The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-05
STATE PRESS OPINION.

The veterans of the civil war understand
| the conditions and vicissitudes of warfare
J too well to join in the howl of the yellow
| journals.-Madison Courier.
( The Bryanite press will travel long and
rocky road when it attempts to rake the
sick soldier a campaign cry on which 10
win the fall election.-Richmond Item.
The men and the press that now cry out
against the administration for making the
Santiago campaign were three months ago
shrieking ION to Havana and denouncinS
the President for not needing their cry.
-Kokomo Tribune.
Sensational stories about the condition of
our troops in camp may be made. to read
well, but that is not sufficient. The peo-
pie want the facts as they really exist.
They will be satisfied with nothing else.
1t is quite evident now that much of the
criticism is partisan, and that the party of
faultfinders are searching for some good
excuse to drop the 16-to-1 heresy.-Seymour
Republican.
Soldiers who go to war always have suf-
fered and always will suffer. Men from the
north who enter the tropics will be seized
with fevers. Wounded men on battlefields
rarely get immediate attention. Camps are
generally pest holes. The food of fighting
men is invariably rough and not always
ready. These extenuating facts should be
Kept IN mind just at present.-Wabash
Plain Dealer.
If more volunteers had been sent to
Santiago the shortcomings in the hospitals
would have been far worse. Improvising a
great American army in two months can
lie dO1e lar the courage of the men
is concerned, but a larger permanent trained
staff department is needed to care for them
and 70 direct the inexperienced officers in
trusted with the health and comfort of the
tr0ODS.-ThOrntOWn Argus.
Taking all things into consideration-the
time in which the army was organized,
no nd no aoo0rnD1iShS cd
in ninety days-all must admit that the
general management of the business of war
has been marvellous and successful. The
great results speak for themselves. and
upon the general results and not upon the
minor details and minor mishaps will the
administration be judged.-Noblesville Led
ger.
Thus far in the present war $50 have
fallen in battle, or died from wounds, and
nearly 1,5G0 in an enrolment of over ESQ.,,
COO, have died from disease, but if the gov
eminent had listened to the cry of ION to
Havana" the deaths from Cuban fevers
would have numbered many thousands ere
this. 1t is right to condemn Incompetence
and neglect, but a reasonable attention
should be paid to facts and igures-Terre
Haute Mail.
All through the war of the rebellion the
Democratic newspapers and speakers
snarled at the heels of Abraham Lincoln
and his administration, just as they are
now at Mckinley, and for the same pur-
pose. Time has. indicated the great Lin
coin and discre6ited his unpatriotic Demo-.
cratic critics and Slanderers So time will
vindicate William Mckinley, the. patriot,
and his wise and patriotic administration.
-Rushville Republican.
General Shafter was given a dangerous
and very difficult task to perform He was
limited in means of transportation, limited
in the number of men, limited in time from
the fact that the diseases of a deadly trop-
zeal climate would soon make inroads on
his army more to be dreaded than muSket
balls. He must act while the strength of
his men enabled them to move and fight.
He did act and the result fully justifies
the wisdom of his course.-Muncte Times.
Democratic newspapers are celebrating
the return of peace just as they did in
1Ss5-"cussin' the government. But the
government went on then, just as it will
go on now. Lincoln was reelected just
as Mckinley will be- Grant followed Lin
coin, elected by an Overwhelming majority,
just as Mckinley will be followed by a
Republican History is great at repeating
itself, but that fact does not keep Demo-
Gratis from making fools of themselves
Hunting ton Herald.
The Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry was
mustered into the United States army in
September, 1861. and discharged therefrom
September. 1865. serving four years and
participating in nearly all of the great
battles CT the southwest. The losses of
this regiment. as officially reported at the
time by Major J. II. Rerck regimental
surgeon were: Died of disease, PIP; died
of wounds. 20; killed in battle, 80. The
losses of this regiment were probably
fair average Of the losses of all the regi-
ments of the war of the rebellion.-Goshen
Times
Sensible people are not to be stampeded
by the clamor now created for political
purposes, particularly when there is so
much counter testimony. One of the best
evidences that facts have been recklessly
exaggerated is found in the knowledge that
comparatively small proportion of deaths,
good attention possible, conditions
and a large majority of the soldiers are
themselves ready to give expression to this
condition of facts.-Lafayette Call.
The spirit of Edwin NJ. Stanton is look
ing down upon the yellow dogs" that are
swapping and snaring at the heels of his
successor, and he sees in them the same
the same breed, of cowardly that
bounded him while the life Of the Nation
was at stake. For the mastiff that marches
boldly forth and mixes in the fray, either
right or wrong, there is admiration and
respect. but for the cowardly yellow cur
that stays at home, and when the fight
is over, sneaks out from its hiding place
and snaps at the heels OF the victors, the
world has supreme contempt-Kokomo