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featng the reelection of President Nc

Kinley.
The fact that 1t has been considered
necessary to resort to this obvious
falsehood in order to stifie popular
clamor and escape an inquiry will be
taken by the country as Republican
confession of guilt. What would never
have become a question of politics is
forced on the Republican party as an
issue, solely to shield an official who
is known to have contributed an enor-
nous sum to the party campaign fund.
Secretary Alger. through the inter-
yention of the President toward whom
eX-Secretary Sherman entertains the
kindest feelings. may be able to hush
the condemning voice of the venerable
and influential Ohio statesman, but
the influence and the purpose must be
so obvious as TO make his silence more
eloquent and significant than any
words he could speak.
The boys. who left their homes
few weeks ago in robust health.
able to endure any necessary hard
ships and liable to be prostrated
only by conditions that imply and
prove neglect of their reasonable
and vital needs, are now returning
to their homes Their complaints have
been suppressed by menaces and by
form of ridicule while they remain in
the service of the Government, but
once with their families and friends
the whole of the bitter. shameful truth
will be known. Also it will be known
that attempts were made to belittle
their sufferings and to prevent an in
vestigation into their cauSeS-an in
yestigation so eminently and apparent
ly reasonable and necessary that only
one explanation can be made of the
failure to begin it at once.
Nobody who has admired the course
of the President since he listened to
the cry of the country for the punish
ment Of the inhuman Spaniards can see
him become the victim of the machina-
tions of petty politicians without sin
cere regret. 1t is only the belief that
he deserves something better than this
that induces The Times TO urge on him
the action that can alone hold him in
the place he has won in the esteem
and affection of the American people.
If the voice of eX-Secretary Sherman
is stilled il will be impossible to de-
ceive the public as to the reason, and
it will be taken as the final and full
adoption of the shortsighted and futile
policy of Hanna. We still hope the
President viii escape this snare.
The times., 1898-09-07
The Courage of Private Mecomas.

Among the driftwood of story and
incident which comes back to US with
the returning troops is pathetic little
tale which is told by Boston paper.
It concerns Private William McComas
of the Second Infantry. This youth
was born and brought up on farm
in western Massachusetts. and when
the war broke out he did not wait to
be accepted as a recruit by the Ma
tional Guard. but enlisted in the regu-
lar army. He was a stalwart fellow
of nineteen, and his farm life had
given him muscles which even the
tough regulars regarded with admira-
ton. 1t was quite plain that if he
chose TO indulge in fisticuffs he would
be a formidable adversary. and he was
let alone for some weeks partly for
that reason, and partly because he was
peaceable fellow. who did not provoke
quarrels. But when he was mounting
guard one night in Tampa trouble be-
gan. Some of the infantrymen had
been taking too much whisky for their
own good, and came struggling in after
hours. McComas caught them and
walked them up to the sergeant of the
guard, and they got three days on
bread and water.
When these men emerged from con-
finement some of them evinced a de-
termination to take it out of Nc
Comas." They tried to pick a quarrel
with him. But they could find no
chip on his shoulder He did not seem
to see or hear them. Finally one of
them dared him to fight, and to the as
tonishment of everybody he fatty re-
fused. Then the challenger struck the
inoffensive youth. and the blow was
not returned. McComas simply turned
and walked away. They asked him
afterward why on earth he did not
fight He said that he had not joined
the army for the purpose of brawling
in camp.
AS one may imagine. the life of Nc
Comas after that was not a pleasant
one. He was taunted, he was laughed
at, he was tormented in every way
that malice could devise. The best
men of the regiment held aloof from
him; the worst ones prosecuted him at
leisure. When the Second arrived in
Cuba it happened that the first cas-
ualty of the regiment was the shoot
ing away of two fingers of McComas's
right hand He stopped. wrapped a
handkerchief around the hand. and
was about to go back to his place.
when his sergeant saw him and or
dered him to the rear for treatment.
The first skirmish lasted only an hour.
and by the time the fingers had been
taken off. the firing had ceased. 1t
needed only whisper to set the story
going that McComas had deliberately
wounded himself to avoid going to the
front. If his life had been purgatory
before, it was hell for the next hour.
But when the second skirmish began,
McComas, snatching rife from a hos
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To silence Mr.. Sherman.

The greater the success of the Repub-
fican politicians in silencing the criti-
cism Of the War Department by prom
inent men, the more positive and in
furious will be the effect on the for
tunes of the Republican party. Al
though eight-tenths of the newspaper
denunciations Of Secretary Alger have
been made by Republican journals, and
while most of the public men who have
favored an early investigation of the
department have been Republicans.
and all are friends and admirers of the
President, it is now the policy to assert
that the fault has all been found by
Democrats with the sole purpose of de-
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Schurz and the Cuban Pledge.
From the Chicago Tribunc)

(From the Chicago Tribunc
Mr.. Schurz and the others, vino are 50 con-
cerned over what Congress sad might fnd
balm for their spirits if they would pay little
attention also to what Congress did not say.
1t did not say, for instance, that the war was
to be for the purpose of putting the Cuban
guerrilas in control of the island, of crush
ing the Spanish element of the population under
the revengeful feet of the looting insurgents.
If Mr.. Schurz will take off his mugwump spec
tacIes and read that declaration in the clear
light OF reason he will SEE that it was promise
to give all the people of the island a just and
free government, and our nation is bound in
honor to redeem that pledge in the best way
for all classes and conditions.
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RELIEF FOR DISTRICT SOLDIERS
The Noble Work Of MaIy Washing
tom Chapter. ID. A. II.

| To the Editor OF The Times:
In The Times of today is column Of
matter under the heading. Distress Here
At Home; Needy Families of the District
Volunteers" and describing work pro-
posed TO be done by a recently appoint
ed committee. which has not yet met and
has been given ten or twelve days in
which to organize. 1t may interest some
of the readers of your paper to hear that
the relief of the families of volunteers
from the District of Columbia has been
going on ever since May last, and is now
going on. The Mary Washington Chap
ter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution appointed a committee in May
to attend to the relief of the families of
volunteers from the District of Columbia.
This committee raised over 81 0o0 went to
work a once and has been at work ever
since. Its members have sacrificed their
personal pleasures and given up their sum-
mer outings to work at this duty. a
which some of them are busy every day
in the week and all day on week days.
Nearly a hundred people have been cloth
ed, thirty-five or forty families looked
after, rent paid and provisions supplied
regularly children cared for and employ
ment found for adults, when possible. Sew
eral families were provided with means to
go to relatives outside the District. The
committees work has been limited only
by the number of cases brought TO its
notice, each one of which has been care
fully investigated by the police force and
Associated Charities, as well as by the
members of the committee. so as to pre-
vent fraud or duplication of aid.
In another column on the same page
in The Times is a statement of the con-
dition of a soldier and his mother
as TO which l have simply TO say
it was this committee, which, at
took prompt action in the case
provided proper food. and saw that no
arrears of rent or outstanding bills were
allowed to remain; and that at their noti
hcation DR.. Anderson. surgeon of the
Second Battalion. District of Columbia
National Guard. twice visited the man
before Sunday evening, giving him prop
er medicine and advice. The doctor gives
his time and medicines to these families
of the volunteers voluntarily and is do
ing good work. Those whom the article
states will no doubt act promptly this
morning" may. find that action, as | have
said. was taken several days ago.
This committee is prepared to look af-
ter every case brought to it's notice: but
when people who know of cases refuse to
give the name or address of the persons
in distress, as in one instance last week
it is, of course, impossible for it to make
an investigation. l am afraid that if
these hard working Daughters knew I
was writing this about them / should get
a pretty scolding, but they deserve to
have their work known and the many
readers of The Times who know me, will
believe what l say.
CECIL CLAY.
Washington. Sept 5.
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The Overthrow of the kba,if,.

(From the Philadelphia Ledger)
The war may result in an increase of British
territory, but it was nevertheless a war of hu-
manity. The dervishes had become as intolerable
as the spaniards because of their cruelty. and
it had become necessary to punish or destroy
them that millions Of people might be allowed
to live in peace. The courage of the Anglo
Saxon has overcome the bravery of the deryishes
and the Spaniards, and the world will be bet
ter for the exhibition of heroism at Omdurmap
and Santiago The wild Arabs have been def
initely driven from the soudan, and Great Brit
ain deserves to profit by the sacrifices she has
made to put end to fanatical rule in upper
Epypt
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MILLIONAIRE sUTRo's WILL.
A Motion of Contest Filed by Hi.
Son,

San Francisco, Sept. 9.-The contest of
the will of Millionaire Adolph Sutro was
filed today The contestant is Edgar E.
Sutro, his son, who claims that his father
was of unsound mind as far back as May,
1882 when the will was drawn, and that
he was influenced by designing persons
to believe his children were wanting in
proper affection for him.
The contestant asks that the will be de-
clared void and probate denied. The case
will be tried before a jury.
The will gives fully half a million to
various persons and charities. and if
these bequests are ordered paid now. 1t
will practically eonfiscate the estate, as
the real estate is already incumbered
with three-quarters of a million mort
gage.
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One Honest Man.
From the Chicago News.l

tfTOm the CnlCagO news
They had been married but two short month";
when the coOS packed up and left without the
cust emary notice, and the young wife was com
PEELED 10 preside over the culinary department.
temporarily.
''Do you knew. my dear" began the husband
they sat at the breakfast table, ''Jhat your
biscuits are not
''0h. Of course; | know" she interrupted.
sicklv smile fitting across her face. ITS the
old. old story; they are not like your mother
used to make"
Right you are, Arrest" he continued '@They
are not to be compared with mothers biscuits
for a minute. You see. mothers biscuits
invariably heavy. and l could never eat mere
than one, while yours nice and Eight tha.
have already eaten four, and"
But there is limit 10 human endurance ard
the poor woman had tainted.
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The RenI Trouble.

One of the whitewash journals plain
lively says, after admitting that things
are not just as they should be in the
volunteer camps, that the people who
were responsible for trouble with
Spain evidently had no idea of the
horrors of war.
AS a matter of fact, it was not ex-
pected by anyone that more soldiers
would die in camp, in their own coun-
try, than on the battlefield. There
were grave apprehensions as TO the
consequences of sending an army into
Cuba at the height of the sickiy sea-
son, and for that reason it was i'm
pressed on the powers that be that
haste. all haste, was desirable in get
ting the men equipped and beginning
operations at once.
The greater part of the fighting was
| done by the regulars, who were as
ready six weeks before they left the
country as at the time when they did
| leave After a wearisome delay, that
uniforms might be provided, they
fought without those uniforms, and
without sufficient food.
There Were some necessary postpone
ments, but the longest were those for
which there was no obvious reason. At
least some of the horrors of war might
have been averted had the fighting be-
gun before the Summer was so far ad-
vanced, and had transports been
promptly sent southwark to be in read
iness to convey the troops home as
soon as their work was done. General
Delay is responsible for most of the
horrors of this war, and though he has
never given any reason for his ex-
istence, he cannot be court-martialed
and shot
The times., 1898-09-07

The present means of whitewashing the
army scandals is to blame the men for
getting sick. Hanna's statement that the
purchase of bananas and pop caused most
of the sickness among the volunteers at
Camp Alger is echoed by Capt. Quinby,
whose ideas are printed in the Sun. and
who says that nearly all the sickness was
due to eating, drinking and dampness. It
will surprise the doctors to learn that .ba-
nanas and pop or any other sort of eat
ing or drinking-except of polluted water
can develop typhoid fever
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The Newest Version.
From the Cleveland Plain DealeI

From the Cleveland Plain Desler.l
A Cleveland man who went East to spend his
vacation brought home with him what he thinks
Is a new mother-in-law story. Mother-in-llw
stories are a drug the market, but this one
seems to be a little less drugsy than usual
man and his wife went to Europe. and
the mans mother-in-Iaw went along. Up u
this point there IS no novelty in the story.
On the voyage the mother-in-law fell IN and
died OF course. she had to be buried at sea.
and 50 the usual sack was made. but
instead of an iron weight to sink the body.
they used a bag OF coal.
In commenting the arrangements afterward
the beTeaved son-in-law, who suffered badly.
said:
sEI-I always knew where m-m-m-mOther-in-
law was going. but b-b-blame me il I ss-s-sUp-
posed she'd have tito carry her own fffuel!'
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The criminal negligence that has sent
soldiers North and to their homes on fur
Tough from typhoid fever camps in day
trains and without food is liable to have
further consequences. An eminent fever
authority in New York, DR.. w. Gilman
Thompson, has found typhoid in dozens
of cases where the men had been fur
loughed. They carry with them the
germs and will spread them wherever
they go
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The refusal of Blanco to admit pro-
visions for the starving Cubans is said
by the New York Commercial Advertiser
to be ''one of those annoyances that
must be tolerated until Spanish rule is
at an end in Cuba" Annoyances, It
means death by starvation to hundreds
of people, many of them women and chill
dren. This sort of thing was more than
an annoyance when we urged it as the
chief reason for American interference.
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An Anxious Ohio Editor

tFrom the CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL Tribune.)
No wonder, then, that all those who are
closely connected with the Kaiser will watch
with fear and trembling every step taken in this
singular journey to the birthplace of the Prince
of Peace Under the excitement brought about
by passing to and fro land hallowed by
the founder of Christianity. the religious fanati-
cism may develop into religious madness OF an
unquestioned type. II such should be the case
the poor Kaiser will end his days in the dark
ness of insanity
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To charge that 1t is the yellow journals
that have described the horrors of the
camp and the transports is TO reflect on
the responsibility of the local columns of
the New York Tribune, as well as most
of the cleanest and most careful newspa-
pers of the country. These journals have
printed, only what they know to be true,
and their authority is beyond reproach.
The times., 1898-09-07

For five or six weeks more Blanco will
be able to exclude supplies gathered to
save the people OF Cuba from starvation
There was no more reason why the terms
submitted to Spain should provide for the
immediate occupation of Manila than for
the immediate occupation of the Cuban
capital. Indeed. the latter was the more
important.
The times., 1898-09-07
Investigation Is Finished.

The board of inquiry appointed to inves-
tigate the mishap TO the battleship Iowa
in dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
has finished its work and the report may
be received at the Navy Department to-
day. The accident happened to one of
the sea valves. which flied the port en-
CINE room of the battleship with water.
1t is said that Capt Evans has been
given orders 10 sail on September Is.
The times., 1898-09-07
Two Great Records.

VTUIH tHt OIIcdgO NtWsJ
Just think what a wonderful career the EN-
press Josephine had. Born on little island far
away from civilization, she became the mothe.
of kings
eyes; it quite remarkable. but know a
case that is still more wonderful. man who
once clerked in Chicago store has become the
father-in-law of a yiceroy and the father of a
Napoleon"
The times., 1898-09-07

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cago. hereby certihes that il has, by its expert
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A Veritable Fact.

IFrom the Kansas City Star.)
The nation does not want an investigation for
political purposes. 1t wants Investigation to
punish the guilty snd prevent Santiagos and
Chickamaugas in the future, and to indicate to
the people how tie military system may be
reformed as to rect every emergency with
which it may be called to deal.
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The indianapolis Journal cannot be in
duced to deny the facts of needless suf-
fering in the army, but it is willing to
place the responsibility on Congress.
which, year after year, has made army
administration defective by niggardly
appropriations
The times., 1898-09-07
ADuinhlinr Emnire.

(From the Philadelphia Item.)
When Europe gets done with China that cum
try may possibly be As big As Rhode Island or
possibly Delaware.
The times., 1898-09-07
Because the chicago Tribune publish

Because the Chicago Tribune publishes
statistics to show that our soldiers were
killed by incompetency and neglect, the
Inter Ocean, of the same city, charges
1t with making an attack on the Admin
istration. This is the nearest to a con-
fession by a whitewash journal that the
Administration is to be held to account
for such things.
The times., 1898-09-07
The Professors Conundrum

From the Chicago Tribune.)
Professor they said. ''give deep meta
physical eonundrum.'
s'well," he said. after a moments thought,
f'when is which ''what'?'
They gave it up.
''when it Is neither,'' explained the professor.
And when they had studied it out they urder-
stood.
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1t is the deliberate affirmation of sani-
tary science that every typhoid fever epi-
denic is proof of criminal ignorance or
neglect. There is no escape from this,
whatever politicians may say.
The times., 1898-09-07
Standing Him Oh.

(From the Philadelphia North Amegicln.l
''Am I to understand that there is hOpeF'
he asked
WELL she replied. 'when have another
war ii you enlist and make 4 record ! may
consider the idea OF marrying you
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Qualified.

(From the New York Evening Journal>
Employer-T;se work I want you for requires
great deal cf patience and self-eontrOl
Applicant-oh. that's all right. I've played
whist with ladies without losing my temper.
The times., 1898-09-07
Sampson and SchIey.

(FrOm the Chicago TrlbuneJ
Admiral Sampson awakens no enthusiasm in
Washington He will be enthusiastically cheered.
however, on the first occasion when he introduces
Admiral Schley to the multitudes as the man
who sunk Cervera's feet.
The times., 1898-09-07
In THE POLITICAL ARENA.

All intelligence thus far received in the
capital from scenes of political contests
indicate that the Democrats may control
the next House Of Representatives.
That the Senate is close and rather in
clined to be against the Administration is
too well known to discuss For war, the
Senate supported the President war over.
its prospective attitude is doubly in
doubt
Senator Frye. whose pronounced views
upon certain subjects are anything but
agreeable to the Hanna-Elkins faction.
has. it is believed, been piacated by being
made a member of the Peace Commits
sion. the theory being that if he does not
have hand in the original making of a
document of peace. he certainly would
oppose 1t in the Senate Ergo, Senator
Frye is selected 70 go TO Paris.
Likened unto Senator Frye and pos
sessed of the same sort of s,edge-hamrner
argument and eiOquence IS Senator Lind
say, of Kentucky.
It is doubtful whether Senator Lindsay
can ever return TO the Senate. In fact
he realizes this himself Senator Lindsay
picked up a gold brick when he left his
party III 1870 anu NONtu LOT 1lChlEIEN-
No one realizes more than the senior SEN
ator from Kentucky this error The sill
yer Democrats control Kentucky and will
send ]. S. c. Blackburn back 70 the Sen
ate.
Ii is for this reason that President Nc
Kiniey is just now inclined to make Sena-
tor Lindsay a member of the Peace Com
mission The senator ''is willing"
Representative Mason S. Peters. OF
Kansas. who has been nominated By ac-
clamation by the Democrats Of his dis
trict. and indorsed by every anti-Repub-
lican organization in his district. is GER
tain Of reelection. He is recognized by
the Democratic leaders in Congress al
one OF the brainy. thinking men in tha
House. II now conceded by many con-
servative men in Congress- who have
recently visited this city that the Dem
ocracy will doubtless control the next
Congress. Mr.. Peters. il is argued. will
command a high position in that Congress
and enjoy the Craftsmanship Of one Of its
leading committees.
Representative James D. Richardson is
50 absolutely certain of reelection from
the MurfreesbOro, Tenn, district that he
is spencing a few days in Washington
Air. Richardson's commanding presence
and general good judgment make him
most conspicuous figure at all times,
whether in caucus or in Congress. He is
inclined 10 think that the scandals or the
war viii. when explained By hOme-gOing
troops. materially injure the chances OF
the Republican party in the forthcoming
elections.
Senator julius Caesar burrows. OF
Michigan. is not long distance horse in
political fight. He doesn't mind the
high tariff incident 10 long distance teIe-
phones. but he prefers TO see persons
themselves" For this reason the SEN
ator preferred to call on, rather than
communicate with, Secretary AIger. The
Secretary, Notwithstanding the peace he
has has proclaimed with Sherman. gave
Senator Burrows 10 understand that ne
is not a candidate for the United States
SenatOrship from Michigan.
Over in Old Virginia the war issue
seems TO have been lost sight Of in the
multiplicity and perplexity OF local issues
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The Only Reason.

From the st. Louis Starr
Nontofn made an honest and altogether truth
ful report touching his little trouble with
Dewey. 1t seems the only why he did
not whip Dewey was that Dewey whipped him.
The times., 1898-09-07
Signs of Genius.
fFrom the Boston Herald.

(From the Boston Heraid.)
Israel Zangwill who is now en- voyage to
this country, has all the superficial character
istics of genius. His coat is shiny and his
trousers bag at the knees
The times., 1898-09-07
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