The times., 1899-04-26
GENERAL WASHINGTON
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

IL may be taken as a trulSfl tlaI tue ARMY,
as represented by the active and retired
officers of the establishment at present in
Washington is not at all pleased with the
progress of the campaign in the Philip
pines. The War Department ring offers
the usual excuses for failure, but they are
not of the kind TO go down with men edu-
Gated at West Point. and with after ex-
perience in Indian fighting and in the Span
| ish war.
An old general of the Civil War said last
night: 1T is all very well for the War
authorities to wake up now to the fact
that Otis is Handicapped by the lack of
| men to make the campaign and, incident
ally, to hold the extended lines he is COM
PEELED to establish if he is to occupy and
| pacify any large territory. officers of ex-
perience warned the Secretary of War and
the Adjutant General that this would be
the case long before Congress adjourned,
| and begged that an effort might be made
| to put enough regulars and volunteers into
Manila to meet the situation as it was GER
| tain to and has developed IT is matter
of Army knowledge that every man who
dared that kind of advice has been turned
down. Without attempting 10 forecast the
results C the movements on Calumpit,
there is little doubt that success in that
\ direction will be happy accident. Mac
Arthur has done well, but he was hampered
! by the false strategy of the original move
| ment from Manila. Otis should have used
every means and effort to initiate the cam
paign by getting behind the rebels at Ma
| lolos. With the assistance of Dewey
think this could have been done. If six
or eight thousand Americans had been
landed in canoes in a way to surprise
Aguinaldo. he could have been driven back
| toward Manila and crushed between re-
verse and direct attacks. Now there is
nothing for the Government to do but to
send a larger force than would have been
originally necessary, and accomplish by
numbers what good tactics might have
| achieved at first.
| Governor Gambler on Lynchins.-
A good many unkind things are being said
about Governor Gambler, of Georgia. in
connection with his actions and utterances
anent the horrible lynching of the negro
| Hose. A prominent citizen of the State re-
| marked at Chamberlin's last night: Il
know Gambler well and l can conceive of
| hardly any situation that would give him
more poignant grief than the present one.
| He is earnestly and honestly in favor OF
law and order but he is a man helpless in
! his environment. No one in the North can
appreciate the terror of negro brutes that
exists among the country women of some
portions of the South. In slavery times
| they trusted the colored people as they
would their own family and l do not re-
member of single instance wherein that
confidence was misplaced. 1t was not un-
| til reconstruction times that any case of
assault by a negro upon a white woman
was ever recorded. Since then ii has been
| sadly different, and the instances that come
to public knowledge or punishment are not
tithe of the occurrences. Governor Can
dler would il he could. relegate every
criminal to the Justice of the courts, but
| universal public sentiment declares that
| decent woman worse than murdered, and
with an indelible disgrace upon her which
no human power can wipe away, shall not
| be compelled to face her destroyer in a
| court roonr and tell to jury and a crowd
| of spectators the story of shame thou
| sand times worse than death. II you peo-
pie who do not know what it is to live in
crazy fear for the safety of your wives,
| daughters. and. sweethearts from day 10
| day imagine that We Georgans are saw
| ages because we visit savage punishment
| upon such creatures as Hose. just bring
| your families down South and leave them
| unprotected for while in a community
| largely composed Of ignorant and discon-
tented negroes, Only then will you be able
| to take the Southern view of this lynchng
business"
AIger and the Darlington Report
Opinion in. high political circles is that
Alger would never have allowed the Gar
iington report to see the light if he had
not been compelled TO DO SO by Mr.. Nc
Kinley. 1t is not so much considered that
the President is anxious TO have the truth
of the beef infamy published, as that he
is too good politician not to realize that
the suppression of such a document, after
its contents had become public property,
| would make the Administration ridiculous.
The idea of Alger seems always to have
been to crush public criticism by the force
of governmental power. patronage, and an
exhibition of his control over the White
House and Republican organization. In
this instance he seems TO have slipped up,
| but largely because the contents of the
Darlington report are familiar TO a num-
Der of Republican Senators and members
who are arranging to make it the text of
| a Congressional investigation as soon as
that can be done. Some of these gentle
| men are sincere friends Of President Nc
Kinley. They are so sincere and earnest
in their friendship for him they do rot
believe that he will stand the ghost Ct
show for denomination. unless the full
villany and infamy of the beef business
is exposed. and he has a chance 10 pro-
| ceed against the criminals before the Iext
Presidential convention. They assume
that, if Alger and his friends are correct
in holding that nothing to their detriment
can be proven, an honest investigation
down TO the rock bottom facts can do no
harm, and that in any case Mr.. Nc
Kinley is dead duck in American politics
| unless he can purge himself of the sean
dals painted all over his Administration.
Mr.. Hanna in Ohio.-The spring bios
SONS in Ohio do not smell as sweetly in the
nostrils of your uncle Mark as they might.
Governor Bushnell is said to have turned
| himself loose on the side of kurtz and the
recalctrant Republicans. He is even said
to regard Jones as pretty good guberna-
| torial timber, and to think that this year
is an exceptionally good one in which to
make a final fight against the Cleveland
boss. A leading citizen of Cincinnati at
the Arlington last night remarked: Hanna
has been hamstrung In Ohio by Algerism.
The whole State is ringing with indigna
tion over the evidence before the Beef