Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-28
aARK'S LETTER
Democratic Record In the
Fifty-hfth Congress.
TRUE AND EAGER PATRIOTS.
Government Supportst Enthu-
siastically.
OUR NAVAL AND MILITARY HEROES

OUR NAVAL AND MILITARY HEROES
Unwise Politicians Seek to Make Capital
Out OF Glorious Deeds-Politics of Our
Gallant Sailors and Soldiers of No Con-
sequencs-when Political C~ontentions
Should Cease-Manifest Destiny.
Especial Washington letter.
The historic second session Of the
Fifty-ffth congress has passed into his
tory. The people will have ample time
to make up their dispassionate verdict
on the record. Democrats are perfectly
willing to be judged by their utterances
and their deeds. They did their duty
oo~urageously and patriotically at every
stage of war preparation and Of war
itself. Big bore liars and small bore
Republican politicians may howl, but
| the people know that the Democratic
| record in this congress is a record of
enthusiastic and ungrudging support of
the government against a foreign foe
and of unyielding resistance against the
domestic thieves and plunderers whom,
like the poor, we always have with us
and who ever stand ready to make the
country's necessity their golden oppor-
tunity for amassing i'll gotten gains.
General Grosvenor and his gang will
find their ISLANDERS recoil upon their
heads to their own undoing.
In these letters I have more than
once quoted from the Washington Post,
an independent paper, edited with
marked ability. 1t is doing The Post nc
injustice to repeat what I have hitherto
said-that it is decidedly friendly to
McKinley's administration. Still, 30
far as I am able to judge, it tries to be
fair in u%tterances as to party action. 1t
is on the ground and not only knows
what happens in congress and govern
mental circles, but has extraordinary
facilities for discovering the private
opinions of congressman and other pub.
lie men.
Patriotic Democrats.
This being the case, 1 reproduce the
following editorial of The Post as the
evidence of a witness friendly to Repub-
licans. In its issue of Saturday, July 9,
under the head, ga Memorable Ses-
sion," it says:
Congress has adjourned, somewhat
precipitately it may seem to the country
at large and yet without having really
left undone anything of serious impor-
lance. The session will make the most
momentous chapter in the history of
our national legislation since the close
of the civil war, 50 years ago. During
its term we have entered upon a war
the effects of which cannot as yet even
be- conjeotured, and it has given to all
mankind a spectacle of fervent and har.
monious patriotism, of courage, devo-
ton and self abnegation, of national
pride and love, such as will reassure
the American people and compel the re-
spect and admiration of the civilized
world.
Certain incidents, happily unimpor-
tant both in themselves and in their
consequences, have marred the other
wise perfect symmetry of the occasion.
Charges have been made against the
Democratic members that they were
lacking in enthusiastic and sincere CO.
operation with the governments efforts
to uphold the nations dignity and hon.
d. But these charges have not been
made good at all, and, as a matter of
fact, they were never at any time iusti-
fed by the record. The truth is that
the Democrats exhibited as true and
eager a patriotism as did the Republic
ans. If they differed with the majority
upon occasion, it was in respect of
methods only. As regarded essentials
and in the matter of promoting the &C
tIal contamination the Democrats were
az ardent, as straightforward, as genu-
inc and as potent as their party adver-
saries in either house. The session has
been remarkable for this more than for
anything else-for the friendly emula-
ton of Democrats, Republicans and
Populists in the noble work of uphold
ing the Union and its flag"
In the face of such evidence as the
above the malicious falsehoods of cheap
dsmagogues will go for naught with all
intelligent people and will act only as
boomerangs.
Shoulder to Shoulder.
certain OV6rZeaiOuS persons with
more partisan enthusiasm than love of
country are continually raising the
question as to the politics of our new
naval and military heroes. Such brain
less idiots should be unceremoniously
squelched for the public good and for
the honor of America. What matters it
whether Dewey and Hobson and Samp-
son and Schley and Shafter are Demo-
Gratis, Republicans OF Populists. They
are Americans, unfolding the honor of
their country and risking their lives in
its defense. That's enough for anybody
to know. They deserve well of their
country and their kind. 1t is high time
that everybody in this country and
everywhere else should understand that
u political contentious cease at the
seaboard. Beyond the low water mark
we are only plain Americans, without
any subdivisions whatever. At home we
wool each other as much as we please
On political and economic questions and
will continue to do SO till Gabriel blows
his trumpet, for that historic perform
N is N Of the inevitable conse-
Mexico Fair Circuit.