The evening times., 1899-09-02
The Carter Pot Is Boiling.

After being the cynosure of all eyes for
fifteen months or more, il must be produc-
tive of queer sensations in Captain Carter to
find himself sinking into the background.
and the president of the court-martial that
tried and sentenced him being pushed to the
front as the defendant
Ii IS an exciting situation in connection
with this colossal scandal that Mr.. McKin-
ley finds himself confronting on his return
from sweet fields arrayed in living green.
and rivers of delight" He comes back to
Us at the critical moment when the Blair
of the Carter trumpet is loudest and most
defiant; VIXEN it must appear to him that
bis chance TO decide between the punish
msnt or enlargement of the convicted cap
tain has been lost in the Alger- -Edmunds-
Griggs- -MacVeagh- Rose Blair shuttle; and
THAI now he will have 10 consider moi what
20 DO with Carter, but whether to hang or
shoot Otis!
"A most awful conspiracy to wreck and
ruin a worthy Administration man, and a
friend of the President and Senator Plat.
is declared by the New York journal
to have been charged against the Misgoy-
ernor General of the Philippines by Frank
Blair, attorney at law, OF Chicago, il the
form of an affidavit, published in that
paper this morning. If true, the details
are heartrending. 1t appears. according
to the Journal story, that, at the top Of
an office building in Savannah, Carter and
the affiant discovered Otis, president OF
the court; Barr, judge advocate; Mcclure,
assistant judge advocate, and Giiie pie,
United States Engineers, in secret con-
ference These conspiratOrs were presum-
ed to be talking about the case. Gillespie
was overheard in a guilt-stained tone Of
voice to make the blood-curd-i ing remark:
He says he got it all from Westcott.
II this were not enough Of horror Tor one
night, the serpent notes of the carved, pol
ished, and nickle-plated Barr were distinct
ly detected in the sinister words: Il will
read that TO counsel and see how they Ike
it!' The afiant further says that, when
the cphidian accents of the Judge Advo-
cate ceased TO redden the black air with
shame, the arch-conspirator Of the com
plete rife contest roared forth the par
2lyZing dictum: THAT will Re good!''
Now. we must confess to have entertain
ed some vague doubts as TO Captain Car
ter's complete innocence regarding a lit
tie. perhaps excusable, inadyertence in con-
necticn with paving Savapnah harbor with
empty champagne bottles, and raising
more Jehannum than mud; but the Blair
affidavit necessarily removes the last scin-
tilla Of it, He says he got it all from
westcctt,'' is nearly convincing; but the
saying of Otis. that Will be good leaves
the ccart-martial, its findings, and its SEN
! tence, without a leg to stand on in NOR
| ais or in ethics. The damnatGry evidence
/ in the celebrated case of BaTdell versus
Pickwick was not more conclusive. Chops
and tomato sauce" and, don't trouble
about the warming pan sent the unfortu-
nate Mr.. Pickwick to the Fleet prison. He
says he get 1t all from Westcott," and
that viii be good" will exonerate Carter
and almost certainly end in doOming Otis
to solitary confinement on the Island of
Cebu.