Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1898-11-15
May Pay Spain.
PEACE COMMISSION WILL SOON
END IT'S LABORS.
Belva Lockwood BIames the News
papers for the Mar.
From our regular correspondent.)

De'Va loCkWoou 6ianeS inc news
papers for the War.
From our regular correspondeut)
WASHINGTON, Nov 7th. 1858.
Although it has taken the Peace Com
mission at Paris more than a month L
get down to the single question it wa
formed to settle disposition of th
i Philippines--it would be safe wage
that it will not take three weeks more t,
/ finish the business. This may seem
rash statement, in view of the apparen
deadlock of the Commission, caused b,
the refusal Of the Spanish Commission
ers TO agree to surrender the Philippine
npon the terms offered by our Commis
/ sioners. Ii that dead lock were real, i
would be rash statement, but it is moi
There are the best of reasons for tb,
belief that this apparent dead lock is
dummy, trotted out for effect, and tha
the Congressional campaign being over
md the administration no longer havin:
a reason for delaying the negotiation o
the treaty, the commissioners will yer,
speedily agree upon the amount OF none,
hat we ure to pay Spain, and finish al
.he treaty. Although the treaty will sa,
that We pay this money TO Spain for tn.
Philippines, Others will regard il Us psie
or other purposes, inasfnuch as the Phil
ppines are onrs by right OF capture
This idea of the victorious nation pay
ng indemnity to the conquered nation
aas only one thing to commend tit il
1riginal-but that isn't likely to make i
popular There will be some sharp tall
On this subject in Congress, this winter
and it will not ell come from democra
either.
II Lieutenant Hobson, who is still il
Washington, has any of the superstition
which most persons raised in the Souti
iave, ne probably regards himself a.
iaving been hoodooed. lie had hardly
'ecovered from the knockdown givel
i'm by the Navy department when
'efused to allow him to continue hi
fforts to save the Spanish warships
nnk off Santiago. when the news reach
d Washington that the Maria Teresf
go Spanish cruiser raised under h
Iirection, had foundered in storm
nile on its way TO New York. There i
agch real regret over the loss Of TIL
ne ship estimated to be worth s. ,0O00G
.nt there are naval officials, high one
no regard the loss with complacenc,
ecause the vessel would have been I
onstant reminder OF Lieutenant Hobsoi
Who has, they think, already received
Jetlrely too much glory for his work
iobson can't talk about the way he ha.
cen treated, but some of his friends cal
nd do most emphatically.
The fact thGt the members of lib,
our;h Ohio Regiment would get hom,
time to vote was made apparent b,
fr. McKiniey's treatment OF them. Til,
esin Mt, which was brought all the wa,
'om Poito Rico, by special order OF tb,
resident to get their votes in, vaf
opped in Washington for the purpos6
j being gwen reception III the White
Iouse. The regiment was first reviewed
ON the White Honse portico, and was
hen received in the East Room by MIR
Mckinley. who shook hands and ex.
changed word or two with every
member 1t is the first time that any
President ever accorded such an honor
10 body OF soldiers as large as a regi-
nent, but then, you know, Mr.. Mckinley
regarded their votes as being necessary
m Ohio, and hoped that he might catch
the Democratic members-the Colonel is
a Democrat-by paying them unusual
attention.
Belya Lockwood, once a Presidential
candidate and for years a sort Of law
yer and claim agent. has been telling
come other women exactly what brought
on the war. She said it was all the
wicked newspapers, and attempted to
prove the assertion. The following ex-
tract is a fair sample of her speech
There was no need of the late war, ano
bnt for the press it would never have
blackened the pages of our history.
There was nothing but what could have
been settled by peaceful measures, by
the President and his Cabinet. Yet
there were legislators who burned for
glory and longed for fight, and these
egged on by the press, which printed all
their wild utterances, brought about a
declaration OF war. Then we forgot our
civilization, and from reading the papers,
we thought it wonld be glorious 10
butcher our fellow men and great 10
whip Spain. The papers continually
piled the terrible fuel on the flame, until
i've year old children were impregnated
with desire TO kill, and ran about the
streets stoning everything which bore
any relation to Spain" There was more
of the same sort, but this was enougbt to
show how fortunate this country is III
not having a Belva Lockwood foi
President.
OF course the army officers know bet
ter than to talk for publication abont
such things, but among themselves some
do not hesitate to say that Gen. Lawton's
testimony before member OF MIR. Nc
/ Kinley's alleged investigating Commis.
sion. which was extremely laudatory OF
ihe Wur DEPARTMENTS management ol