The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-23
Newspapers and News.
~ NE of the disadvantages for the
~ Mckinley republicans in this
part of the world-the fewIthere

~ Mckinley republicans in this
part of the world-the fewthere
are of them-is that they have no press
that keeps them informed as to the
tendencies of republican thought and
talk throughout the country These
people, scattered over Montana, read
the Standard because they want to keep
the run of the worlds news. What they
get of a political cast in the local
republican press is so ridlculously par
tisan that it misleads them respecting
the current of opinion in the influen-
tial republican newspapers.
Take questions of recent significance
By the Testimony of the local organs
called republican, these republican
readers in Montana are led to conclude
that all the criticism of the admins
tration's policy and people are of demo-
cratic invention, and that these have
their source in prejudice. Let US see
about that. The Northwest recognizes
two journals of prominence above any
of their contemporaries, as consistent
republican publications, in an immense
/
Pioneer Press and the Portland Ore
l7fian. Both are thoroughly goldbug
IL Wspapers; both were ardent support
ers of Mckinley. as they We're of Har-
rison and of the other republicans. Both
are at home in constituencies where
free coinage has had strength.
Take these two newspapers-confess-
cd 10 acf'
of gold-standard republcanism and of
| its representatives in power. On Tuesday
of last week the Oregonian dealt with
what is called the round robin-the
statement of the correspondents at
Manila to the effect that the American
public is not getting the truth The
Oregonian said: This round robin
| brands the management of the Philip
| pine campaign as one of incompetency.
| 3 1t may be that General Otis is
not acting on his own volition, but up
on instructions from Washington, when
he has decided to keep from the people
of the United States the facts concern
ing the real conditions. 1t is absurd to
believe that the publication of reverses
and the necessity for more troops would
have assisted the Filipinos in their in
surrection."
| In the opinion which the Oregonian
puts into type, the proofs are that there
| never have been troops enough at
Manila" that it has been the inten-
ton of somebody to deceive the people"
that Otis was 'either misinformed or
was carrying out instructions that
ought never to have been given" Sum-
ming up its views of the situation, the
| Oregonian says: 1T seems as if the
managers of the Philippine campaign,
both in Washington and Manila, were
being forced into corner: one obstacle
after another has been lodged by run
ming hither and thither. Now the facts
| are laid bare, and some decisive action
must be taken" There is nothing so
very remarkable about this testimony.
! The like of it appears in scores Of
prominent republican organs-the ones
that forced Alger out. But we quote
the Oregonian because it is recognized
as the best-known republican publica-
ton between North Dakota and the
| Pacific ocean.
Even if other matters be taken into
account, the republican press is dealing
with passing questions in a mann5r
all unknown to the republicans in Mon
tana Here is the Pioneer Press. already
mentioned. 1t has been generous in it's
criticism of domestic republican policy.
| The other day the Pioneer Press
everybody knows it's goldbug-took a
turn at Hanna. This St Paul organ ad-
mfts that Mr.. Hanna is Just as capable
now as he was in 1896" but il hastens
| to accept approvlngly the recent re-
port that Hanna is gong to pull out,
and it remarks: Mr.. Hanna's person.
| atty has become distinct issue in ma
tional politics. If he is the manager of
the next presidential campaign, one
half of the energy of the contest must
be spent in defending Hanna"
These things are said by the two
republican newspapers that are not
matched in reputation or party signifi-