Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-28
THE PECXSNIFFIAN M'HANNACRAT
AT 1T AGAIN.

THE PECAsNIFFIAN M'HANNACRAT
At 1T AGAIN.
The faithful Fourteenth street organ
of the money power takes a paragraph
from an editorial in the Register criti-
cising the present evasiye, shifting,
cowardly, trucking and pro-Spanish
administration attitude toward the
suffering Cuban patriots-an article,
by the way, that was not half strong
enough in the direction in which Peck
sniff thinks it is too Strong-and pro-
ceeds to yillify and misrepresent the
Register and all of the facts and the
truth of history in a manner that is
partly amusing, because OF its absurd
ity, but chiefly disgusting, because of
the utter falsity of the premises on
which it is based and its slaviSh and
blind Hannacratic partisanship, which
it seems leads Pecksniff to any lengths
to discredit honest criticism Of the
present McHanna administration, al
though that administration, as is ad-
mitted by fair-minded and independ-
ent-thinking Republicans, is the weak
est and worst in the whole history of
the Republic.
The remarkable ebullition in Brother
Pecksniffs columns is chiefly notice
able for two things: Malice and Dirt
!,
motive to the unspeakable hypocrite
and falsifier of Fourteenth street be-
sides constitutional hatred of the Reg
lister than one small and mean-very
small and very mean-that is money.
1t is notorious that Pecksniff has been
losing caste, prestige and dollars since
the election of the spineless tool OF
Dollar Mark Hanna and his Wall street
cohorts as President of the United
States, and he has lost these for his
newspaper among REPUBLICANS
DISGUSTED REPUBLICANS = who
know what their party and
their Presidents have been and
appreciate what the party, or,
m0re prope y, the present admin
istration and its sponsors, organs,
spokesman and owners are now, and
are consequently disguised with the
administration and its apologists The
Intelligencer knows these things full
we'll, but its conscience is so
slimed over with Hanna coil"
that it will not acknowledge
the truth although it loses
daily in influence to such an
extent that Pecksniff's mercen
airy soul is in terror and, in his malice
and rage he attempts to regain his lost
ground by foully attacking and grossly
disappearing a contemporary,
which through fair dealing and fear
less truthtelling has gained the pres
tige that he has lost.
So much for McHanna Pecksniff's
II olive Now for the reckless and
false statements he makes in his apol-
ogy for the weakened administra-
ton in its pitiful pro-Spanish attitude
toward the suffering patriots OF Cuba,
who are struggling as few people in
the history of the world have strug-
gled for home and life and liberty.
The classifying hypocrite begins by
drawing an entirely unjustifiable par
allel between the great Grant and the
timorous Mckinley. This is enough
to make Grant turn in his grave on the
Hudson. Speaking of the ten years
war. which he grossly misrepresents,
Pecksniff says:
There were jingoes then, as now. ready
TO y He Spain off the face of the earth
with their bombastic rhetoric, but Gen
eral Grant stood firm and there was no
war.
1t is possible there were jingoes
then" a few, for by limoges" in this
connection Pecksniff means American
sympathizers with the Cuban patriots.
but the American people generally paid
but comparatively slight attention to
that ten years war, and that struggle
is not to be compared with the present
fearful war in Cuba. The ten years
war in no way approached in magni-
tude the present struggle for independ-
ence. The insurgents during the ten
years struggle never reached the
spler did discipline which is so charac-
teristic of the insurgent army to-day
There is no organized army with a
higher standard Of integrity than the
soldiers of Cuba. The officers are