Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 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 victory.” That settles it Dewey, Sampson, Schley, Merritt, Shatter, Alger and Long are back numbers. Only Major McKinley is to be recognized. The Tribune further says: “We do not mean he (Major McKinley) sought the war, or wished it or entered upon it with feelings other than of reluctance and of detestation.” Right again, McKinley is no war horse. His "neck” is not “clothed with thunder,” and but for the Democratic party, the Caban patriots would be still living under Spanish rule.