New York, Chicago, and Washington have received Admiral Dewey with
unexampled enthusiasm, the whole population turning out with addresses of welcome. It is even proposed with some seriousness to run the Admiral in 1900 as the candidate of both parties, the Americans saying that they would like a man unconnected with politic.. Admiral Dewey, however, for the present waves aside all such proposals, declaring that he is a sailor and not a politician ; and by and by it will be remembered that if President McKinley stood by Alger, he also supported Dewey, who, again, is believed to be very doubtful of the prudence of expansion. His advice will probably be valuable about the prosecution of the war, which up to this time must have been badly managed. The Americans make no way, and the Filipinos are learning an effective way of fighting. Before the end of the year, how- ever, the American force will have been largely reinforced, and will, we hope, be commanded by a General who under- stands that capturing villages and retiring from them is rather worry than war. The Americans want a General Wade in the Philippines.
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