Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-07-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.

land.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular CORES pondent.)
Washington. July p Members of
the administration are mum as claims
about the Philippines since the official
announcement that the Civil Govern
ment in four provinces had been SuS-
pended and an active military cam
paign began against the FilipinOs.
They don't know wnat to say about
this renewal of the revolt just after
they lad assured the people Of this
country that the FiliplnoS were de-
lighted with the establishment of civil
government, and that everything in
the island Was hencefOrth to be lovely.
In fact, the administration was genu-
inely surprised at the renewal OF fight
Ing, as it had really accepted all the
rosy Philippine stories it had caused
to be circulated as true. Men who &C
tuaily know the islands were not sur
prised. They say it is only what may
be expected as long as we retain con-
troll of the islnnds; that it is merely a
repetition of the experience of Spain
during a Gentry past; that there will
always be opposition to American au
thority, except in places where the
military force is too strong to make it
expedient to show it.
The anti Schley gang in the Navy De-
partment overdid their last attack on
Admiral Schley, and they are now
trem bling for fear of the result. as
Schley's friends are up in arms and de
termined to have the thing fought to q
finish once for all. in COngres SIS. Mr..
Mckinley has also had finger in the
pie. 1t was after warm telegram
from him that Secretary Long declared
his ignorance of the abusive and black
guard language toward Admiral Schley
| In the third volume of Maclay's his
tory of the U. s. Navy, written by a
clerk in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and
announced that he had ordered the
volume stricken from the use of text
| books used at the Naval Academy. But
| in his anxiety to stand by the gang,
Mr. Long showed his own prejudice
against Admiral Schlev, even while
expressing his belief in bis bravery and
gallantry, by saying that he had ad-
vised his being court martialed, for
disObedience of orders, but MI. McKin-
ley had refused to order a court mar
tial, and lot more of the rot that was
put in circulation by the anti Schley
gang at the time they were paving the
way for an excuse to give the command
of the West Indian Squadron to Samp-
son. If Mr.. Mckinley was like some
Presidents who might be named. there
would be an immediate vacancy in the
Cabinet. When Secretary long made
the positive statement that Schley
should have been cOurt-martialed. and
followed it by saying that the President
refused to order court-martial, be
went dangerously close to insubordi-
nation and disresp set to the President.
| There must have been doubt in the
| mind If the Postmaster General as to
the carrying out of his orders, for the
enforcement of the laws relating to sec
ond class mail, since he had the orders
followed by aletter to pOstmasters from
the third assistant Post Master
General telling them that
their bOndsmen would be held reSpOn-
sible for any losses sustained by the
government through the improper ad-
mission to second-class mail of any
publications by them. This looks lit
tie like a preparatory step towards
shifting responsibility from the fost
Office department, where II properly
belongs, To tne IosIlnasIer.
hepresent iliIan Aiien, oi
| ONO, more geheIalIy Known as Olu
Blll'' Alieh' once gave oehniIloh ol
Democracy on one Aoor VI tne house,
that Is gooo enough 10 De pasted IN the
nat OF every democrat anu Is as tluely
as though IL had oeen given only yes,
terday, instead OF years ago. SAD
MI. Alien: democracy is sentiment
not TO De appalled,, corrupted or com
promised; IL KNOWS no DasenesSi IL
covers before no Danger; IL Expresses
no weakness. IL Is the sole conserva-
tor OF liberty. laDor, ana property 1t
is the sentiment OF equal rights, OF
equal o6ilgatlons-tne very spirit OF
liberty itself invading the land"
1t doesn't require expert knowledge
to understood the lmposslb!llty OF a
ship that has been used by the govern
| ment, when mao every reason Tor Keep
IN value more IMAM 0U per cent. In