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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21
The Administrations View of the
Manila Round Robin"
Editorial in Philadelphia Press.)

Editorial in Philadelphia Press.)
The lapse of two days since the com.
plant Of the correspondents at Manila
has done much to modify the momen-
tary impression it created. 1t isn't nee
essary to question their sincerity or
good faith. But two things have led
to a revision of the first judgment. In
the first place, other and weghtier evil
denCe has disCredited their representa-
tions on the vital points. In the second
place, a more careful examination of
their statement has shown it's weak
ness in lesser but characteristic mat
trrs.
The weight of authority is against
them. General Otis may be passed by,
rs he is under question. But President
Schurman OF the Philippine commission
sustains and cOrroborates his view.
Colonel DENLY of the same commission
has telegraphed since the correspond
ents' statement that General Otis re-
port Of June 2G gives correct account
Df the situation. Colonel DENLY has
had twelve years experience as minis
Ter to China, is thoroughly familiar
with Oriental character and condi-
tions and is well qualified to Judge Of
the facts. General Anderson, who was
referred to by some Of the correspond
ents as having clashed with Otis,
states the exact facts, speaks strongly
In favor of the commander and shows
pf oil
him are absolutely unfounded. Cen
eral Harrison Gray Otis, who fought
under him but is now out of the SER
vice and entirely free TO speak, sup
ports the same judgment. Where it is
a question of fact, are not all these
men likely to be as we'll informed as
the correspondents? Where it is a
question Of opinion--and really the
GrGvamen of the charge is only a
question of opinion--are they not like
ly TO be as good judges?
Then the statement itself, when it
comes to be analyzed, is inherently
weak. What are the specifications ?
Suppression of "the number of heat
prostrations in the field"--that is, of
the correspondents hearsay stories,
when the official reports were going
forward. Systematic intimidation of
naval operations"-that is, the CORE
spondents complain for the navy when
the navy makes no complaint for itself
This is little less than ludicrous. The
navy makes its own reports, ana navy
officers are abundantly able to take
rare of themselves. "That volunteers
Ire unwilling 10 engage in further SER
rice" Why send a challenge Of reports
IN this point as late as July II when
The whole country knew what volun-
teers We're coming home and what had
enlisted Cor fuEther service? 1t was nc
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THE WAR CORRESPONDENT.


S. L. Kiser in Times Herald.
The great war correspondent was pro-
Vokcd-that was plain at a glance.
"Ah, general" he said somewhat irrita-
bly, when the commander of the American
forces appeared before him, you have
kept me waiting!"
Il beg a thousand pardons." the Of
ttccr answered. "As | was about to hurry
here in response to your summons the
run all over three counties before he fin
ally escaped after suffering heavy loss.
This rendered it impossible for me to pre-
sent myself as early as | would otherwise
have done"
every well, very WE'LL" the great war
correspondent answered; 81 suppose YOU
are blameless, but don't let it happen
again. | sent for you this morning to
learn why you censored my dispatch last
night / wrote that you reminded me of
an incompetent, fussy old woman; that
you might be all right as an elevator boy
or as a fiagman at some railroad cross
ing, but that you were wholly unit to
command an army You cut that out,
thus rObbing my paper of a sensation Of
which it is very much in need at this
time.
also, I wrote that the enemy had you
practically surrounded; that your troops
were demoralized; that you were not re-
porting quarter of the deaths; that
your army was doomed to utter annihila-
tion and that you had been systematic
ally suppressing the truth. That would
have given my paper the chance of a
lifetime. 1t could have printed that
part of my dispatch in large type and
created a sensation throughout the whole
civilized world. That's the kind os stuff
/ was sent over here to get, Yet when
l went to the cable office this morning
and asked for my copy l found that you
had run the blue pencil through all my
sensational statements. This is intolcr-
able. What have you to say for your
self?"
Nothing" the general humbly replied.
81 am forced to confess that you have
found me out. l must throw myself on
your mercy"
The great war correspondent waved
him away with an impatient gesture,
saying:
"What do you think this war Is being
fought for, anyhow? If you are going
to keep on subduing natives without hav-
wiped out by disease what will there be
in it for my yellow sheet? ! ought to run
YOU off this island without any further
cons idC ration, hut ! shall content myself
| for the present with ordering the govern
| ment at Washington to appoint your
successor at once
Signifying by a sign that the audience
was at an end, the great war correspond
! cnt then permitted the general to pro-
| ceed with his campaign.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21
ROUGH RIDING.
For The Tribune.

For The Tribune.
If, perchanCe, on an evil day
You mount your wheel to speed away
Ger a Scranton street, and all alone
Bid farewell TO the folks at home,
If the devil don't get you, a policeman
will
As you jog along on level or hill;
For the dog and the bike are condemned,
you know,
Since the powers that be have made it so.
Talk Of the charge up San Juan's Hill
'Tis nothing compared to Scranton spill,
In a Scranton hole on an asphalt pave
To test u wheel and show who's brave.
But there's nothing like 1t in the land
For Christian man with a steady hand
TO ride through towR on high geared
wheel
Wreckless, and careless how you feel
Frock cut short or long coat tail
IT'S all the same at the end of the swail-
Spattered with mud or covered with dust
Ride you may but tumble you must.
Into the holes or into the ditch,
over the cobbles you will plunge and
pitch,
But keep to your wheel and don't let go
For the city Of Scranton made them so.
&C. II, Sopcr,
Scranton. July 20,
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Troops for Otis.

On June % the transport Sheridan
sailed from San Francisco with 1900
men, the Valencia sailed on June 20
with 500 more, the Pennsylvania sailed
on July ] with 1900 more, the Para
sailed on July IL with 1000 more, and
the Tartar is due TO sail on July %
with still another thousand. Three
new regiments of volunteer infantry
are in process of organization at Ma
Mia, and the ten home regiments will
be ready by the middle of August. So
that by the end of the rainy season.
and as soon as troops can be- used,
General Otis VIII have a fully equipped
and effective force Of not less than
10000 men, and 10000 more will be
ready for departure in case they are
required.
1t may be true that If on Feb. 5,
when the insurgents made the first at
tack, we had then had, properly dis
persed through Luzon island. such an
army of occupation as will be there in
the fall, the rebellion might be now
much nearer it's end than it seems to
be- but the facts which / have briefly
recited show, first, that the president
had no right, in honor and good faith
with Spain, to send to the Philippines
one single man more than was there
or on his way there when the peace
protocol was signed last August, nor
until the ratifcations of the treaty Of
peace were exchanged on April IL. On
that day the Philippine islands be-
came the property of the United States.
The facts show, second, that he could
have sent to the Philippines, assum-
ing that the obstacle of good faith
with Spain had been removed, only
body of men whose enlistment eX-
pirod with the proclamation of peace,
and whose dispatch out of the Coun>
try was consequently of no avail The
facts show, third, that he had assem-
bled, while the right to do so was still
existent, an army much larger than his
military advisers thought necessary,
and large enough as the event has
proved, to maintain our position and
greatly to extend our authority. And
the facts show fourth, that since the
proclamation of peace with Spain and
the passage of the new law the presi-
dent is now possessed of an army with
two years Of service to run, amply
competent, as he and his advisers be-
lieve to bring about the pacification
of the islands.
There is nothing for which any Amer
lean need apologize in this record 1t
is record of consistent and unpar-
alleled success, a success that began
with the message to Dewey: Go and
destroy the Spanish fleet in Manila
bay" and that will not end until the
possessions which duty and fortune
have cOnfided to our care and firmly
advanced on the high road to peace
and prosperity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21
The D.. L. e. w.

For reasons which have frequently
been presented in these columns end
which are obvious to all acquainted
with the early history of the Delaware
LncEEwanna and Western railroad, the
people OF Scranton feel peculiar al
thoush inOiIC4sive sense Of proprietor
ship IN this great steel-girt highway;
and thG recent revolution in its man
agument. coming SO swiftly and work.
ing so completely disruption of old
conditions and traditions, not un-
naturally threw the community into a
daze.
AS this sensation of surprise wore off,
the force of tradition in some quarters
asserted itself in the form Of doubtful
prophecies and doleful comparisons. 1t
is always thus after an innovation. 1t
became the fear of these conservatives
that the new deal might mean a kind
of malicious eclipse of Scranton; that
our community, which had so long felt
that it owned the road, might awaken
some fine morning to find itself con-
Verted into an inconspicuous way sta
tion, at which the naughty minions of
the Vanderbilt and Pierpont Morgan
interests would make contemptuous
faces as they passed by.
We do not suppose that these fears
were held seriously; in their hearts the
people that voiced them must have
known better. Yet the undeniable cir
cumstance that there has existed in
Of 1hn or.
less general uncertainty if not uneasi-
ness prompts US now to call attention
to the fact that the presence among us
Of Mr. Truesdale and his various newly
installed lieutenants has been followed
as yet by none of the vaguely antici-.
patcd disasters; on the contrary. we
have found them courteous, business
like and well-informed gentlemen,
whose ideas of their duties and mis-
sion, so far as we can CLEAN, appear
to be founded on a good quality of in
telligenCe and common sense To be
sure, they are not in business for their
health yet so far as our information
goes they have shown no disposition to
be mean or little; their policy appar-
emily looks toward a liberal relation
ship between the company and it's
workmen and between officers of the
road and it's patrons along the line. 1t
is true they have some notions of rail-
roading which depart from the tradi-
tions of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, but before condemning
these il seems to us that it would be
just to let them have a fair trial.
If a deduction may be hazarded from
what has already taken place under the
Truesdale regime, we venture to pre-
dict that those who are expecting it to
bring up in failure will be disappointed
1t is no more than Just that the Thir-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

The Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle sees in the developments Of the
past few weeks signs that "a wide
and deep conspiracy is on foot to dis
credit and overthrow the Republican
administration at any cost of national
honor or national welfare" If there
is such conspirtcy it will fail. Com
mon sense will kill it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21
SCRANTON, JULY 81, 1899.

Senator Platts statement in another
place, is worth reading for both mat
ter and manner. The gentleman from
New York certainly wields an effect
i've pen
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

President Cannon of the, Salt Lake
Mormons has pleaded guilty to a charge
of polygamy and expects to escape with
a small fine. Utah, we fear, got state
hood on false pretences.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

If dogs have to be muzzled, it might
far better be on the tail than on the
head. We trust that the legality of the
tail muzzle will soon be established.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

Colonel Hawkins, of the Tenth Penn
sylvania, will soon be in position to
shed light on Philippine subjects, and
if it is true that he was on Otis black
ods of caring for his command he ought
to be willing to shed it, without fear
or favor. The people will support their
government until perdition freezes but
in the meantime they have a right to
know the facts.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

that the administration was using the
unlikely meance of a war in the Phil
lpplnes as means of eXtorting from
congress an enormous regular army
for the suppression of liberty at home!
IL may surprise intelligent persons TO
know that this sort of talk could be
INDUCED in upon the floors of congress,
but there were weeks and weeks of IT,
and meanwhile the insurgents were
gathering an army Of $4,000 men, were
growing more and more belligerent in
their attitude, and every day brought
nearer the time when peace with Spain
would be proclaimed and the govern
ment be left without n legal claim to
the service of any single soldier at
Manila.
The Army Bill.
1t was the I'd of March before con-
gress passed the Army bill, and the
war in the Philippines had been going
on for four weeks. When the country
considers this fact, and realizes that
the 10000 American troops then at Ma
Mia had been assembled there, not at
all in anticipation of a campaign
against the Filipinos, but wholly and
solely for the purpose of defeating the
Spaniards, and that the president had
been told by no less an authority than
Admiral Dewey that for that purpose
5000 men would be sufficient, surely
his foresight and good judgment will
be everywhere approved. Battle after
battle was fought, and every battle
won, And now, when at last the au-
thority he sought from congress was
conferred not in the form he sought it,
hut in the fashion of compromise
here was the uneXampled task that was
set before him. He had at once to re-
duce an army of $4,000 regulars to an
army of $1,000, mastering out $4,000
men; he had to enlist an equal num-
Der of regulars to take the places of
those mustered out; he had to organize
the new regulars, to provide transpor-
tation for them to Manila, to transport
back the army then there. and at the
same time and all the while to prose-
cute the war. This is what he has
been doing during the last four months.
The new Army bill was not what the
president wanted, but it gave him per-
! mission to raise a regular army of Co.,
| 600 men and also to raise a volunteer
| army of $4,000 mon and to keep them
until July l, 1901. Under the terms Of
TINS act $4,000 regulars have already
| been enlisted, and have taken the
places of an equal number Of men who
| nave been formally mustered out. Ten
| new regiments of volunteers are now
| organizing. Gen. Otis has been sup
piled already with %, 900 regulars hav-
ing two years of service before them.
And all the while the fighting in Luzon
has been maintained with the result
already described in this statement.
What more could be asked or expected ?
What possible criticism can be passed
upon the intelligence or the foresight
with which these difficult and cOmpli-
Gated affairs have been conducted
What, indeed, can be said except in
warm and generous praise both of the
administration at home and of the
army abroad?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

The change in system announced
with reference to Moses Taylor hospi-
tai, whereby the admission of private
patients for pay will be discontinued
and the free privileges of the hospital
extended to the families of all now
eligible to admission, commends itself
as being in the line of the intentions
of the institutions noble founder.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

In spite of the honor and money in
it, there does not seem to be a stam-
pede Of applicants for Alger's job.
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longer matter of dispute. but Of
record. These are some of the weak
points.
Three months ago the Associated
Press. through it's representatives,
complained of the censor at Manila,
and asked that a particular officer
might be detailed to that duty. The
order was Immediately given, and the
officer assigned to the work. The AS.
sociated Press named its own censor.
Since then there has been no complaint,
so far as we know, until this "round
robin came. The censorship has
probably been more rigid than free
handed correspondents liked, but sem
eible people, will doubt very much
whether it has deliberately discolored
the truth. Especially when 1t is coup
led with the statement that the official
reports have designedly deceived the
people, will thinking, sober-minded
men hesitate to accept 1t.
There has undoubtedly been no little
impatience with the prolongation Of
the Tagal conflict. That is the tenn
peramental restiveness of many peo-
pie. 1t cried "On to Richmond" in 1861
and led to Bull Run. 1t cried "On to
Havana" last year and didn't see that
there was a better way. 1t comes out
an right in the end, when the result is
reached which its patriotic but i'm
pusive and impatient spirit desires
General Otis and the Philippine cam
paign will be judged by results. If
the army shall be properly strength
ened if with the renewal Of the
fighting short, sharp and decisive work
shall be made of it, the criticisms of
the hour will pass into oblivion. The
country has a right to expect the
president to make sure of such con-
clusion, and it will not be disappointed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

While there is no disposition to pur-
sue young Molineaux unfairly, the Sec
ond indictment of him for murder will
tend to restore the public confidence in
the integrity of the courts which was
unsettled by the suspicious manner in
which the first indictment was evaded.
If this young swell is guilty neither
his fathers wealth, his family's social
position nor the ramifications in high
life Of the scandals connected with his
case should be permitted to shield him.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

fanatic. and, we believe (however un-
Intentionally, his country's worst en-
cmy and his partys destroyer The
people must sooner or later realize this.
and he will be more bitterly opposed
than ever before, as certainly as the
sun rises"
We take issue with our contempor-
ary's assertion that the party now out
of power is best situated to take up
fearlessly the problems it outlines; on
the contrary, the very fact that that
party willingly follows a leader like
Bryan and is committed to the Populs-
tic cNcesses which the Record notes as
characteristic of much of the anti
trust legislation put on the statute
books of the Western states by Demo-
cratic initiative establishes, in our
opinion, it's radical unfitness for addi-
tional power. But be that as It may,
We commend the Records general ar
gumant to the attention of our Demo-
cratic friends who look upon Mr. Bryan
os their party's greatest apostle. 1t ia
a picture every feature of which bears
the impress of unmistakable truth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

If not Roosevelt, why not Leonard
Wood?
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WAR RECORD
IMPROBABLE
concluded from Page fl

of them was TO fight ana defeat the
Spaniards at Manila, and at the time
when the president dictated the lam
guage of the peace protocol the Amer
lean army stood confronting the Span-
ish intrenchments.
1t became Immediately necessary for
our government to define its Philippine
policy. but the president was not to be
forced into inconslderate action. AS to
cuba and Porto Rico, he had made up
his mind, and the French ambassador
was Informed that q treaty Of peace
could be negotiated on the basis nC the
surrender of Cuba to us and to the
cuban people, and upon the Ccssion or
Porto Rico and Guam. and, rs for the
Philippines, the president said that we
would take and hold the bay, harbor
and city of Manila "ponding the ccu-
clusion of the treaty" and that the
treaty should determine the control,
disposition and government Of the
Philippines"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-21

1t is no more than just that the Thir-
teenth regiment should be perpetuated
in name in this city, where it has al
ready perpetuated itself in fame.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-19
NO WORE OLD
A PrOce Discovered by Chicago
scientists for Perpetuaing Youth

Chicago, May 16.-The Tribune says:
A discovery, which, it is claimed, solves
the problem of circumventing Did age,
has just been made public by Profess
ors J. S. HaWley and Alex. c. Weiner,
of the Chicago clinical school. The re-
turn to youth, it is asserted, is produc-
ed by ~hypodermic injections of the
Emphatic fluid of animals, particular
ly young goats. The discovery was
made a year ago, and subsequent de-
monstrations of it's efficacy are proved.
The general theory of the discovery
is that if the mineral deposits which
accumulate in the bones in the process
of life can be replaced with the life
cells. contained in the Emphatic glands
of goats, deterioration of the bones will
be prevented and elasticity and youth
will be retained in the system much
longer. A number of animals and hu-
nan beings, it is said, have been ex
perimented on in Chicago with good eff
fects.
3 The apostles of the discovery do MOI
claim that a man Or woman thus
charged with goats life cells" will live
forever, but they say life will be pro
longed, perhaps double.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-19
COMING PEACE CONFERENCE
Are In Progress for the
Opening Next Thursday Afternoon.

The Hague, May I'm. de Staal,
James, representative of Russian at the
coming peace conference and president
of that body, conferred with the for
eign minister of the Netherlands, w.
H. De Beaufort, today.
The peace conference will hold its
first sitting at 2 o'clock next Thursday
afternoon.
The Americans and British are meet
ing with success in their efforts to get
the question of International arbitra-
ton, which is the eighth article or
the programme, advanced to the first
place.
Acting upon an order from h papal
secretary of state, Cardinal Rampolla,
the papal ~internuncio left The Hague
today as a protest against the failure
Of the government Of the Netherlands,
acting on behalf of Russia, to invite the
Vatican to send a representative.
London, May 1.-THE Rome CORE
spondent of The Times says: 'tSignor
Crispi writes to The Nuova Antoglia
hat the arguments Of the Vatican in
favor Of representation at The Hague
are ~untenable, as the pop has neither
army nor fleet. The invitation to the
United States he considers important,
especially as the South American gov
ernmentS have % been invited. He
believes that the appearance of tbs
United States in European councils
will be followed by Intervention in al
European questions. The conference
he declares, will avoid, but will no
eliminate, causes for quarrel; it will
reduce, but will not destroy, the germs
/ of war"