Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-24
THERE ARE OTHERS.

lnchE AHc UlHEhS.
The Democratic papers are now
beginning to attack President Nc
Kinley because he has got rid OF
Secretary yAlger.-Beacon.
But the attacks are not confined
to the Democratic quarter, by any
means. The following are fair sam
pies of how Republicans regard the
Dismissal: Senator Foraker says
that Alger was unjustly made a
scapegoat for the mistakes and blum
ders of the Administration; Senator
Proctor, of Vermont, thinks that "in
due time there will be a reaction
against some of the abuse which has
been visited upon Algern; and Cor
poral Tanner remarks that, "Alger
has been crucif1ed. Alger passes,
but, mark my works, the trouble con-
tinues. Other mistakes will come in
the conduct of the War Depart
ment."
The only quarrel Democratic
papers have with President McKin-
ley concerning Alger's dismissal is
that when American soldiers in the
fever-stricken and neglected camps
of Cuba and the south were dying
like ''rotten sheep,"-as Col. Roose-
velt so aptly expressed it-and all on
account of the notorious blunders,
favoritism and dincompetency attend
ing the management of the war
department, and when the people
were practically unanimous in
q demand for the removal of Alger,
the President did not have the
moral courage to act. But what he
could not do in a crisis when the
interests of the whole nation and the
welfare of thousands of its soldiers
were at stake, the President finds
himself very able to do when the
political interests of himself and his
Administration are threatened.
This is carrying trimming and
expediency too far, and the reaction
that is sure to follow will do the
Administration leaders no good.
The Beacon takes somebody's word
for granted that VIM. ]. Bryan lodges
the payment of taxes on his house
hold goods, and it is lampooning him
accordingly. While the Beacon is
pursuing the taX-dodgers with its
usual indiscriminating and unspar-
ing might and main, it should not
overlook its own household affairs.
For instance, the Beacon boasts that
it has a perfecting press in its Office
for which Former Editor Wright paid
$500, and two typesetting machines
which cost $4,000 each. Here is an
of $11 800 in machinery
alone, and yet the records at Auditor
Sisters office show that our conbem- |
porary has the parsimony to list all its
personal property at the munificent
sum of $500. Most newspapers would |
place higher valuation than that on
their Office towel! All of which goes
to show that if the Beacon wants to
do effective missionary work against
the evil of taX-dodging it need not go
all the way to Nebraska to find a
field to work in.
his SotllPdoNrfc 4,
Senator Alexander charges his neigh
Dor, Aaron Teeple, with reckless
and deliberate falsifying." And in
previous interview Mr.. Teeple was
charged, conditionally, with being
an "unmitigated hypocrite. Unless
The Senator is careful his adjectival
will equal, if not surpass.
the celebrated record made on the
lay following the Painesville con-
VIII somebody kindly
whistle for down brakes?
"JUDGE ANDERSON wouldn't ap-
point me if I were the only man in
-own,'' says Mr.. J J. Mahoney, who
las the endorsement of more than
1ine-tenths of Akron's Union men
,or City Commissioner. This indi-
,ates that Mr.. Mahoney has at last
TO the inevitable. But if
lis Union friends have anything to
ay about the matter, Judge Ander-
'on will find himself part of the /
,reat American outdoors after No
7ember.
- Teeple should ask for n
censor for his contributions to the !
'ress that he might be saved from {
lis own statements. Extract from I
senator AleXander's reply to Mr.. :
reeple.
And as there are only two censors
f any celebrity in America,
he Hon. Geo. NJ. And ,rson.
f Summit county, and Gen.
tits, of the Philippines, the DEMO
RAT recommends that Mr.. Teepie t
i've the job to Anderson-if this has {
OF been done already. I
SEVERAL days ago when Attorney f