Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-29

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"grtpey" feeling.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS ANDPOLITICs
The Republican leaders and their or
gans know they are beaten. Candid
Republicans who are posted admit it,
are admitting it privately every day.
There is but one thing the Republican
leaders have to tie to, and that is the
hope that they can persuade ma
jority of the people to believe that
Republican majority in Congress is
necessary to "hold up the hands OF
the President in the peace negotia-
tions! The columns of the Republican
organs of the country are filled just
now with gibberish on this line, frantic
appeals to the voters to not desert"
the President, etc., etc., ad nauseam
Only yesterday Pecksniff worked this
bald political fake under display
head, which read, SPANS Big Card
The Near Approach of Elections in
this Country and the Bitter Attacks OF
Portion of the Democratic Party on
the Administration, Has Nerved the
Spanish Peace Commissioners to Make
Unusual Demands ON this Country in
the Negotiations Now in Progress in
Paris"
This is not only lie out Of the
whole cloth, as is proven by the Intel
ligencers own published Associated
Press dispatches from Paris in its tele-
graphic columns, but is the grossest
and most malignant insult to every
Democrat in the country. 1t is as
underhand, mean, vicious and offensive
as it is grossly false and utterly ground
less.
In the first place, every man knows
that the Democrats in Congress and
out of it sustained President Mckinley
in the war every bit as fully as did the
Republicans, while there were fully as
many Democrats in the army and navy
as there were members of the Repub-
lican party.
This gratuitious assumption of all the
virtue and patriotism of the country
by these dishonest, corrupt and wholly
selfish politicians is deliberate slap
in the face for every honest man in
the country who does not approve of
their rotten politics. Furthermore, the
statement that the Spanish peace COM
missioners are holding out awaiting
the result of the elections in this coun-
try is wholly false, as is proven in. the
same issue of the Intelligencer that
contains this vicious political fake.
The Spanish commissioners are hold
ing out against nothing. They have
seen the uselessness of holding out and
have fully accepted the provisions OF
the American protocol with regard to
all matters, the Cuban debt included,
so that there remains for settlement
but the details of the Philippine ques-
ton. upon which men of all parties
differ among themselves and even the
President, himself, is not decided, ac-
cording to his own public utterances.
The Spanish peace commissioners
finally found out that the Americans
meant what they said in their protocol
and with this discovery they threw up
the sponge. They have given up and,
as we have said, there remains for set
Element the Philippine question alone,
which must be considered separately
and upon which even the President,
himself, as stated, has expressed no
decided view.
This vicious, underhand style of cam
paigning is peculiar to those who
are managing the Republican campaign.
The men and the newspapers indulging
in it thereby convict themselves not
only of gross falsehood, but of an act
of disloyalty in questioning the honor
and patriotism of half the American
people, as witness this abominable
fake published in one column Of Repub-
licans organs and fatty contradicted
by the Associated Press Paris dis
patches in another.
These party leaders confess that they
are reduced to eXtremeties when they
indulge in such despicable methods.