The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-03-04
THE PRESIDENT SCORED.

THE PRESIDENT SCORED.
Henry U. Johnson, Republican Con
gressman from Indiana, Arraigns
Him in Scathing Terms in the
House
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24-During the
general debate upon the army appropria
tion bill in the House today Mr.. johnson
Republican, of Indiana, delivered against
the President and some of his advisers the
most scathins philippe heard in the House
for months. He sneered at the Presi-
! dent and the influences which he alleged
controlled him; impusned his motives
| questioned his sincerity and hkened him to
character. He charged his Secretary of
War with incompetency and predicted that
the President would in the end be en-
quilted by adverse public sentiment.
A few evenings ago, he began, the
Home Market Club Of Boston gave a ban
| quet at which the President was the prin-
cipal guest. From the newspaper accounts
Of the affair, 1t was an exceedingly elab-
crate one The table at which the Chief
Executive sat, in particular, was loaded
down with rare and fragrant flowers.
| Sweetest music lent its charms to the oc-
/ casion An ode to the President was sung
| by the banqucters to the tune America,
and vast concoursc of people looked
down from the galleries upon the festal
/ board
Dig AT AL6ER-
| The Secretary Of War was in attend
auee. he whom the Boston populaoe had
/ Kissed upon the street few hours before,
/ ere they turned to greet with rapturous ap
plause the chief who had bestowed upon
/ him his official character. We can hardly
/ blame them though for this, Mr. Chair
man, for they were only following the pre-
[ ce,ient set them by some Of the leading
Republican newspapers Of the country
For months past they have been fierce
7 Is attacking the Secretary and Yet have
/ lacked the courage To lay their axe 20 the
I rot of the evil and censure the gentleman
7 who. to reward him for his political serv-
l Ices and disbursements in the campaign Of
/ 1896. appointed him to his present posi-
I ,ion and has maintained him there ever
I since. notwithstanding his ineompetency,
Z and against the righteous complaints that
I have been made against him.
The Secretary Of the Navy also graced
the occasion with his presence and 80 far
/ forgo, his usual courtesy, 30 far behed his
I New England training and associations a.
( n repeat the sale aud un,mthful charge
T thar those who opposed the ratification Of
I the infamous treaty Of peace with Spain
uerr responsible for the bloodshed thar
occurred in the Philippines.
4 NAUsEATtNd EULoGY.
When the Chief Magistrate had ceased
Z <reakiur another member of his official
I family. the gentleman who prcsldes over
I the P,sssoihcc Department, ar,esc in hIs
F place and prucee,ied To load his oh.ef down
/ With an eulogy 50 fulsome and extrayagaut,
- absolutely given over to hyperhole, that
no individual not wholly eaten up with
vanity could possibly have endured i,
without nausea aud disgust.
The newspapers further inform n that
among the other decorations there we're
+ suspended over the entrance To the ban
I que, hall three p-ortraits-one oi Washing
/ ton. one of Lincoln and one Of ;hc PresI-
T den, himself-and beneath them this woni,
I Iliberaturs
Now. George washingtoG fought with
his sword for eight long blo,,dy years to
I establish the right Of people to govern
I themselves, and in his farewell address he
I eounsslei his eountrymea to live on terms
{ Of amity With all nations aud To enter into
entangbng abruees with none.
Abraham Lincoln whole political life
was a contention Tor the rights Of man,
/ aud il was his kindly hand which pcnncd
I the immortal emancipation proclamation
| tha, struck the shackles from the limbs of
I millions Of bondmeu.
cHRfSTtANIztNG WITH rHE SWORD.
.'One would think. sir, that the gentle
man who was just then engaged in the
prosecution Of bloody war against poor
and deisus.,less people in the Orient, en-,
/ gagged in the unsayory task st Christian
I lIing them with the sword and ciyiliEins
them at the mouths Of cannon, would
naturally have felt some little embarra>s-
uient as he gazed upon these portraits and
read the significant inscription below
/ Possibly his Excellency did not sex them
He NAV have turned his back upon them
/ lust as he has turned his back on the Dee
laration Of Independence
/ BE this as it may, sir, the President
Z does not appear to have been at all abashed
( by this incongruous circumstance, but he
arose from his seat and there. within the
shadow of the monument of Bunker Hill,
where Warren fell, fighting for liberty and
within a stones throw Of Faneuil Hall,
where time and again the true sans Of the
old Bay State have sent forth to the coun-
trv their messages of freedom he deliv-
cred, perhaps, the most remarkable, Ger
tainly the most disingenuous, address that
ever fell from the lips of an American
President.
A MIssTATEMENT OF ISSUES.
This address, divested of its verbiage,
considered apart from its platitudes and
the ostentatious profession of virtue with
which it was interladen, was nothing more
nor less than carefully devised and stu
dious misstatement Of the issue between
the Chief Executive and those of his own
party who are opposed to his wretched po
Icy in the Philippines. 1t was an effort
to befog the subject and to mislead the
public judgment
I'VE are told, sir, that this 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 indefensible
tragedy now being enacted near the shores
of Asia involuntarily think of that creation
of Charles Dickens who was accustomed