The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-05-03
UNDER WHICH FLAG /?
There arc not and Cannot be mn
.Gcr,nnn Voters" In This Republic.

There arc HOt anu SunIlOCE DC my
"Gcr,nnn Voters" In This Republic.
Chicago Times Herald. Nothing that
Cap,a.n Coghlan. Of the Raleigh. said
/. his indiscreet speech at the Union
club banquet. compares In aslnlnity
with the dclIverance OF Dr. Emil Pretor-
,us, described as the Nestor Of the Ger
man press, at ST. Louis, on Sunday.
CAPTAIN CoBhlan spoke simply for him
self. and out of the fuiness Of his de-
vo,Ion TO Admiral Dewey he made one
OF those frank breaks that are often
worse than blunders. But ne spoke the
truth, and everybody familiar with
wha, occurred In Manila bay knew it
10 be the truth. The German govern
uent itself conceded as much when II
recalled Admiral Won Dicderichs. II
was simply one OF those instances where
the utterancc OF The truth was uncalled
for and lmpolitlc. 75iF
But what can be pleaded in extenua-
ton OF the following utterance OF the
Nestor OF the German press. spoken de-
uberately. and for publications:
mt and vicious MSS. His act is an
Insult to 0 nation and 10 $500, 1000 Ger
man voters, who have been treated In
the most shameful manner by the Nc
Klnlcy- administration. His severe
criticism on Admiral Dlederichs was
such as one would expect TO hear from
school boy, but not from, n man, and
one who Is acclaimed as q hero.
throughout the trouble In Manila bay
the Germans were friendly to tho
American fleet, and I know It. 1t was
the Americans who were the aggressors.
and they piled It on so heavily that 1t
was all the Germans could do to with
stand II"
Reckless In his speech Captain ,Cogh-
Ian undoubtedly was. but that he Is an
Ignorant and Vicious ass does not lie
IN the mouth OF any man TO assert.
Neither Is there anything in what was
said by the captain Of the Raleigh that
can be tortured into IN insult to the
100000 German voters In this coun-
try. In the first place there are no
German voters In the United States. It
Il an insult to the 100000 voters In the
United States of German extraction or
nativity to be classed as German vo-
ters." ready and anxious to take UNI
bragg at n needless sailors blunt re-
c!,ol Of the elimination of the friction
Between the American and German adj
mirals In Manila bay.
What occurred at Manila Is n matter
OF history. too well established by the
testimony Of the participants to admit
OF question or distortion by Captain
Coghlan or DR.. Pretorius. The Amerl-
can who attempts to put the Americans
IN the wrong there because Of blood or
k!nsh!p mistakes the temper of fellow
citizens AZ n nation we, are singularly
tolerant OF sentimental ties that bind
millions of our citizens to their mother
countries or home lands. We would
not have the Germans. the English,
Scotch and Irish. the Scandinavians or
their fellow-citizens Of foreign nativity
or parentage fail to cherish the senti-
ments and traditions Of their home
lands.
But In its international relations, the
United States cannot trim Its policy to
favor sentimentS or traditions. This
policy must be American TO the core, to
the utmost dollar. to the last drop OF
blood.
Between Dewey and Won Diederlchs we
can never pause to consider what sun
smiled upon the birth OF the latter. We
know that Dewey was American. We
care not what Won Diederichs was. II he
had been the, admiral of the British
fleet In Asiat!c watcra and had acted
as he did. Dewey would have sent him
the same message, and 1t would have
been sufficient. or there would have
been war, SIR
The suggestion OF DR.. Pretorius that
German-Amerlcan voters have received
any different treatment from the Nc.
ksnley administration than their fell
low-AmericaHs Is utterly unfounded.
and sounds moro like the plant OF a
disappointed spokesman than the utter
alce OF Ncstor,