Arizona republican., 1902-05-15
The democratic plan for making the conduct of our soldiers in the Philip

The democratic plan for making the conduct of our soldiers in the Philip
 pines the chief issue ATROCITIES in the congressional FOR ISSUES. campaign of this year
 seems to have met with the same disaster which has be- fallen all other bourbon expedients for arousing the people in recent years. They have found that abuse of the army is not popular and that the coun- try refuses to become excited. The vigorous defense made by Senator Lodge, Senator McCCmas and others on behalf of the brave American regulars who have been undergoing all -he hardships of war in the Philippines, has had the effect of putting an end to the display of democratic hypocrisy in the senate, except from such mounte- banks as Tillman and Carmack. Most of the democratic senators have become ashamed of the efforts of their noisy collea gues to put their party in an at titude of disloyalty to the government and it's prosecution of the war. Wash ington dispatches state that lately when Tillman has harangued the sen ate the democratic senators have lied to the cloakrooms in disgust.
 The greatly heralded issue of army atrocities" now has for it's support only handful of hair-brained senators and congressman and a few mossback pa pers in Arizona and elsewhere.
 It was such patriotic words as the following from Senator NcComas, and the country's evident approval of them, which led to the democratic abandon ment of the 'atrocity- scare as an is sue whereon to elect democratic coa- gress:
 The minority seek to draw away the public mind from the daWning of peace in the archipelago. They shrink from discussion of the provisions of this bill, and for days denounce cruelties perpe- trated by American soldiers in those is lands. They do not denounce barbara ties and savagery Of the insurrectos and Ladrones. Instead they indict our 1ILty"lilS NllOlt SOuI--of sons of Union soldiers; our volunteer soldiers in arms; our fellow Americans from the north and from the south.
 Is it patriotic for American senators to denationalize themselves for the sake of a partisan advantage? Is it patriotic to assume that Americans are guilty? To deny the justice of court martial To denounce the judgments of the courts without hearing the facts or considering the law upon which these judgments are based? Sena tors cannot gather any laurels from a pa triotic people by $ crusade against OUT own army.
 Let us not forget that in our prosper ous land. blessed with peace during sixteen years, more than 2,500 lynch ings have occurred, and that siXty-One of the victime were women. That only one fourth of these executions by mob were for the most fendish crime which so strongly tempts men to inflict sum mary punishment without authority Gf law. Let US not forget that nearly a thousand of the victims were white men, Indians, Chinese or Mexicans. Let us Hot forget that our soldiers who have been guilty have been or will ie punished. while he thousands of citi- zens at home who have abetted this barbarous custom or shared in the hor- rible practice of lynchirg have not been and never will be punished.
 Our democratic friends should not Ile hopeless, however. An issue can and must be found. We suggest that due consideration be given to Underwood of Alabama. He has discQvered that the governments generous donation of money and supplies to the sufferers from the West Indian horror is -'un- constitutional" And he is right. No where in the constitution can there De found a specific provision for donations to earthquake sufferers in the Island of Martinique. Clearly. the republican administration should be answera ble to the people for this misuse of the public funds. Underwood and his ass9- ciate opponents of the relief bill warned the administration that it was in the wrong. They pointed out that there was no official report from our con- sul at St. Pierre (who with his family is among the deadl. that the disaster had occurred. But tine reckless reDuo- licans had no regard for the sacredncss O; red cape and constitutional limita- tons. Here is an atgocity equal to the hunting down and killing Of murder ous savages in Samar, and the demo cratic leaders should make the most of it.
 Rev. Dr. Lewis ". Nudge, of the