The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04
Vile Fa1sehoOd Similar to Lies
Circulated by the "Aunties" in
Efforts TO Help Bryan.
PROBABLE CASE OF FORGERY
NOTHING LIKE THE SENTINEL'S
CHARGES IN ORIGINAL LETTER.
Its Contents Made Public "frOm Menu
oryv-what NeighbOrs of the
Hendersons Say.
,eeial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-The alleged let
ter purporting to have been written by
Pryate Henderson. Company H, Thirty
second United States Volunteers. published
in the indianapolis Sentinel, was shown to
the officials OF the War Department BIZ
the Journal correspondent to-day. They
as an atrocious campaign lie. 1t is by no
means the first time similar statements
from various sources have been brought to
their attention. The Anu-Imperial League,
so-called. has been especially fertile in in
venting and active in promulgating these
false statements. They have been denied
time and again. only. however, to spring
up elsewhere In new or modified form.
This Sentinel-Henderson fabrication is sim
ply the latest output of the Democratic
fake mill 1t makes Henderson. or who
ever concocted his alleged letter. out as
more wanton and brazea fabricator of false
statements than usual Naturally his VIII.
inventions find a suitable channel of COM
Kunication to the public in an open cam
paign sewer like the Sentinel.
Unfortunately for Henderson, or whoever
really wrote the alleged letter and forged
his name. he makes the specific statement
that "about the same time we came here
last October there were brought here from
China about eight hundred OF the lowest
type of Chinese women and they were in
stalled in houses. some for the officers and
some for private soldiers There is abso-
Iutely no truth IL that statement. 1t is a
lie out of the whole cloth, and very dirty
and rotten cloth at that. Not score of
Chinese women have been allowed to land
at Manila or elsewhere in the Philippines
since American occupation there. and the
custom-house investigation. the same as
though they had sought to land at port
ia the United States. Had 'eight hundred
of the lowest type of Chinese women" been
admitted to Manila or 10 any other place
or places in the Philippines a year ago, as
that alleged letter says, the American peo-
il from a private letter from a private SOL
der. The newspaper correspondents there
would have made the world ring with the
infamy of it. AS it is. the infamy attaches
TO the slanderer of the American army, Of
ficers and enlisted men alike. and the
smircher OF their good name.
The statement that these loose Chinese
women pay a tax. or license. to ply their
trade is a falsehood growing out of the
first. as are the remaining statements.
According to the Sentinel. Private Hen
derson has in previous letters limited at
things which he said he did not like to
put in for fear the officers would not let
the letter go through" If Henderson
wrote that to his mother, as the Sentinel
declares. he must be heartless. as well
as fool liar. No officer or anyone else
ever sees the private letters written by the
enlisted men. No such thing as censorship
over the private letters written by or to
the officers and soldiers of that army. Now.
II Henderson would lie to his mother with
cut an object it is plain he would lie for
campaign effect
The statement that "at night the streets
ere mass of bowling, drunken. half-naked
women and American soldiers" was fully
answered by Lieutenant Boyle, In the Jour-
nal His statements that no one is allowed
on the street after 10 o'clock at night with
out pass is corroborated by Colonel
Ward. who was chief of STAFF to the late
General Lawton, and who is now on duty
here. He denounced the so-cailed Hender-
son letter as campaign fake. Manila"
h" said. is a city OF more than half
million people. and is one of The best gov
srned cities in the world AS vel: governed