Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1902 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN Official Paper of Jasper County. DSceln Republicanjbulldlng on the corner of I Washington and Weeton streets. ISSUED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY RY GEORGE E. MARSHALL EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. - Termt as Subscription One Year ,ST.CO Six .Months., '.73 ThreeMontbsso' Friday, May 23, 1902.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

' THE STATE TICKET. Becretary of State — DANIEL E. STORMS. Auditor of State — DAVID E. SHERRICK. ffreasurer of State — NAT U. HILL. Attorney General— r CHARLES W. MILLER. Clark Supreme Court — ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction— F. A. COTTON. State Statistician— BENJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist— W. S. BLATCHLEY. fftflge Supreme Court, Fifth District— JOHN H. GILLETT. Judges Appellate Court — FRANK R. ROBY. , U. Z. WILEY, j W. J. HENLEY. JAMES R. BLACK. D. W. COMSTOCK. , W. E. ROBINSON. DISTRICT TICKET. F or Congress EI GkR D t r t'MI’ACKER, Valpara-o Ind. For Judge 30th Judicial Circuit, CHARLES W. HANLEY. For Prosecuting Atty 30th Judicial Cjre .it, JOHN D. SINK, For Joint Representative, — JESSE E, WILSON, COUNTY TICKET. For Auditor, JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. For Treasurer. SAMUEL R. NICHOLS. For Sheriff, ABRAHAM G. HARDY. For Surveyor. MYRT B. PRICE. For Coroner. W. J. WRIttHT. For Commissioner Ist District. ABRAHAM HALLECK. For Commissioner 2nd District, FREDERICK WAYMIRE. For Commissioner 3rd District. CHARLES T. DENHAM. For County Coundlmen, Ist district JOHN HAIIN 2tl£ district HARVEY E. PABKISON 3rd district JOHN MARTINDALE 4th district WALTER V. PORTER i Ed. T. BIGGS At Larger EhIiARDT WEURTHNER <-••• ANDREW J. HICKS

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SAVAGES IN SAMAR

The Sort of an Enemy Our Soldiers Have Had to Fight On That Island. ( INDIANA CAPTAIN WITH WALLER Gains Recognition for a Feat of Unueual Daring—An Unbiased Correspondent Clears Up Misunderstand Ings With Reference to the Conditions Our Army Has Been Compelled to Meet. In all, .nearly 2.s<»olndianaboys have helped fight the battles of civil! ration against savagery in the Philippines under a flag that has never been tinlurled over a soldier enlisted in the . clusc of oppression. A thousand I young Indianians, probably, are there jjoday in the uniform of soldier, sailor . or marine. ' They are young, new, fresh ■ from the farms and factories of our , own state, the sons of our neighbors. ■ They were ’ not butchers or brutes i when they went away—they are not I brutes or butchers now. That some i ’ i of them, in an excess of resentful feel ing might demand "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” on occasion, is probable; That there have been individual instances of wrong doing on the part of some of our soldiers is without doubt true. But the effort to besmirch the good name of the whole American army to n,ak? the American people believe that the American soldier has been engaged in a campaign of slaughter for the mere sake of slaughtering is to assault the intelligence and to impugn the patriotism of the people of Indiana, representative of whom are the thousand Hoosier boys who have been fighting the battles Of their country and our country in the Philippines. It was an Indiana regular who was fit st to sefile the walls of Pekin and hang mit the starry banner above that ancient cityAn Indiana boy who struggled for a chance to enllsfHh Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and later begged without avail for an opportunity to enlist with a volunteer company at Camp Mount when Indiana’s complement for the Spanish-American ■war was being filled, was close to Major Waller at the head of a company of marines when the march across Samar was made. Captain Hiram I. Bearss of Miami county has been recommended for promotion because of his valor in scaling a cliff 200 feet high in the face of a shower of stones hurled by a savage enemy entrenched on the heights. Because he struck at every foe who raised a gun qr a bolo in an attack on American fnarines he is, in the language of Senators Carmack and Tillman, a “butcher.”

The “Butchery” in Samar. Stephan Bonsalh a newspaper correspondent of the highest reputation, who because of his personal alignment with the anti-expansionists, may be "Considered a disinterested witness, contributes to a recent issue of Collier’s Weekly a most interesting article .on “The ‘Butchery’ in Samar,” in which he points out the fact that th° “butchery” is no butchery at all, but practical warfare of a sort forced upon our soldiers by the character of the enemy with which they cope, rte calls attention to the magnificent record of Major Waller as a marine officer who had distinguished himself for gallantry and good judgment in Egypt and China. General Smith, he goes on to say, entered the service of his country as an Illinois volunteer during the civil war. On San Juan hill, leading a battalion of the Second infantry, he was shot through the chest, but fought his men to the close of the battle because, he explained, he had 150 recruits in his command and he was dote'mined to make veterans of them! “General Order 100.”

Mr. Bonsai says: “ General Order 10<i,’ was the answer when I asked General Smith how he had succeeded. ‘And I enforced it to the letter!. Of course 1 understand why the insure gents hate me. It is because I have knocked them out. If that order had been uniformly enforced throughout Luzon there would not even be the ghost of a rebellion today. Inhuman? I think not. If it was not too severe for our own people at home during the yivil war it is not too severe for these Malays.' “These lines are not written in defense of what has happened, but in explanation. Major Waller's point was well taken, and every conscientious, trvtli-telling officer will bear out his statement that the fighting in southern Samar after the Balangigan massacre w-as not what goes by the name of civilized warfare. It was simply the slaughter and extermination whenever the opportunity presented of those on both sides ,'ho were capable of bearin arms, and I venture to say that similar conditions have produced like resells everywhere, even upon th£ humane and self-restrained American soldier, wh »se behavior during th” China campaign was our pride and the admiration of all foreigners.’ Mr. Bonsall cites the revenge taken after the slaughter of Americans in the Alamo as an instance in point.

Assassins. Not Heroes. The Malays who belonged to ‘the band of Juan Galernos abd played the part of amigos while preparing to strike our soldiers from the rear, are not comparable to the heroes of our-

Revolution, who did their fighting with their faces to the foe.' For treachery the Calernos desperadoes were liable to death binder military law, and vyhen io this was added the merciless slaugh- ! ter of 50 unarmed men and the indej seribahle mutilation of their bodies, the Samarites placed themselves be* yond the pale. 'Major Waller is charged with treating the people of Samaras enemies before awaiting hostile acts. Mr. BonsaH shows that the CQAintry through -Which Major Waller marched had for months been posted j w|th- notices that ail those who failed I to t’ori'.ontrato at giveft points within 15 days would be .treated as insurI gents. The second Charge against Major'. VValler is the execution of native car-, riers who, after enlisting with him under the guise of friendship, served as spies, stole the provisions and am munition they had agreed to carry ar. J delivered these supplies to the enemy, and when the marines were starving refused to share, with them or point out to them the edible roots to be found in the country through which they were marching. Whereupon Major Waller ordered them shot. ~The SituatiohCft Basay. Those who say they cannot understand why Waller ordered these executions at Basay, when the journey’s end had been peached, fail to understand the situation, says Mr. Bonsall. There was more danger at Basay than in the wilderness. It was in the similar town of Balangiga. 20 miles away, that the butchery cf the men of the Ninth infantry took place. When Mr. Bonsall arrived at Basay he found a crowd of savages on the beach eating a slimy, uncooked fish, fresh from the sea. In-the ,swamps round-about could be heard the conch shells of the hordes of Juan Colernos, rejoicing over the slaughter of 5 Americans at Balagiga, and with these insurgents the people of the town were in daily communication. Night after night attacks were made and repulsed by a remnant of a company of the Ninth. ‘‘And all the time,” writes Mr. Bonsall, “we had before us the horrible picture, like some blood-drenched canvas of Goya, of the 20 survivors of Balangiga: one with an arm lopped off; another with a leg; there a man with his eyes gouged out, and one with 20 ghastly cuts across his body. In none of the fights of which I have knowledge did the Samarites ask for quarter—they do not understand fighting in that way —but had they done so I do not believe it would have been granted dry" any man who saw the living and the dead witnesses to their fiendish savagery. These are the things which the marines saw when they landed at Basay, and it must be borne in mind that there were the closest ties of friendship between the murdered men of the Ninth and Waller’s marines. They had stood shoulder to shoulder in the battle of Tien-Tsln and walked side by side on the march to Pekin. Again the critics are at fault—through ignorance of the facts, not wrongheadedness, perhaps—as to the motive which actuated Waller in punishing the traitors in his ranks as summarily as possible.” ~ Not an Act of Revenge.

It was certainly not an act of revenge, Mr. Bonsall points out. Waller realized that it required only unity of action between the insurgents inside and those outside to insure the slaughter of the garrison at Basay. At any moment his prisoners might have brought to a successful termination their career of treason, and Waller determined to go to the limit of his authority under martial law and put them where they could do no harm. Right to Punish Unquestioned,

“There seems to be no doubt as to the guilt of tjje men. This plea was not raised in the course of the courtmartial. The charge seemed to be that Waller had no right to execute the men so summarily, even if they wete guilty. And what becomes of the thousand and one drumhead courts-martial, followed by summary execution for {reason and espionage, which the annals of the Rebellion reveal —and that, it will be remembered, was the most civilized war ever waged? “One more incident of the many that came under my observation and reconciled me to the character of the war we are waging in Samar. A little midshipman just out from Annapolis was patroliag the strait in a yawl from the flagship New York. He was after the smugglers who bring arms to the Insurgents from Leyte. The great gale had blown the yawl out into the Pacific, and when it subsided little Noah and his six men were exhausted. Their water had given out and they tried to make Basay, Admiral Rodgers having ordered them not to land except at an armed post. The wind died away while Basay was still two miles off. Two of his men were delirious with thirst, and there was the little village of Nipa Nipa only a few hundred yards away flying the w’hite flag of peace and friendship Noah, as he floated near the shore, lifted up his empty water-jar and the kindly people on the beach understood.. They lifted up water-jars overflowing with the precious fluid and pointed at the white flag to reassure him. He pushed his boat into the surf, and telling his mon to wait in the boat, advanced some 50 yards up the beach where the good Samaritans were awaiting him 'with their water-jars. As he drank his first deep draught two of the natives—one a woman—crept behind him and burled their knives In his back.” And these are the people against whom, It is declared, our-troops should wage war according to Roberts Rules of Order and the Handy Compendium of Etiquette! ~ w*

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