Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-05-22
speeial to the Leader.

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Special to the Leader.
Washington, May 21.-President Nc.
Kinley's decision to abandon the rest
of his trip, on account Of Mrs. Nc.
! Kinley's illness and return to Wash
ington as soon as the physicians think
she is well enough to stand the jour.
ney, caused no surprise in Washing
| ton, where everybody knows the devo-
tion of the President to his semi-in-
valid wife. AS soon as her breakdown
was announced the abandonment of
the trip was expected. The members
of the Cabinet in Washington deeply
sympathize with the President, and
with Secretary Long, whose daughter
is i'll at Colorado Springs, where she
has been living year or two, and Sec
retary Gage has an added cause for
sorrow ir the death Of Mrs. Gage.
Secretary Root has issiied orders to
al the heads of bureaus in tho War
Department to reduce their clerical
force to a peace basis as rapidly as
possible, as it is his intention to dis
pense with all employees on what is
known as the temporary roll,' which
was established to handle the in
creased clerical work of the depart
ment caused by the spanish war and
kept up by the revolt in the Philip
pines. by the close of the present fiscal
year. of which only six weeks remain.
The army in the Philippines will make
considerable extra clerical work for a
long time, but now that there isn't the
occasion to rush things that was nee
essary while there was fighting going
on. Secretary Root thinks that the reg
ular force of the department ought to
be able to handle it.
ONO Republicans have been aroused
to Indignation at what they resent as
Misrepresentation of Gov. Nash in
recent publications. One of them
Mr.. w. o. Tolford. whose home is in
Columbus-said: Two nonsensical
stories have been circulated about Gov.
Nash. One is that the Republicans
will not dare to renominate him be-
cause of his opposition to the prize
fight at Cincinnati. Gov. Nash will
not only be re-nominated, but he will
be reelected. Every vote he will lose
in Hamilton county for having stopped
the prize fight will be offset by the
votes gained in other parts of Ohio.
AS for the stories of Governor Nash
having been piqued because of lack of
attention in California, no one who is
acquainted with the man will believe
them. He is most unassuming, dis
likes ceremonies and participation in
functions and is about the last person
who would complain because President
Mckinley had been the chief attrac-
ton to the exclusion of himself"
1t might be supposed that Mr.. John
r. Mclean, who lives in Washington
yet assumes to be the leader of the
Ohio Democrats, would find his Gin
cinnati paper the best medium for
reaching the Ohio Democrats, but he
made use of a Washington paper this
week to give them some advice about
! this years campaign. He told them
| that he would not ask the State con-
vention to endorse him for United
! States Senator, and that he hoped that
no one would be endorsed. and he
tossed a red rag toward the Bryan bull
pen by telling them tnat above all
| things a platform must lie adopted that
| will unite the Democrats. Right there
| wise Mr.. Mclean stopped. He didnt
say what sort of a platform would un-
! ite the Democrats for the very good
reason that he could not. If the ma
tional platform is reatfirmed, the anti
Bryan Democrats will be exactly
where they were in last years national
campaign, and if the national platform
! is ignored Mr.. Bryan can be counted
upon to lead the thlck and thin Bryan
ties in opposing it as well as the ticket
Consequently Mr. McLean's advice
while it IS doubtless good, isn't likely
TO be productive of platform that viii
rpira tho democrats
Englishmen who will admit the su
periolity of anything found outside o
the tight little island are rare, bu
Mr.. H. A. Campbell, a wealthy residen
of Norfolk, England, who came Il
Washington on his private steam
yacht is one of them. He said: ="
have never been in this country befor'
and | am very free to say that thinl
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