Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-14
REVIVING A COLLAPSED CAMPAIGN

FICTION.
Evidently the organs Of Imperialism
believe there is no limit to The guilt
bility of the American people. Only
last fall before the election We
were told the rebellious Filipinos were
only holding out until hope of Demo-
cratic success in the election were gone
when they would at ice surrender to
the inevitable and lay down their
arms. That this misled many into vot-
ing the imperial ticket against their
patriotic and better judgment is with
out question. In fact the general de-
sire to uphold the administration in
time of war, especially in face of
the statement that the duration of that
war depended on the administration
being so upheld, doubtless did more
than anything else to influence the
election.
The extent of this deliberate fraud
has since been exposed in Senate de-
bates on the war in the Philippines.
Three members of the Senate military
committee, Messr5. Hawley, Sewell and
Garter, have told the real facts of the
case since the election. Senator Sew
ell, when recently cornered in debate
admitted that he had prophesied more
than a ysar ago that 10000 or 60 ,0G0
men would be reeded in the Philip
pines for several years. Senator Haw-
ley placed the duration of the war in
these islands five or ten years in the
future. And lastly. Senator Carter,
another Republican of the military
committee under close cross-question-
ing by Senator Bacon. of Georgia, ad-
mitted that at least 10000 men would
be required in the Philippines for an
indefinite period.
Several years. a Y Sewell. Give
or ten years" says Hawley. AN in
definite period" says Garter. All these
are Republican estimates of the prob
able duration of the Philippines war,
which the American people before the
election were positively assured would
ley. Is it not time some one was called
to account for this campaign fiction,
this gross and deliberate deception Of
the American voters?
Yet, as showing in what supreme
contempt the politicians and their or
gans hold the intelligence of the peo-
pie, while the exposition of this braz-
en- fraud is hardly dry in the Congress
sional Record, the same politicians and
organs revive that same deception.
For example, in discussing the petit
ton of 1000 Filipinos to Congress for
liberty and independence introduced
by Senator Teller, who is b~lackguard-
ed for that act of humanity and JUS
tice as a traitor" We have the organ
of Fourteenth street declaring:
Such acts as Senator Teller. and the
constant wailing of the Atkinson cabal
dSHtHSt the government are weighing
heavy on their responsibility for the con-
tinued depcs dations of the guerilla chief
of the Filipinos.
Here We have the responsibility
placed nee again. Before the election
1t rested on those wicked traitors"
who were throwing doubt on the cleo
ton of Mckinley. Now, We
find the responsibility for the
continuance of the war placed
anywhere but where it belongs.
namely, on that same indomitable spir-
1t of human liberty that gave birth to
our own national independence and
which we are now engaged in the sad
ly un-American work of suppressing.
following exactly in the footsteps of
tyranEous Spain.
How often must the peurile fraud that
this responsibility rests with the polit-
ical opponents of the administration
in the United States be exposed be-
fore the impudent and silly organs Of
imperialism drop it?