New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-10-25
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, d. c..

/ w UA0h4NulONs LIZ 81
Mckinley is back from lis Western
trip worse scared than ever. He started
out with the belief that the Republican
party was IN serious danger Of defeat il
the fall elections; he has returned with
that belief changed into conviction
with the added knowledge that it is tc
be used to compass his own political de.
struction.
Mckinley is too shrewd politician to
be misled either by the Administration
llckspittlc who fawn for favor or by the
few thousands Of shouters who have
gathered around the railway stations tc
gaze upon the Administration circus
train. The reports continue to pour in
from the political managers of apathy
among the workers and an ominous sui.
len Indifference among the men to whom
the Republican party has looked in the
past for It's majorities.
The German voters with the German
press are in open antagonism. The think
ing men, who have regarded the repub.
lican party in the past as the one which
stood for freedom and liberty, are
| shocked ut the bald falsehoods which
have been used to cover up the brutal
mis- management of the Philippine cam
paign. They had expected specific an.
swers to the Indictments against the Ad-
ministrstion's policy. Instead there has
been nothing but a frantic waving OF
the flag, piteous appeals to "patriotism'
and an attempt to load on the Almighty
the burden of blunder which is foo great
for Mckinley to bear. -
"Patriotism," said DR.. johnson, sis
the last refuge of scoundrels." The
American people are too intelligent MOI
to recognize the disguise.
The Republican managers, certainly
are not deceived. A movement has been
organized within the party to throw ov.
| erboard their Presidential Jonah Sen.
ator Proctor, of Vermont, a multi mi
lionaire heads the organization He is
the head and principal owner of the Mar
ble Trust. Every time human being
| dies, in the United States, not too pool
to have decent burial, his heac
stone contributes to the Proctor Golfers
| He is the National undertaken and it i!
fitting that he should preside at McKln
ley's political obsequies. Dewey's name
IS to be used tor McKlnley's undoing
but that popular hero is not to receive
the nomination. The trusts are afrai6
of him. His patriotism is too iron hand
ed and might clutch at the throats O.
the peoples oppressors. Roosevelt il
the man, and the events of the next s1z
months will make good the prophecy.
THE FARMERS AND The PHILIPPINES.
| A"0ut ty-OuC tuOuSduu FARMERS were
polled on the Philippine question by the
Farm and Home, one of the leading
agricultural papers Of the country, an6
three-ffths of them declared in unmis
taxable terms in favor of giving the Fill
ipionos independence. Thus the lie IL
given to McKinley's claims that the coun
try was with him in his scheme of I'm
periall conquest and oppression.
Even with the Filipinos begging TO,
admission to the United States, the mis-.
take of receiving them under the Amer
ican flag would be no less. We have
too many problems to settle at home to
spare time and energy upon the Philip
pines. The added evils of a war of con-
quest become the final straw. The
Washington Star, a rabidly Imperialist
supporter of Mckinley, prints and
vouches for a letter from. an officer in
the Philippines, declaring that one half
of our army is on the sick list and fore
casting the same fate for the raw re-
cruits now being sent. A feeble attem pit
at denial has been made by the Admin
stration of the charge in these letters,
that Otis had refused to permit the con-
struction of enough additional hospitals
to accommodate the inevitable sick list
of the new forces. The "refutation'' is
in the form Of statement that some
forty additional surgeons and an "ade-
quate'' number of nurses (number not
given) were to be sent. The charge is
repeated with increased emphasis and
additional details.
The force of surgeons and nurses is
not even adequate to supply The exist
ing demand at Manila. Every hospital
ward is crowded, and the sick and
wounded are left for hours when they