Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-20
HE BOLTS BRYAN
Because the Democracy Is Aid
ing Aguinaldo.
CRUELTY OF FILIPINO LEADER

Freachery of Native Soldiers-The Blood
thirsty Orders of Aguinaldo For the
Massacre of American Troops In Ma
nila-Cold- Biooied Atrocity.
Among the latest Democratic re-
cruits to Mckinley is Captain A. l..
Delcambre, OF Westchester county,
New York, whose reason is one that
appeals TO every American, to-wit: 81
cannot support candidate or party
which stands for s. G.. irA,u..an butch
ers as the Filipinos against the SOL
diers of our country" His immedi-
ate provocation was letter received
by his son, Cuban soldier, from a
comrade in the Philippines which told
of the treachery of the Filipinos, how,
while pretending to be friendly, they
would creep up on American soldiers
while they were asleep and cut their
throats with big knives. The writer
gave a number of instances where
American soldiers had been tortured
almost beyond description. He ex-
pressed the belief that the Filipinos
were entirely incapable of self-gov-
ernment and in closing said that ii
Bryan's program to turn the islands
over to them was carried out all of the
foreign residents and Americans
would be massacred in a short time
Still stronger evidence to the same
effect, from the highest Filipino au-
thority, has come out within a few
days, in Aguinaldo's own official or
ders, as captured by our soldiers
These were dated January Q, 1899. a
month before actual warfare began
the warfare that it pleases the Bryan
ties to blame upon the American
army, and that, too, in the face of
such atrociously barbarous instruc-
tions as these from Aguinaldo:
Article VI-The officers shall take
care that on the top of houses along
the streets where the American forces
shall pass there will be placed four to
six men, VINO shall be provided with
stones, tlmDers, redhot iron, heavy
furniture, as well as boiling water, Gil
and molasses, rags soaked in coal oil
ready to be Lighted and thrown down,
and any other hard and heavy objects
that they can throw on the passing
American troops. At the same time
in the lower parts of the houses will
be concealed the Sandatahan, who will
attack Immediately. Great care
should be taken not to throw glass
in the streets, as the greater part Of
our soldiers go barefooted.
Article IX-In addition to the in
structions given in paragraph 6, there
shall be in the houses vessels with
boiling water, tallow, molasses and
other liquids, which shall be thrown
a. bombs on the Americans who pass
in front of their houses, or they can
make use of syringes or tubes of bam-
boo. In these houses shall be the
Sandatahan, who shall hurl the liquids
that shall be passed to them by the
women and children"
Can any one conceive an American
defense for planning such atrocities as
these? Yet that is just what has come
to pass in the eXigencies of support
ing Bryan. Even the conservative
Baltimore Sun calmly speaks of this
publication as one of the most grimly
laughable features" of the campaign.
How do the friends of the American
soldiers, against whom Aguinaldo or
dered his sayages to use "redhot irons
and burning rags soaked in OIL" like
that?