The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-18
REAL COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
President Mckinley Carries the
Weight of Responsibilities.

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One OF the effects of a study of the life
OF Abraham Lincoln and careful observa-
tlon OF the course of the present war has
been the universal recognition of the fact
mat the President is something more than
ex ofncto commander in chief of the array
and navy of the United States, and of the
militia Of the several States when called
into the actual service of the United States
las the Constitution comprehensively puts
It. He is its real, actual. all-pervading re-
sponsible chief And any one who has seen
q recent photograph of President Mckinley
must recognize that this great care and re-
sponsfbility has traced new lines upon what
Formerly was one of the smoothest and most
placid faces among the prominent men OF
the times
TAe electric telegraph and cable has con-
centrated more than ever the direction of
the army and navy of the United States in
the hands of the President. The army can
hardly pass for day or an hour out of
communication with the commander in
chief. Only when the battle begins and or
deFs have to fly to meet the changing ext
thorfty to generals in the field freed from
the orders of the chief in Washington Day
and night he knows no rest that may not be
the front. He is surrounded by a corps of
trained military experts TO inform and adj
wise. But with the man in the White House
rests the final word.
This mornings dispatches afford gratify-
ing testimony to the sufficiency of our pres
ent commander-in-chief to his great task
The English papers unite in praising the
mastery strategy that has directed the
army and navy of the United States to
such a series of successes as the battle of
Manila, the humiliation of Cervera's fleet
and the surrender of Santiago While APP
portioning a just need of praise to Dewey
Sampson, Schley and Shafter they give
ready recognition To the hand at the helm
The London Daily News voices the general
verdict when ii says that 1.-THE results have
fully justified the much-criticised strategy
OF President Mckinley and his advisers
The London Chronicle warmly praises the
President and predicts that Havana will
tall In October as Santiago has fallen in
July "
But It is from the press Of his own coun-
try that the President is receiving the
warmest eulogies. The sentiment is almost
universal that credits President McKinIey
with waging war humanely and discreetly
but with the irresistible and implaoabie
vigor that does not spare cost when the
hour 10 strike arrives. The training of the
boy soldier who quit the army at the close
OF the civil war brevet major at the age
OF twenty-one years has served the COM
mander-h-chief well i'm the day of his trial
when he has had 10 direct the movements
or the army and navy operating at the
ends OF the earth under new conditions and
under tropical sun and rain 1t may be taken
for granted that the boy who enlisted AZ
seventeen and served four years with the
army has kept himself in touch with ali the
military knowledge of the world and his
country is reapng the benefit of his ex
perience and study to-day.