Show MEET THE PEOPLE HALF WAY ask the administration How can administrton congress to increase the regular army under Alcui I With all the whitewash applied by the investigation committee the fingerprints finger-prints of scandal were not effaced from the record Ignorance Incompetence stupidity 1 jhalice favoritism negligence these describe Alders l are the words that descrbl Cs i shameful conduct ol the war The people of tho whole country t know it just os the people of Boston Know i Alger is greeted with hisses In Boston There is no excitement on There is no personal feeling against 1 the man People everywhere rtspect the position that he holds But for Alger there is loathing and contempt i Then how can the president expect I congress to increase the army when he i dues nothing in the same direction How an he hoye for favorable con side ration of the reorganization bill When he refuses to remove the notoi icus incompetent and historical coward vvhos presence now disgraces the head of the war department Perhaps he relies upon the narty whip There are men like RcDresenta j tive Johnson of Indiana and Senators Hale and Hoar for whom the lash that r Hanna wields has lost ifs terror I the admimstiatmn honestly and desires the f I the highest purpose I r organization and increase of the the founda at l my let the president lay t tion 01 i I IE IK should meet the people at least half wai He should remove Alger at once |