The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-23
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our O,rn Correspondent.

WASHINGTON. d. c., April 21, 1909.
Inc administration ran up against
another mortifying humiliation last
week. After officially denying for
months that the Filipinos had been
treated cruelty and inhumanly bv onr
army officers, it was confronted bv
evidence, including the Testimony ~
TWO eye-witnesses before the Senate
committee on the Philippines, 80 plain
that It could not be lodged, and Secre-
tary hoot was compelled to practically
acknowledge that he had known of
cruel treatment of Filipinos md had
directed Gen. Chaffeo to gather ay;-
dence with view to court-martialipe
Gen. Jacob H. Smith, who ordered Ma;
Waller to kill "everything over ton ~
Maj. Edwin F. Glenn, Lieut.. Arthur
l.. Gonger and other officers Implicated
in testimony that has been given nv
American soldiers. Secretary Root
sought to lessen this humiliation by
making public orders sent TO Gen,
Chatfee to prosecute before court-mar-
tlals these brutes who have disgraced
the American uniform, but he has ONLY
convicted the administration of mig
representation by showing that after
such orders had been sent it persisted
in denying that there had been anv
cruel treatment by responsible cnicers.
1t seems that there is no phaso f tho
Philippine question that can In dur
into without uncovcring official lies
and misrepresentation.
By direction of the Republican bosses
Attorney General Knox answered tho
resolution offered in the House, asl,inS
nm what he was doing about the beef
trust, which Is squeezing everybody 80
6outrageously. before it was acted upon
py commlttee. He says n U. S. Dis
tain whether there is beef trust. md
Il SO, whether it is violating law.
Democrats in Congress will wait n
reasonable time for Mr.. Knox to report
result OF his investigation, but if it ia
not more satisfactory than the report
OF the army officer sent by Secretary
Root to investigate the British mill
taary supply depot near New Orleans,
there will be something doing in the
trust line in Congress.
Senator Bailey. of Texas, is being
6oomed for the Democratic Presiden.
tlal nomination by a group of Repre-
sentatives, headed by Cochran, OF Mo,
who said of him: "Bailey ia one Of
the great lawyers of the United States.
he ID familiar with every syllable of
american political history. He is
Democrat of the old school. He be-
lieves in the Constitution and the OBJ
sservance OF allits limitations. In pub
llc and private life his course has been
distinguished by rare purity of charac-
ter, and unswerving devotion to duty
and convictions. If elected, he would
devote his great ability to the execu-
tlon OF the laws. He would not barter
public patronage for Legislative favors.
bis chief advisors would not be the
trust magnates and syndicate bankers
and stock jobbers. If defeated, he
would emerge from the contest nnin-
Jured In fame. Senator Bailey is my
for the Democratic nominal.
ton to the Presidency" Senator Bal
ley does not approve of the boom for
him for the Presidential nominntion
nor of the talk about making him tie
Democratic leader in the Senate in the
next Congress-. OF the former he
would not speak directly, but what he
said OF the latter is applicable to both:
Some OF EJ friends wanted to place
me in nomination for chairman Of the
last caucus, but thought it improper.
When the caucus meets in the Fifty
eighth Congress, I intend, to nominate
Senator German for the chairmanshin.
because / believe in all essential re-.
spects he ia the best man for the place.
prefer to do my duty In the ranks,
and am willing to follow safe leader
like Senator German"
mittee on Privileges and Elections,
knowing the popularity of the ideas of
direct election of Senators, are trying
to kill it by trickery. They have by
party vote, except that Senator Bur
rows had the manliness to vote against
it, adopted the amendment offered by
Senator Depew providing that the
election of Senators and Representa-
tlyes should be placed under Federal
supervision, and the qualification of
voters should be prescribed by Con-
gress. The Republican game is to thus
force the Democratic Senators to vote
for an adverse report on the amended
because they know that
every Democrat regards Federal SUPER
vision OF elections as one of the great
est evils that could possibly befall the
country. 1t is; dodge to fool the
voters OF the country as to the attitude
question: of direct election of Senators.
Rear Admiral Schley will go South
again. He has accepted an invitation
to go to Jackson, Miss, from Mem
phis, as the guest of the State. He is
due in Jackson May /. and the next day
will go to Meridian, where he will be
the guest Of the city. AS long as such
honOrs as these are paid him hy the
people. Schley isn't likely to care about
official favors going to little Potts.
the only witness before the conrt on
inquiry who said that Schley was o
If 80 Democrats had not rallied to
che support of the Cuban reciprocity
bill the general debate thereon wOuld
not have closed Friday and the passage
Of the bill without amendment would
not now be assured. These Democrats
Violated no agreement in helping the
leader ont Of hofe-their
yOtee together with the SO Republicans
who voted against him would have
knocked him out. They simply voted
with their personal inclinatione. II
was demonstrated at conference Of
Democrats that it would be difficult. if
not impossible. to make the bill party
issue. Consequently no attempt was
made tn do an IT, vnuat howos,o, H.