The San Francisco call., 1899-01-26
THE EXAMINERS ST. VITUS DANCE.

T HE Examiner started its national policy by
demanding the election OF w. J. Bryan to the
Presidency in 1896 1t was soundly beaten. In
1903. during our war with Spain, it expanded
quite rapidly but the next definite phase OF its ma
onal policy was the advocacy OF the fusion ticket
on the fusion PLATFORM the object of which was to
deliver this State over to the sociastc element in the
Democratic party. 1t was again thoroughly beaten.
After the election it resumed the expansion business
and has passed through the successive phases, with
intervals between them OF hysteria and epilepsy.
During its epileptc condition the only sound the
community heard from the Examiner for weeks was
its hammer driving nails through the American flag
and its screams when its own fingers were hit Sud
denly that noise ceased and for considerable time
the national policy" subsidized We had begun to
hope that under the treatment OF The Call, which
in other directions had proved eficacous the Ex-
aniner being restored to health or at least that
its principal disease had been arrested But appear
deceitul, as they often in that class
OF disorders which are accompanied by mental
alteration. On Tuesday last the national policy"
burst loose with all the previous symptoms, to which
was added a complication that resembled St.
Vitus dance. We fear that the latest devel-
opment presents hopeless I'VE de-
mand, says the Examiner, in the blacklist OF black
type of the largest Size the government OF our new
to the American idea" 1t seems, therefore, that we
are now to take the Philippines as American terri
tory, TO be converted into States This American
idea that has aroused the Examiner to an insane
fanaticism only equaled by the Mohammedans in a
holy war, is the most convincing proof OF its mania
that we have yet discerned There is not an expan-
sionst in Congress who has dared to suggest the ab-
sorption OF 100000 or 100000 of Filipinos,
100000 of whom nominal Christians and the
remainder pagans and poygaists OF various Asiatic
types, into the American nation. Still less has the
dream OF the State OF Manila filled the diseased mag-
nation OF any advocate OF annexation, however ex-
treme. The Examiner alone has reached a cond-
ton that it burns to include the Chinese,
the Maays the Mohammedans and all the various sub
divisions of Asatic barbarism that compose the popu
laton OF the Philippines, in the strong embrace Of
American nationality.
The immediate occasion of this last frenzy was a
letter sent by W. J. Bryan to ant-expanson meet
ing in New York that addressed by Bourke
Cochran and received a sympathetic communication
from Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Bryan lately has kicked
the national policy" traces by trying to sub
stitute ant-expansion for free silver at 10 I as
issue in 1000 Naturally he has temporarily found
himself in some good company, from which he had
been long excluded, and which would doubtless
exact from him sincere penitence and a period of
total abstinence from political ambition before he
would be restored to complete fellowship But the
Examiner. having modesty characterized Senator
Hoar OF Massachusetts, and some other leading Amer
lean statesmen who oppose Imperialism as "od
grannies, is driven into ecstacy OF blended
madness and terror by the "delectabe companions"
as it terms them, upon whom Mr.. Bryan desires ap-
parently to force his recognition If there is in the
United States man. twice President, who has passed
into history as the foremost modern exponent OF
American Democracy, that is Grover Cleveland,
whose name and whose character are respected, even
while his political ideas opposed by the Repub
lican party This gentleman, together with Senator
Hoar Professor Sumner, Carl Schurz, Edward At
knson, Andrew Carnegie, all Of whom are named by
the Examiner and host OF other orators statesmen
thinkers and scholars, who maintain Americansm and
resist imperialism to the death, would undoubtedly
in true sense prove to be "delectable companions"
for Mr.. Bryan any other persons whom they might
honor by their society. But they are spiteully
pudiated and ostracized by the Examiner, which,
having worn out the mailing process, is now deter
mined, to re-employ an expression OF Oliver Wen
dell Holmes we used few days ago, that its exclu-
sive national policy" "sha go Gathering down the
corridors OF time like tinkettle to dogs tail"
Clearly the Examiner is past aid from any Aneri-
can physician and is unable to retain upon its stom-
ach even broken doses OF the constitution. We ex-
pect soon to write the epitaph OF its national policy