Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-31
President Mckinley in Earnest Re-
garding Policy in Philippines.
OUTLINED In PIqPBURSG SPEECH
Aggressive Fight Will Be Made on
the Anti-Expansionists.
NO ALLIANCES PROBABLE
pecial Dispatcb I, The Evening Star.

| Special Dispatch 10 The Evening Star
CANTON. Ohio, August 31.-President Nc
| Kinley evidently means that the course of
| his administration shall be an aggressive
one l judge he does not believe that re-
| ply is necessary TO every criticism or at
| tack that may be made upon his Philippine
| policy, but rather that the people who for
political or other reasons are antagoniZing
| that policy should be on the defensive in
| explaining their course. Here among his
| old friends and n~iehbors the President has
! thrown off some of the restraints of Off
| cial intercourse. He talks with perhaps
more freedom than would be shown in the
White House. While his public utterances
are to be looked to the guide to his
opinions and his purposes, it is possible to
supplement this utterance by the personal
| impressions gathered during half an hours
talk without violating the proprieties.
Pleased at Reception to His Speech.
The President does not seek to conceal
his satisfaction at the public response to
his speech to the 10th Pennsylvania Regi-
| ment in Pittsburg the other day. He had
foreshadowed it briefly at Plattsburg and
at Long Branch. and had received evidences
that those brief addresses were touching
the popular chord. 1t would not be saying
too much to state that the President has
been sensitive to the criticism to which he
has been subjected during the last few
months for indetinteneSs in his Philippine
policy, when all the time the acts of the
administration, to his mind, We're a suffi-
cient indication of the determination to use
all the resources of the government to
establish the supremacy of the American
authority first and settle collateral questions
afterward.
Believing that acting was more important
than talking he to 90 rd
and wait the occasion for speaking without
seeking to force it.. The opportunity came
when the Pennsylvania volunteers re-
turned to the United States, and then the
President spoke.
Months ago he had given conditional
promises of taking part in the welcome
Of the troops returning to Minnesota and
other states. but he will be unable to full
fill his intention IN that respect. So the
President spoke through the Pennsylvania
volunteers to the volunteers from all the
states and to the whole country. The Pitts
burg address was his message to the Amer
lean people. Probably he will make no fur
ther declaration of policy until his message
goes to Congress. Officially and through
the War Department, he had been acting
that speech for several months.
Thinks Country Will support Him.
He is satisfied that the country now I'M
derstands his Philippine policy and will
support it. I infer that a campaign of
etuCdllOH TeSdTulNS tUe INDUSTRIAL ana COW-
mercial resources of the islands is to fol-
low, with a view to demonstrating the
value of these possessions of the United
States in the far east. The main point,
however, is that the national administra-
ton will henceforth take aggressive meas
ureS in carrying out the Presidents policy,
and that every challenge of the opposition
will he met No party issue is considered
involved, but the Mckinley administration
will stand for the cOmDete and nDcOn6i-
tional establishment of American authority
in the Philippines, and to that extent for
expansion.
Those who support 1t will not be amiss in
describing themselves as expansionsts. The
opponents of the Presidents policy who
have raised the question in the various
state campaigns will be met their own
ground. The administration is willing that
the issue of the Philippines shall be put
as a vote of confidence in the administra-
ton by the various states which hold cleo
tons in November. Here in Ohio, where
party capital is sought by the democrats
and where President Mckinley has a spe-
cial interest in the result instead of at
tacking. the democrats will be attacked IN
the position they have taken. Yesterday
the President was in consultation with Geo
X. Nash. the republican candidate for gov
ernor, and Representative Dick, the chair
man of the state executive committee. He
gave them many suggestions and his ad
vice of aggressive campaign will un-
doubtedly be followed.
No EntangIing Alliance.
While the Philippine policy has been
clearly indicated. and while the Presidents
Pittsburg speech will be the text book,
infer that there is a definite purpose to
keep clear of all entanging alliances The
Philippine question is one solely for the
United States. because the responsibility
devolved solely upon the United States
To the suggestion that effort is making
to stir up the Germans against the admin
istration because of the talk of alliances
the President invariably asks What alli-
ance?" This is usually coupled with the
statement that the two governments of the
United States and Germany are the
most friendly terms and that their friendly
relations are certain TO continue. The first
OF the parcels conventions recently
ceded by this country was with Germany.
CHARLES M. PEPPER.