Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-18

insurgents from getting ammunition anu
| tho diplomacy OF the civilian commis-
sloners would bring about collapse OF
| the rebellion by the advent Of good wea-
| Their.
| 1t will be observed that this conhdan,
OF the Presidents places the pon'ica'
consideration prominently to the fore III
his letter. It is McKinley's necessity
first. and military necessity next IN"
| logical deduction from his disclosures De-
| ing that Mr.. Mckinley and bis advisers
reason that the war should be ended
quickly, primarily because that con-
summation would ensure Mckinley re-
nomination, and not on account Oh '"e
slaughter and suffering and expense that
would be entailed by its prolongation'
But can II be ended at such time as
will make its ending III the necessity oi
the President? In other words. can u
be ended opportunely for the Presidents
canvass for denomination? or, 10 'ooN
even further, If Mckinley shall be re-
nominated. can IL be ended opportuheiy
for his campaign for reelection! since
the Washington correspondent we nave
quoted above let us into the PRESIDENT
confidence facts about the conditions IN
the Philippines have leaked out which
would indicate that Mr.. Mckinley has
reckoned sadly without his host. His
hope OF bringing the war TO close at
about the end OF the rainy season was,
as the Herald's correspondent intimated'
based upon the assumption that the re
bellion" was confined 20 the island OF
Luzon, and that only the Americans
were reversing the order Of things-that
is. were making hay while 1t was ram
ing" Aguinaldo has demonstrated III
marked degree his capacity to engage
in that business also 1t now develops
that he seized the occasion presented py
the wet spell TO send emissaries, and. In
some instances, contingents Of troops,
from his army to other islands, ana the
result is that, save in the Sulu group
where we have bribed the Sultan to
keep his subjects quiet, the whole archi-
pelago is practically In state OF
Instruction against the authority OF
the United States. There is no question
that everywhere. except in the Sulus,
Aguinaldo's influence is spreading, and
some of the best informed correspon-
dents at Manila express grave doubts as
20 whether our Mohammedan passive ally
Will keep his contract with us In
going the other day into details OF the
conditions in Islands other than Luzon,
fr,t,fla
pondent stated that in Cebu the insur-
gents still held their strong positions in
the mountains; that in Iloilo the rebels"
were intrenched near the capital; that
the Island of Negros was still unsettled,
and that General Hughes had sent extra
troops to suppress the uprising. wed
nesday the statement Of that correspon-
dent as to the gravity of the situation in
twO-at least-Of the islands he mentions
was fully confirmed, in an uncensored dis
patch. dated Manila, August 18th, via.
Hongkong, August 10Th. According TO
this telegram ARRIVALS and mail ad-
vices from Negros and Cebu agree that
the instruction is gaining strength re-
markably In both those Islands, which
had hitherto been counted as the most
friendly in the archipelago and which
received with the greatest cordiality Pro-
fessor Schurman, president of the United
States Advisory Commission for the
at the time of his memo
rable tour" This dispatch also conveyed
the intelligence that in Cebu some OF
the leading men have gone over to the
SO we repeat it would appear that the
President has reckoned sadly without his
host in this matter And IL is not i'm
possible that the great Philippines war
job may prove a boomerang, not only
to Mr.. Mckinley, but 10 the Republican
party Whether, however, the President
and his advisers shall succeed in bring
ing the war to an early termination. or
II shall spin out Indefinitely, the Democ-
racy have nothing to lose by keeping be-
fore the people the evidence, that from
it's incipency to the present time every
sacrifice 1t has involved has been made
on the altar of Mr.. Mckinley's political
ambition.