The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-07-22


WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The administration
is not acting square with the people in the mat
ter OF giving out news concerning the extent
of the yellow fever in our army ut Santiago
This is Il blunder almost us great as that W hich
allowed the Spanish to send the yellow fever
laden refugees out of Santiago into our lines
previous to their surrender. AS long as the
people found out before the news began to be
so vigorously censored that several hundred
cases of yellow fever existed in our army, it is
unwise to keep them in ignorance as to the
continued spread of the disease. Almost every
section of the country is represented in our
army at Santiago, and it Is shame not to allow
the people to know just which regiments the
yellow fever is in and what success is attend
ing the efforts that are being made to stamp it
out. 1t is altogether probable that yellow
fever also exists among the twenty-five thous-
and Spanish troops who surrendered to Gen.
Shafter. If 80, we will have to take care OF
them, US the condition of surrender, under
us not to allow any of those infected with yell
low fever to go upon the ships.
1t ia now stated that Commodore Watson's
fleet is ut once to start TO Spain, but there are
still those who refuse to believe it before it
actually goes and others who believe that if
actually started, it will go with no other inten-
ton than to scare Spain into asking for peace
Cablegrams from Madrid and other European
points,say that Spain has already asked for our
terms of peace, but it is officially denied in
Washington.
1t is semi-oticialy said that no movement on
land against Havana will be started until fall,
owing TO the fear of yellow fever. and officially
stated that the movement against Porto Rico
is to be started at once. AT once" has not
however, meant Immediately in the admnistrs-
ton lexicon, in connection with war move
ments.
Representative James Hamilton Lewis, who
began his Congressional career by being called
u dude, but who has long ago won, 10y his conf
mon sense and all around ability the respect Of
Congress and of the eastern public-the people
of Washington, the state he represents in the
House, recognized those qualities long before
they sent him to Congress-hus rendered his
services to the government as Il field officer in
the volunteer army. He has been connected
with the Washington State Militia, of which he
Is now Inspector General, for about eleven
years. Unless the outlook for peace grows
promising enough to stop army appointments,
1t is likely that Mr.. Lewis will get II commission.
The war has been very lucky thing furthe
Va lllIlOle, lOI IL II ElI not
red they would have been ingloriouSiy defeat
ed" That is what Mr.. =. Il. Furman, a we'll
known Democrat of that state, says, and the
same thing VIII apply equally as well to other
States, for it Is as plain the nose on your face
that the Republicans are going to make their
campaign on the war, although they deserve
no more credit for the action of Congress in
oting all the money the administration asked
for TO conduct the war than do the Democrats
and tine Popuists, who voted for all the war
appropriations. AS to the policy OF the party |
in his State, Mr.. Furman says: THE Illinois
Democrats stand steadfast by Bryan and free
silver, both Of which they Endorsed ut their
State Convention, the other day"
The man VIII claims that any one party |
monOpolizes all the patriotism in this country |
thus proclaims his own ignorance. Iiseems to |
be pretty generally understood in Washington |
that the Republican Congressional Committee |
intends TO make the implication, if not the di- |
rect claim, that Republican patriotism in Con-
gress was the whole thing, the buss of its cain
pa gn docume Is this year-au implic ton rs
false rs it would be possible to make. As II
matter of fact, if any one party in Congress
deserves more praise than the other for unset
fish patriotism, it is the Democrats. Although
they knew that the administration being Re
publican, and u majority OF the House being