Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-27

servants and stablemen and Aguinaldo
WAS Junior clerk in the navy yard.
ne y pretty smart fellow. / know
/ ms pretty wei. In fact we were great
lrlehds and are for the matter of that.
Out ne mas not the brains. There are
people behind him. some of them law
yerS. ana able fellows who make tool
OF Aguinald0. Here, by the way, is a
cane which he presented me with" ana
me admiral produced a thick black
suck carved and resembling Irish bog
oak more than anything else
II thought said the admiral that
this thing in the Philippines would be
over long before this. as it should have
been. | can't imagine how they have
stood out until now. OF course. there
was the rainy season and [ suppose lit
tle was done. One great trouble out
there has been Gen. Otis has tried to
do too much. l told him 50. He wants
y be general, governor, Judge, and
everything else, to have hold of all the
irons. No one man can do this. This
1 IS the great trouble. 1t is enough for
a man to do one thing, to be one thing,
and when a man tries to do everything
and TO be everything it is easy to
| imagine the result.
The fight in the Philippines should
| he easily ended. The people had been
so badly treated for such a length Of
time by The Spaniards and they are
lmistrustful. This is the great difficulty
| in dealing with them. Where we have
met them and they have been in such
contact with us so to learn that we
| mean to treat them well. where they
| have seen that We mean what we say
there is no trouble. They stand by Us
| al the time. All of them will learn
this in time They will get from un-
/ der the influence Of Aguinaldo. or
rather. those people who are behind
| Agunallo, who, as l said before, is a
mere tool
do | think the Filipinos are fit for
government? Well, no, not just
now. They probably will be in little
| time. They are a very queer people
a very queer mixture Many Of them
are quite civilized ana good people. but
| do not think they are fit for self
government just Yet. But when | say
that. | must add that it is my candid
opinion that they are more fitted for
it than the Cuhars that they are a
better people than the Cubans in every
way. ! do wish. however. that the
whole business was settled ana | think
that after a little time the Filipinos
viii take kindly to us
| IL was suggested to tho admiral that
! the Democratic slate had been settled
| with Admiral Dewey for the Presiden-
10y and Cen. Wheeler for the Vice Pres
idcncy.
We'll" said the admiral. eve should
make a pretty mess Of it. You cannot
run 4 government as you would Il regi-
mont"
Well. admiral" suggested the re-
! porter. 1T would not be such change
from the ship Olympia to the ship Of
state"
Yes" said the admiral. at would De
a very great change. l am not poll
tician. I am a sailor. my training has
| been all that way. l am at home on
board my ship. | know my business
or at least | should know il; ana |
| 90 not want to mix up in the affairs
Of government. l am perfectly salts
fed to live or die a simple sailor, who
rcied to 90 his duty. | am not poll
tician. | cannot make a speech even.
wish | could, but | have to be con-
tent with my lott
Some one said just then to the ad-
miral that his son was reported to have
made statement to the effect that his
father was died-in-the-Wo Repub-
| lican.
The admiral laughed outright, and.
turning around, pointed to a piece Of
Of wood laying on the deck some yards
away. at the same time saying: Ny
son knows as much about what my
'tpolitics are as that piece Of stick
The admiral would not say a word
about the alleged interference of the
German Admiral Diederich at Manila.