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Three Years-D. 1. PHILLIPS, Klfth
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Two Yenrs-K. D. FKM..OWB. Fourth
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Two Years-P. S. OODFIUSY, TllRhtli
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One Ywir-K, 8. I1AHK13R. Seventeenth
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One Year-KMAS EVANS, Fifteenth
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Klcctton Day, February .
There la no question that Consul
Clene.ral Lee is a man or remnrkaule
self control. The Individual of Cien
ernl Lee's characteristics who can re
sist the temptation to press the button
nnd brlnp n warship to Ilnvana thes
days la certainly entitled to credit for
soldierly obedience In carrylns out a
policy that 1.4 distasteful.
Running a Big Risk.
Representative Hltt's formal defense
of the administration's Cubnn policy Is
convincing in many places, but like the
president's own argument In the late
executive message, it goes to pieces In
Its treatment of the belligerency prob
lem. Mr. Hltt holds that to recognize the
Cuban insurgents as belligerents would
not benefit the insurgents but would In
volve simply Increased liability to fric
tion between the Vnlted Htates and
Spain. He Imagines a condition of af
fairs consequent upon belligerency rec
ognition In which our commerce on the
lilgh seas would be harrnssed by Spain
in Its exercise of the right of search
with the probability of the speedy pro
vocation of war; but In drawing this
picture he falls to take cognizance of
the fact that Spain Is already power
less to patrol her own comparatively
small coast line In Cuba, much less to
undertake to police the entire Atlantic
ocean. If she cannot stop filibuster ex
peditions within the three-mile limit
off the shore line of Cuba; If her coast
patrol, which now by our grace has
only this small zone of sea-wav to
watch, we having assumed the espion
age of our vast sea-bonrd, Is practically
no hindrance to the insurgents' plans,
what utter folly It Is to suppose, as Mr.
Hltt does, that Spain would prove dan
gerous to American shipping Interests
on the broad ocean. The risk of war,
upon which he dwells with such pro
found solemnity, Is not, we might re
mark, a greater risk for the United
States than It would be for Spain. Noi
ls It to be eliminated by a policy on
the part of this government which
tends to confirm In the minds of the
Spanish people the hallucination that
the Americans are a cowardly and
mean-spirited race, upon whom Span
lards may impose with impunity.
There is another consideration which
It seems to us that Mr. Hltt Ignores. It
Is the consideration of Justice. If the
Cuban Insui gents have earned the dig
nity of belligerency recognition; If the
conditions presented by their situation
In the Cuban conflict are such as to
Justify the according to them of equal
diplomatic rights with Spain, then the
matter becomes not one of expediency
but one of moral compulsion, Our gov
ernment for three years lws used Its
naval resources nnd the machinery of
its derailment of justice In eo-opera-tlon
with Spain for the detection of fili
busters and the harrassment of legiti
mate commerce with the Cuban revo
lutionists. It has done more than en
force its neutrality laws; It has suld to
Its citizens that they should not trade
with the Cuban people except as they
might manage to do this In circumven
tion of the government's efforts to stop
them. This Imposition upon Ameri
can enterpiise, by no means warranted
in law, and not called for by any obli
gation of fair neutrality, can be stopped
only by the recognition of Cuban bel
ligerency. So that fair play as well
for our own people as for the Insurgents
of Cuba calls for the dissolution of the
existing unholy partnership with
Spain.
We regard It as unfortunate that this
matter has become a partisan issue,
and Is likely to prove especially unfor
tunate for the Republican party. The
Democrats in congress, however, are
hardly to be blamed for taking advant
age of an opportunity which the Re
publicans have created deliberately and
in full view of the probable conse
quences. Had the Republican majority
consulted its own Interests, its opin
ions, its own full knowledge or the
state of public opinion, It need not have
got into a position -where all the ad
vantage 1.h with its political opponents.
There is now only one thing which can
save it executive Intervention In Cuba.
The president, having begged to be al
lowed to handle this problem In his own
-way, must provide a satisfactory solu
tion or see his administration rebuked
nt the ensuing elections bb no admlnls
tratlon has been In the memory of the
present generation.
We shall soon see which It Is to be.
From the tall; of the curfew ordi
nance advocates one would think that
the greater portion of the crimes or
the present age are committed by boys
and glrl3 under fifteen years of age.
How to det Party Harmony.
An example of peculiar fatultv Is
given by the Buffalo Express, one of.
tne most rabid of the antl-Platt news
papers In the Empire state. Discussing
and conceding the imperative necessity
for a harmonization of the wurrlng Re
publicans of that state If party pros
pects are not to be sacrificed complete
ly, the Express yet Insists that the only
condition upon which ts followers will
"be good" is the retirement of Piatt and
the elimination of Plattlsm. Yet 'Piatt
is the one Republican representative
that the great Empire state nun in the
senate of the United States, having
been elected to that olllce with practic
al unanimity; he Is the recognized head
of the Republican organization In the
Btate and In three-fourths of the coun
ties and cities of the state, and moie
over he has a larger personal following
among the effective workers of the
party than is commanded by any other
Republican leader In the state, la it
F1UDAY, JANUAnY 21, 1898.
not palpably absurd to nsk him to re
tire? Tlmt kind of talk will never bring
nbout party harmony In any state.
Harmony consists of mutual concess
ions, of tho willingness on both sides
to yield as to non-essentials in order
that there may not be a sacrifice of
essentials. If Mr. Piatt's leadership In
the adjoining state has been such as
to give Just offence to nny considerable
number of reputable Republicans then
the opportunity should bu uffordeU to
those Republicans cither to secure from
Mr. Piatt concessions sufficient to re
store party concord or else to modify
his leadership by regular attack
within party lines. To this end, there
should be fair play In the primaries,
and free patllament for the discussion
of grievances. In other words, the wil
lingness to conclude nn honorable
peace should be present among all fac
tions desirous of peace, but while Piatt
and his folliweru should not deny to
their opponents the rights at least nom
inally guaranteed to them by the theory
or our government, the opponents or
Piatt, on the other hand, make their
case ridiculous when they deny the
right or Mr. Piatt, after nil his victor
ies and credentials of parly leadership,
to a place and n voice In party man
agement. A similar condition Is visible In
Pennsylvania. Those who aim at the
extermination of Senator Quay are the
victims of a hallucination. They might
defeat him but they could never exter
minate him, and In seeking to do so
they simply Invite trouble. Rut what
they can do nnd should do, and what
the senator and his friends could not
blame them for doing, Is to make such
n demand for fair play In party man
agement that if it is not acceded to vol
untarily it can be enforced. If the
people of Pennsylvania shall permit
Andrews & Co., through grace of Quay,
to nominate and elect a mortgaged gov
ernor, they will have no just reason to
blame Quay; they should rather blame
themselves. '
The Philadelphia Inquirer Is entitled
to its opinions, certainly; there's no
law short of libel to prevent It from
whacking every decent Republican in
the state on the head for falling to bow
the neck to the political yoke held out
by William II. Andrews. It's nil a
question of policy, nnd we simply don't
like the Inquirer's style.
"Shelling the Woods."
There is unquestionably nn element
of heroism In the effort of the free silver
senators to make their party colleagues
from the Eastern states Murphy of
New York; Smith of New Jersey nnd
Gorman of Maryland show their hands
on the vote on the Teller resolution.
This resolution authorizes the redemp
tion of government bonds in silver or
gold at the government's option; and
Inasmuch as the Democracy In the
states represented by these three Dem
ocratic senators Is badly divided on the
money question It follows that which
ever way these senators shall vote they
will incur trouble. Senator Vest, whose
constituency Is solidly for silver and
who consequently has no compunctions,
calls the game "shelling the woods",
and if It were being played in u party
caucus 'instead of In the senate of the
United States, nobody could enjoy it
better than the spectators.
I'nrortunately. It is Impossible for
Senator Vest and his pro-sllvev col
leagues to "shell the woods" by means
of senate resolutions without doing
great damage to unoffending non-corn-batunts.
In ills anxiety to ascertain
the whereabouts of three Democratic
colleagues he is likely to bring down
misfortunes nnd loss upon the whole
circle of American Industry and enter
prise, from the proudest plutocrat in
Wall street to the humblest day laborer
In the poorest quarter of San Francisco.
The public advertlsmeent, In the face
of the significance of the verdict ren
dered by the people in 1S9G, that the
senate of the United States, supposedly
the most conservative, intelligent and
conscientious legislative body on earth,
would still be willing. If it had the
power, to cheat to the extent of fifty
per cent, or more the creditors of the
government, Is a most wanton as well
as a most mischievous act, the harm ot
winch is Incalculable. To imv it .ir,,,
simply as one incident In a little game
of party politics Is a specimen or per
fidy, the only historical parallel to
which Is suggested in the demeanor of
Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
In the light of this reminder of the
desperate character or the. senatorial
sliver ling It would seem to behoove
me mends and defenders of the nation
al credit, now pretty generally split up
into fratricidal factions with their en
ergies largely monopolized In plans for
mutual slaughter, to realize their com
mon peril and to take steps to get to
gether. The battle next fall Is going
to be u tremendous one, and if the
forces of sound money expect to be nble
to resist the combined onslaught of the
discontented, encouraged ns the latter
are by many tactical errors lately com
mitted by their opponents, the present
Is none too early a time to begin to
make the necessary preparations.
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press, who has Just
leturned from a careful Inspection of
affairs In Cuba, takes issue with Rep
resentative Hltt as to the facts In the
case. Mr. Hltt says the concentration
order of Weyler has been revoked; Mr.
Olbson says It hasn't. Mr. Hltt says
the Spanish offer of uutonomy Is a lib
eral one; Mr. Olbson says it Is a de
liberate fraud. Mr. Hltt says belliger
ency recognition would do the Cubans
no good; Mr. Olbson suys It would
enable them to lloat a loan, from the
proceeds of which they could buy
enough urms and war equipment to
clean Spain out. Mr. Gibson adds that
four-fifths of the Republican member.
of congress favor belligerent recognl?
tlon and would so vote If It were not
for party discipline. If this be true,
the sooner such discipline Is abandoned
the better It will be for Uie Republican
party.
'
Ulnghamton Is soon to have a beet
sugar factory and the farmers of
Uroome county will turn their atten
tion to tho -cultivation of the sacchar
Ino tuber. According to estimates
given In- the Rlnghamton papers, the
new venture will prove profitable to
both farmer and manufacturer. Rut
the average resident of the "Parlor
City," It Jb said, is apprehensive lest
someone hdt In future take advan-'
tagc, of short crops and corner the vis
ible supply of buckwheat pancake material.
Our osleemed contemporary, the Chi
cago Times-Herald, errs In saying that
It was a 'Pensylvanla solon who pro
posed to abolish book-agents. Tho
Pennsylvania solon has too many real
sins to answer for to make It fair to
load hlm'down with Imaginary ones.
President Stanford Dole, of Hawaii,
denies that he Is n lobbyist, but ad
mits thut he may do a little talking
through his whiskers on the subject of
annexation while in this country.
It I' possible that some of the, most
entlnl.-iistlc Cuban Democratic con
gressmen are playing for what In base
ban would be termed a "percentage re
cord." Revi?W of Facts in
The Dreyias Case
Rochester Democrat nnd Chronicle.
THE Interminable "nffalr
has assumed a phase i
ant that It seems to
servers to contain athrc
affaire Dreyfus"
so Import-
many ob-
thrcat nualnst
the very existence of the irrrnMi
republic A brief general review of the
case is necessary to a full understand
ing of the sltuutlon.
o
Captain Dreyrus, m officer employed
on special duty at the French ministry
of war, was arrested, charged with hav
ing sold Important military secrets to a
foreign government. Cnptuln Dreyfus Is
a Hebrew. The Impression was thut tho
foreign government concerned was Ger
many. Chauvinism nnd antl-Scmltlsm
combined to excite a tremendous out
burst of popular wrath against Captain
Dreyfus, in which there Was u very dis
tinct element of dlssut faction with the
government and Its administration of tlm
army. Dreyfus was tried by court-martial
In secret, nnd condemned, on what
proof tho public has never been allowed
to know. A most Impressive ceremony
was made of his mllltnrv decrndatlon.
and he was hutried on to his punishment
In a sufflelontly sensational and spec
tacular manner. Popular Indignation
had found n victim and was f,atlslled. At
tho time there was, everywhere outside
ot France, a considerable doubt of Drey
fus's guilt, and u strong Impression thut
the French government was, for some
unknown reason, "playing to the gal
lory." o
Tills feeling existed among thinking
mn In France. Soon It negau to be ex
pressed. People began to leallze thut
they had no reason, beyond the assur
ance of the government, for believing
Dreyfus guilty; that they did not evsn
certainly know with exactly what act of
treuchery he had been (hinged; that
even tho identity of the foreign nation
In the case was doubtful. The secrecy
observed by the government was sus
picious In Itself arid gave ilse to .ll
sorts of rumors. Captain Dreyfus be
longed to a rich nnd influential manu
facturing family in Alsace. Ills brother
took up his cause energetically nnd fear
lesslj. Ho accumulated evidence tend
ing to cast suspicion on the proceedings
of the cotirt-murtlal. He demanded n le
hearlug. Ho found many Influential ad
herents. Men high In French politics,
some from conviction, others because
they were nnti-udinlnistratlonsts, sup
ported his demand openly. Some of the
most Influential and conservative French
newspapers allowed It to be perfectly ap
parent that they favored Dreyfus' cau-e.
It would manifestly have been the ;
ernment's wisest course. If It had confi
dence In Its case anil nothing to conceal,
to have either granted a rehearing or
slb-nced tho demand for a rehearing by
producing the proof of Dreyfus's guilt.
It did neither. It shuffled. It evaded. It
bullied. It gave excuses for the main
tenance of secrecy tnat wero almost im
mediately proven futile. It alleged that
It possessed a confession from Dreyfus
which It refused to produce, when chal
lenged to do so. It appealed once mure
to the Chauvinistic und anti-Semitic
sentiment to bring down the mob on its
assailants. It raised the absurd cry that
the movement to rehabilitate) an officer
of the French army accused of treason
was an attack on the honor of the army.
It acted exactly as if It were guilty of a
crime or a blunder that it was deter
mined at every hazard to conceal.
o
Finally another French ofllcer, Count
Ksterhnzy, was publicly pointed out ns
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the real traitor. He was a man known
to bo guilty of tho vilest offense. Ho
was unquestionably a traitor In thought
nnd word, If not in deed. While an of
llcer In the French service, ho had wrtt
ten such sentiments as thcuo; "It would
bo nn Immense delight to mo to slaugh
ter 150,000 Frenchman, as n captain cf
l.'hlans," "I hoDo soon to see all these
Ignornnt, cowardly chlers or mlno go to
German prisons." The letters contain
ing theso expressions were published by
Figaro. Their authorship could not bo
uenicd. Esterhazy had exactly as food
opportunities to commit the treason at
tributed to Dreyfus as had Dreyfus him
self. Tho government could not Ignoro
the charge ngulnst Esterhar.y. He was
tried by a secret court-martial that was
manifestly convened only to Justify tho
government's attitude at all hazards.
Esterhazy was acquitted of the specific
charge or having committed the treason
attributed to Dreyrus; his Judges, prom
inent officers, hnstened to shako hands
with the author ot tho letters above re
ferred to, and tho populaco of patriotic
France ncclalmed him ns tho champion
of tho urmy and ft martyr In Its cause.
o
Then Emlle Zola, tho foremostof French
literary men today, addressed to Presi
dent Fnure an open letter, a terrible
philippic against tho army nnd tho gov
ernment, full of specific allegations
against individuals, and challenged the
government to prosecute him nnd bring
him to public trial. Tho government ac
cepted the challenge. It dared not re
fuse It. Kola's letter seemed like nn un
wlso move. It was oil on fire. It roused
the nrmy, the Chauvinists, the nntl-Sem-Ites,
the students, to fury. France was
in a fit of blind rage against Zola, Drey
fus und tho Juws. Complete proof of
Dreyfus's Innocence would not hovo se
cured justice for him from tho govern
ment or from public opinion. The gov
ernment, the nrmy, the populace wero
united. Dreyfus's cause seemed lost
forever by what appeared to be tho In
discretion of Zola. Rut already tho tide
has turned. Many of the most influen
tial men in Frence are signing Zola's
petition for a retrial of Dreyfus. M,
Clemcnceau has published a strong artl
clo demanding the fullest exposure not
only of tho Dreyfus case, but of every
thing connected with the conduct of the
war department. In the chamber ot de
puties on Monday, tho government was
ablo to carry n vote against an Immedi
ate, open discurslon of tho Dreyfus case.
by 310 ayes to 233 noes, only by a threat
of Immediate resignation, n step whose
consequences to France nt this Juncture
few friends of tho republic would euro
to race. A section of tho mob, the an
archistic element, Is already openly ar
rayed against tho government,
.-o
Some foreign rovernment knows the
truth back or the "aftalre Dreyfus, ' If
there Is any truth back of It. Suppose
it declares tho truth. Supposo tho grow
ing Impression that there Is something
outrageously wrong with tho war de
partment from which tho government
has sought to divert attention by making
Dreyfus a scapegoat becomes so strong
that the ministry loses Its already weak
ened hold in tho chamber of deputies. Is
it to be hoped that there will follow
nothing mor- serious than a change of
ministry? Will not tho government bo
likely to throw Itself upon tho army for
protection and support? Will not tlus
be created a state of affairs most lit to
bring about a"coup do' etui" by some am
bitious general, a military dictatorship,
a "restoration" of nn Orleanlst king or
a Bonapartlst emperor? The French re
public has been woefully discredited by
many "ulTalrs," the sale of decorations,
tho Panama "affair," tho Mudagascar
"affair," this Dreyfus affair, and many
simitar scandals of less importance. Tho
French peoplo have little confidence :n
tho honesty or wisdom of the men they
have chosen for office. The bougeol3ie
has no confidence nt all In the power of
a republic to protect Itself, and them,
against the social revolutionists. There
Is a growing demand for a strong gov
ernment or France. It seems to us that
tho French republic Is sitting on a pow
der barrel, with the top knocked out, in
the midst of a conflagration.
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