The Southern herald., 1899-08-11

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sked quite frequently since aens-
OF Burrows usds The hat-tooied
declaration that NeKinley's re.
lection has largely dependent up
u the successful ending Of The
Presidential campaign. THERE'S no
ioubt that the ADMINISTRATION luI-
' realizes the correctness Of loe
statement Of Mr.. Burrows, tat so
much was not intended to be made /
public, 50 early the gaEie, aud,
while nothing has been openly
said on the subject, there has been
much private abEss Of Burrows IL
administration circles for having
let sacb a Troublesome cat ont oi
the political bag. Although sec
rs,are roo, has done nothing open
ly confirm the talk about his being
instructed 10 win Gen Miles over
to the administration SIDE, by al,
lowing him to have tue direction
attue Washington end Of future
.r.a4-v m vru~uts in the Philip
% .ps here are many who thlnE
.tl-re Is foundation for the talk
The plain truth Of the situation Is,
that unless a satisfactory peace
satisfactory to the people at large,
not 10 the Office, holding brigade,
who will express satisfaction al
anything done by the admlnls'rs
lion-is brought about before lht
Presidential campaign, Mr.. Me-
'Kluley will not have a ghost OF a
show for reelection; and those
most familiar with the situation d.
not believe that continuation @
The military methods of Grn. OtH
will do it The people will over
throw any administration tina
stands for perpetual war in tn
Philippines, or anywhere else.
The deficit for the first month @
the new fiscal year was close to 81
100000 Officials speak Of this a
a satisfactory showing, but it re
mains to be seen what the peopl
will think Of a showing, which j
maintained during the remalnde
Of the fiscal year will mean a drhci
for the year Of more than Sl00, 600,
1000 That certainly will not b
satisfactory.
The very mild nature ofthe state
ment made by Mr., Afger just b'
fore he left Washington, and whic
be was pleased to call vindicatio
Of the charges against his admins
tration of the War Department, il
dicates that he was persuaded nj
to'attack the administration publlu
", but whether he will be OF tn
same mind after talking with Pin
gree, who is nothing if not
straight from the e-shoulder fghtt
Of everything that gets in front
his plans, yet remains to be seer
Members of the administration al
huggiBg the belief that Algcr wi
not give away the secrets he know
In the absence Of more importar
news the suppression of a Cuba
daily paper in Havana and the a
rests Of i,s staff. by order of Ger
Ludlow. military command0nt
that city, ha9 been much discussed
Al the War Department ii is sal
that Gen. Lu how acted withu,
any orders from Washington al
that no further explanation Of i
actions has been received than vi
contained in the press dispatche
On general principles the averas
American believes in a free pre-
and free speech and for that reasC
nearly everyone who speaks Of ii
matter condemns the suppressic
ofthe paper by Gen, Ludlow. Gel
Garcia who is sill in Washingtc
talked freely IN the matter, as
sees it. He said: THE suppressic
af the Havana r concehtradO wa
in my Judgement, il serious mistak
1t was the Spanish custom, y,
know, to arrest editors an su
, press their papers for daring
criticise Spanish methods, and
would .eem from Gen. Ludlow
actions that he is sursuiog the san
:, policy which has So justly and
=, tightly been denounced by the
Again, Tins act on the part
f the military authorities will
construed, by many Cubans to me-
!. that the civil authorities are me
6yureheads and will $50 doubt pr