Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-06-16
THE PRESIDENT ENDORSED.
An Arkansas Democratic Editors
Defense of Mr.. Mckinley.
From the Harrison CArk) Times

north and south-were criticised an,
in a measure, INSTRUCTED by the col
slant harping of a certain class
newspapers.
Tho cry, "On to Richmond" In tn
north and OF "On to Washington"
the south, is not forgotten. Lincol
and Davis, who facing the gray
est responsibilities of official duty
were made the targets for the mos
malignant abuse by these egotisticf
asses Happily, the recollection c
all this tends to neutralize the harmfu
effect of such newspaper meddliu
now when President Mckinley ia be
ing assailed by yelping Ours from tn
same breed Of dogs. Notwithstand
ing the sacredness of the liberty of III
press, these rabid creatures could b
wisely muzzled.
Certain Democratic papers, we re
greet to say, fooiishly eeem to conside.
1t O partisan duty to misrepresent anC
lie about the war policy OF the presen
administration, and their efforts IL
this direction ara being supplemented
by those disgruntled Republican pa,
pers which have been ignored in the
distribution of federal patronage.
These astute military critics are quite
careful to stay beyond the range of
Spanish bullets while waging war oil
words against the president and his
military advisers. Their eifrontery in
assuming to advise or c~riticise the
president, whose opportunities for
knowing what should be done, in any
event, are a thousand fold superior, is
sheer impudence.
Their cry has been son to Cuba,''
and they were furious because the
president did not order an immediate
advance of raw and undisciplined
troops against the trained veterans of
Spain weeks ago. Thoy ridicuIe the
opinion OF such an eminent comman-
der as Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-
chief Of the British army, who has
said: "The United States would make
a mistake in attempting to invade Gu
ba with volunteers who are not fully
drilled and disciplined" and they
howl in impotent rage at Gen. Miles
for saying: "The United States will
in due time bring Cuba under its con-
troll by iudicious methods and without
useless waste of life"
The Times is intensely Democratic,
but it is Disguised with all Democrats
who would lay a straw in the way of
the presidents successful prosecution
of the war. 1t has no doubt that Mr..
Mckinley is as true a patriot as there
is in the land; 1t believes that time
will prove him to have been the right
man in the right place-in this war
and, for the welfare of the thousands
of brave men who are now mastering
under a torrid sun for the defense of
u c0untry's flag, it hopes that all
Democrats will stand unitedly to sus-
tain him as communicating chief of the
army and navy-and all true Demo-
Gratis will.
Much can be t%ruthfully said in favor
of tho president. He did his utmost,
as in duty bound, to avert the war,
and his noble reply to a "jingo" of his
own party who urged him to declare
war in advance of congressional ac-
ton; who assured him that the war
would be popular and would make
him president again, was an index to
the sterling character of the man.
"God forbid" said he, "that any
popularity of mine should rest on
war"
He has done more than any other
to prove to the world that |
our cause of war with Spain is just and
Since the declaration of
war be has done his whole duty ably |
and wisely. These papers lied when
they said that Dewey had won the
great victory at Manila by disobeyingI
the presidents Instructions; they lied
when they said he was discriminating
against Gen. Merritt, and they have
always lied whenever an opportunity
to criticise his motives has occurred.
That Democratic editor VINO thinks
the Democratic party will be
by senseless and base criti-
cism OF a president, simply because
he is a Republican, is badly mistaken,
and that man of any party who is so
hide bound and narrow as to say that
Mckinley isnot a rue pa
triot is either a political pirate or a
.rofund fool.