Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-10-14

tlliC, DtiI IL iiluSt DC ItNlocl uClOIc IL
is put forth. And what shall be its
main argument for the election Of Re-
publican congressman in November?
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From Minneapolis Journal, September 9, 1898
The President, in the absence of any
! formal charges, is said to hesitate and
to have deferred his decision until he
can confer with all his cabinet. Oh.
lection is made to dignifying the SEN
sational reports in the newspapers" by
a formal hearing. Sometimes this is
wise policy, but this is not one of the
times. The press of the country il
not wholly sensational and unreliable
Many of the most conservative and
carefully edited papers in the country
have made the most serious charges
The Philadelphia Public Ledger, which
is generally credited with having al
most fossilized, SO conservative and
averse is it supposed to be to anything
out OF the routine, has published col
umn after column, results of its inves.
tigation, of the most serious charges oi
neglect and incompetence in the Com.
missary and Medical Departments.
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The California Society of the Sons
Of the American Revolution have
adopted resolutions deploring the
death rate in the military camps OF
this city, and calling on President Nc
Kinley to urge an investigation. A
demand is made for the immediate
erection of barracks and hospitals on
the Preside military reservation, SO
that the sick now here and on the way
from Manila may receive the atten.
ton they need"
On the Goth the Associated Press
most provokingly sends it matter that
could not we'll be kept out, extracts
from the sermon of prominent Phil
adelphia divine, deploring the mis-
management which he saw as chap
lain in the home camps at Chicka.
mauga:
al saw men suffering from fever,
lying with their mouths open and
their mouths filled with flies"
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Suppose the Democratic Party had
had charge of this war. Would not
every republican in the country say
that this was another proof of Demo
cratic incompetence? Only the Re
publican Party knows how to do a
thing in business way!
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Is it any wonder that the Republi.
cans have met such losses in Maine
and Vermont? Is it any wonder it il
now commonly predicted that they
will lose the next Congress by con
siderable majority? Is it any wondel
that the Reriew Of Reriews in its las
issue declares that "when salt pork il
fed to sick men it is time to call hare
names?"
The attempt to get out of this thing
by calling it personal attack on th'
President is too thin. Nobody is at
tacking the President. Everybod!
trusts him. What is wrong is in th'
War Department, and the wrong Their
is SO tremendous that it can not b,
kept quiet. Rarely indeed has tn,
press of this country been so unani
nous against department of the
Government.
DIR. Benjamin Lee, a physician o
the highest standing in Philadelphia
and an experienced army surgeon, wa
sent out by the conservative old Phila
delphia Ledger to examine the condi
tion Of things at Camp Wykoif. DR.
Lee reports:
"The failures at Camp Wycotf have
simply been a repetition of those o
the entire war-failures in transporta
ton and provisioning-and for thos'
the quartermaster's and the commits
sary departments are, OF course, res
ponsible. The fighting end of TIN
army has held up its end nobly-th'
business end has proved itself utterl!
inadequate"
The Army and Nary Register il
commenting on the inquiry voices {
general feeling when it says: "W'
shall be surprised if the real causes 0
the inefficiency of the service arr
shown, and even should they be ex
hibited, the same influences which ART
responsible for them will protect then
to the last"
CLARA BARTON is 6S years old. Sh'
served as q nurse in our civil war ant
in the Franco-German war. Th'
American Red Cross society wa
organized by her in 1881, and she be
came its President. The year 1SS;
found her Superintendent of a in
formatory prison for women in Massa
chusetts. Her labors in 1854 were de
voted to the Mississippi flood sufferers
and in 1898 to relieving the victims o
cyclone on the South Atlantic coast
Not long ago she wrote from Santiago
at is over q month now that / have
been lying on the ground out OF doors