Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-05-27
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP
A COSBY LETTER REGARDING
LEGISLATION AND OTHER MAT
TIERS IN THE NATIONAL. CAPI-
TAI.
Washington, D. c., June 90
The Chicago Chronicle, the, only
democratic morning paper in that city,
says '"There might be a democratic
president, and congress in both
branches might have two-thirds dem
ocratic majority and vet there would
be no scuttle in the Philippines. The
talk in certain democratic circles about
the Philippines is not only
unauthorized and stupid; it is dishon-
est The Chronicle is not alone
among democratic newspapers in it's
belief. Hundreds of prominent dem
ocratic papers are not only opposed to
scuttling, but they are opposed to MAX
ing a campaign fight on any tricky pre-
sentation of the Philippines question
or of our national obligations to those
islands. They maintain that a victory
at the. polls, if won along such lines,
would be worthless to the party, while
it might involve the country in new
and serious embarassments. They
admit that we have the islands and that
we must administer to their welfare.
That self-government will come to the
Filipinos eventually is denied by no
one, in fact, it is the goal toward which
the present Philippine policy is trend
ing. The talk of turning the govern
ment over to the Fsilipinos at this stage
of the game is nonsense and is for no
honest purpose.
Those 16 towns and villages in Luzon
that have petitioned against the re-
moval of American troops probably do
not know what an aggregation of cruel
brutes and hideous ruffians the Amer
lean army is. They are not so we'll
Informed as some democratic members
of congress.
Eugene Ware has been sworn in as
commissioner of pensions. The swear
ing thus, far has been entirely on his
side. The Office of commissioner of
pensions seems to have been heretofore
an incubator for the creation of strange
oaths.
The United States has thus far built
$50 school houses in Porto Rico.
The Indiana convention of the Grand
Army of the Republic resolved that
I'VE hold in scorn and contempt all Cit
izens of the United States who see fit
to brand our soldiers and their conduct
as cruel and inhuman.''
= In Senator Lodges recent defense of
the army On the floor of the senate. he
called attention to some of the inhuman
acts of the natives of the Philippines.
Private O'Hearn was captured by
"friendlies' near Leon, tied to tree,
burned for four hours with slow fire,
and finally slashed to pieces.
Near Batac five scouts and soldier
of the Fifth infantry were found dead,
their hands, arms and legs having been
cut off, ..s..,s
Marciliano Vergara held a band of
American soldiers as prisoners of war.
Finding them cumbersome he had them
marched into a jungle and bayoneted.
Near Baler four wounded American
sailors We're laid ON the ground to bleed
to death. A pit was dug and they
were thrown in and covered with dirt,
one still alive.
a midshipman went ashore on Sa-
mar to obtain fresh water. Two women
brought him the water and while he
was drinking stabbed him in the back.
4 These are few of the instances cited
by Senator Lodge. The senators who
3 have harped upon the cruelty of our
soldiers have made no mention of these
facts although they were to be found
in the same volumes Of reports upon
which hi they based their charges against
the army. This is an instance of the
unfair methods of the copperhead
statesmen who are opposing the gov
ernment's Philippine policy
SENATE OPPOSES.