The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
.SCATHING PH|LIPP|C
LAUNCHED At M'K|NI EY
Republican Congressman Lays Bare the Infamous
Record of the Administration
Mckinley Pecksniflan HypOcrite Who Is Owned By Can
taliSts-Ager Purchased His Cabinet Position.

} Washington, Feb. 24.-During the gen
eral debate upon the army appropria
ton bill in the house today, Mr.. John
son (Rep., Ind.), who, a fortnight ago
( made several notable speeches, violent
: ly attacking the policy of the admins
tration during the consideration of this
army reorganization bill, returned tC
the assault and delivered against the
president and some of his advisers the
most scathing philippe heard in the
house for months. He sneered at the
president and the influences which he
alleged controlled him. impugned his
motives, questioned his sincerity, and
likened him to Dickens most contempt
1ble character; charged his secretary OF
war with incompetency, and predicted
that the president would, in the end
be engulfed by adverse public senti-
ment. Although his utterances were
far more sensational than those in his
former speeches, and dazed some of his
auditors by the inpefuOsity with which
they were delivered, the speech did not
! raise about him the storm of his former
speeches.
Mr.. Landis one of his Republican col
leagues from Indiana, briefly stated to
the house that Mr.. Johnson's colleagues
had repudiated him and the two men,
bers had wordy duel. Later in the
day Mr.. Marsh (Rep.. IllS) replied TO
some Of Mr.. Johnson's structures, but
I the Republican leaders had evidently
! decided to ignore the attacks of the In
! dianan, and no general reply was made
/ to his speech today.
| The army appropriation bill today
was lost sight of in the general discus
sion of the policy of the government rel
| atve to the Philippines, and several
notable speeches were made especially
that of Mr.. Settle Den., Ky.). General
debate on the bill closed today, and to-
morrow the bill will be taken up for
amendment under the five-minute rule.
MR.. JOHNsON's REMARKS.
When MI Johnson arose for his re-
marks he at once attracted the atten-
ton Of the house "A few evening ago.
he began, the Homo Market club of
Boston gave a banquet. at which the
president was the principal guest. From
the newspaper accounts of the affair Il
was an exceedingly elaborate one.
The secretary Of war was in at
tendance, he whom the Boston pOpu-
lace had Kissed upon the streets a few
hours before, ere they turned to greet
with rapturous applause the chief who
had bestowed upon him his official
character. We can hardly blame them,
though. for this. Mr.. Chairman, for they
We're only following the precedent set
them by some Of the leading Repubi-
can newspapers of the country, which
for months past have been fiercely at
tacking the secretary and have lacked
the courage to lay their ak to the root
of the evil and cenSure the gentleman
who, to reward him for his political
services and disbursements in the cam
paign of 1896, appointed him to his pres
ent position, and has maintained him
there ever since, Notwithstanding his
incOmpetency and against the right
eous complaints that have been made
against him.
The secretary of the navy alsD
graced the occasion with his presence,
and so far forgot his usual courtesy. so /
far belied his New England training
and associations, az to repeat the stale !
and Untruthful charge that those who |
opposed the ratification of the infamous
treaty of Paris with Spain We're respon- !
sible for the bloodshed that occurred in /
the Philippines.
When the chief magistrate had ceas- |
ed speaking. another member of his |
official family, the gentleman who pre- |
sides over the postoffice department, |
arose in his place and proceeded to lead /
his chief down with an eulogy so full /
given over to hyperbole, that no indi-
vidual not wholly eaten up with van
ity could possibly have endured it with
out nausea and disgust.
MKINLEY AS A "LIBERATOR."
1.-THE newspapers further inform us
that among the other decorations, there
were suspended over the entrance to
the banquet hall three portraits, one Of
Washington, ore of Lincoln and one of
the president himself, and that be-
meath this the word LiberatOrs.' Now
George Washington fought with his
sword for eight long and bloody years
TO establish the right of a. people to
govern themselves and in his farewell
address he counselled his countrymen
to live on terms Of amity with all ma
tions and to enter into entangling alU-
ances with none.
abraham Lincoln's whole political
life was a contention for the rights of
man, and it was his kindly hand which
penned the immortal emancipation
that struck the shackles
from the limbs of millions of bonds
men. One would think, sir, that the
gentleman who was just then engaged
in the prosecution of a bloody war
against a poor and defenseless people
in the Orient, engaged in the unsavory
task of ChristianZing them with the
sword and civilizing them at the
mouths of cannon would naturally have
felt some little embarrassment as he
5aZed upon these portraits and read the
significant inscription below. Possibly
MS excellency did not see them. He
nay have turned his back upon them.
lust as he has turned his back upon
he declaration of independence.
A DISINGENUOUS ADDRESS.
BE this as it may, sir. the president !
loes not appear to have been at all
lbashed by this incongruous circum-
stance, but he arose from his seat and I
here, within the shadow of the monu-
nent Of Bunker Hill, where Warren
ell, fighting for liberty, and within a
tone's throw of Faneuil Hall, where
ime and again the true sons of the old
Bay state have sent forth to the coun-
ry their messages of freedom, he de-
ivered perhaps the most remarkable.
the most disingenuous ad- !
ress that ever fell from the lips of an =
american president. This address. di- :
-ested Of it's verbiage, considered apart !
rom it's platitudes and the ostentatious ),
profession of virtue with which it was
nterlarded, was nothing more or less
han a carefully devised and studious !
nisstatement OF the issue between the =
hief executive and those of his own =
arty who are opposed to his wretched :