Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-22
REPORT OF THE WAR COMMISSION.

President Mckinley the
inquiry into the conduct of the war with
Spain simply to set at rest the baseless,
infamous SANDERS brought against his
military subordinates, and to quiet the
feelings of grief-stricken parents and
friends, who had been persuaded that
their lost ones had been the victims of
neglect and cruelty on the part of those
who IA the immediate conduct of the
campaign against the Spanish army. The
report Of the commission tells the whole
story, and it tells it in a plain, candid,
u~nvarnished manner, suppressing no I'M
ter or excuse any one. 1t should put to
shame those who have, through party
spite, prejudice or desire to bring the
administration into disrepute, e~ndeavored
to arouse public feeling against those
who brought the war with Spain to such
u Sl'CGbS anu
Honorable men, after closely reading the
report, will unite in the opinion that
withdrawing was foreign to the inten-
ton Of the commission, and that the sole
desire Of that body was to unsarth the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth. The Washington Post of the
14th inst. refers to the report Of the war
commission in such calm, dispsssionate
language, and withall adhering SO closely
to the more salient points connected with
it, that we cannot refrain from reproduce
ing the entire article. 1t says:
II those editors, orators, ~clergymen and
lecturers who for months past nave been
d~enOuncing the Dodge commission and
declaring that its sport would be a ser
vile and dishonest Whitewash of the en-
tire war departmental those gentlemen
have COrscicnces to prick them-they
must have felt thoroughly hun,lliatcd
yesterday morning. when they saw what
ltc commissions report really cid say
and realized that it was 4 d!gnified, dis
PASSIONATE, intelligent n just exposition
OF the complaints and criticisms which
had been submitted to them.
The synopsis given to the press stimuli
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