Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-25
ANSWERS HIS DETRACTORS
Chaplain Mailley Hits His Popocratic Ca
lumniators Stunning Blow.
LEAVES THEM NO GROUND TO STAND UPON
Gives Them n Terrific Lnmbnsting
for Attempting to Cast Reflections
Upon the Late Lnmcnted
Colonel Stotscnburg.

KEARNEY, Neb., Oct. 24.-Cspeclal Tele-
gram)-Judge NJ. p. Kinkaid, republican
candidate for congress in the Sixth district,
and Chaplain J. H. Mailley of Nebraska's
Fighting First addressed the most enthusi
astic and largest audience ever as
sembled in the cid Model opera
house in this city tonight. AS
the citizens approached the hall the son
of Judge Hand. chairman of the populist
county committee, handed each printed
dodger containing extracts from letter
written by the chaplain to Congressman
Stark last January which proved a boomer
ang. In reply to the question, What have
you to say in reference to your letter to
Congressman Stark, written from Manila
dated January 30?' the chaplain replied
as follows:
"Notice in the first place that this letter
Is strictly personal and private An honest
man would have some conscientious scfuples
in making public such letter, but l have
recently discovered that from the average
democratic populistc politician an hon
est man is a far cry. l have known all along
that they were desperate and that they were
ready to stoop to any means to secure party
auccess in Nebraska this fall, but until last
night l had yet to learn to what depths of
of the letter referring to my position on
the Philippine question, have no objections.
The part, however, which refers to Colonei
Stotsenburg arouses my indignation as
nothing which they have said in this CAM
paign has done.
Il have no desre to go into discussion
of the feelings of the regiment toward
Colonel Stotsenburg up to the breaking out
| of the Philippine war. He was not an easy
man to understand and l think we misun-
derstood him. But before the Philippine
war had progressed forty eight hours there
| had come to the entire regiment complete
revulsion of feeling. We not only admired
his courage as a soldier, his skill as an
officer but we came to love him man.
| | was with him a great deal from Santa
Mesa to Malolos and have many reasons to
believe that the high regard and personal
affection that 1 came to feel for him wers
reciprocated. On Sunday afternoon, April
%, as l stood beside his cold body and
Looked into his dead face, regretted thor
oughly every unknd thought or sentiment
l had felt toward him.
EmbaImed in the Boys Hearts.
| Whatever misunderstanding may have
| existed between him and the regiment Col
| onel Stotsenburg is embalmed in the hearts
| cf the boys of the First Nebraska forever.
But how can | express my indignation at this
dastardly attempt to create political preju-
dices by exhuming the bones of our dead
| hero and hurting them into the political
arena! Nothing could show more clearly the
desperate straits to which the fusion forces
are reduced in this state. They see upon
the wall the handwriting of defeat and they
will scruple at nothing to avert it.
| when | was in San Francisco at the Pre-
sidio, Colonel Stark and General Barry came
to my tent and for nearly an hour laviahed
upon me the most complimentary terms
They spoke of how proud they, were of my
record. They called me Our jim and 'Oui
Chaplain JIM, and such phrases There
were no words good enough to express what
they seemed to feel toward me. That was
while they thought 1 was on their side ot
the political fence, but now there is nc
sentiment too vile to apply to me, not be
cause they believe these things true, bu
because l have stood by my honest convic
tions. They would stoop to anything to VIII
success. 1t is not with them question o
principle, it is a question Of party euccees
They fawn upon the dear people, but they
care not for the dear people. They care onl!
for party success and to attain this the!
are willing to blacken the character of an!
| man VINO SldHuS III luelI way hcy al
even willing to enter the sacred precincts
of the dead and violate them with uncleal
hands.
II want the First Nebraska boys to re
member that these political vandals hav'
dragged the name of our dead hero into thi
political campaign. A party that will de
scend to such vile methods should go dow
| to defeat, and ] believe it will go down t
defeat | don't believe that all their sub
terfuges, that all their mud-slinging. al
their desecration Of the dead, that anything
\ will save them from crushing defeat at tn
polls in November, and they deserve 1t
They are lost in every sentiment of honor
, to every refinement of feeling. They ar
I lost to everything but the insensate gree
for Office They can't forgive any man tina
will stand in their way toward the accom-
pishment of their end
! Disposition of the Philippines.
, with reference to that part Of the lette
which refers to my position on the Phil
= ppines l call attention to the fact that
2 was written before the war began and
3 expressed not only my sentiments at tina
g time, but, as | believe, the sentiments o
S most Of the regiment. In the first wee
in April | wrote a letter to the New Yorl
independent, in which l stated the opinion
i
: quent to the writing of the letter to Mi
- Stark. In this letter, which was publishe
in the issue OF June 8, said, first, tina
tho war must be prosecuted to the end, and
second, that whether we will or no. tn
obligations Of providing a just and stabl
. government for the Filpinos have falle
, upon us and we must meet them
THAT is precisely the position | hold an
: advocate in all my public speeches. TIL
S question of final disposition of the island
. will be settled in the future, as circum
stances and the American people shall de
= termine, and | am where l am politically
d because believe that the political saliva
Q ton OF that people depends upon our re
= naming in the islands long enough at leas
to insure the Filipino people against in
ternal strife and spolation by the powers
Whether 1t takes a long time or a shor
/ time to bring about that end, we must sta
n there until 1t Is accomplished. To leay
= them as Aguinaldo demands that we shal
k would be to commit one of the most stu
e pendous crimes of the ages and | do nc
= believe that the American people are goin
to vote to commit any such stupendou
crime 1t Is not a question of what W
want to do, but Of what honor demand
, OF us"
= nj Rpuyer CrnssIuu