The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-05-02
Carson Letter.

claimed that the Constitution followed
the flag, and advocated an early with
drawal from the Philippine Islands,
they were accused Of being the cause
of the continued resistance of the Fill
pinos to Federal authority, and of the
necessity of killing either free or cap
tive natives and burning their homes.
1t is very difficult to understand how
the kind and generous treatment adj
vocated by the anti-expansionists could
incite the natives to continued rebel
lion, but the Republican press took the
matter up with zeal, and howled so
long and loud about it that many feeble
minded people now really believe that
Bryan, Hoar ct ais. are traitors to their
country. 1t Is not an uncommon thing
for detectives to investigate the first
man they hear bowling ''thief.n Long
experience and cunning has taught
them that it is a good place to find
thief. The brave men who have spoken
their honest convictions in the face of
party pressure have suffered in silence,
knowing that time will vindicate them.
But champion has arisen in their de
tense, in the form of Senator Carmack
of Tennessee, and the roasting he re-
Gently gave the President, Funston,
and the expansionists is something re-
freshing. He shows that the President
has called the Filipinos ''savages,"
"barbarians" and "Apaches," and that
his followers have called them ''nig-
gers,n and added the adjective
damned to all of his nouns, and
claimed that the effect of such language
and the effect of the "water cure''
treatment had been to harden and
intensity Filipino opposition to Amer
lean rule. He said the President was
not vindictive, but simply strenuous
and 'sresembled in his habits of speech
a certain Tennessean horse of which it
was said that running away WAS his
natural gait" No better description
of anything can be found in Webster's
Dictionary. Running away seems to
be Roosevelt's natural gait. He called
Funston ''the Jayhawker Brigadier
from the wind-swept plains, the might
lost Sampson that ever welded the
jawbone of an ass as weapon of war;
With reference to the Republican pol
Icy of sending school teachers to the
Filipinos, he said, 'sthe idea that you
can transform the character of race
by teaching them to read is the Wild
est, craziest and most fantastic dream
that ever fitted through a lunatic's
brain" We can readily recognize the
truth of the foregoing in Nevada, based
on our experience with the ''book
learning we are giving our Indians.
wrote to the COURIER some weeks
ago, placing myself on record as pre-
dieting the election of a Democratic
Congress this year to sustain the hand
of the President in his attitude on the
trusts, and on reciprocity, and think
] can already brag that Il told you So"
Within the last day or two have no
ticed number of similar predictions
in eastern journals, and the signs all
point to tremendous Democratic
landslide this year. One influential
paper, putting the matter in more dig
nified manner than Igenerally do, says
that the people desire to return to the
Constitution and constitutional govern
ment. 1t is pity that this is not a
Presidential year, because | believe
that the road to the Constitution, as
interpreted by Democrats, would be a
short one this year, and short shrift
would be made of government by in
junction.
A correspondent in the Eureka SEN
tinet suggests that when the Democratic
State conventions meet, that they APP
point conference committees, and that
such committees arrange for joint
meeting, and that all nominations be
made by the joint meeting, so as to
make sure that there will not be two
nominations for the same office, and so
as to insure perfect fusion of the
forces. recommended that plan at the
last convention of the two parties
which met in Virginia, but the Silver
party refused to accept it on the ground
that there were more Democratic dele
gates than Silver party delegates, and
that the Democrats would practically
nominate the ticket, though in hope
less minority as to voting strength in
the State. 1t is urged now that there
win be as many Silver party delegates
as Democratic delegates. But viii
not the Silver party delegates urge
that having the largest number of
votes in the State that they should be
permitted to nominate the ticket?
However, as / made perfect ass of
myself at the last convention, believe
I had better leave the settlement of