The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-09-29

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| Correspondence oil the democratic Au'ocate.l
| WASHINGTON, d. e., sept -, isoo
IL is II general CONCESSION that the reharkapie re-
port of the TAFT Commission on the Stale oil anairs
| IN the fhiiippines' WHICH, "a'hs DEC" oo'"''s' W
cable through the secretary oil war, was given u
the country last fhufsnay Is pS MI oous Tue
boomerang of the pending thus far remarkable
canpaisn The expensive process oy which 1t was
officially procured, the exceedingly prompt-ahioS'
| instantaneous manner III wmch IL WAS rehuereo.
rs well us the extraordinary character Oh us CON-
tents, nave All contributed 10 'he Popuiai aPPeei
tioh oil what Is no" ge"cr'is reearueh as d mug
joke IL Is not a niue reinaihao'e 'ni' no'" i'n-
standing the taxing Oh ti'e hatoi'ii treasury win
the eA pehse oi the eapie Vi ''e
document II was heiu up W '"e '"' ."nA
gers ior heiriy ni"ii'h Deio'e .e'os = ~ -
purpose ior WHICH ~ wac i,'
pup'c"lion W 'ie PeoP'e '' - :.
doupt ueVoteu 10 d eoHsi'eiiuo" Vi "ne'.e' ~
"ouiu DC soou po,'' ~ '.' '"''
Aie"' 50 W '"e pe'P' - 80 =, ..:
ever SHOWS Gu ~ see '''e rs ~ y. popa.'.
MOI 'hat II was no. i''oi'ip'e ehousn ~ 'i'e
mean ''"se III 10 ii''e''' .i"'
MT. lai1 seems 10 iuiis mn nc
expected To iuriiish eaihiAisn uoeu'ne", on.
nave ueVoeu niiiiS.,' ~, the
pose D"' NC. . 49, ,,,.f.,,,r,h,a. of.
t'hii Vi e'se' II" -,
iec' upon TIC J"'' % " w "e r., -.
| tine saine 'iia""ei '"e 'eSs,'' - 80 IT,,
sio' - ''"se ~ -, -; I, n -,
si''' '''e 40
...,..;,o tho, ,,, ,rs,rs,isn
Like 'h'' s'ahse in'S'iie '''A' '''e
tnio"s' ,,, os.n
Your verbal boomerang siifs you on lhe nose
10 say that Inc document ieii nat upon .ne
country "ouiu "o' "Ue4 - ,,,,a,,as-
and seneraily accepted ehect; 'or II mas unq"es-
tionably eAerted stroiie reactioh'i' Impulse uPo
| the public mind, and its publication cannot Dc re-
| garded otherwise Than another huge oiuhuef ia
campaign management Thata commission createu
| by the Administration and receiving hish emoiu-
ments should al such time ana Ill such u mail
| ner render testimony of All essentially political
character in open conflict with the current and
contemporaneous Associated Press dispatches, and
with what are now known conditions in the distant
archipelago, could not iail 10 impress tne souhu
sense of the American people as cheap campaign
trick
The leading Republican press, in giving publica-
ton TO the document lily concealed their chagrin
in Offering such testimony TO the people; Democrats
generally treat it humorousy, while leading indie
pendent Journals with Republican procivities, like
the New York Evening Post and the Washington
Post take serions exception to it,
The EVENING Post after commenting OIL the 1.-TWO
,eIe.rams from Manila. one from the Taft Commits
sion the other an Associated Press dispatch; the
former telling of the deeadent and almost defunct
state of the nsurrection and representing that the
election of the Republican candidate for President
is all that is needed to insure peace and quieude
tho latter showing a marked increase of insnrrec-
,io,arv activity and giving details of bloody
..,.-an,an,. concludes in the following serious
strain. "If the American people were to vote this
ye,r on the situation in the Philippines without
reference to things nearer home, this attempt TO
vol, tho TAT, commission for political ends, and
r mt ronor, which the nress dis
'"e - -, $50 - ,l,od .o,,d NOT fail IN
pa'oneS o''''s ~
pe uiS"s.ouo .,a,, s.s ,.a, nrat,r
my a. ..a,,,,.,,s;on,, ,o,icv IL
I'm ,,,ro .mnbsti. in its eon
~ ~, N, r, r.,,nr, ,s fnIows
ueili'a'io" VI '"e i'''t -, -, -,
we nave hite"u! u,'Po'e- - ,,..,a,,.h
ny ar. lH'' "''" ms -, %
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st'ih'iia.eu "no''S ~ '"e :, .,,;,-e
cess ut iie Po's
us as hlsh-minne'i Poi''''s 70
TONS oil TINS eiihr"e'e'' '"eie"S "sNe 80 -,
to believe 'hat the peiiioc''os ',s nj,
the death ana SUFFERING vi our 'o'uie,' ~ 'e
ippines The proposition Is as 'os'fu as IL
AMI will deceive no one possessing ih'e'i'se"'e
above that oil AN ordinary chipihu"k'
Another boomerang emahatlng from hisnese ne
publican source is The heated aeniai oy ei,a'ii'a
Hanna, i'll II public speech at Chieheo' Vi inc
cations " a.; ~" ia.,i,etion of William BRYAN
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