Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-19
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THE CORRESPONDENTS ROUND ROBIs

Once again is the administration
brought up with round turn through
the medium of a round robin. The
first instance was in Cuba during the
Spanish war when the American Of
ficers there under the lead of Col
Roosevelt of the Rough Riders, held
ing terms denounced the criminal in
competency of Mr.. McKinley's war de-
partment, which was numbering our
troops through gross mismanagement
and rotten food supplies.
The latest instance of the round rob-
in is that held in Manila by the Amer
lean newspaper correspondents, who
have finally risen in open revolt
against the administration military
press censorship, which forbids Amer
lean newspaper correspondents to tell
the truth to the American people and
strikes the truth out of their dis
patches.
There is nothing to add to the vigor-
Gus protest presented by the CORES
pondents at Manila to Gen. Otis and
which that. incompetent minion of the
administration dared not ignore. 1t
recites in blunt terms 1.-The people of
the United States have not received a
correct impression of the situation in
the Philippines; but that these dis
patches have presented an ultra opti-
mistic view that is not shared by the
general officers of the field" that the
character of the Filipino army and
the alleged dissention and demoraliza-
ton in their ranks is pure falsehood
inserted without warrant into dis
patches by the censors; that it is I'M
true that the situation is we'll in
hand, and that the instruction can be
speedily ended without a greatly in
creased force" that ''the tenacity of
the Filipinos purpose has been under
estimated and that the statements are
unfounded that volunteers are willing
to engage in further SERVICE" that
the censorship has compelled us to
participate in this Misrepresentation
by excising or altering uncontroverted
statements of facts on the plea, as Gen.
Otis stated, that they would alarm
the people at home or have the peo-
pie of the United States by the ears. ="
In other words, the administration
at Washington feared to trust the
American people with the truth about
the Philippines situation and conse-
quently has fed them with falsehoods.
1t was demonstrated that honest re-
ports of the situation were entirely
suppressed where they could not be all
tered; that the reports of field opera
tons were entirely suppressed where
the Americans failed-no reports of
battles being allowed to be sent except
those in which the Americans won;
that the correct number of prostrations
and sickness from the climate were
not allowed to be sent and that the op-
erations of the navy in aid of the army
were suppressed as far as possible: in
other words, all the credit was taken
by the army, while its failures were
never reported.
This is the kind of news the adj
ministrations censorship has been
feeding the American people on. The
honest American press has repeatedly
warned the people of these facts. but
the actual extent of the suppression of
the news by Mr.. McKinley's Manila
censorship was not suspected. When
it was limited at the obedient organs
Of the administration bosses rose up
and with tremendous howl cried
down the newspapers who dared to
voice such suspicion as "disloyal, y
Organs of Aguinaldo," ETC., etc.
Now, let us see what newspapers
and news associations are represented
by the correspondents who sign this
scathing round robin and whether
they are "disloyal," and agents of
Aguinaldo' or not. 1t is signed by the
three correspondents of the Associat-
ed Press, nonpartisan newsgathering
association since it supplies newspa-
pers Of all parties throughout the