The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-13

S. M. Stevens, 1923 N. Main.
ing" policy of the president. reading from
various newspapers to show that the
president had repeatedly changed his
mind. He commented especially upon the
report of an alleged midnight conference
! between Senator Elkins and the Spanish
minister, after the former had been at
! the White House with John ]. McCook.
| He tainted the Republicans because the
| president had not declared for the indie
! pendence of Cuba, which the Republican
| platform had demanded.
1T remains to be seen" said he.
whether the majority of the house can be
lined up and whipped in"
Congress, he declared, should act and
could better act than the executive, ''for-
mulating his policy at midnight behind
closed doors with the aid of plutocracy."
TO sUBJUGATE CUBANS.
"a stable government! What do you
propose now? Let this congress give to
the president the army and navy, he says,
and I will go over there and force the
Cuban patriotic, force the Cuban heroes,
to submit TO a stable government at the
hands of Spain, because the queen regent
has already advised the administration
that she has ordered a suspension of hos
tilities. She cannot order a suspension
against the insurgents. She has not
among all her bull fighters and DULLES
manhood enough to order a suspension
of hostilities on the insurgents. This ad-
policy, which was criticized by the Chi
cage Tribune, an administration paper,
asks US to put the army and navy in its
hands to so over and punish the Cubans,
after three years of the most heroic
fighting for liberty that any people ever
made on the face of the earth. 1 say it
is an outrage; it is a stencil in the nostrils
Of every decent American. We shall see
whether the majority side of this house
can be lined up and whipped into such a
policy as that
MIR. HEPBURN'S INDIGNATION.
Mr.. Hepburn (Rep., Iowa. jumped to
his feet as Mr.. Lentz sat down.
'Mr. Chairman, ne began, Sometimes
mis-statement is so gross that it reaches
the dignity of falsehood, and falsehood
SO gross that it becomes mendacity, and
mendacity so foul that it becomes scoun-
drelism. I say that the president has
never said that he desires the use of the
army and navy at the hands of congress
in order to establish Spanish supremacy
on the island of Cuba (AppIause). That
is not truce There is no man who can,
with an honest heart, with an honest pur-
-
and arrive at any conclusion of that char
acter. The presidents whole argument
leads up 20 the proposition that the con-
duct of Spain on that island during fifty
years of misrule, fifty years of outrage,
fifty years of tyranny, has brought about
such a condition that it is now intolera-
bic and insupportable and must cease.
That is the language of the president of
the United States. He asks the use of
the army and navy to put an end to that
intolerable and insufferabe condition.
applause on the Republican side). That
is the argument of the president. Every
sentence in that message to this house
teaches US that that is his purpose, and
yet, gentlemen say, in view of the Ian
guage he has used, in all the argument
he has made. in all the recital Infamous
and despotic conduct that he has called
TO our attention, that it is the purpose of
the president to become an ally of the
Spaniards. l say there is no word in that
whole message that jusbfes any hon
orable man in making a declaration of
that kind upon this floor.
GOING THERE TO FIGHT SPAIN.
I'VE are going there TO fight Spain.
We are going there TO establish stable
and permanent government. What does
that mean?
Here we have had fifty years of Span
ish government, not stable, not perma-
nent. except in the vallainy of its out
RACES. That character of outrage and vii
lainy which has become insufferable
should be suffered no longer. the presi-
dent says, creating such an emergency
as compels Us 10 violate the otherwise
friendly relations that we ought to have
and go to the extreme of war in bring
ing an end TO these insuferabIe conditions
produced through the acts of Spain. And
yet. the gentlemen dares TO stand here
and say that that paper advocates the
use Of the army and the navy. the placing
q eALG Nl4GtS 4444t4 teA4 AONSA ~ Li4G NOOAt-
try. IN the hands OF the president. in
order that he may go there TO perpetuate
that which he reprobates and TO continue
that when ne says Is now uncomfortable.
He wants a stable and permanent repub-
lean government Does that mean Span
ISL rule? Has any man the right 70 make
that argument
Mr.. Len;z-'Does he say republican gov
ernment2"
Mr. Hepburn-"No, he does not say THAI. /
but he supposed that you knew something
about the history Of ibis country" Gap
p,ause on the Republican SIDE.
Nj Lertz-"I do"
NJ. Magu.re-"And we know something /
about The history OF this administration
AIr. Hepburn-"TIe supposed thai you
knew something about the aspirations OF /
American statesmen, that you knew |
something about the declaration that over !
and over again mad been reiterated by
every branch Of tbs government WIN /
reference TO the character of government
that should be formed il THIS he-l.s- /