Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-07

Webster Davis. spouter-fn-chief for those
endeavoring to embroii the United States
with Great Britain over the Transvaal,
spoke in New York last night along the
usual lines and with the usual effect. His
audience. composed Of Boer SymDathizerS,
chsercd him TO the echo. Having assem-
ble.i to hear The English roundly denounced,
tn" people ct full nleaSlTe- They heard
nothing else. The speaker had only Genun-
Cia1ion of the English to give them. and he
IaGlcI that out with a professional spout
Cr'> lioe rIiity.
Mr. Davis has the trick Of leading up to
an interruption. when somebody present de-
nounces the President ard he essays 20 de-
fond him. That happened last night. After
the speaker had cIuEsily provoked it, some
body shouted. Mckinley is no lover of lib
erty,-' Then Mr. Davis defended the
President:
''McKinley's heart is all right, but he is
sIrrounde.7 by men who will not let his
hearts best feelings find vent You cannot
afford for this reason to depend on Mr..
Mckinley alone. kind his heart is. You
MT II depend upon yourselves | say it is
lie if any one declares that this nation
will side with England against any other
ration which may intervene in this var,
and hundred thousand Germans and
Irishmen in this country will wade through
seas of gore before they will permit it,
wish to God one hundred thousand of you
could arm yourselves and with an American
feet could land in the Transvdal 10 fight for
the Beers
This is the language of Insult as well as
Of hypocrisy. The President means well,
but is not the head of his own admnistra-
ten He would do the right thing if he
dared. But he is restrained ny somebody.
BY whom? MIR. Davis ought to particuidrize.
If he knows that the President is 2Owerless
to shape this matter, which under the Con-
stitution is in the hands of the executive,
then he must know much more. He should
come out with all the facts in the case.
Simply to assert that the President has
master is to raise the demand that the
master be named. If he exists, Mr.. Davis
knows him, and ne should name him and
thus preserve him in the amber of his own
CUFF.
Proceeding. Mr.. Davis said:
Something practical ought to be done
do not know just what You can do. but, at
least. You ought to let the whole world
know that this great republic does no. SYM
pathize with the British in this affair. All
We have to do is TO preserve absolute neu-
trallty and the Beers are sure to win. If
thu Germans and the Irish in America
stand together on this issue. Woe be to the
man or party who dares to oppose Them
Here is a queer tumble In one breath
Mr.. Davis insists that something practical
ought to be done In the next breath he
asserts that "all have to do is to pre-
serve absolute neutrality and the Beers are
sure to win" And then. although the
Bo~r$ are sure to win. and We should pre-
serve absolute neutrality. he would Ike to
see one hundred thousand American citf-
zens arm themselves and go with an Ameri-
can fleet to the aid of the Beers.
Mr.. Davis should take a few moments of
leisure and collect and arrange his so-called
thoughts. Otherwise. his usefulness to the
democratic party in the presidential cam
paign will not come up to his own desires,
or TO democratic expectations.