Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-09-29
TRAILING THE FLAG.
uNPATRlOTIC CITIZENS WOULD STAIN
OUR FAIR BANNER.
Astounded mt Evidences
OF DisIoyaIty In the United States.
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Especial Washington Letterl
Army officers, old soldiers, foreigners
and, in fact, everybody who examines
the situation cannot understand the
desire evinced on the part of certain
people to trail the United States flag IN
the dust and to do everything they can
to discredit our administration at home
and abroad. The men who would play
politics in the Chinese situation when
the administration Is doing Its very
best to maintain the honor and dignity
of our country to keep the flag unsul-
lied are the worst possible hypocrites.
or else they are decidedly unpatriotic.
When Cleveland delivered his ia
nous ultimatum in regard to the Vene-
zuelan boundary dispute, there was not
voice raised in this country against
him. No one injected partisan politics
into that foreign imbroglio. The fact
is the Democrats are trying to mix the
Chinese situation with the Philippine
situation and couple both together to
create an "imperialistic bugaboo" for
the purpose of frightening voters into
the Democratic camp. The probabili-
ties are that it will be found that
American citizens are proof against
any such petty deceit and that they
will not only remain pure patriots, but
will look after their best interests in
supporting the Republican party and
maintaining the prosperity which that
party has brought to the country,
Recent developments In the Philip
pines will go far toward discrediting
the Bryan campaign. Captured cor
respondence found on the persons of
men high in the confidence of the Ia
gals and their leaders, which is made
public from time to time by the war
department, shows conclusively that
those Filiplnos who are being paraded
as patriots of the George Washington
stripe are a band of cutthroats and
murderers 1t has been shown that
they would enter the city of Manila
and burn down the town and destroy
not only American but foreign prop
erty, and do this for the purpose of
making it appear that the United
States government cannot protect the
lives and property of all people there.
Several attacks have been planned
which take the form and nature of a
massacre and which resemble more
the plans of band of savages rather
than of men supposed to be organized
soldiers fighting for their liberty. Loot,
not liberty, Is what the Aguinaldists
demand; anarchy, not government;
blood and butchery instead of peace
and prosperity.
General Charles III. Grosvenor of
Ohio has way of getting under the
hides of humbugs better than almost
any other man in public life. 1t is in
teresting to note how he punctured the
'Wingbag From Cumberland" as SEN
ator Wellington is now being called.
He made Wellington very angry, and
all that he could do was to call Gros-
venor ian old fool and an ass" OF
course every one understands that call
ing names Is not argument. Yelling
ton then goes on and INDUCES in abuse
of President Mckinley and In his pc.
cularly Wellingtonian style challenges
the president to refute certain state
ments that he has made, just as If the
president OF the United States could
descend to handy words with a politi-
clan who has left the Republican party
because he was dissatisfied ,wlth-.the