The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-25
PRESIDENT ASSAILED.
johnson, Republican, Creates a
Sensation in the House.
ATTACK ON ADMINISTRATION.

Washington, Feb 2j.-During the gen
eral debate upon the army appropriation
bin In the house yesterday Mr. Johnson
rep. lndD. who made several notable
speeches violently attacking the policy
Of the administration during the consid-
Grafton OF the army reorganization bill
fortnight ago, returned to the assault
and delivered against the president and
some Of his advisors the most scathing
philippe heard in the house for months.
He snecred at the president and the
Influences which he alleged controlled
him, impugucd his motives, questioned
his sincerity and iikcned him to Dickens
most contemplate character. Mr.. Ian
dis, one Of his Republican colleagues
from Indiana, briefly stated to the house
that Mr.. Johnsons constituents had re-
pudiated him and the two members had
n wordy duel. Mr.. Johnson's speech, in
part, is as follows:
"a few evenings ago the Home Market
club, OF Boston, gave a banquet at
which the president was the principal
guest. From the newspaper accounts Of
the affair. It was an exceedingly elabor-
ate one. The table at which the chief
executive sat, in particular. being loaded
The newspapers further inform MS
that among the other decorations there
were suspended over the entrance to the
banquet hall three portraits, one OF
Washington, one OF Lincoln and one Of
the president himself, and that beneath
! this word, 'Liberators.'
'Now, George Washington fought with
his sword FOR eight long and bloody
years to establish the rights OF a peo-
pie to govern themselves, and in his fare
well address he counselled his country
men to live on terms of amity with all
| nations and to enter into entangling al
liances with none. Abraham Lincoln's
! whole political life was a contention for
the rights OF man, and it was his kindly
| hand which penned the immortal enamel
| patton proclamation that struck the
| shackleS from the limbs of millions OF
\ bondsmen.
zone would think, sir, that the gentle
/ man who was just then engaged in the
\ prosecution Of a bloody war against a
| poor and detenseleSs people in the orient,
engaged in the unsavory task Of chris
| tianizing them with the sword and civ
| ilizing them at the mouths Of cannon,
would naturally have felt some little EN-
! barrassment as he gazed upon these por-
! traits and read the significant inscrip-
! ton below Possibly his excellency did
not see them. He may have turned his
! back upon them, just as he has turned
| his back upon the declaration OF indie
! pendence.
I'VE are told. sir, that his address was
received with an enthusiastic applause
! by those who heard it. but we who read
it in cold print in the light OF the in
I l. 1..,sr, sNs.I
near the shores Of Asia inyoluntarily
| think of that creation of Charles Dick
ems, who was accustomed to roll his eyes
piously to Heaven and exclaim with
great ostentation to those about him,
My friends, let us be moral and who
was the father of two daughters, one
of whom was named Charity and the
other Mercy.
"If the chief executive really feels as
he declared Mt the banquet that he did,
that the disposition of the Philippines is
a matter to be determined by congress,
why does he not call a special session OF
congress to settle the matter at once
and then keep his hands off? Heaven
knows there is need OF action. If he is
sincere why did he permit his supporters
in the senate to vote down the other day
the Bacon resolution which distinctly
declared that the United States enter
tanned no intention Of permanently hold
ing these islands. Why did he insist
that the McEnery resolution should be
passed, a resolution which is a fraud, q
delusion and a snare?
Il insist that the whole policy is not
simply an error but that it is a crime,
and that the chief executive of this ma
ton is the one who has precipitated
upon us the embarrassments and the
difficulties by which we are now con-
fronted. The presidents first impression
was to demand of the Filipinos simply a
coaling station, a measure amply sufi-
cient for all of our legitimate purposes,
and the evacuation of the island by
Spain without compensation by the tax
payers of the United States. Had he
adhered to this, however all would have
been well. The whole Union would have
followed him cheerfully, and today we
would have cen at peace with the Phi
ippine republic, our army and navy,
which is nov waging war against our
former friends and allies, would have
been dsbanded, no army bill for n
standing ar of 100000 men would
have been ndng, and we could now
he getting ready to reduce instead of get
llh- ltdhF w SA'''A' iA''''''''' '''' '''' w
of our taxation.
rs he absolutely certain that one
swallow reo : makes whole summer
II would seem so; for i'm this Home
Market address, ne eNultiugly declared
that the annexation treaty had passed
the senate 10y over two-thirds and was
sanctioned by the Judgment of nine.
tcnths of his countrymen How that
treaty finally got its twO-thirds majority
in the senate-the tremendous pressur,
necessary to secure it there-wherc its
fate hung doubtful and trembling in the
lalance until the very latest moment
and was then only saved by the votes OF
senator's who had most Of them spoken
against it, no man knows better than Mr.
Mckinley. Adulation has indeed solely
blinded the chief executive to the truth
If he imagined that even the majority OF
his countrymen approve Of this perma-
nent holding in the orient. Let him not pin
+ his faith too severely to the sordid in.
Il terests which clamOr so loudly in his
hearing. If he will but quiet the noisy
throng which surrounds him long enough
c to put his ear to the ground and listen he
will distinguish the premonitions Of the
coming storm; he will hear the steady
Al tread not of the 100000 men who h,
demands for crusade against liberty
tut Of a mighty army Of free people VIII,
al are beginning to move in defense Of thei
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