliation. The Bryan
ties are already adding gall to that
humiliation by suggesting that Dewey
may possibly be given the nomination
for vice president on the Bryan ticket.
just think of that, will you? The hero
of Manila Bay, the man who did more
than any other one man to give the
United States the Philippines, and who
has been referred .toaas the fathersof
expansion, used as the tail -of the
Bryan ticket, on platform opposing
expansion and anything else that
George Dewey was supposed to stand
for. Surely that would be enough to
make Dewey wish he had never been
born. .. 49,.
Secretary Gage does not pose as a
humorist, but the manner in which he
outwitted the New York newspaper,
which sought cheap advertising by
bringing a Porto Rican laborer under
contract to that city, was bit of Off
cial humor that was relished in Wash
ingtou. Knowing the only object in
bring ing the man from Porto Rico
was advertising for the paper Secre-
tary Gage exercised his authority and
ordered that the man be permitted to
land in New York, and to work under
his contract until further notice, i'd
stead of refusing to allow him to land
and giving the paper the opportunity
to take the case into the courts. There
is already case before the United
States Supreme Court involving the
question of whether the Constitution
extends to Porto Rico, and if the de-
cision in that case is not conclusive,
others can easily be made without
advertising any private business.
Secretary Gage deserves credit for
heading off that advertising scheme.
The courts are not maintained for
advertising purposes, even though
theatrical stars do sometimes succeed
in utilizing them for self-advertisement.
While nothing like formal agree
ment has been entered into or even
proposed, there seems to be sort of
tacit understanding among Senators
that no attempt will be made to get
vote on the Nicaragua Canal Treaty
at the present session, and the Nicara-
qua Canal bill will also be allowed to
go over until the next session. Sew
eral things contributed to this under
standing, not the least of which is the
desire of Republicans to bring the
present session of congress to close
before the meeting OF the National
Convention.