The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1899-05-18
Pithy, Pointed and Pertinent.

! Pithy, Pointed and Pertinent.
1t is officially stated that the stories
Of starvation i'll Porto Rico were alb
sOlutely without foundation.
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The Republican party is proud OF
having SO many representatives in
| the House capable of filling the
J Speakers chair.
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The country joins the military
court of inquiry in hoping that the
beef question may now he considered
closed incident.
IfGcn. Miles had adopted his pre-
sent nothing-to-say attitude from the
beginning of the war with Spain
both he and the country would have
heen better off.
The next Republican national plat
form is likely to contain surprise
for those who pretend 10 believe.
that the Republican party is favor
able to trusts.
Stories of imprcgnable Filipino
strongholds melt away under the
American advance like frost in the
sunshine; the Filipinos have not in a
single instance been able to stand all
American charge.
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Mr.. Bryan's enemies could not wish
him greater political misfortune
than to be nominated for President
by the populist convention before the
democratic convention meets.
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Ex-Senators Hill aud Murphy wait
ed until Boss Croker was in Europe
before they started their new scheme
to get control of the democratic ma
chinery in New York.
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Everybody will be glad that Ad-
miral Dewey is coming home Not
only because they wish to see him
and let him see how much they hon
or him, but because they know that
his coming means that everything is
going right In the Philippines.
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Rnmor has it that Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie has sold his business to the
big steel trust so as to be free to &C
C .pt place Oh the Bryan ticket, tu;
rumor is wrong. There is an insur-
mountable objection to his name
ever being OIL a presidential ticket;
he was born in Scotland.
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President McKinley's health is all
right; ditto his brain. He is at the
Virginia Hot Springs to try to get
rid Of some rheumatic pains.
Aguinaldo has scruplcs against be-
ing in hurry to surrender; the only
time he ever hurrics is when he
knows American troops are march
ing toward where he happens to be.
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Those residents Of Cuba who have
something at stake are practically
unanimously in favor of annexation
to the United States; those who have
nothing, and hope to get something
through the changes thft they know
will follow our retiremsut from the
island, are opposed to annexation
That seems to be the exact situation
in Cuba.
DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews stated
the case in a nutshell when he said:
"The simple legal fact is that tho
Philippine Islands arc at this mo-
ment as truly United States territory
as Illinois. The President must do
his utmost to create civil order there
or break his official oath. All the
citizen aud all the soldier in me rises
in protest when hear appeals calcu-
lated to breed discomfort, disobedl-
ence, and perhaps mutiny among
Otis men," That's the way all true
blue Americans feel about it.
Many old soldiers now feel the ef-
fects of the hard service they endured
during the war. Mr.. Geo. S. Ander-
son, of Rossville, York county, Penn,
who saw the hardest kind of service
at the front, is now frequently trou-
bled with rheumatism. 81 had Sc
we're attack lately," he says, "and pro-
cured bottle of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm. It did so much good that [
would like to know what you would