The sun., 1898-10-02


Republicans are crying for harmony,
yet few third rate would-be party
leaders so control politics that the will OF
that great majority is not respected
Neus and Adrertiser.
The Democrats contended during the
campaign OF 1896 that the very men who
were most interested in the election OF
Mr.. Mckinley were the enemies of the
public welfare. To say that these state
ments have proven true, is to put it
mildly. Yet it was not thought when
our soldiers went to Cuba to fight the
Spanish foe, that they would leave be-
hind them in the Administrations politi.
cal household, worse enemies than the
Spaniards proved to be. This, however,
seems to be the fact.-Seaord Ne,cs.
Just how susceptible to personal and
political pull a Republican administra-
tion is, is we'll demonstrated by the ros-
ter of army appointments made during
the war Just closed.
The sons of senator's and Cabinet Off
GERS and tile male relatives Of congress-
men and millionaires when war was
declared with Spain, invested Washing
ton, filled the hotels, the lobbies Of the
White House and the Capitol, and raised
their clamor for places. Most Of these
men were out of a job, with little expe-
rience in business life, some of them
having made disastrous failures in their
attempts.
They knew little of what was needed
or required of them in the position they
sought. Competent, possibly, to order
fine dinner at some swell hotel, they had
little idea of how much food one thou
sand men would require for week
when they were appointed. Yet these
young snobs were appointed to places in
the commissary ond subsistence depart
ments of the United States Army. The
quartermaster' department of the army
was filled up with young men accus-
toned to travel in special trains on
private passes, who had no knowledge of
how to move or transfer one thousand
soldiers, or how much clothing, blankets
and tentage a regiment OF soldiers
needed. And other young men, lately
from medical shoots, some OF them veter-
mary doctors, and some of them without
medical diplomas, carried off appoint
ments as assistant surgeons in the army.
They knew nothing about the medical
supplies needed for one thQBsand
soldiers.
Common decency demands that the
truth shall be told. Whitewash will not
stick and cannot save the Algerines who
robbed our boys of their health and their
lives,
Selected because of their influence
and their political pull, none of these
sons of political sires had been trained
or educated in the duties of the Offices
to which they we're appointed and their
duties have not been properly per-
formed. The result has been the death
of many of our soldiers, who have been
neglected and allowed to suffer. The
young men who were the flower of the
country went forth to fight the battles
for the cause OF humanity and found an
enemy more dangerous, more disastrous
to them than Spanish bullets They
have suffered because OF political fa-
voritism. The crime of starving and
decimating by disease our soldier boys
belongs to the political organization of
the War Department, who filled the
commissary and quartermaster' de-
partments with these incompetents for
political purposes. Every individual
who could be depended on to assist in
any way tie political designs of Han
naism was favored in the manner set
forth above. Hundreds of able and ex-
perienced soldiers who had been through
the war of the rebellion made applica-
| tion for these appointments at the COM
mencement of the war, men who had ac-
curate knowledge and rendered able SER
vice in the medical, commissary and
quartermasters departments of the
army and navy-these were rejected b.
cause the political directors of the War
Department could see no political ad-
vantage to themselves. Thus it can
be readily seen that war commenced in
the interest of humanity was made to
serve the purpose of unpatriotic politi-
cians.-Etery Erening.
1t is said that ex-Judge David T. Mar
vel has the senatorial bee buzzing in his
bonnet and would like to succeed the
Honorable George Gray in the United
States Senate. The senator's successor
will be elected by the Legislature that
meets in Dover in January next, and if
a Democratic majority should happen
to be elected his friends consider his
chances extra good. The Democrats
have plenty OF available matter on hand
who would not be averse to succeeding
Senator Gray. Among the number who
are ambitious to be senators are: John
Biggs, John G. Gray, David T. Marvel,
Willard Salisbury, John W. Causey,
Lewis G. Vandegrift, John T. Dickey
and others. While on the Republican
side the number is countless. Daily Re-
publican.
1t may be set down as final that the
Superior Court will not declare the Mu-
nicipal Court an unconstitutional body.
If law is common sense, and the consti-
tuition is the fundamental law, based on
common sense, the certiorari proceed
ings in the Superior Court can in no
wise affect one of the most beneticent of
our judicial institutions. We do not be-
lieve that decision upholding the dig
nifty, power and integrity of the NUM-
cipal Court will come in the nature OF a
surprise even to the lawyers represent
ing those persons who are testing its con-
stitutionality.-Eypning Journal.