Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-09-24
The Politician.

Washington, Sept. 23.-President
Mckinley has completed the commits
sion to investigate the conduct of the
war, and it will begin its investigation
at once and push it to a conclusion
without any unnecessary delay. Ev-
cry witness summoned will be assured
that he may tell everything he knows
without any fear Of consequences, no
matter upon whom his testimony may
reflect. The President has no fear of
the truth, either for himself or for any
member of his administration.
1t is interesting to recall at this
House could have had their way the
House committee on Military Affairs
would have investigated the conduct
of the wa jusrt as it went along. Dur
ing the closing hours of the last ses-
sion of Congress, Representative Hull,
of Iowa, Chairman of that committee,
offered the following esolution: That
the committee on Military affairs have
power to sit during the adjournment
of Congress, and make such investi-
cations as to the organization and
as it may deem advisable, and report
to the next session of Congress" That
committee has among it's members
veterans of the civil war from both
sides, making them especially comp
etent to undertake such an investiga-
ton. Messrs. Bailey and Richardson,
two of the rival Democratic leaders of
abe House, threw cold water on the
resolution, and Jerry Simpson. taking
his cue from them, killed it by object
ing to its consideration, frankly ac-
knowledging that he did so because
he wished the opponents of the Repub-
lican party to have an oportunity to
MAKE political capital out of any COM
plants that might arise from the con-
duct OF the war-in his own language,
Il want hte party in power that ap-
pointed the men to assume the esponsi-
bility, and therefore ! object" Just
contrast their attitude toward that
resolution with the present yowling of
the Democratic party; it tells story
that needs no comment.
Unless present plans are changed, |
President Mckinley will not leave
Washington until the second week in |
October, when he will go to the Oma-
ha Exposition, and from there he will |
visit other points in the west He is
feeling we'll and there are SO many
important matters requiring his at
tention that he is unwilling to take
any further vacation just now.
Senator Platt called at the White
House this week to tell the President
that Col. Roosevelt would certainly be
nominated for governor by the Re-
publican convention of New York and
that he would just as certainly be
elected. While in Washington the |
Senator said the Republicans would, |
according to his informa..on, hold |
their own in every congressional dis
trict in New York. and might gain one |
or more districts.
A specimen Of the deliberate misrep-
resentations that are being made by
the Democrats to make political capt.
tai in the Congressional campaign was
the story sent out from Washington
that there were a number of Roose-
velt's Rough Riders in Washington
unable to get pay coming to them or
transportation to their homes because
they were in hospitals when the regi-
ment was mustered out of service.
Far from having trouble in Washing
ton these men had royal good cine.
Paymaster General Stanton gave them
papers upon which to draw their pay
and to get their transportation home,
and everybody, from the President