The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-08-30

the CUBAN postal funds and is
still untried.
The President and the Scandal
We have frequently been told
that Mr.. Mckinley earnestly de.
sires to have his Administrations
remem bered by the American
people as the greatiSt most fruitful
and glorious things of their kind
/ in the history of the country. He
really believes, it is said. that
Alger, Eagan, bad beef. the Merri.
mac, and similar frauds upon the
Government will be forgotten. and
only the success of the Spanish
war and the acquisition Of world
power and empire remembered.
In entertaining such notions. if
he does entertain them, uupre.
| JUDGED minds will be apt to think
him optimistic. But how can any.
body reconcile the commendabe
ambition aScribed to the Pres.
ident with the liberation, on let
us more kindly say, the apathy
with which he appears to view
the progress of the Sampson sean.
DIAL, which, as certainly he must
know, has brought upon the
American Navy the 'derlsion and
contempt" of the Old World, as
Senator Depew asserts, and has
covered our own country with
shame and humiliation.
Mr.. Mckinley is close student
of current events. 1t cannot be
said in his excuse that he is not
aware of the starting disclosures
of tavOritism, spite, persecution,
the disappearance of incriminat.
ing documents, Justification and
fabrication of records in the Navy
Department, which are creating
a menacing public opinion regard
his Administration in every city,
town, hamlet, and place where
men meet, i'll every part Of the
United States. He cannot plead
ignorance of a sea of evidence
that under the protection Of bis
official power, exerted through a
Cabinet Minister, conspiracy has
been Matched, nursed, and become
strong and dangerous, its object
being to belle the truths Of history,
so as to make the world believe
that Sampson, who was never
near the Battle of Santiago until
thirty minute after the surrender
of the last Spanish ship, was the
victory and hero of the occasion;
and that Commodore Schley, who
commanded in the battle, and
whose flagship inflicted and suffer
ed more damage than any other
vessel in the squadron, was inefi'
Gent and a coward.
Up to certain point it may be
! possible that the malign inhu'
ences which always have surround
ed and apparently dominated the
President may have been pOten'
tial enough to make him believe
the fabricated stories and forged
documents upon which the Samp'
son ring have hung their claims
for the Matanzas mule man ana
their accusations against Admiral
Schley, but Mr.. Mckinley couIu
not have been blind to the sean
dalouS Maclay incident. He couIa
not be ignorant that the souri,
lous and mendacious Language
hurled at Admiral Schley III Vne
third volume to the dock laboIerS
"hlstory" of the navy had oetu
read in proof in advance OF pun
LEGATION and endorsed by Sampson
and by the Navigation Bureau
lie should understand that 10
greatly disappointed public tA-
pectatiOns in not then taking III
slant action to discipline the mem,
bers of the service who coulG W
guilty of such despicable conduv"
He can hardly have his ear 10 Wv
ground now, without realizing Iu0
astonishment his fellow count!
men feel because of his contliu1u
quiescence in the face oil wv
Vixen exposure. "A
The Augean stable is Disclose
in all its filth and corruption, UuI
where is Hercules, with his C .iuU
and his hose? That is the qles' Iyo
that all men are asking, whlleens
President plays with bis hele,
and chews straws with his taIlu..
They do not expect him to les
his village retreat, but they ,ao
hoped that he would use his lons
distance telephone to blow sum- ~
thing like a few detachments. "a
waiting orders into the Nanie