The Winslow mail., 1900-09-06
Latest Intelligence Upon Matters
of National Interest at the
Capital.
UNDERHkAD WORK Of ADMINISTRATION.
The Chinese Situation and the state
of Affairs in the PhiIippines-He-
publican Campaign Managers Use
Government Employees for Cam
paign Purposes.
Especial Correspondence ]


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then withdrawn from the country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.
Everybody knows now that the ad-
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
base of operations in case of Asiatlc
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 adj
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 adj
ministration. 1t is admitted that no
troops will start for Peking until aft
er August 1, and the date of starting
depends on the whim of the COM
manders of the allied forces.
The continental powers do not cred
it the Conger message in the least.
They believe that the foreign inhab-
itants were massacred early in July
and that this is a message which
Conger tried to send out but which
the Chinese intercepted. They sent
it 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 its 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
known facts which it did not choose
to diyulge.
1t is now said that the imperial
government of China has asked Nc
AAlHlOy W use Ills SOOo OlllC6S 10 CA-
tricatc 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.
Rccord