Admiral Dewey is now discouraged as to chances for the presidential nomination the Democrats. An interview which he has just given out is really in the nature fan apology for striving at all for the ination and in it he places the re-on some unnamed political The only people who are giving {his name serious attention for the presidency are some of the so-called Gold Democrats who, in 1896, conducted an independent party and nominated Palmer and Buckner for the two highest offices. It is reported now that some of them who have found it impossible in the four years intel vening to declare themselves thorough Republicans or thorough Democrats, are considering an independent party again this year with Dewey as the leader. The whole matter is unimportant for the reason that this year the "Gold Democrats wil cast only a fraction of the vote which they were able to muster in 1896, and then they had only 133,000 out of a total of 14,000,000.
'THE SITUATION IX THE PHILIPPINES, asit is told by unprejudiced correspondents, chile satisfactory, perhaps, asa whole, is et disappointing in some' of its details. 'This information is to the effect that while an organised Philippine army is no longer' possible at present, yet the Filipino leaders are hopeful of the result to them of the Patieving as they hate been told that Bryan residential election inthe United States,
in the presidential chair wou'd quickly grant them absolute independence. It is said that their leaders have persuaded the masses to be quiet at present, but to hold themselves in readiness for a concerted attack just before the presidential election, believing that an object lesson of this kind would induce voters to east their ballots for Bryan. As a matter of fact, however, there is no doubt that should such an outbreak occur it would add materially to McKinley's plurality.
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