The age-herald., 1902-05-12
Washington Day by Day


 the Democratic Senators ashamed of graceful boorishness of his insanity of self-assumed consequence. fled from the Senate chamber, and in their absence Till man shrieked to the derisive Republicans that he himself lis a brave man and gen. tleman," the climax of unseemliness in the Philippines debate.seems to have been reached.
 when Tillman began speaking in a heat ed partisan debate was perhaps the most striking evidence of disrespect that the | Senators of one party ever manifested to- ward one of their party colleagues; and when at the same moment the Republl- can Senators swarmed in to hear TtIl- man in his insane bitterness there was extraordinary testimony that Ttilman was actually doing a great survice to the party which he was elected tc oppose in the Senate. The situation was start ling, and to the thoughtful observer most painful; for Tillman gave no indication that he was aware his own side of the 
 | side was crowded with Senators who were batting him and laughing at him. There are queer stories current that TIli- man is threatened with paces,s
 The circumstantial statement given upon high authority in this correspond ence week ago. that the President pc-- sonally directed the Republican Sen- tS, .tiax and make the Philippines question a party issue in the Sena Q has been more than confirmed. Up to that time there had been no debate in the real sensA: we had simply listened to a series of speeches from Democratic Senators denouncing of ficial murder outrage qnl rapine in the Philippines These denunciations were, as everybody knows, not aimed at the American army, but at the administra- tion in Washington and the generals commanding in the Philippines.
 Since the President issued his instruc- tions for a partisan deoate, we have witnessed every day Republican batting and badgering of the Democrats. No respectable attempt has been made to
 
 murder and oppression in the Philippines The Republican Senators have responded to the Democratic criticisms and protests by wholesale abuse Of the south. the most violent form of which has been the blackguardism of the most wret ched type of citizenship in the Senate-Pe eit chari f North Carolina. Pritchard's 'monstrous ,.I., tla af which he misrepresents in the Senat e would make Benedict Arnold appear re- spectable.
 It is unfortunate for the Democratic party that a few of It's Senators have been so easily baited and badgered by such persons as Pritchard, Beveridge, Spooner and the delccla;ie devoiee of highly-scented soap and pungent per fume, the most illustrioIs Henry Cabot Lodge who are strug1lin too successful ly to conceal the real issue. The success fully baited and badgered ones on the Democratic side are with the exception of Tillman, eminently respectable though they have the dangerous quality of youth. The "bloody shirt" waved at the south Is one thing; the body flag waved over murdered Filipinos is another. The South can afford to ignore the one; no Au:erican citizen can afford to ignore the other.
 The Republican party defames the South because Southe1ners will not suf fer negroes to govern them; that same patty in power is murdering Filipinos and expressing their country because the Fil- ipinos desire to govern themselves. In politics there seems to be no place for consistency; but the violent enmity of the Republican leaders, from Crumpack- CT, the lowest, up to the highest who shall oe nameless here, against the South because the Southern white people will govern themselves, and their deadly war fare against the colcred people of the Philippines because the latter desire to govern themselves, constitute a spectacle that axcites the ridicule and resentment of all Americans who are not ignorant or not bigotted.
 According to the mest unreasoniDg and vindictive newspaper enemies of Admiral Schley, the bitttr rest of which is the New