Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-06-29
Items of Interest from the Capital
City on Current Events Of
Political Import.
REPyBLIcAn ADMINISTRATION BLuNDERs
2Ae Rule OF Gen. Otis I'm the Philip
mines q Rank Eailure-COrruptiOn
Unearthed by New Civil Commits
sion-Consress to BE Whitewashed
Democrats United.
Especial correspondence

1nSurrectlOn III the lSldnuS anu lc1t
everything on a peace footing.
His ignorance of the situation may
be pardoned from the fact that he con-
Quoted his campaign from the depths
of his armchair in the palace at Manila.
His mind appears to be not altogetlB
er easy as to the quality of the peace
that he left behind, because he adj
mitted, reluctantly, that we could not
spare any of our 10000 from the is
lands in case of trouble with China,
because IAN array of suppression"
would be needed in the Philippines for
several years to come.
Gen. Otis was received at the white
house with great cordially, and he
ought to be, for has he not been the
faithful servant of the administration
all these months? Has he not done
what President Mckinley has ordered?
Has he not suppressed any news that
the administration thought disquiet
ing? Has he not censored the reports
$50 that it was impossible to discover
how many lives were being sacrificed
sand how much money was being spent
I'm this attempt to crush people who
only desire an opportunity to govern
themselves in their own way?
!. Indeed, Gen. Otis has baen a loyal
servant of a laundering administra-
tion, and the abuse which has some
times been heaped upon Otis should in
Justice have been meted out to his
ed the Philippine war. Now that Gen.
sOtis is back, his optimistic statements
will be used by the republicans as cam
-paign material. That they are not
true will not matter to the republican
leaders. On their side the campaign is
to be prosecuted with promises for the
future and evasion and misrepresenta-
ton, in order to conceal anything
which might damage McKinley's
chances of reelection.
Otis a Rank Failure.
In sharp contrast to Gen. Otis self
sufficient claim of having put down
the rebellion in the Philippines comes
the wall from the new civil commits
sion which recently landed in the is
lands. Judge Taft and his colleagues
ION the commission are assured by high
army officers that the present force in
the islands is utterly inadequate to
suppress the instructions; that even
In the southern portion of Luzon the
Insurgents are in entire control.
Gen. Otis municipal governments
have been a rank failure. They have
simply been used by the Filipinos as re-
stations for the insurgents.
I The commission has been in Luzon n
reek and up to this time not single
Filipino has approached them with an
offer of surrender or submission on
any terms.
The commission is simply amazed at
-the conditions of bribery, corruption
and general rascality which prevail
wherever the Americans have left their
trail The Cuban frauds are nothing
to the corruption which has been going
ON in the Philippines.
The Filipinos have had so bitter an.
with imperialism that they
propose to hold out at least until after
the fall elections If Mckinley is re-
selected, they know they may expect a
condition of servitude worse than
Spain ever dared to impose, and they
will keep up their guerrilla warfare
If Bryan is elected they
have some hope of being allowed to
govern themselves and receiving the
protection which should be given them
by n country which processes respect
for the principles of liberty and indie
spendence on which its own institutions
zare founded.
The new civil commission is giving
the people glimpse of the facts. Otis
misrepresents everything, from the
condition of the Filipinos to the cost
.of our war of determination.
General COrruption.
The more the Cuban affair is probed
the more clear it becomes that the pos
tai frauds are only small part of the
sgeneral corruption which has become
rampant under military control of the
island.
The administration is looking sur
prised and grieved and, ordering
prompt investigation and retrench-
Hzy that ruse to keep the country in ig-
Norance of the frau9s in other direc-
lions.
If there could be searching investi-
cation into the amount of money dis
ibursed by the military authorities. I'M
!: der the pretext of administering Ha-
vana and improving the sanitary con-
: dition the result would shock the aver
age voter. While the administration
and its2 henchmen pretend to know
nothing of the Irregularities in various
: directions in Cuba yet information
comes from those on the ground indi-
eating that the postal frauds are q
mere ,bagatelle compared to what has
been looted in other directions.
President McKiniey's oft-repeated
saphorism about being the instrument
eof Providence is paraphrased by certain
so0icials in Cuba to read: providence