Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-08-23

passed into the temporary pOSSe9- -
sion of she United States he was :
made postmaster. In September, =
1899, he caused TO be issued in his :,
behalf four postal money araersf IS
for 500 each, and instead de- 4.
posting the money he placed a
due bill for $500 against himself i'll
the drawer Some time afterward !
he was notified all inspection would
be made Of the Office and he placed
$500 in the drawer to offset the
due bill. After the inspection he
Withdrew the deposit and put III
his due bill again. This time the
due bill was found and Thompson
was arrested.
The Navy Ring, which has mis-
led Secretary Long, and put the
Government III the embarrassing
position of being itself almost as
much under investigation as is
Admiral Schley himself, appears /
be getting alarmed 1t is foreseen /
that the investigation may take a /
very broad range, and instead OF
being confined to the details of the
Glen uegos blockade and the cam
paign before Santiago it will prob
able extend practically to the his
/ tory Of the Spanish War from its
naval aspect. The character of
information possessed by the De
partment with reference to the
movements of the Spanish fleet,
the time Of the receipt Of such in
forma.icu1and the time and man
ne~~of its communication to the
I naval forces, the plan Of campaign
arranged by the War Board, and
perhaps even the feeling Of that
board and Of the bureau officers
/ toward Admiral Schley, and incl
, dents with reference to the prepa
ration for the war may have bear
t ing on the case which will make it
desirable for the court of inquiry
to examine every minute detail
The court is absolutely unlimited
r i'll its authority to extend the scope
1 Of inquiry, and will certainly insist
. OH the clearest exposition Of the
facts from Admiral Sampson. 1t
? may be said, by the way, that there
h appears never to have any doubt
=. Of the appearance Of Admiral w.
8 T. Sampson before the court.
- While it is a matter of common
knowledge that Admiral Sampson s
0 health is poor, no one familiar
e with the situation has contemplated
y his non appearance except under
+ the contingency of death or critica
10 illness.
From information received here
it appears that Senasor McLauri1
is making more headwav i'll Soutl
W Carolina with his Commercial
or Democracy" than published re
a ports from that State would appea
n to indicate, Undoubtedly, the ole
:. line Democrats are geteing fright
- ened. When Senator Tillman an,
III his followers were disfranchisin,
to the negro i'll the constitutional con
in vention in 1895, they stated tina
No they were doing so that the whit
;. men of the state might some da
II be able to divide without havin
cd to appeal to the negro. The
t. boosted that when they got throug
I'm the negro would be so thorough
is out of it that if the white voter
:, fell out politically and put sever
N tickets i'll the field the election of
white man $ ticket would be cet
tain thing. The Tillman Dem,
d. Gratis then felt the possibilities,
IN is said, and now now dread I'll
lr- Relation That is why they hay
la begun so early to appeal to IL
IL prejudices of the Democrats, it
said. The commercial Demo
ID racy of Senator McLanrin has bee
re making such inroads i'll the part
he that it is thought best to face hi
ice outside the lines now-at least
20 year before the primaries, Senat,
McLaurin must pledge himself
Id abide the result. If he declines
ch go into them and continued in Il
he race, the outcome would be Il
W. placing in the field of independe
:. Democratic tickets for the leeisi
ture i'll every county in the sta
NE and bitter fight to the finish
es- determine who Wouldcome to t
Ill Senate. Unless sentiment chang
fo=>-a great deal in the next year, hoy
ever, Senator McLaurin will pro
ably not permit his enemies
= force him out of the primaries, Il
aid probabilities being that he W
BED still command greater streng
me under cover of party rules a
- party dicipline than if he bro
'ne away and attempted to take wi
old him thousands of Democrats nC
as in sympathy with him.
nts The impression is growing he
400 that sooner or later some Cover
. mental regulation of strikes mi
lls- be adopted, which, will, at LEI
'ost partly, prevent the ruin of so ma
.nts "uninterested' people. Sometin
Jas it is the employer whose methc
ob+ carry ruin to thousands, and son
" times it is the strikers; which ey
Ten il is, the result to outsiders is t
lch same. Two instances are now
the fore the public: In California +
ING Longshoremen' 5 Union has tied
Il Of the means Of transportation Just
the time when fruits, whose va
is so enormous, are about to co
into themarket. The growers hs
-ys' been put to all the preliminary
per penses of raising their crops a
L1gn now see them rot on their hai
mo- on account of a quarrel with VIII
her they have nothing whatever to
res. in the east, the Steel Trust is
way, mantling its mills in various citi
the gripping the community for We
bills to come and bringing ruin to tho
lean ands of people who directly or
an directly minister to the wants b
the of the mills and of the strikers.
the is argued here that the same @
ans. ernmental authority that put a 5
to the duellO, ought to stop til
private wars, which do so far III
damage than any duel ever did.
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