Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — PRESIDENT’S WAR [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT’S WAR

The New York Tribune, good Republican authority, says: “From beginning to end it has been the president’s war, and today it is the president’s viotory.” That settles it. Dewey, Sampson, Schley, Merritt, Shafter, Alger and Long are baok numbers. Only Major McKinley is to be recognized. The Tribune further says: “We do i»ot mean he (Major McKinley) sought tho war, or wished it or entered upon it with feelings other than «t reluctance and of detestation.” Right again, McKinley is no war horse. His “neok” is not “clothed with •Hinder,” and but for the Democratic party, the Cuban patriots would be still lying under Spanish rule. The Rothchilds proclaim that they have nothing to do with silver, that their transactions are all in gold. The same is equally true of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the Wall street Shylock. These speculators in gold have no nse for silver, the money of the prodnoing classes, who rarely nf ever see a gold coin. When Major McKinley joins the ••inmemorable caravan” etc., there will be a chance for men like Whitelaw Reid, in writing his. epitaph, to say, “The oemetaries where lie buried the men who fought all the American wars from 1776 to 1898, do not contain as many heroes as this solitary grave.” In the United States, where every volunteer soldier is a sovereign citizen, there is no reason under heaven why they should not be treated by the government with as much consideration as the officers. In war the rifle is of more consequence than the sword. The nations of the earth unstintedly praise the American nation for the way it oonduoted War with Spain, and yet Whitelaw Reid says McKinley entered upon the war with “feelings of rSlnotanoe and detestation.” Admiral Sohley is a Democrat, and that is the reason the administration has tried to suppress him. and has kept him from maintaining his plaoe on the naval anil, Wiliam Rockefeller, a multi-million-aire Mid tax-dodger is fighting the New Jersey officials for a reduction of taxes. He is the feilow who refused to pay a poor tailor for mending his breeches. Dingley's protective tariff produced its first year a deficit of 198,248,108, but it put many millions in the pockets of the men who subscribed to Mark Hanna’s fund to elect McKinley. Genaral Joe Wheeler captured General Shafter during the war of the rebellion and sent him to I ibby prison. Now, thirty-six years later, Wheeler is serving under Shafter