Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-01
AN ORGAN IN A FIT.

It was amusing to note the incoher
ent rawlings of the Republican organ
yesterday anent the remarks of the
Register concerning the hypocritica
and brutal part the administration tool
! in the late peace negotiation" with
poor old decrepit, beaten and humilia-
ted Spain. Under guise of conducting
negotiations and advising and consult
ing with our beaten foe after our wal
''for humanity" the administration al
the behest of it's Wall street hackers
simply gobbled up everything in sight
permitting neither suggestion nor
| amendment from the Spanish COM
missioners. The negotiations on the
part of the administration were mere
! farce and the presentation of an ulti-
matum for SPANS acceptance or re-
lection would have accomplished the
same end and without such waste of
time, being really all the alleged ne
gotiations amounted to. AS the Regis
ter stated in the article that So reused
the partisan bile of the hypocritical
Hanna organ, the administration while
carefully maintaining the appearance
of acting the Christian part with our
BUNDLED foe really treated her with
all the brutality of Nero.
The foxy hypocrite of Fourteenth
street, however, with his usual pen
chant for garbling and classifying the
utterances of political opponents, in
quoNng the Register on this point care
fully cut out all reference to the adj
ministration and quoted this paper as
Hannacratic administration, but of the
American people! And thereupon our
neighbor proceeded to blackguard the
Register in it's sanity way with it's
choicest sanity Billingsgate as a
Spanish sympdthizer," etc MS Is
an excellent illustration of the methods
of this dishonest partisan, whose hy-
pocrisy has become a bywOrd and who
is so used to thus classifying the utter
ances of political opponents that it is
no longer possible for him to conduct
an honest argument.
And speaking of Spanish sympa-
thizers'' it is matter of recent record
that the administration and all of it's
inside" adherents, from Messrs. Han
ma and Elkins to their slavish and fall
styling organ of Fourteenth street,
were steadily opposed to going to war
with Spain, and even after the das-
tardly destruction of the Maine de-
clared that we had NO CAUSE FOR
WAR! They feared war would disturb
the game in Wall street. And had it
not been for the sturdy Democratic
minority in Congress there would have
been no war. We would have swallow
ed SPANS insults and outrages and
left her still in possession of Cuba had
the administration and it's organs had
their way
Yet now--lo and behold!-who SO
brave and clustering against poor old
Inundated and beaten Spain as these
| same former peace at-any-price poll
| ticians and organs, who so rampant as
they in demanding and appropriating
the fruits of conquest to the last barren
rock in the far away Pacific! Who sc
| bold and world-defying in their Eek
pansion" policy and aspirations to-
ward imperialism and world-conquer-
ing militarism as these same cowardly
but greedy administration politicians
and organs. who, fearing Spain when
she seemed formidable and willing tC
accept any national humiliation at hel
hands to escape war, now swarm tri-
umphant over her PROSTATE and decay.
| ing body like the vultures and politica
birds of prey they are.
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