The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-07
Yesterdays Disgrace.

before happened in the history OF the
country. and let us hope may never
again. In the days of any one of
Mr. McKinley's predecessors in office
it would inevitably have led IAN i'm
parchment trial
Ii is an extreme case when the Amer
lean people and their press are COM
PEELED to accuse the President of the
United States of personal! bad faith and
indifference to veracity. but it is being
done all over the continent today be-
cause there is no help for if Let US ex-
anime the facts.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Mckinley
caused il to be reported that the ex-
pected message would be sent in, but
that it might be delayed little owing
10 some verbal changes" which were
being made in its text. Later. he assert
ed that he was Withholding it, await
ing news that Gen. Lee had left Ha-
vana. Then he sent for the Senate
Z flillliill lt-r fll IL i''---AA AN~A'eNA'AA-f
PLAYED a telegram from Gen. Lee. and,
on the strength Of that telegram, in
ducea Congress TO grant him another
delay until Monday.
The cold-blooded and deliberate de-
certion involved in all this becomes
apparent when We consider some tn mss
which have come to light since the
game was 50 successfully played and
won on Tuesday all the embassies
message would be sent in and that the
President would secure another delay
which would give representatives. Of the
. powers Interested ample time to secure
the European Intervention which Mr..
Mckinley is struggling 20 obtain
through the Pope and the Austrian
Emperor. In confederation of this state
ment several European official organs
on Tuesday, or yesterday morning,
be felt on account Of the message
which the American Congress was
waiting for. since assurances had been
received from Washington that it would
not be sent in; certainly not on Wed
nesday and probably not at all.
/ The New York Herald, always friend
4 IL to the Administration, and. until
. quite recently. excessively favorable to
f Spain. in its issue Of this date, declares.
in its Washington correspondence, that
the foreign diplomats knew in advance
that they were to be given time to COM
plete the negotiation they are work
ing on. and asserts that this had more
10 do with the suppression Of the mes
sage than any fear for American lives.
1t states that the Lee telegram was
only resorted to as a convenient lever
aSe to use upon Congress.
Again. while Mr.. Mckinley was as
surfing his callers that the message
4 would probably go in about half past
two o'clock, the Administration bro
( kers in Wall Street already had notice
that it would not go in at all. fact
which was not allowed to leak out of
. the White House for two hours later.
/ The usual result followed, and another
/ item Of infamy has been added to the
list Of offenses for which the Hanna re-
eime is guilty.
Words are unimportant to express the
inevitable national deduction from the
foregoing facts If Andrew Johnson
had done anything half as bad the his
tory of a disagreeable public episode in
his career would not have been written
in the way We read II.
And this is the man who thinks that
Congress should repose full faith and
I confidence in him; even ought to give
over to him its war-making power,
with irresponsible discretion to use it
as he should see fit
What do the Senate and the House
of Representatives think OF this and
of themselves? What will the great
American constituency think of them
il they submit to it?