Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-09-08
A Warming to Republicans.

A Warming to Republicans
The mask has been dropped. Inc
nonstro,ls crusade to destroy the pres
tige of victory In war is now ackno"l-
edged to have as it's object the d1screa-
iting of President Mckinley. The chi
caoo Chronicle has laid aside all SUD-
terfsee and stated directly that Presl-
dent Mckinley was responsible Ion an
the rernissness which has caused rear
full suffering to our gallant soldiers VINO
died by fevers in ill-selected and Ill
managed camps Of starvation because
the supplies which were so generously
provided by the nation hah not oeen
delivered TO the soldiers"
The Chronicle, being a Democrauc
organ, has done what Republicans De-
lieyed from the first that 1t would 90.
This was part of the copperhead con-
spiracy of 1898. Early in the war the
malcontents and irreconcilables entered
into a conspiracy to defeat the Rep'ro-
lican party ait the Congressional cleo
tons this fall. They believed that II
they could brighten the administrator
into sending an army Of $4,000 or 70,
600 men to attack Havana In the rainy
season disease would make such havoc
among the troops before October came
that the American people would De IN
panic. Then the distressing facts OF q
long death list and the suffering OF SOL
diers in fever stricken camps could be
used as campaign material against the
supporters of the administration in the
fall election.
This seems monstrous when it Is put
into cold type, but the proof Of such
conspiracy was positive, and day after
day those newspapers that had been
forced into a support Of the war
by the patriotism of their constDtu-
ents urged the President to move
the army on Havana. 1t was ex-
planned that the President, the Sec
retary of War and Gen. Miles were OPP
posed TO any attack on Havana in the
rainy season. This explanation was re-
ceived with SCOTS and sneers, and the
newspapers in the conspiracy charged
the President, his Cabinet and the COM
handing general of the army with
cowardice.
The President had his way; Havana
was not attacked; the army was not
sent to the malarial districts of Cuba
in the rainy season. Santiago was at
tackled, Cervera's feet was destroyed,
and the war was ended. So complete
was the victory, so astonishing We're
the results, that the conspirators for
the time were at a Loss what to do.
Then they conceived the plan Of using
sensational reports as to sick and
wounded to alarm the people and &C
complish what they had failed to ac-
complish by their cry, 'On to Havana
They charged that the Secretary Of
War, through ignorance and negh-
gence, had connived at the destruction
Of the army. Some of the yellow jour
| nails went further than this, and charg-
ed that the War Department. had de1ib-
erately planned the assassination of the
flower of American sold1ery. This
seems as monsstrous as the plan of in
weighing the administration into an in
discreet invasion Of Cuba; but the con-
spirators, the yellow journals, mug
wu1np and Democratic have not hest
tated to make the most reckless and
Infamous charges, with the purpose, as
the Chronicle now admits, of striking
at the administration which conducted
the war to a triumphant close.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.