Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
THE PRESIDENT IN PIrrsBUR G.

Whatever may have been Mr.. Nc
Kinley's object in going to Pittsburg
to pat the gallant Tenth boys on the
back and incidentally receive the
plaudits of the dear people, which no
American President ever loved half so
dearly, the cold fact remains, that if
he sought to increase his popularity
thereby he sadly failed if we are to ac-
cept the evidence of the Pittsburg pa
pers after the, hurrah is all over. The
Republican Pittsburg dispatch pays
Mr.. Mckinley this doubtful compli-
ment:
There was less of the Delphic strain in
his oratory than has been noted heretofore
"a change that will be welcomed by the
publ His compliment to the soldiers
richly deserved-is, after all, merely repeat
ing what everybody, anti-expansionist as
well as imperialist has said: that when
they Were plunged into a war with the
Filipinos they recognized it must so on;
that upon them rested the responsibility
of sustaining their government. That du-
ty uncongenial to many, was unfaltering.y
performed"
This is followed by another left
handed compliment from the same Re-
publican source:
''There are radical differences of opinion
concerning the future policy of the coun-
try, upon which the President had no opin-
ions to offer. That is left to events and
Congress to determine, It may be truth
fully said that what the President has said
will make no converts among Chose VINO
have all along opposed the annexation of
the Philippines
One scarcely has to read between
lines to discover the Dispatches opin-
ion of Mr.. McKinley's buncombe. The
Post is more outspoken in it's refer
ence to the Presidents oily demagogy.
1t says:
In his platform speech at Schenley
park, carefully written out prepared and
conned over, President Mckinley ventured
on the declaration that the boys of the
Tenth Ibid not run away and that they
were not serving the insurgents in the
Philippines or Their sympathizers at
home Who said they ever did or ever
"SiO- II 10 the iHcitSt CIdplTdp LOT the
President of the United States on an oc-
casion of this kind to talk of sympathizers
at home with the armed enemies of the re-
public and the men who so lately met our
troops in battle array He does injustice
to his conference.-the wrongs the great
body of American citizens. of highest re-
| pute in church or state, in business or pro-
! fessional life, as well as the great mass of
workers in field or factory, who from the
start have opposed this cruel, needless and
nncalled for war Are they to be indirect
| ly and in an unfair and absolutely dishon-
| est way to be accused of disloyalty be-
| cause they do not follow Mckinley in his
. tortuous career of imperialism?
rs it a good word to go across the oceans
from the United States and from the Pres
i ident waging this war-his own voluntary
| act, without regard to the Constitution or
| Congress. or the people-that he has the
| opposition of "sympa thizers at home with
| the Filipinos? Is not this aid and comfort
| direct to Aguinaldo? What does he want
| more than sympathizers in American? And
here we have the President telling him
| he has them. OF course it is only politics
| of the peanut pattern. but all the same dis
| graces the country, and of all times and
occasions was out of place yesterday, when
the people of Western Pennsylvania. ire
| spective of politics or creed, united in CIV
ing a glorious welcome to the returning
| soldiers