The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-05


ogists affect 10 regard with contempt.
1t cannot be because Edward Akin
son eritieises the administrator. p.
Hanna Lannan denounced the admin
istration in coarse billingsgate and ex-
tolled the virtues and praised the cause
Of the Fiiipinos all through our war
with Spain. and sim Spain was con-
quered in less than three months. So
that excuse viii not answer.
The rebaptized Republican organ
says that criticising Otis lis casting re-
Elections upon Generals Macarthur.
French, Young, Schwan and the dead
Lawton, who were the active agents 10
hunt down. through the jungles and
the swamps, the treaeherous foe and
subdue it,"
What an absurd old fraud our Re
publican contemporary is Its plea for
Otis would be contemptibly demagogie
were it not pitiably childish.
When men criticised the hardness
and indecision of Mcclellan. were they
casting reflections upon Hooker. Kear-
ney, Hancock. Meade. Porter and
Franklin, who were his active agents
in attacking the foee
When, all through the war with
Spain. P. Hanna Lannan and C. C.
Goodwin were making vicious assaults
upon the commander-in-chief OF the
army and navy. were they manciousIy
casting reflections upon Dewey and
Schley and Kent and Roosevelt? Was
the Republican organ "discountfng the
work of our armies" by denouncing
incompete3cy wherever. in its own
weak and vacillating judgment, denun-
citation was deemed applicable?
Is Mckinley capable Of erring in war
only when the local Hanna organ sup
ports silver? And does Mckinley be-
come infallible in everything when p
H. I-annan suddenly discovers that
the silver issue is a corpse?
g o 9
The Tribune undertakes TO demon
strate thar Scott and Taylor were
slower in the Mexican war than Otis is
in the Philippines. Does it mean by
this to east reflection" upon the
brave men who fought under those in
vineible heroes who vanquished armies
twice and thrice the number OF their
own?
Let Us compare the achievements of
Scott and Taylor with those of Otis.
/ Taylor marched an army of 5000 men
| through a hostile country, conquered
an area as large as the present re-
public Of Mexico and drove before him
1 hostile armies five times stronger.
numerically, than his own. Nor was
he welcomed, as Otis claims to be.
with 50 per cent Of sympa:hizers
among the inhabitants" Then Taylor
, resigned to run for the presidency.
Scott was sent to lead a campaign of
invasion through another part of
Mexico after peace proposals, gener-
1 ously offered by the United States gov
{ eminent, had been twice rejected.
( Scott landed at a hostile port on the
9Th Of March, 1874, fought his way from
Vera Cruz with 12,000 men, meeting
I and defeating in field or fertilization.
I armies of 10000 to 10000 men, capturing
practically ending the war six months
later
/ Otis with a force from two to three
times that of the insurgents has wan
dered in circle for over a year claim
! ing TO have so per cent of the natives
with him, execrated by his men, Kissed
by the volunteers, handicapping the
{ brave oeDaral c IN So,- -, ,.-;+r, ~.
of orders and tactics, taxing the pa
thence of his country yet kept in power
/ by president who, according to Re-
! publican organs, is "a puppet in the
hands Of rascally contractors and
/ corporate interests that hope TO profit
/ by the patriotism of the people
Our contemporary shows a disposition
TO exalt Otis and discredit all the real
heroes and military leaders Of history.
/ Napoleon was a novice compared with
/ Otis! Scott was a drone in a race with
this pet Of the administration You
can't make the volunteers believe it.
Every American citizen knows that
Otis is a miserable failure, although
not thief or an imbeciIe' as his
commander-in-chief was described a
year ago. But the idea of a broken
down politician, a feather bed warrior
who never smelled powder except on
the Fourth Of July, defending Otis in
the storm Of Kisses with which volun-
teers invariably greet the mention of
his name, shows how easily some peo-
pie confuse patriotism with partisan
( ship.