Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-14

dent Mckinley has presided over two
cabinet meetings since his return to
Washington, and besides dsposing of
all the accumulated routine business
has answered the French proposals re-
garding China, submitted last week,
agreeing to several of them, which
were really only restatement of our
own policy, and disagreeing with 9TH
ers. There was incidentally, some po-
litical talk and comparing of notes at
these cabinet meetings, and the Presi-
dents callers have also given him con-
siderable political information. TAX
en- altogether, there is probably no
man in the country who has a more
accurate knowledge Of the political
situation today than the President has.
The result of that knowledge is that
to the few to whom he will talk parti
san politics he expresses absolute con-
fidence in his reelection by a larger
electoral vote than he received four
years ago and in the election of a re-
publican majority of the House. That
same confidence is expressed by every
republican of prominencewho has been
in Washington recently. The old par
ty is aroused and it going to win.
The necessity for increasing and re-
organizing the regular army in order
to put it upon basis in keeping with
changed conditions and up-to-date
needs, is strongly urged in the annual
report of Gen. John r. Brooke, COM
mander of the military district of the
east, made public by the War Depart
ment this week. For years this nee
essity has existed and has been pointed
out by officers of the army, and the
war with Spain made it plain to even
the most unobservant. The country
has long ago outgrown both the size
and the organization of the regular
army, and the demand for a change is
not militarism as some democrats in
sist, but common sense. AS Gen.
Brooke points out, the regular army
is the bulwark behind which the vol
unteer army is organized in time of
war. In this connection it may be
we'll to call attention to Mr.. Bryan's
recent assertion that it was the policy
of the republican administration to
concentrate the army near great cities
40, fhn nf o,,,;t,
working men. The statement is both
ridiculous and false. There is no con-
siderable force of U. S. troops near
any city big or little, the most of the
regulars being stationed at the coast
Notifications and the number is so
small that official reports have called
attention to the rusting of eXpension
guns because there are not enough |
men to keep them in good condition.
First assistant Postmaster General |
Johnson, who made a flying trip to |
New Jersey this week, reports the re-
publicans of the state to be aggressive |
standing all the bowling of democrats |
about trusts they are running several |
men for Congress in that state who |
were connected with the most motor
ious trusts ever organized Mr.. John
son has no personal doubt about the |
electoral votes of New Jersey being |
cast for Mckinley and Roosevelt
Among President McKinleys callers
this week was Mr.. j. c. Abreu, a |
young Manila lawyer who has come to
the United States to attend one of our
law schools because he is satisfied that
the Philippines are going to be per-
manently kept by the United States |
and that American methods will be in
troduced in the islands. He says the |
recent spasmodlc fighting on the part |
OF the insurgents is the last stand of !
Aguinaldo and his followers and was
planned for its effect upon the Presl-
Dental campaign in this country, with !
the hope that by making few attacks |!
here and there the American people |
would believe that the insurrection |
still existed and would be indefinitely
ontinued. He was very positive in
President Mckinley peace would be
saying that with the reelection of
permanently restored; also that the
better element among the Filiplnos
wre perfectly satisfied with the course
pursued by this government since it
acquired the ownership of the Philip
pines, and believed that the islands
would be much better off in the end
under American control than under
any other. He was inclined to treat
the assertion of Sixto Lopez, who
claims to be Aguinaldo's agent, that he
came to the United States to acqualnt
the people with existing conditions in
the Philippines, as ridiculous, mas
much as Lopez has not been near the
Philippines for three years and there
fore can have no personal knowledge
Of present or recent conditions there.
1t Is not likely that the republican