Show TOWNES DISAPPOINTINGSPEECH I i One sentence of Mr Tpwnes arraignment ar-raignment of Goy lloosevclt will apply ap-ply perfectly to his speech I Is the one In which he says As to the facts It abounds In Inaccuracies which If I accidental are inexplicable as coming from a man who has performed credItably cred-Itably In history and biography Mr Townes speech abounds In Inaccuracies I Inaccura-cies all the way through and he says I Home things that arc shameful He I speaks of Qov Roosevelt as a civil I service reformer in partnership with I Thomas C Plait Even the Springfield Republican has to admit that the machine ma-chine 1ms had no IOsslble influence on Coy Kobscvclt the handllngof the I husln E of the State of New York When he calls him n citizen soldier who ridicules the volunteer that Is a total inaccuracy When he says He I I Is a lender In battle who findsglory being rescued from ambush that la disgraceful because the w rt enemy I of Uoosrjvelt never disputed his courage cour-age or discounted his ability When he calls him the candidate who poses to delegates in the galleries to obtain l n nomination that he does not want that Is shairicful hecnuse Gov Tloose I velt did not want the nomination He I believed In his fioul that it would injure in-jure him and Injure his future chances for preferment When he calls him a I gentleman who charges six and one half million of his fellow countrymen I with lawlessness and cowardice that I Is an absolute falsehood But Mr TXoosevelt does not need any t defense against any one of the caliber cali-ber of ilr Townp I is Mr lone that needs defending Ills speech delivered de-livered at Duluth was carefully prepared pre-pared I was Intend r to be used asa as-a campaign document after Its dellv cry Hence It wns not an offhand speech In which errors might have been I overlooked Hence It Is a proper subject sub-ject of review His statement the Philippine business is a mixture between le tween untruth and exaggeration exaggertion oit the one hand and a concealment of facts on the other The very opening sentence expresses a fear which Mr TOn pever felt He advertises thc th-c that to obtain political success he Is willing to deceive all his countrymen coun-trymen He declares that the going of Aguinaldo to Auzon after he had sold out his countrys liberties for a promise of money and left his country never to return was by Invitation J of Admiral Dewey Admiral Dewey himself him-self says that he permitted Aguinaldo to cOpe on the JMcCulIoch twenty days after the destruction of MonlJJos fleet But Mr Towne says the statement state-ment that we never promised the Filipinos ipinos their Independence conveys n false Impression that our conduct was such as to estop a honorable nation from using such aplea as a Justification or excuse for attempting to subjugate the islands MrTowne t In his statement conveys 0 false impression im-pression Admiral Dewey says he never nev-er made a promise in his life to Agui naldo Gen Merrill was careful when he took the city of Manila not to ranla permit per-mit Aguinaldo and his horde to enter the city Mr Towre says The Filipinos made no secret oC their object In rebelling against the Spanish Government That Is true but when he says What they desired to do was to form a government gov-ernment of their own and be absolutely independent of Spain he is not borne out a all by any record In the world Aguinaldos Insurrection was simply to get some reforms from Spain and the thought of Independence never entered ihs i-hs ouJ Moreover I is on record in Agulnaldoe own handwriting which Mr Towne must know that when he was pretqndlng t to be friendly with the Americans he was secretly trying to negotiate with the Spanish in the islands to rulee an insurrection ahd drive the Americans out to restore the power of old Spain He says Agui naldos l government was fl government in fact recognized as capable of pro serving order collecting taxes maintaining main-taining education and a complete system sys-tem of public administration That is altogether shameful on the part of Mr Towne because Aguinaldo government gov-ernment was simply that he drew to him some followers of the Tagal tribe The other moro than thirty tribes in the lalands paid no heed to him He did collect taxes that IB he took from the people what he could get When he says that Aguinaldo maintained education that Is a figment of Mr TOne fancy for he never heard oran or-an exertion that Aguinaldo ever made to educate his l people except in deviltry dev-iltry Again he says Our opponents arc in the habit of referring to the outbreak out-break of actual hostilities between us and the Flllplnow as though the latter were the aggressors Mr Tone denies de-nies that He says But of course since we had secretly formed a determination de-termination to seize the islands It Is apparent that whenever that design became manifest or we attempted to put It into effect the Filipinos if they were earnes when declaring their object ob-ject to be independence would resist It Now that rebellion began beforetime before-time treat with Spain It began when except In the city oC Manila Spain had control of the Philippines and the way It began was that Aguinaldo had planned the destruction of all the whites In Manila and a portion of his command wa pressing upon the American Amer-ican lines until In selfdefense our soldiers had to shoot But the hislory is well known by the people and that adds to the shame cf Mr Townej speech He starts out with the hypothesis that Aguinaldo Is i a patriot and not a cutthroat that he I IB humane and gentle whlloIn fact i he and his robber band wtille pre tending to bea frendjy were tI llir o I conpplre to drlvorout the American troops until nt last he fixed the con I Kplracy for the purpose of killing by asaarlnntfon every white person In 1 I Manila It seems to us that a portion t I of the people of the I United States have gUile daft In their anxiety to obtain I office and that honor to the flag and honor to native land count for nothing with them that they arc willing to disgrace our country and our flag before j be-fore the world In their lust and hunger for office We expected better things of Mr Towne We thought he was a sincere and true man raid that while I In the wrong he would be guided at views least by the truth in putting forth his I |