In All Sections
of tho Country
MANY VOTES
And Ail Indica
tions Aro that Ho
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EATE
CLERGYMAN.
BRYAN
POPULIST.
B05S CROKER
DEHOCRAT.
SOLDIER.
"God Has Expanded Us," Says
Bishop C. H. Fowler.
Bryan's Pretensions Dissected
by a Former Supporter.
Warmly Supported Expansion
in the New York Journal.
No Thoughtful and Responsible
Gen. Anderson on the Character
Will Destroy Gold Standard it
Man Can Hesitate.
of Our Filipino Allies.
nrsi upportunity.
A Powerful Sermon en Expansion and
the Duties of the Hour, Preached
by the Noted Methodist Divine.
He Is Not BeKln or Votes of
U'h. R.i;.. . n..ia . '")
Democracy's Death Is Prerequisite to
Any Political Reform, Says Georje
Rutherford, the Populist
Vlewt of the Tammany Leader "Aa
Insult lo Surest that We Aban
don the Peoples Rescued
from Bondare.
John S. Williams, Virginia Democrat,
Theodore Sandlco Issued the Proclama
tion Orderinj the Extermination of
All Foreigners and Filipinos
Started Fires.
Fearfully Rends the Cangeroua
- Platform and Protram of the
Bryan-Demo-Popocracy.
... uv..i. vjuiu .-laoaard tut,
till to Welfare of This Coaatrv.
IS
BRYAN LOSES
Geo. W. Kutherford. one of the pion
eer of the Fopullst party lo Marion
County, 111., Bryan' home county, 1 out
gainst Bryan.
Mr. Rutherford hnt been a TopulUt
ever alnce that party waa formed and
las quite a following- in thta State, a be
la well and favorably known as a man
ef high Integrity. When giving hie rea
aooe for not voting fur Bryan this year,
a he did in 139'!, Mr. Rutherford said:
"I aeTered my connection with the lte
cblicun party solely on the question of
finance, votiug fur Peter Cooper in 1870.
lnco then, till lS'.fci, 1 uniformly voted,
When voting at all, for the presidential
Candidate of the third party.
"I supported V. J. Bryan four years
becnuse:
"1. He stood for bimetallism at the
ratio of 10 to 1, demanding also In the
platform 'that the standard silver dollar
chould be a full legal tender, eiiul with
fold, for all debts public and private. '
"2. The Democratic party, for the first
time since the Civil War, took the affirm
ative side of the live Issues, and we Popu
lists duped ourselves into the belief that
Mr. Bryan and his party really meaut It
(or, at least, as ninny years as five.
"3. That party actually named a can
didate for President outside of New
York, a political heresy they had not dar
ed to be guilty of but twice lu thirty nix
- years.
T cannot support Bryan anil Steven
eon this year for various reasons, some
f which are:
"1. They stand for a 45-cent silver dol
lar. By purposely leaving out of their
liver plank at Kansas City the legnl ten
der clause, their so-called silver dollar
brinks to its bullion value.
"2. Mr. Bryan said in accepting the
Populist nomination: 'It is true that the
Populists believe in an Irredeemable
greenback, while the Democrats believe
In greenback redeemable in coin.'
"Tom Merrit of Salem says: 'In fishing
for Populists you need no bait. Instead
throw In the linked hook; they will bite
at anything.' Bryan aud Tom attended
the same school.
"3. Bryan's party relegated to the rear
the silver question by 'paramouuting' the
bogy 'imperialism,' which is a child of
Bryan's begetting, he acting as accouch
eur In securing the one majority for the
Spanish-America n treaty. Then he took
the place of wet nurse, having the child
dressed at Kansas City, afterwards car
ried to Indianapolis, and holding the pub
lie weakling up before the gaze of his
auditors, he attempts to justify his lial
'oo by the following self-convicting testi
mony: " 'I believe that we are now In a better
position to wage a successful contest
gainst Imperialism than we would have
been had the treaty been rejected.'
"lie, not like St. Paul, would do evil
that good to his party might come.
"His actions in urging the members of
Sis party in the Senate to vote for the
ratification of that treaty, and his Ian
guage In justification convicts him be
yond doubt, to say the least, of duplicity.
That treaty provided for the payment of
f'JO.lXMj.OOU to Spain for the Philippine,
the United States agreeing to certain
stipulations, the performance of which
requires ten years from the date of the
ratification of the treaty. A fight had
occurred between the American soldiers
. and the Filipinos two days before the
treaty was ratified; aud that treaty con
tains the following section: 'The civil
rights and political status of. the native
Inhabitants of the territory herein ceded
to the United States shall be determined
iy Congress.'
"All of this Mr. Bryan knew, yet he
poses as the champion of the ratification
that spawned Imperialism as well as the
champion anti-Imperialist.
"4. The Kansas City platform charac
terizes the Philippine war as 'a war of
criminal aggression.' Mr. Bryan running
upon that platform said in substance at
Indianapolis: 'If elected President, my
Brst act after luauguration will be to con
vene Congress In extraordinary session
and give to the Filipinos a stable and la-
dependent government.'
"If Mr. Bryan Is a friend of the Amer
ican soldier, as well as a friend to the
Filipinos, how can he be consistent In
the Indorsement of that clause of his
platform knowing, as be does, that it can
save no other effect than the encourage
ment of the latter to fight on till after
November 6?
"He may be able to reconcile It with
lis superabundant love for humanity, es
pecially the Democratic portion of it, on
the theory that It puts him and them In
better position to wage a anccessful
war against imperialism than If It was
Dot In the platform.
"Tho Democratic party has the bold ef
frontery to talk about 'the consent of the
governed,' when they are the only party
In the United States that has been and
Is guilty of governing people without
their consent, snd not long since believed
In the divine right of one man to own
another.
"Had it not been for the transfusion
f oxidized Populist blood Into the veins
of the Democretle party In ISM the 'old
Reminiscence' would have ceased cheating
the undertaker, and a sandstone slab
would now be marking the spot of Its
everlasting home. Its death Is prerequi
site to any political reform. It Is the
veritable dog In the manger. It stands
to-day as It has always stood, asininely
nd stubbornly across the pathway of
progress1.
"The party with which I have been
Identified for nearly twenty-five years has
committed suicide, and I am, metaphor-
(Continued at bottom f second columaj
(From the New Tork Journal.)
Every man, in my opinion,- should ex
press himself clearly on the great ques
tion of the day. That question is na
tional expansion, which has been the
mainspring of this nation aud he policy
of the Democracy since the nation's
birth. The views which tallow are mine
personally, sod I write t lie in as a private
individual:
I believe in expansion; I believe In
holding whatever possessions we have
gained by annexation, purchase, or war.
This policy is not only patriotic, but it
Is the only safe one to pursue. Any
other policy would show weakness on the
part of the United States and invite for
eign complications. This must be avoid
ed, hence our policy must be vigorous.
Every patriotic American, and every
Democrat in particular, should favor ex
pansion. Jefferson was an expansionist, other
wise he would not have favored the ac
quisition of Louisiana, with its foreign
populutiou, which in Jefferson's time was
quite as remote as the Philippines. In
this age of steam and electricity, dis
tance Is no argument against expansion
We spend millions annually for mis
sionary work lu foreign countries. Now
we have a chance to spend this money
in our own possessions, and make the
people of our new lands good, law-abiding
citizens, who in time will be loyal to our
Constitution and our flag. Take Kngland,
for example. The people of this little
Isle come pretty near owning the uni
verse. Are not our people as Intelligent,
as powerful and as patriotic as the Eng
lish people? The United States is the
only country on earth superior to the
English. Why not illustrate to the world
that we are fully able to cope with great
er problems than we have had occasion to
in the past, and lu the future dominate
any emergency?
We have a population of eighty mill
ions of people; the country teems with
young men full of. life, hope and ambi
tion. Why not give these young men a
chauce to develop our newly acquired
possessions, and build up a country rival
ing in grandeur and patriotism our own
United States?
I say by all means hold on to all that
rightfully belongs to us.
If the great country west of the Rocky
Mountains was filled with wild Indians
at the present moment, how long would
it take us to suppress them and make
them respect our laws and our Consti
tution? The same thing applies to the
Philippines and any other country that
may fall Into our bands by the province
of peace or war.
It Is an Insult to the American peo
ple and to our flag even to suggest that
we abandon the peoples we have released
from bondage, or, what would be more
disgraceful, that we should offer to sell
them to the highest Didder.
Such a proposition places the American
people in the same category with the
Chinese, who have neither patriotism nor
a foreign policy, and are in consequence
utilized as a doormat by the powers of
the world.
This is too great a question to be con
sidered as a mere matter of dollars and
cents. Our people want their rights pro
tected; they will not figure on the cost
Bring It down to local government in
the case of street cleaning the cry is.
"We want clean streets," regardless of
the cost. They demand them as their
right. Just so with our possessions
the people want the properties acquired
by war protected. They will pay for a
standing army, a powerful navy, and the
protection of our flag the world over re
gardless of any monetary consideration
They have proved their willingness to
sacrifice their blood for the honor of
their country and their flag! and when
the question is brought to an Issue they
will arise as one man and demand ex
pansion as a citizen'a sacred right!
RICHARD CROKER.
New Tork, Jan. 6, 1899.
POPULIST.
(Continued from first column.)
Ically speaking, a political orphan. As
an American citizen I claim the right te
do my own thinking and to cast my ballot
for the right as I conceive It to be. I
am not lo accord with the Republican
party on the finance question. In think
ing that other people are mistaken I have
on all questions thought thst I", too be
lng human, was liable to err.
"I have never claimed that the kind
of money which ahould be coined and
used by the people of the United States
Is specified In the 'Bill of Rights,' but Is
a question of expediency. The fold stand
ard has been adopted and Is on trial.
If It proves to be the best for ns, well
and good. If not, our only appeal Is to
the people. I consider that question set
tled for the time being.
"It therefore becomes me, as an Amer
ican citizen, to put my vote where I
think, all things considered, It will do the
most good. I shall therefore support the
party of emancipation and progress.
"Who dare say that the Inhabitants of
Hawaii and the territory ceded by Spain
to the United States are not on the high
road to education and civilization, and
even now enjoying a greater degree of
freedom than they ever dreamed of -while
nnder the domination of Spanish rule and
that of Queen Lilloukalani?
"President McKinley'a administration
has received no word of commendation
from the Democratic party for Its exalt
ed statesmanship In our critical compli
cation with China. For that. If for noth
ing more, he deserves the everlasting
gratitude f all true Americans."
The word "Democrat" with as has cov
ered all shades of opiuion among respon
sible people, and has. meant, generally.
opposition to negro rule and social equal
ity. Outsiders can never know the
losses, humiliations and outrages to
which we have been subjected in our
struggle to regain our rights snd to re
establish white supremacy
We have been, politically, under virtual
mnrtiul law; and means and methods
have been resorted to and made familiar
which only the exigeucy of our situation
could justify.
At last white dominion Is being effec
tually established lu the South, and we
will have the ways of peace and free
government
The present phase of the negro problem
Is convincing the North, and the whole
world, of the folly aud din-fulness of the
effort to place the negro above or on an
equality with the white. Sufficient
amends can never be made for the Insult
and harm done to brothers of a common
stock and household. Hut those who com
muted it are dead and dying; and a new
rare and a new era of Americanism Is
upon us.- Forgetting and forgiving are
the order of the day.
We of the South have reached our level
of citizenship. Absolute unity is no long
er necessary to avert a dire danger. We
can participate iu public questions, and
share iu government for the common
good.
Moreover, with our minds and muscles
and manhood, we have in spite of dan
gers, in every department of human ef
fort and industry in our land, brought
forth wonderful resources and achieved
wonderful results.
For agricultural, mineral, manufactur
ing and commercial advantages -mid
promise, our section stands as the fav
ored land of the world; and our domestic
and social standards and ideuls are of
the best and highest.
With our history in the past and latest
present, from our immediate standpoint,
and with our bright outlook, what we
want most is peace and stability in our
public affairs. And this is the want of
our whole country.
Uncertainty in our standards of value,
duplicity in our obligations, want of char
acter In our public men, and mere strife
for party supremacy and spoils In our
elections, must, each and all, point the
way to general confusion and ruin. Un
der such conditions our best hopes and
promises may come to nothing. That's
the lesson of history.
As between the present administration
and a possible Bryan administration, I
can hardly see how a thoughtful and re
sponsible man can hesitate. Those of us
who still cherish old sectional animosities
have but one old idea, thut of opposition
to Republicanism, and they go for Bry
an. On the other band, men of business
and enterprise, responsible and thought
ful, are almost unanimous against him.
To me, Mr. McKinley represents, large
ly, stability in general management, and
improving financial conditions and sound
principles. He is trying to do his duty.
Under his administration our country has
encountered problems and difficulties of Union in 1801 but for the aid and corn
immense importance. The Spanish war fort given them by ,he Comerneadl, of
mraa airoin a.t Kla will Kvth naotiuj oiiuh- " "
w sJatii.T aaso nun 'uiu ai nca auau-
ed into it and he could not withstand
them. But in that our country, under
the guidance of himself and his cabinet,
organised a great army, and, by the fa
vor of heaven, achieved a speedy and
overwhelming triumph over a great em
pire, to the admiration of the world. We
were at once approved as a great power
among nations. fJuban and Filipino en- brink of the awful abyss. I bey loved
tanglements are unhappy consequences, the Union and hated the Abolitionists.
They can be settled only by experiment The Union was a "theury" entwined with
and in time. beautiful and patriotic sentiments. Slav-
The Chinese difficulties have been man- ery was a "condition" In which was in
aged with temperance and wisdom and vested the bard earnings of a lifetime,
general credit. . At the supreme crisis came the promise
Our financial matters are progressing ' of Northern Democrats that they would
without Dsnic or trouble. Time and not let us be hurt: their bit
perience will cure them. Free banking tions of the Republican party. The South nelp Poorer and more Ignorant races
alone will settle the currency question. . made the leap. j a ever. St. Psul was to go "for hence
As things are, it la plain wisdom to let Dnring the war we saw Indiana regl- t0 tho Gent ilea"; but we stuck to our At
well enough alone. Our case calls for ments and brigades march through the 'nDt'e waters, coasted by our shores, we
temperance.
As to Imperialism, that Is nothing but
a party cry. We have ten thousand tiniea
more to fear from the despotism of par-
ty leaders and the demoralizing means
and metbods or lammany and the minor
clubs throughout the country, and polit- j
leal machinery generally, than from the
enlargement or expansion or exertion of
the strong arm of our government fol
lowing aud protecting the enterprise of
our citizens.
ia mr. urrin 1 can oniy recognize toe
champion of change, the leader of the
outs against the ins, the mouthpiece of
fault-finders, the bead center of malcon
tents, the mirror and kodak of every
phase ef politics and fanaticism, an India
rubber man, and an Infant phenomenon.
In his last canvass he spent six months
In scattering heresies snd kindling social
antagonisms, and feeding envy, hatred,
malice and all uncharitableness.
I regard him as very a pestle of con
fusion. He has covered np free silver.
with which he was identified, because it
did not seem to take. Whst else he has
reserved In bis pandora's box no one
knowa.
I am no Republican. I claim my right
te think for myself, and own my respon
sibility to vote for the best Interests of
the commonwealth. And I think the
ssfety of our country depends on every
man claiming thst right and owning thst
responsibility. JOHN 8. WILLIAMS.
Richmond, Vs., Aug. 20, 1900.
Were any confirmation needed that the
Aguinaldo party intended the massacre
of all uou-Filipioos in Manila and to burn
the city itself, it has been supplied by
Gen. Thomas M. Anderson (retired). He
was lu command of the troops at that
critical time iu Manila, and in regard to
the wild statements of Senators Petti
grew and Allen be says in a signed com
munication: "Sir In the report of Senator Spoon
er's speech in relation to the suppression
of the Philippine insurrection, it appears
that Seiiutor Pettigrew denied that lheo-
dore Ssndico issued s proclamation or
dering the extermination of all inhabit
ants of Manila men, women and chil
drenexcept Filipino families. I was
then in command of. the district south of
the Pttsig river, and found the proclama
tion posted in conspicuous places in my
part of the city. I bad them torn down
and one translated.' They were signed
by Sandico.
"I hud received letters from blm and
knew his signature. Moreover, soldiers
of my command arrested two Filipino
nieu in women's clothes setting fire to the
houses in the city. They were brought
to me and I had them turned over to the
provost marshal general.
'Senator Allen also asserted that Senor
Torres came into the city under a flag of
truce to ask for a suspension of hostili
ties. As I know that Torres was within
our lines when the fighting began It is not
apparent bow he came in, when it seems
almost impossible for him to have gotten
out. On the 5th of February white flags
were hung out from every Filipino house
in Manila, and the few Filipinos who
ventured Into the streets carried little
white flags as an evidence of submission.
Senator Allen's reliable informant seems
to have forgotten to mention this circum
stance in saying that he saw Torres going
to headquarters under a flag of truce.
Torres naturally inferred, without con
sultation, that Aguinaldo would like a
suspension of hostilities, for in front of
our first divisiou alone the insurgents had
lost in one day 700 killed and drowned,
400 prisoners and seven cannon.
r send this communication to correct,
so far as my testimony is relevant, a very
erroneous impression.
"THOMAS M. ANDERSON."
EX-CONFEDERATE.
Thos. H. Baker on Moral Sup
port in Modern Warfare.
Aguinaldo Would Have Been a Peaceful
Citizen hut tor the Encouragement
Given H m by Sentimental
Traitors.
I do not believe that the Southern bor
der Stutes would have seceded from the
. u. tl J I . , .
',wrlu- eu .ue uisunguisnea ora-
tor declared that the Lmon army would!
have te march ever the dead bodies of
40,000 Indiana Democrat before they
reached the South, the magnificent utter
ance electrified Tennessee with hope.
Thousands of men hesitated upon the
Mate or Kentucky. "Tramp," "Tramp "
"I ramp," they passed through Tennes-
see. Georgia and Seuth Carolina. We
never did learn how the poor fellows got '
over those 40.hhi dead bodies of their I
I'emocratic fru-tuls and neighbors. We
were fully persuaded they killed and
made a corduroy road of them, because
the anti-Imperialist of Indiana said they
! would.
Our next hope after we got mixed un
together was that Kiiglaud snd France
" neiii us nr -iiuiiiu'r Iril reason
vailitnuigiiam. rMeveiion uul a thousand
other Copperheads like tlie good brethren
who hold up Joshua's arms, lndd ours up
by enconragng us to hold out a little
longer, by denouncing the war a "fail- ':
ore" and keeping us posted as to the j
movements of our enemies. j
This Is sll ancient history,, but I, an old !
Confederate, can see very readilv how i
the antJ-lmperialist league can materially
aid Aguinaldo and bis crowd. Kverv .M
soldier. North and South, understands
the force of moral suprtort. Our war
would not have lasted three months but
for Northern Democratic encouragement,
and I believe Aguinaldo would have been
peaceful a citizen as Gomes but for
the encouragement he has received from
the sentimental traitors of the Anti-Imperial
League.
THOMAS n. BAKER.
United States Marshal Western District
of Tennessee.
Memphis, Tena.. Aug. 27, 1000.
AH men now begin to recognize the
providential character of Abraham Lin
coln. We see him as one of God's
prophets.
History repeats itself. One generation
stones the prophets, and the next, their
children, build them monuments. Only
a few souls hare the intuition to recog
nize a living prophet. - These prophets
neither dress nor act like the old proph
ets; that would be mere charlatanism,
Every prophet must be fitted into his
own time, suit his own environment. One
comes as a pilgrim, like Abraham; an
other aa a hired man and herdsman, like
Jacob; another aa a leader and lawgiver,
like Moses. Another as a warrior, like
Joshua; another as an executioner, like
Elijah; another as a scholar, like l'aul
each man fitting his own age.
To find a prophet, we must not take
the grave clothes of the dead seers, and
run through the mart, trying to find some
man whom they will tit. We must so
read events as to recognize the man who
fits and fills his time. He must be in
league with events. Napoleon on St.
Helena said: "At Waterloo events desert
ed me." He dropped out of the nick of
time. The prophet must be a history
maker. To find our prophet, we must
find the trend of events; then we can
easily find the band that is making the
bend In the stream of history.
This hand we find iu the White House.
President McKinley may not lit tue
clothes of the old prophets, but he is
fitting the trend of events in this age.
He so stands In the midst of the world's
forces that he reaches results in civiliza
tion. He is bending the streams of his
tory In the right direction. Sink down
into the undercurrent, down below the
party strife on the surface, down into
the great stream that sweeps on through
the sea of the centuries bearing the races
up to higher latitudes and levels, and
catch the moral forces that are evolving
the world s destiny, and you will find that
this statement is not politics, but relig
ion God's religion, that moves always on
in one direction.
The three greatest missionary events of
the Christian era since the crucifixion of
Jesus sre: First, the conversion of St.
Paul. This opened the door to the Gen
tiles; this was our chance. Second, the
firing on Fort Sumter. This made the
Saxon race fit for evangelical uses. Third,
the blowing up of the Maine. This mil
fied the nation and sent us out about
our work.
It melted the American elements in the
furnace of war, and made all Americans
one. The son of Gen. Grant an'd the
nephew of Gen. Lee marched side by side
under one flag and against a common en
emy.
These Saxons are said to be bad neigh
bors. We have some dark snots in onr
history. The Saxon sometimes has made
a bud record. Yet it must also be said
that we have never enslaved a race, with
out leaving it freer than It was before we
enslaved it. For the ages through and
the world around, there can be found no
such liberties anywhere cle as are found
under the Stars aud Stripes.
The blowiug up of the Maine was an
eye-opener to us, and soon to nil the
world. Our great Washington (we should
never speak his name but to honor it),
our great Washington said to us, as a
little strip of Atlantic colonies, "Beware
. " - - "
of foreign entanglements." It was the
height of wisdom. It suited our infancy
like a bib. He pinned this bib unon us
and said, "Keep in the middle of the lot,
or the boys on the next lot will throw
mud on your bib." So we kept In the
middle of the lot, and grew till we out
prew the lot. We grew from three mill
ions to seventy-five millions. The bib
was too small for us. It looked like a
cotton patch on the breast of our uni
form. We had more beefsteaks and silk
dresses, more spelling books and New
Testaments, to the thousand people, than
could be found anywhere else in the
world.
We were as much under obligations to
i urm. on lo our "ltle big, contented, ex-
P"""1 to stay always In our western
,
nn' 'nT tn Spanish touched off a
,nnK"7-lnP unuer ns. Then the jig was up,
Come what might, we must fight to the
..uiu. ,i weix up tuto the air, and
come down everywhere to stsy.
This scut us out about our providen
tial job; this made missionaries of us.
We ore in Manila. We are ready to help'
Chinn.
God has expanded us; we can't help It.
Ion might as well try to eafrh
P'rched on a crag of the mountains,
pluming his pinions to wrestle with the
wh"iwinil, and then try to crowd him
1,''k '",0 ,he li,tl eggshell out of which
," '"V" l,r"k''n " to try to throttle this
American roce and crowd it back luto
"lil',,'rn original colonies. Some of
tllp 0,(1 K'-nUcmen on that old soil of some
l" oiu thirteen colonies, who have
never left It. may think It would be a
good thing for our great continent-embracing
people to come back home. Hut
It is impossible,
God has expanded ns.
Long years ago, back In the forties,
Thomas H. Itenton, United States Sena
tor from Missouri, standing In his place
In the Senate, pleading for a Pacific rail
road pointed toward the setting sun and
t"ne 'L.r ,h"'' . there Is
To-day we catch np our papers and
.a il is...
iy I am begging fc,
all. I neve, ai)ke1 a
me. Ia fact, I have tow
Not at
a cl l have told aoau
people to vote against me. ThT
more than most candidates do. i
have said that ir there was anybod
who believed in the maintenance w
the gold standard until forei .
tions came to ns and graciously p,
mined u. to abandon It, I ,.ii
anybody should believe that the tola
standard waa absolutely humi.i
the welfare of this country, he ouga,
not to vote for me at all. do ao
want any man to vote for me ana
then oltfect to my doing what I M.
pect to do if you elect me, and If "
can prevent the maintenance of Us
gold standard you can rely npoa n.
doing it the very first possible oppo,.
tuuily given me.
WILLIAM JKN'XIXCS BRYAN.
Philadelphia, Kept. 23, 18o.
DEAR BOY" LETTERS N0.5
My Dear Boy You ask why the Dc
ocrats insist that imperialism aud mill,
tarism are the "puramount issues of ttli
campaign."
The reason, my son, is very plain. 0
Democratic friends are pushing theM
tilings to the front becaune there iin't
anything else for them to talk about this
year. All the rest of their powder hat
been burnt once and won't even fiiilt thli
year. Their platform denounces the
Dinglcy tariff bill, but they do uot wiik
to meet us before the people on thai
issue. The hard times under the WiUoa
bill and the present prosperity under wi
protective tariff furnish an object leatoa
which makes it uphill business td trim
free trade this year.
Their platform also denounces the gold
standard legislation and demands fret
coinage of silver at the ratio of IB t L
But that powder was burnt four yirt
ago and events have shown the falsity t
their predictions.
They arc like the boy who when beatta
playing marbles says, "Let's play lome
thing else." Beaten on tariff and th
money question, they waut to play "ai
itarism" awhile. Their lack of any other
issue Is responsible for the conjuring ui
of the spectre of "Imperialism."
But while they are not talking about
free trade or free silver, the people art
not going to forget that they are tba
free trade and free silver party. And,
as Mr. Lincoln used to say, that remiads
me of a little story.
One of our excellent miisionariea n4
his good wife went to an island In Pair
nesia about fifty years ago. They atajel
there sixteen years and their work wia
wonderfully successful. They found I
tribe of savages. They left a tribe tt
civilized,. Christian people, industrlsua
and temperate, "clothed and ia their
right minds."
The Incident which illustrates my pel"
occurred during the first year of their
residence on the island. A chief clothed
In sunshine and nothing else called on tho
missionaries. They treated mm pouieiy.
but as be loft the bouse the misafbnarf
followed him and aaid: "Chief, we art
glad to see you and want you to com
again, but In my country mea wear
clothes and my wife is not arcustoaiea
to see men without clothing. The sell
time you come to ace us, wou't you pleaM
put on a little clothing, one or tws fir
ments at least?"
Th. nhlAf n.nmlwit enninliflnce. A tew
days after, be entered the missionarier"
home with satisfied smile on his f
saying. "Me all right now."
He had on a shirt collar and a pur
socks.
Mr son. Mr. Brvsn and bis frim"
re badly deceived If they think tul
their "Imperialism" collar and "miliar
ism" socks will bide the free trada aa
free silver nakedness of the Democritll
party from the gaze of the Americas
people. ,
By th way, apeaklng of "militarlsaa.
I advise you always to watch with
plcion any man or any party that sf
afraid of the United States srmy. 0"
army is a volunteer army of aa I""'
men as the sun ever shone upon. TMJ
are our defenders and the protectors
our persons and property. H'w.'.rT
ing, uncomplaining, brave and faitnnu,
they follow the flag through summtri
suit and winter'a storms, through tropi
cal Jungles and the dangers of fever
of battle for you and me and for tnw
country's sake. If a man Is s good, '
abiding citlren he has no reason t "
afrarid of an American soldier.
I was one, my father was one, w
grandfather was one, and my F "
grandfather was one, and I feel like
Ing off ray hat to every soldier I b"
And whenever I find a man
afraid of the "tyranny" of our !'
littie army, I feel like asking him w'
he has been doing. It is a smsl
for so greet a nation, and the Intro
tlon of "militarism" in this rmP,
shows that our Democratic friends ar
hard up for an Issue.
YOUR FATUEB.
CLERGYMAN.
rii....i frin fifth columa.)
look through the Golden Gate ,, .
Kast. the far East. The ages sre roue.
together at our feet. 1U ,
W. ,re standing by the cr
Chins; ahe is asking ns bar,
She has esught the vision of a"
Bear "that walks like a man, "
Is asking America to save her.
They say I
CHARLK3 II. F0WLL.K. -Dsffaio,
N. T.
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