The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-07-11
CAN'T BE SPARED
FROM LUz0N
The Sort of Peace That Pre-.
walls in the Philippines.

Washington, July e.-Imperialism
has received a blow from an dne1.
pected quarter When the admins
tration began to order troops sent
from the Philippines to China, Gen
Macarthur promptly fled protest,
saying that if the troops were taken
away from the Philippines, the Fill
pino revolt would at once be renew
ed Secretary Root telegraphed for
Gen Otis 80 come to Washington at
once. he cane and declared that
Macarthur was right, and after a
two days conference Secretary Root
announced that 40 more troops
would be sent from the Philippines
20 Chiua The plain meaning of this
is that it is necessary to keep the
big army we now have in the Philip
pines permanently there in order to
maintaia our authority over the Fiji
pinos That is little more than the
most rabid imper;s!is. bsrgeined for,
and it is certainly more than the
people OF this country will stand for
What possible benefit can we derive
from the Philippines that will com
penss.e us FOR the expense in money
and American lives that will be nee
essary to keep an army of $4,000
soldiers over there. 1t seems that
the world is about to witness the
revival of the era Of the mercenarv
invading army, which was familiar to
Europe a few centuries ago The
other great civilized governments,
including our own, have hired an
army of japan to go to China aud
fight the Chinese aud after the Chi
nese are licked into humb'eness. they
are to be made to pay back the
money it will cost to lick them, with
rsurious interest 1t is not consid
cred honorable for az individual to
hire professional thugs to obtain
vicarious revenge upon his personal
enemies What then makes such a
thing honorable on the part of ne
tions !?
Hon Adlai I Stevenson is the
only man ever nominated for vice
president who had previously demon
strated his fitness for the Office by
serving one term therein. and j, can
be :ruthfulIv SAID that no vice pres;
dent was ever more popular thaa he
was. True, NJ, Stevenson didn't
have much influence witt. toe presi
dent under whom he served, out
nobody else had either s,,!r Cleve
land vas no: president to recog
niza influence. and he seemed to
make specially of getting at outs
with leaders of the democratic party
Bu. during those four years. Mir
Stevenson had and deserved tae
confidence of the democrats in con-
grcss, aud lost no opportunity to
push party interests that he could
with propriety have taken advantage
of Ad!ai Stevenson is whole
sou!ed good fellow, a good democrat,
and 10 every respect worthy run.
ming mate to Col Bryan, and Bryan
aud Stevenson is a ticket 70 win
with
If the civil service commission had
sand enough it could make whole
! lot OF trouble for the administration
on account oi numerous and glarng
violations of the civil service law in
the interests Of republican political
workers a case in point is that OF
II X Chenowith. formerly Of Cieve
land. Ohio. While tie was internal
revenue collector in Arizona, be
opened sealed envelopes containing
questions for civil service eSamina
ton, in advance Of the examination,
il order that his wife, bis brother Ia
law and his cousin, who were to take
the examination, might pos; them
selves and pass. which they suhse
quently did. The case was SO clear
that Chenowith was removed from
the position of internal revcnue col
lector, and prosecution Instituted
against him by the department Of