The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-08-10
Latest Intelligence Upon Matters
of National Interest at the
Capital.
uMDERHAND WORK OF ADMINISTRATION.
of Affairs in the Philippfnes-Re-
publican Campaign Managers Use
Government Employees for Cam
paign Purposes.
Especial Correspondence

The administration gets out new
bulletin on the Chinese situation
every day. This does not obscure
the fact that it has failed to do the
only effective thing that ought to
have lain within it's power.
1t ought to have been able to throw
big force into China and rescue our
citizens at the first intimation of Sc
rious danger. If it had done that and
then withdrawn from the country
and sent every Chinaman packing
home from these shores it would have
won the admiration of the civilized
world.
In such an action the president of
the United States need not have
wasted time cooperating with foreign
powers and getting entangled in their
jealous chickering's.
Every body knows now that the adj
ministration has deceived the people
about the condition of the Philip
pines. It's boastful allusion in the
speech accepting the nomination,
about Manila being an advantageous
Ddst Vi Ol}Cl III case O1 ASldIlC
war, has proved boomerang.
Our troops might as well have been
at home as in Manila for all the use
they have been in this crisis. They
were so enfeebled by disease that
they were unfit to fight the Chinese
even if the administration had deci-
sion enough to pull them out of the
Philippines and leave the settlement
of that trouble until some time when
our own citizens were in less danger.
The Conger Message.
The administration now claims that
it is pinning its faith to the alleged
message from Minister Conger, re-
ceived through Chinese sources, stat
ing that our citizens were alive but
sorely besieged by the Chinese. The
dispatch was not dated, but the ad-
ministration claims to have supplied
that information from unknown
sources and makes it July IS.
Even if the minister were alive at
that date, it is difficult to see how it
improves the situation for the ad-
ministration. 1t is admitted that no
troops will start for Peking until aft
er August /, and the date of starting
depends on the whim of the COM
manders of the allied forces.
The continental powers do not cred
1t the Conger message in the least.
They believe that the foreign inhab
itants were massacred early in July
and that this is message which
Conger tried to send out but which
the Chinese intercepted. They sent
1t later to defer the outburst of wrath
at the news of the massacre.
An Administration Trick.
1t is difficult to discuss the Chinese
question intelligently because the ad-
ministration is up to it's usual trick
of censoring all dispatches. 1t gives
out its own version or nothing at all,
just as it sees fit.
The experience in the Philippine
situation gives good ground to believe
that subsequently the public will find
that the administration has all along
to divulge.
1t is now said that the imperial
government of China has asked Nc
Kinley to use his good offices to ex-
tricate it from the difficult and dan
gerous position in which it has been
placed by the Boxer uprising.
This looks like the entering wedge
Of an attempt to disclaim all respon-
sibility for any atrocities which may
have been committed and to so wind
up the administration in a net of
diplomacy that nothing will ever be
done either to punish outrages which
have been committed or prevent their
repetition in the future. France per-
emptorily declined a similar request
from China. Mckinley is drifting
along and will get in the midst of
various unpleasant complications.
The $4,000 troops to be sent from this
country will not reach China before
September. They can involve this
country in plenty of trouble, but it
is difficult to discover what good they
can do.
Democrats ON Record.
Bryan and the other democratic
leaders have pnt themselves on rec
ord as earnestly favoring protection
to our citizens, but no participation
in any scheme of grabbing territory.
ConceaIing RE Facts.
News comes from the Philippines
that 200 of them were killed by our
troops last week. 1t requires the
killing of large number of these
alien people in order to prepare them
for the beauties of the Mckinley
carpetbag regime.
A report has also escaped the CEN
sor that from five TO ten of our SOL