The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-02-14
THE YELLOW DOG
NEWSPAPERS
The Presidents Worst Enc
mics.

There are certain politicians near the |
President in Washington who pretend |
to stand for the President, who are his
worst enemies.
They control the correspondence of
certain Influential papers, especially in
Ohio. and they seem to bs continually
seeking to make public sentiment in
favor OF their schemes or to cover up
their machinatiors, and leave the
President to shoulder the responsibility.
The newspapers they control, are the
8 ,me that at one time traduced Garcia.
Gomez and other Republican Generals
and denounced the Cuban soldiers as
nothing but thieves. They, for some
marcenary reason perhaps, sought to
force the President into q policy of
annexation, but the President was not
so easily trapped, and he has announ-
ced to the Cubans that they will be
given a government of their own at no
distant day. The papers that advocated
annexation, dropped the cry, and took
up that of expansion or conquest, and
| traduced Aguinaldo and the Philippines.
until they begot distrust, and finally
open war, before the question whether
we wanted the Philippines as perma-
nent possession could be considered.
The same papers, doubtless moved by
the same influences, now seek to place
the President in q false light, on the
question of the rotten beef fraud in the
army. Whether their friends are
implicated, or they are, bought with a
price, no one can say.
But, q week or two ago, they announ-
csd from Washington, that the Presi-
dent intended to humiliate Genera
Miles because he had made an expos.
ure of the bad beef fraud, and woulc
remove him from the command of tht
army. This was too fagrant charge
against the President, and the next day
: he sent out q forcible and specifi. ID de-
denial of its statement.
Thursday, an order of the President
was issued, appointing q Court OF In
quiry, to investigate the charges OF Gen
: Miles and others, that bad beef had beer
furnished the soldiers. The obi act is tt
: find whether the charges are true, ant
to bring to puni,hment any who ar
found guilty, and if they are not true
to find whoi if any are responsible FL
circulating stories that are slanderous
This is exactly what the REPUBLIcA,
said should be done. But the yellow
dog newspapers try to injure Miles b.
! creating the impression that the Cour
. o. Inquiry was called to punish him
O1e of these papers heads the dispatt
. conveying the Presidents order, wi
these wordt:
/ Miles Honor at Stake. Command
3 ing General Must Prove that Beef wa
{ Bad. Court Martial of Gen. Miles Wi
Follow Verdict In Favor of the Pack
ers.''
There is not thing here in the way q
a threat that the packers, if foun
guilty, will be dealt with, though the
. may have caused the death of thousand
of soldiers!
Yet these papers convey the i'm preston
e that the President is after Miles becsus,
, hesbrought the charges, but haen't an.
!. intention of bringing the packers t.
r punishment. These are the papers tha
? have been the Presidents worst enc
mics, and the Cincinnati Tribune, o.
Journal and Cleveland Learder are of tn,
number.
Let the reader go over the President
order carefully and they will find moth
ing in it justifying the misrepresen'
tation of these papers; nothing inimics
to Miles, nothing that ls improper; onl,
that which is his duty to the army, TIL
nation and the country requires.