Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1898 — THE DILEMMA THEY ARE IN. [ARTICLE]

THE DILEMMA THEY ARE IN.

The army investigation at Washington is conuucted by honorable men. They represent both the Democratic and Republican parties. No commission of similar character has ever been so thoroughly nonpartisan, and yet the newspapers that have industriously, and to the sacrifice of truth, abased the MeKiuley administration for its management of the war, question their honesty. It is a pitiful exhibition of the unjustness of accusers. Their accusations, at the very outset, proved false by such distinguished soldiers as Generals Wheeler, Lee, Boynton and others, they mildly plaoe these men in the light of concealing truth. They now cry out call the newspaper correspondents and managing editors, the very men who are indirectly on trial for circulating exaggerated reports and who more or less have been moved to’ prepare false statements of war management in order to sell papers or satisfy personal likes aud dislikes. since the stories of correspondents have been proved unreliable, what weight can be attached to their testimony under oath? If they tell the truth to save themselves from perjury, they must belie their newspaper reports; if they sustain their reports they place themselves in opposition to the manly, soldierly and lie demolishing testimony of Wheeler, Lee, Sternberg, Greene, Boyn- • ton and a long line of other houorable witnesses. Call the newspaper men by all meaus. ,