The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-02
Their Loud Talk.


lent and widely-known men in
this country, the public could
get diversion out of the trial for high
crime with which certain people in the
| administration circle threaten these
gentlemen. A few days ago, the Stand
and referred to an amount of gossip
sent out from Washington, in apparent
seriousness, to the effect that it is pro-
posed to prosecute for treason certain
people who have not found it to their
mind ITO talk in approval of the ad-
ministration' Philippine policy. The
very suggestion seems monstrous yet
recent newspaper comment in admins
tration organs is sufficient proof that,
by the process of Furnishing them for
| treason, this administration element
proposes to get even with people who
have not praised its policy in getting
into war with the Filipnos.
At first there was no guessing as to
the precise offense Of the men whom
the administration proposes to put I'M
der the BAN or as to the individuals who
| are on the list of offenders; the coun-
publicans of national eminence have
been the severe critics of the admin
istration's policy. Recent newspaper
gossip has brought out, in instances,
specifications as to the crime charged
and as to the names of the accused.
The fact" says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, that the president has evil
dence against certain persons in this
country which, if pressed, would con-
vict them Of sedition in their attitude
toward the war in the Philippines, is
likely to give some of these mischievous
individuals pause"
The accusation is that the accused
people, among other things, have been
sending kilograms to the volunteers in
the Philippines urging them to insist on
their immediate discharge from mill
tary service. 1t is claimed, on the testi-
mony of more than one administration
organ, that kilograms of this sort have
been intercepted and that the Offend
ers, although they may not be aware
of the fact are known. Now, if the
government knows the names of men
who are trying to incite the troops to
INSTRUMENTATION, it's duty is plain and
its task is easy. Why doesn't the ad-
ministration go after them and let the
public know all about it?
But that isn't the plan. For instance,
| the newspaper we have quoted men,
tons these kilograms and in follow
ing paragraph it says: Every sane
person in the United States knows that
the rantings of Hoar, Bryan, Hale, Cor
| man. Mason and the rest of the Wilt
fiers of their country have given aid
and comfort to Aguinaldo" The cow
ardly insinuation in this talk is clear
| enough-it seeks to carry the Inference
that the men whose names are given
are the offenders in the matter of tele-
| grams which the administration has
| been smart enough to uncover.
The well-known fact respecting all
| of these men, unless it be Mr.. Hale,
who, like Hoar and Mason, is a repub-
| lican, is that they have been open in
| all they have had to say or do in the
way of Philippine criticism. They are
| notorious offenders-if it be an offense
| to dare to differ with the Mckinley
| policy. Now. if it thinks that is a
wise thing to do. let the admnistra ton
or its underlings venture to prosecute
| these men or any one among them, for
! treason or for sedition, or for some cog
nate offense. If that were to happen,
every citizen can guess now and guess
| right as to which side would oe: the
| worst of it.
In the case of the Globe Democrat
| it rounds out it's insinuation with the
remark that the accused persons
may be mistaken if they think they
| could avoid punishment 1t adds
that Bryan would not like to end his
discreditable career by being run out
| of the country as Nallandigham was,
and that IF Hoar and Mason and
Bryan were landed in Aguinaldo's
camp, vast majority of the American
people would declare that these mis-
chief-makers were served right"
The st. Louis organ must be mis-
taken. 1t is not reasonable to assume
that the American people would APP
plaud this astonishing manifestation of
Hanna!sm. If the programme thus
threatened is carried out Captain Cogh-
Ian will not necessarily lie under the
imputation of referring to the Kaiser,
the next time he recites, at a club din
ner, his rhymes about Myself und
| Gott."