Show WHERE WAR NEWS COMES FROM the most ardent jingoes jingles in washington are the officers of the army and navy particularly the latter who are spoiling for a scrap with spain or any other nation for that matter and since the disaster to the maine have had their natural belligerence excited by the thirst for vengeance notwithstanding kt the newspaper reports the prevailing impression among naval officers still is that the ship was destroyed by accident except among the members of the construction bureau who built the maine and therefore are confident that nothing could have gone genre wrong inside of her and one of or two others who have especial theories to account for tho th catastrophe but there a man under the roof of the navy building unless it be secretary long who does not yearn for war this bell gerent spirit is encouraged by the contractors for projectiles ordnance ammunition and other supplies who have thronged thron ged the department since the destruction of the maine anxious to furnish all the fighting material that can be paid for and assist the correspondents pon dents of sensational newspapers in manufacturing canards canaras and scare new to stir up an excitement throughout the country and influence ingress to vote additional appropriations there is no story too improbable for these men to invent and circulate one of the new york papers today gives the details of a plan of war which was adopted at a conference of President the secretary alger gen MUM miles secretary long and various admirals and generals who have not been in washington for weeks The material for the story was obtained at a council of war held round a bottle at the army and navy club by a reporter and a few naval subalterns subal terns of fertile imagination but this to is the sort of news that certain papers seem to want and it is easy for them to get it the proprietor of one of the yellow journals of new york a few days ago wired his coi respondent correspondent here to send the details of a certain rumor that was floating around there is no truth in the story announced the reporter ID D the truth give us something that will sell the papers was the reply chicago record |