New-York tribune., 1899-01-16

SAYS is about "to butcher and slaughter the
Filipinos and prays that the Democratic party
shall have upon It's head no blood, whether Oh
Americans or Fliplnos. shed IN war wager
"by Americans to subject brave men, our own
allies who. owning their own lana, claim the
"rlght TO govern II. but that the Democratic
party will pcrslstently and mercilessly oppose
"to the last this great crime promoted by Pres
"idcnt Mckinley and his advisers and support
"ed by the Republican party After that he
proceeds TO say that "evcn the Presidents timd
and cowardy heart shrlnks and sbuddcrs and
that "hls chosen representative. Senator For
akcr." has speaking for the President gone
'far to give up the Philippines
Now. il Is perfectly well known that Senator
Foraker is not and never pretended to be, the
chosen representative of the President. lie
frankly differed from the Administrations Gu
ban policy last spring. and Mr.. Shcpards as
sumption that he Is the Presidents spokesman
is either disingenuous or due to such ignorance
of poltical relationships ms makes his attempts
at politicaI leadership ridiculous. II Is natural
that one who can find Mr. Mckinley violating
his solemn pledges to the Gold Democrats in
order to keep silver alive for fear Of being
beaten on living issues should discover that
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committing great crimes because he has car
red on n war which the Democrats In Con
gress say they dragged him unwillingly into
.by the scrrff of the neck" Yet Mr.. Shepard
knows that the President and his party have
never had the power to leglsatc on the subject.
He knows. too, that the President has done
everything that could be done by executive ac-
tion for the gold standard. And he knows
foIs st,,la iu
to solve the problem Of the Philippines with
out abandoning them to savagery or throwing
them like bomb among the Nations to pro-
woke great world war;
The same company that heard Mr.. Shepard
talking about the Presidents crimes and con-
templated butcheries heard Senator Lindsay. OF
Kentucky, with what Mr. Shepard calls bias
tard PATRIOTISM" proclaim: 1--WE owe II to the
country and to civilization to give cheerful ana
Intelligent assistance to the discharge Of the
difficult National duty which circumstances
compel Us to assume" And now Senator Gray
SAYS that, anti-expanslonlst though he is, he
Is convinced that the unpleasant and even per-
haps dangerous burden must be assumed Tor
the credit of the Nation and for the sake or
civilization. Perhaps these and other Demo
cratic statesmen whose every tradition and In
tercst is that Of opposition may be wrong In
thinking the President is not committing
crimes but Is doing the best he can TO meet
a National emergency which Democrats boast
was of their creation. Maybe Mr. Shepard Is
right I'm determining not TO throw up his hat
when Republicans throw up their hats. and
in sending his respects to the patriotic Bryan
ite angels and asking them TO help him down
the Strengthening Mckinley devils. But 1t looks
as if he mad given less attention TO the reason
ableness of throwing up hats than to thu po-
litical profit Of making n fuss over the wicked
ness of throwing up hats and refusing to join
in the performance. Yet Mr.. Shepard says
issues are born, not made.
And lest some people be misled by such
phrases as "tilnid and cowardly heart" we take
occasion to assure them that Mr.. Shepard is 4
rather shy, mild-mannered cultivated gentle
man.