The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-09-07
THE POSITION OF SENATOR
WELLINGTON.

DIR. Z. W. Chancellor writes to the Bal
timorc Sun as follows:
MEssRs. EDITORS: 1t is now conceded
by very many of the Republican party that
Senator Wcllin gton has lamentahly diSar-
pointed those who elected him to office.
How came they to elect such man? Had
they not sense and sagacity enough to
know a man whose life had been before
them on their political records for many
years? Were they so inetfably stupid that
they did not know Mr.. Wellington was Il
man of independence of thought and ac-
ton? Very weak men these; very foolish
deeds theirs. They decry Mr.. Wellington,
and say that they took him up from OBJ
security and elevated him to high positions,
and he has now turned traitor to the
party" Perhaps the present condition of
the country might present case that
would justify Mr.. Wellington's detection
and entitle him to be viewed as a cham
pion of regulated liberty, rather than a
traitor. Do not, therefore, censurc Mr..
Wellington, but censure the Administra-
ton of President Mckinley, which has
been so singularly out of the way that it is
difficult for even mossback Republican
like Mr.. Wellington to say whether it is
best to look upon it with indignation, con-
tempt or derision. The country involved
in three wars in as many years, two of
them in lands more than 1000 miles dis
tant; our soldiers fed on embalmed beef
to enrich contractors, and the responsible
officer rewarded by the President for his
insubordination and misdeeds; Porto
Ricans starving under the imperial pgis
of the American flag; leg treasIrers APP
pointed to office running away with the
peoples money and protected under a
mere technicality of the law! Surely it is
time for every honest man to say, as Mr..
Wellin gton has indicated: We will have
no more such government; we will have
Democratic government of the people, by
the people and for the people.
Measured by the standard of the ia
theirs of the Republic, Mr.. Wellington
cannot be regarded as a traitor. Jetfcr
son, Madison and Monroe broke loose
from the Federalists-the party of Wash
ington, Adams, Hamilton and Jay-when
they thought the interest Of the country
were at stake. Were they called traitors?
No! They are to-day regarded as the tri
pie foundation upon which the Republic
rests. John Tyler, who was elected Vice
President on the Wing ticket headed by
William Henry Harrison in 1910, and sue
ceedcd ex otficio to the Presidential chair
by the death of General Harrison, allied
himself with the Democratic party and
twice vetoed national bank bills passed by
Wing Congress. He also concluded the
Ashburton treaty with England against
the wishes of his party, and, allying him
self again with the Democrats, accom-
plished the annexation of Texas. Was he
traitor No. Results have shown that
he acted the part of a patriot when party
adhesion confictcd with the interests Of
the country
Mr.. Wellington knows that there has
never been time in the history Of this
country when there has been so much
danger threatened to the interests, happi-
ness and liberties of the people as at pres
ent. Looking at the events of the last two
years and forming judgment of these by
the suggestions which history teaches, and
which she alone can teach we might speak
of a Republic Boosting that its rights were
ha 81 ot, al Of ifS
functionaries bound up in the chains of a
written Constitution; we might record also
that such a people, "in the wantonness of
strength, or the fancied security of the
moment, had torn that Constitution to
pieces, scattered its fragments to the
winds and surrendered themselves to the
usurped authority of one man.
Could it be expected that Mr.. Yelling
ton-a representative, not of party, but
of sovereign States in the Senate
should, with ready and tame submission,
yield to the usurper the wealth and pow
er of the nation to execute his will IN
swelling the Ubiquitous triumphs over the
Filipinos, and over that very Constitution
which Mr.. Wellington and every other
Senator had alike sworn to support: If
anyone should inquire for the cause of
the war how being waged in the Philip
pines, what would be the answer? By
the act and will Of William Mckinley,
President of the United States. Thus
have our peaceful and peaceloving peo-
ple busy in every laudablc pursuit of life,
been forced to turn suddenly from these
and the country plunged into the misery,
the vice and crime which ever have been,
and ever will be: the attendent scourges of
of war
Whether Ito paraphrase the language Of
statesman long since passed away we
look to the stern despotisms of the an
Gent Asiatic world or the military yoke
of imperial Rome, or the more modern
monarchics of Europe, in each and ali of
of these, where the power to wage war
exercised by one or by few, it has been
used to sacrifice, not to protect, the many.
The caprice or ambition of the tyrant has
always been the cause of bloody and
wasting war, while the subjugated mil
lians have been treated by they remorse
less masters only as tools in the hands
of him who knew how to use them" You
may call this free government, but it is
such freedom, and no other, as of old was
established at Babylon, at Susa, at Bac-
triana, or Persepolis. Mr.. Wellington
has not left his party upon principle,
and thus walked in the footsteps of JEFF
ferson, Madison and Monroe.
G. W. CmANCELLuR.
The New York journal" gives in de-
tail alleged violations of the Constitu-
ton LIZ: the 4 llai III rnti in, nf Nc X IN 10y