Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-11
SPEAKING TREASON.

While our imperial administration is
Illuminating on the case of Mr.. Atkinson
and wondering what it will do with the
next reasonable wretch who shall dare
to do5ecrate the mails by sending
through them Senate documents con-
tanning anti-imperial speeches, it is
suggested that it would be well for the
President to turn his attention to some
of the public men of his own State of
Ohio. They are kicking over the i'm
perial traces at great rate over there
and unless some examples are made
some of them bound and gagged and
thrown into dungeons-the is no tell
ing where it will end.
Talk of Unreasonable utterances!"
Those half dozen pamphlets that Mr..
Edward Atkinson sent to Dewey and
the other commanders whose loyalty
the administration was so afraid would
be corrupted thereby, weren't markers
as reasonable utterances to the recent
statements of Gen. John Beatty, OF
Columbus, in the Presidents own State
of Ohio. Bless you, Atkinson was
milk-and- watery with his chestnutty old
Senate documents compared to Gen.
Beatty, one of the leading lights of Mr..
McKinley's own party in Ohio, who
spoke right out in the public prints.
The fact that Gen. Beatty stands so
high among the g. o. p. faithful is an
added reason why he should be sup
pressed. If leading Republicans are
thus allowed to play the traitor to En-
peror Hanna and Wall Street what is
to be expected of the common people
who have not yet learned the imperial
lesson!
For instance, Gen. Beatty says right
out in meetin': I
81 have had Edward Atkinson's pamph-
lets in my house for some time. l looked
them over to ascertain if they contained
anything which was at all Likely to induce
Admiral Dewey, General Otis, General MI
Ter, and Parks, Schurman and Worcester
to throw up their commissions, abandon
their salaries and go over TO the enemy
Finding there was not, l concluded that
Mckinley and the members of his cabinet
had Simply been making asses of them
selves, as has been their custom at least
once a week for the past year"
Scandalous! But listen to this-Gen
Beattys opinion of our sanity Presi-
dent, with whom the General has long
been acquainted:
1T was hardly necessary for Mr.. Atk.n-
son to remind us that Mckinley had SAID:
Forcible annexation would be criminal
aggression, for what Mckinley may say
for or against proposition, doesn't count
with those VINO know him; he has a habit
of getting on both sides of a question
now silver, then goid-now for the free
dom of folks and then for their enslave-
ment; now for benevolent assimilatio
then for brutal subjugation; now for the
home market and again for the open
door; in the Hayes time for the Kukiux,
and a little later for the constitutional
rights of the negro. The fact is, McKin ey
never expresses an opinion until he ascer-
tains the drift of the mob, and nobody in
Ohio can flop quicker than he can"
Treason! Bring on the boiling oil.
But hold on, here's more of the same
hear Gen. Beatty out. He concludes
sarcastically:
of course. all who insist that forcible
| annexation is criminal aggression are now
| traitors. So also are those who believe
that governments derive their Just DOW
| ers from the consent of the governed.
An loyal men should know that McKin-
ley knows exactly what the F:lip.nos
| need and what they ought TO have and
| how and when they ought to have it, The
mercilesS butchery of a defenseless peo-
pie is all right as long as you say your
prayers.
| Americans have just escaped the great
| danger which would have resulted from
| the successful transmission of five COPIES
| OF Atkinsons pamphlets to the Phi lip
| pines, but are still stunned and breatlless
in view of the peril which so recently con-
| fronted them. The Filipinos, on the other
| hand, are getting on very nicely They
are being Christianizad and sent to heaven
| in droves"
What do Atkinson's paltry pamphlets
amount to alongside of this. Out upon
Beatty! Where's the Imperial Guard
| To the dungeon with him.
Wheeling people are becoming edu-