Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-02
Latest Intelligence Upon Matters
of National Interest at the
Capital.
uHuEaHaHD WORK OF ADMINISTRATIONS
The Chinese Situation and the State
of Affairs i'm the Philippines-Re.
publican Campaign Managers Use
Government Employees for CAM
paign Purposes.
Especial Correspondence

every udy. 1HIS uOcs hui oDsSoAS
the fact that it has failed to do the
only effective thing hat ought to
have lain within it's power.
Il ought to have been able to throw
a big force into China and rescue our
citizens at the first intimation of Sc
rious danger. If il 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then withdrawn from the country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.
the United States need not nave
wasted time cooperating with foreign
powers and getting entangled in their
jealous chickering's.
Everybody knows now that the adj
ministration has deceived the people
about the condition of the Philip
pines. It's 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 t. 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 Conser Message.
The administration now claims that
it 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 he~Chinese. The
dispatch was not dated, but he adj
ministration claims to have supplied
that information from unknown
sources and makes it July Is.
Even if the minister were alive at
that date, it is difficult to see how it
improves the situation for the adj
ministration. It is admitted that no
troops will start for Picking until aft
er August 1, and the date of starting
depends on the within of the COM
manders of the allied forces.
The continental powers do not cred
II lHG SOIl2cE message III the 1EdSE.
They believe that the foreign inhab-
itants were massacred early in July
and hat this is a message which
Conger tried to send out but which
the Chinese intercepted. They sen
it later to defer the outburst of wrath
at the news of the massacre.
An Administration Trick.
1t is difficult to discuss the Chinese
question inteIligently because the adj
nlinistration is up to its usual trick
of censoring all dispatches. 1t gives
just as it sees fit.
The experience in the Philippine
situation gives good ground to believe
that subsequently the public will find
the administration has all along
known facts which it did not choose
to divulge.
It is o 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 viii ever be
either to punish outrages which
been committed or prevent their
in the future. France per-
declined a similar request
from China Mckinley is drifting
along and will get in the midst of
unpleasant complications.
The $4,000 troops to be sem from this
country will not reach China before
They can involve this
country in plenty of trouble, but it
is difficult to discover what good they
can do.
D~emOcra ON Record.
Bryan and the other democratic
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
of a large number of these
alien people in order to prepare them
rarpetbag regime.
A report has also escaped the CEN
sor that from five to ten of our sol
are dying daily with the bubonic
This is the rainy season and
troops suffer untold hardships.
Senator Pettigrew publishes a let
ter which he received from the Fill
-pino who conducted negotiations
Admiral Dewey. in which the
Filipinos were promised independence
+ they would help Dewey defeat the
5paniards on land.
OF course the administration press
neers at this, but it should not do SC.
or tons of extracts from the Con-
yressional Record are daily being
sent out by the republican campaign
and these statements in
he Record were palpably written to
by officers of our army in the
in order TO bolster up the
administrations position.
Senator Pettigrew's letter looks
more authentic han the mat
which the republicans ask voters
believe Just because it has g Phil
ppine postmark.
Republicans C-rO0kedaess.
Now it is the bureau of education
n Washington which is being util-
zed for republican campaign pur-
,oses. This bureau has been discov-
red using the government Clerical.
orce to send out pamphlets printed