The Greenville times., 1900-08-11
Latest Intelligence Upon Matters
of National Interest at the
Capital.
UMDERHAND WORK OF ADMINISTRATION.
The Chinese Situation and the State
of Affairs In the PhiliDpines-Ete-
publican Campaign Managers Use
Government Employees for Cam
paign Purposes.
Especial Correspondence j

only effective thing that ought t(
have lain within its power.
1t ought to have been able to throw
a big force into China and rescue oul
citizens at the first intimation of Sc
rious danger. If it had done that and
then withdrawn from the country
and sent every Chinaman packing
home from these shores it would have
won the admiration of the civilized
world.
In such an action the president OF
the United States need not have
wasted time cooperating with foreign
powers and getting entangled in their
jealous chickering's.
Everybody knows now that the ad-
ministration has deceived the people
about the condition of the Philip
pines. Its boastful allusion in the
Speech accepting the nomination,
about Manila being an advantageous
base of operations in case of Asiatic
war, has proved a boomerang.
Our troops might as well have been
at home as in Manila for all the use
they have been in this crisis. They
were SO enfeebled by disease that
they were unfit to fight the Chinese
even if the administration had deci-
sion enough to pull them out of the
Philippines and leave the settlement
of that trouble until some time when
our own citizens were in less danger.
The COnger Message.
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1t is pinning its faith to the alleged
message from Minister Conger, re-
ceived through Chinese sources, stat
ing that our citizens were alive but
sorely besieged by the Chinese. The
dispatch was not dated, but the ad-
ministration claims to aave .upplied
/ mat information from unknown
sources and makes it July 18.
Even If the minister were alive at
that date, it is difficult to see how 1t
improves the situation for the ad-
ministration. 1t is admitted that no
troops will start for Pel1ing until aft
er August /, and the date of starting
depends on the whim of the COM
manders of the allied forces.
The continental powers do not cred
1t the Conger message in the least.
They believe that the foreign inhab
itants were massacred early in July
and that this is a message which
Conger tried to send out but which
the Chinese intercepted. They sent
it later to defer the outburst of wrath
at the news of the massacre.
An Administration Trick.
It is difficult to discuss the Chinese
question intenigently because the ad
of censoring all dispatches. 1t gives
out its own version or nothing at all,
just as it sees fit.
The experience in the Philippine
situation gives good ground to believe
that subsequently the public will find
that the administration has all along
known facts which it did not choose
to divulge.
1t is now said that the imperial
government of China has asked Nc
Kinley to use his good offices to ex-
tricate it from the difficult and dan
gerous position in which it has been
placed by the Boxer uprising.
This looks like the entering wedge
of an attempt to disclaim all respon-
sibility for any atrocities which may
have been committed and to so wind
up the administration in a net of
diplomacy that nothing will ever be
done either to punish outrages which
have been committed or prevent their
repetition in the future. France per-
emptorily declined similar request
from China. Mckinley is drifting
along and will get in the midst of
various unpleasant complications.
The $4,000 troops to be sent from this
country will not reach China before
September. They can involve this
country in plenty of trouble, but it
is difficult to discover what good they
can do.
Democrats ON Record.
Bryan and the other democratic
leaders have put themselves on rec
ord as earnestly favoring protection
to our citizens, but no participation
In any scheme of grabbing territory.
COnceaIing the Facts.
News comes from the Philippines
that 200 of them were killed by our
troops last week. 1t requires the
killing of large number of these
alien people in order to prepare them
for the beauties of the Mckinley
carpetbag regime.
A report has also escaped the CEN
sor that from five to ten of our sol
diers are dying daily with the bubonic
plague. This is the rainy season and
our troops suffer untold hardships.
Senator Pettigrew publishes a let
ter which he received from the Fill
ipino who conducted negotiations
with Admiral Dewey, in which the
Filipinos were promised independence
if they would help Dewey defeat the
Spaniards on land.
OF course the administration press
sneers at this, but it should not do SO,
for tons of extracts from the Con-
gressional Record are daily being |
sent out by the republican campaign |
managers, and these statements in
the Record were palpably written to
order by officers of our army in the
Philippines in order to bolster up the
Administrations position.
Senator Pettigrew's letter looks
much more authentic than the mat
ter which the republicans ask voters
to believe just because it has Phil
ippine postmark.
Republican CrOOkedness.
Now it is the bureau of education
In Washington which is being util-
lied for republican campaign pur-
poses. This bureau has been discov-
sred using the government clerical
.orce q send out pamphlets printed