Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-07-28
/. WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent

(From Our Regular Correspondent
Washington, July 90, 1898.
The administration is not toting square
with the people in the matter OF giving
out news concerning the extent Of the
yellow fever in our army at Santiago.
This is blunder almost as great as that
which allowed the Spanish to send the
yellow fever laden refugees out OF Santi.
ago into our lines previous to their sur.
render. 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 I'M
wise 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 a
shame not to allow the people to know
just which regiments the yellow fever is
in and what success is attending the ef-
forts that are being made to stamp it out.
1t is altogether probable that yellow fever
also exists among the twenty-five thou
sand Spanish troops who surrendered to
Gen. Shafter. If so, We will have to take
care of them, as the condition Of surren-
der, under which we are to send them
back to Spain, binds us not to allow any
Of those infected with yellow fever to 60
upon the ships.
1t is now stated that Commodore Wat
sons feet is at once to start to Spain,
but there are still those who refuse to be.
lieve it before it actually goes, and others
who believe that If actually started it will
go with no other intention 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-ofiicially said that no move
ment 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 he
started ut once. cat once" has not, how
ever, meant Immediately in the admins
tration lexicon. in connection with war
movements.
Representative James Hamilton Lewis,
who began his congressional career by
being called dude, but who has long
ago won, by his common 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-has
rendered his services to the government
as field officer in the volunteer army.
He has been connected with the Wash.
ington state militia, Of which he is now
inspector general, for about eleven years.
Unless the outlook for peace grows prom
Using enough to stop army appointments,
it is likely that Mr.. Lewis will get
commission.
'The war has been very lucky thing
for the republicans of Illinois, for if 1t
had not occurred they would have been
ingloriously defeated" That is what Mr..
+. f. Furman, we'll known democrat Of
that state, says, and tie same thing will
apply equally as well TO other states, for
it is as PLAIN as 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 voting all the money the
administration asked for to conduct the
war than do the democrats and the popu-
lists, who voted for all TIE war appropri-
atoms. As to the policy Of the party in
his state, MIR. Furman says: "The Hill
nois democrats stand steadfast by Bryan