Show r There Is a little Joke going the roun son s-on the quiet at the expense Indirectly of Major and Judge Dick Young I I js to the effect thut friends of his here I have received many letters from him I continuous and up ton recent date wherein he has expatiated upon the tu vast value of the Philippine the splendid splen-did addition which they will mako to the Republic HCllblc and the Immense opportunities oppor-tunities that will there soon be opened to alert and enterprising Americans I seems that the Kansas City convention conven-tion had Its effect upon him hence the I despondent and pessimistic letter < which nppcarc l from him recently The shadow of that Kapsas City convention It swmn extended even to the Islands pf the sca |