The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-18
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANNUAL MEETING AND BANQUET OF
THE ORGANIZATION.
Election of Directors and Advisory
dorsed-Points from Speeches.

ing of the Associated Press to-day the fol-
lowing were elected directors: VIM. s. Nc
Lean, Philadelphia Bulletin, vice Clayton
McMichael, resigned; A. j. Barr, Pittsburg
Post; L. Markbreit, Cincinnati Volksblatt;
Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution. The
following advisory boards were chosen:
Eastern Division-St. Clair McKelway.
Brooklyn Eagle, chairman; Charles II.
Taylor, Boston Globe; Clarke Davis, Phil
a nnida! A heSgsr; a Aut +; L1 R 3 Springfield eMg1
Central Division-George Thompson, st.
Paul Dispatch. chairman; ID. NJ. Houser,
st. Louis Glo~be-Democrat; S. II. Wilder.
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune; H. S. New,
Indianapolis Journal; Il. Rosewater, Omaha
Bee; John Hicks, Oshkosh Northwestern.
Western Division-H.- w. Scott, Portland
Oregonian. chairman; f. 3. Piper, Seattle
Post In~telligencer; p. II. Lannan. Salt Lake
Tribune: Hugh Hume. San Francisco Post;
K; G.: Cooper. Denver Republican.
lanta Journal, chairman; Page NJ Baker,
New Orleans Times-Democrat; G. p. J..
Mooney, Memphis Commereial-Appeal;
George w. Ochs. Chattanooga Times; G.. III.
Basket, Nashville Banner.
This resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, Thbt the Associated Press no.
tees with p~leaAure the encouragement by
the newspapers throughout the country of
the proposition by Rear Admiral Upshur to
the Brooklyn Eagle that a home be secured
for Admiral Dewey at the national capital
by public subscription.
Resolved, That we recognize in the ma
tional committee of the Dewey home fund
a fitting body to which to send the funds
secured by subscriptions to newspapers
from their readers and through other
sources, and that we ommend the object
and the method without reserve to the
newspapers and periodicals of the United
States"
The annual banquet was held at the Audi
forum tonight. Speeches were made by
st. Clair McKelway, of the Brooklyn Eagle;
Gen. Thomas NJ. Anderson, U. S. A.: Gen.
Hon. James II. Eckels, ex-controller of the
currency: the Hon. Stephen O'Meara, of the
Boston Journal: L. Markbreit, of the Gin
Portland Oregonian; r. N. Johnson, of the
Houston Post, and Frank p. MacLennan, Of
the Topeka Journal. Aside from the speeches
by Alice Nielsen, Of the. Nielsen Opera
Company, who is at the Columbia Theater:
specialties by Carroll Johnson. comedian.
III. Vests MINISTRIES, at McVicker's; music
by the Angela sisters musical trio, and sing
ing by the Weber quartet.
EDITOR MKELWAY'S ADDRESS.
Mr.. McKinley's address was devoted to
the expansion question. In concluding he
said: Another thing to bear in. mind is.
that we could not leave Spain In the Phil
ippines and could not restore the Philip
pines to Spain without making ourselves
worse than Spain in history, and without
putting or leaving a national enemy to work
us harm in the very heart of the CONNER
cial world of the far East. / need not talk
TO those who think that the Filipinos are
capable of Self-gOvernment. Men who can
believe that can believe anything. The Fill
ipinoS comprise many tribes at odds with
and strangers TO one another, differing in
religion, in language and in habits, and
some of them have been left for centuries
in the savagery of which head hunting and
eann-ba1Ism are perhaps the mildest varia-
have unwisely confronted our troops are led
by men who will be without occupation
when they have no cause to sell and no
government 10 market. Those who can re-
gard them as heroes. patriots, as virtuous
and as intelligent, resemble the lecturer
whose boast it was that he made his facts
as he went along. All the evidence is
against them.
II take 1t, we are going to hold those
Stands. / doubt not We shall find difficulty,
Difficulties. however, alter not duties. No
man living knows what we will do with
them or should do with them, for We are
learning as we go along: The situation was
not of our making, could not be of our pre-
venting. and will not be one which we will
abandon or run away from. The Philippines
are a hnality; We have them and We hold
them. We will govern them under the uni
versal right and obligation of the capable
to govern the incapable, cast upon their
hands. We will do to them the good which
Tx DliSllil dnu thC Q0bhti y II f1uSbtllpl
and the Cavalier would have done to the
Indians had the Indians had sense enough
TO accept ii. They had not, and the rest
followed. Good, or the consequences of the
rejection Of it. will follow I'm the Philip
pines. The world will not stop: il will go
right on. The higher races will school or
harness the lower ones to the work of the
ages. and American newspapers should not
cautiously forget that fact in their long out
look on events"
Mai. Gen. Thomas Henderson. commander
of the Department OF the Lakes. detailed
some Of his military experience in Al TX
and the Philippines. Il had my first hitter
view with Aguinaldo." he said. ION the LIST
of July. The next day / cabled back to the
War Department these two sentences:
'Aguinaldo has declared himself "A dictator
and these people are determined on their
independence l thought so then and / be-
lieve so Yet. There are some BIO leaders of
this movement of the Filipinos. They wish
absolute independence because they wish to
divide the church property. worth millions
of dollars. and abrogate the Spanish conces-
sions so that they can reissue them for theiI
own benefit. The mass OF the common peo-
pie. on the other hand, wish independence
because they believe We vii! rob and Cypress
them like the Spaniards-because they have
been deceived about rs. I believe IL we send
there wise men TO carry cut wise measure
honest honorable measures-it Will maKt
the Philippine islands as prosperous AZ ia
pan. convert the Pacific ocean into an Amer
lean Lake and viii rebound TO the honor and
glory OF our imperial republic