The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 8, 1904, Page 10

Gevelopments are uption works corrupt purpx there must be many be fully ferreted al nditions are the the indifference of business;~ for ple in giving attention to public af- fairs are attending to their own business. SERIOUSNESS OF When one reflects on the conditions of the king you have stood by me. and thinks of what i is remarkable. is to-day the ch has not been long since bribery w sidered a mat 2 without hinde posures and the awakening. Conscience was aroused to the enormity | Then came the ex- Under our form of government, all au t in the people and w | the If there | cerests. r in whom such a sacred who sells it for has been’ reposed all | rights ut and for and by nt of and for be a government, jan official to selicit traitor to his more danger- traitor of peace, shows that where wars and afl other ca- corruption has undermined re can be no more serious iting any people than th tions concern the functions goes to the very Istence of government Itself Ve where bribery is lgnoble silence. PH | undone by the & es and prosecutions in ease was practically been only a few the books during the Until the expose 1 years there have been more for bribery than In the pre- of our country's history, lead of Missouri, many wainst corruption lighting the powers Following tn the ttates are Waging we raat punishment of givers of t included In any treaty between » \¢ Bis * ‘ treaty with Mex- ended so as to Include | has been made | ands making bribery ex- rs to close those | of public roa sourl belongs the A sourl ie being Injured by e talking about It. yreater mistake could be made, etion of civic evils is the highest clvie | two years have been ‘ause every Missourian to hold his head ugher as the citizen of a state that ts aking the lead in the fight for good gov- of there being any- be ashamed of there hing to be proud of because Missouri evils—Missouri, hrough the Democratic party, is setting n example for other states to follow. ‘he more boodlers are fought here the nore the name “Missouri” will be a syn- nym of civic honor everywhere. ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW, 1 do not think a boodler who calls him- elf a Democrat is any better than a oodier who calls himself a Republican; If there be any dif- erence I should say prosecute the Dem- because he claims to be a cloak of Democracy be torn from him who dares to se it as a shield for wrong doing. I do ot believe in closing our eyes to evil, or fear that by making a fuss about it he party or the state may be injured. to party_can be hurt by getting rid of state can be defamed by ne enforcement ould be in the disgrace of toleration; it an not be in correction, 2 stamp out corruption is to crush it henever and wherever it shows its head ft there be wrong doing, even in the I do not believe vaiting for the opposition to attack us or it, but we should be brave enough to ‘ © pply the surgeons’s knife ourselves. The mocratic party of Missouri, in showing raat it can and will do this, has )vidence it is entitled to and should re- Mive public confidence and support. PUBLIC CON- oth are criminals, The only way vemocratic party, Boodlers do not care for our mg as they control our o not know good from now 1s politics. ad; all they But they do know good olitics from bad politics. They et to learn whether boodling Show them that it is, ad more will be accomplished towards v eradication of bribery than could be a hundred men behind ey do not fear the pen- entiary so much, as they hope to es- upe that through some hook or crook, ut they do fear an outraged public co They look without terror on i ctments of grand juries, but they trem- se as they hear the distant rumble of Boodling can lot as well as by the Its remedy lies in the hearts of The laws may be all le are’ indifferent, bo but on the other nand, fi ple are aroused to the enormity offense, bribery can be stopped, ven though not a single offender he Justinian Code of Rome faid to be the most perfect system of ws ever devised by man, yet while this was in operation Rome was under- by corruption. The laws were all le were not. le of Missouri on oO le would do more ing else to stop bribery by loot of public and showing that it for a political party to Diitics or not. one by puttil THE TIMB 15 NOW. le are sovereign, and have it wer to correct things that wrong, or by indifference allow them go on. Through ignorance of exist- conditions the people may innocently , but toleration of known abuses ‘corruption is ev taan in an by the vu ket are iT it is @ battie for prince The individuals in this pass away, campaign will sv0R the people of Missouri do in this crisis will have an influence for good or evil for years to eome. When assailed and attacked by those I have been prosecut- Your faita is ali I have, and whatever the outcome 1 want to keep that. I went into ce 1 now hoid witnout any prom- ise to any man and under obligations to none, and if 1 am called to a higner po: under the sar y as 1 see it to my party and to my ple, and I shall not suomit to any ntangling alliances. } ia ected governor, the first ru- jmor of around Jefferson City will ed by an investgativa thorough and complete, if I have to con- duct it myself. I dv not propose that a corrupt lobby shai te in Jefferson City, and shall driv n | not hesitate to vet 1 shail not per- mit public service corporations to make legisiature the tool of corpurate in- 1 shall see that corporations and all other interests, as well as inuividuals, are treated fair. and justly They, as individuals, shat have at the law accords to them, but no They shall have equal and exact justice, but no special privileges. he legisiator’s first step towards corruption is the railroad pass. The laws on this subject will be strictly enforced, The passage of laws making it a felony for 4a bribe and laws compelling Witnesses to tesuly to bribery transactions will be rm mmended, and the pas: e of laws making ail fran- chises obtained by bribery void will be advocated, Recommendations will also be made that the statute of limitations in bribery cases be ftixed at five ye 1 shail do my best to have the prin of the int ive and reterendum put into effect. A constitutional amendment pro- viding for this is now before the ple, If this is adopted, the people can +f pe- tition initiate new legislation, or veto bad legislation, With this law in effect, the incentive to bribery of legislat« will be taken away, as what they do can be people. Tho policy of my administration will be to lay the burden of taxation equita- bly on all classes of property, including franchises. Laws protecting the rights of labor as well aa the rights of capital will be favored. The man who earns hie living by the sweat of his brow is just as honest and just as patriotic, with pur- »oses as noble as thos» of his employer. Each has rights that the other should re- spect, and that the law should protect, The rights of one before the law should not be greater than the rights of the other, 1 shall recommend new laws on the subject of roads, and shall endeavor to provide a system whereby good roads can be built from one end of the state to the other, As one of these steps in this direction, I shall advise that the railroad commissioners be made state highway ers, With authority to look after and oversee the construction ds. "Phe polic departments of St, Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph will not be used in politics. While they have the e same rights to political beliefs as other . When on duty they shall be the ators of the peace, ticlans. I shall do my duty ns sO conducted that every Democrat, y Republican, every Populist, every | alist, and every man of every party, and of no party, may go to the polls and vote just as he pleases, without Interfer- ence from any source, The Democratic party wants the ballot in Missourl hon- est, and fair and free, and desires polit- ical liberty to reign supreme in this state, 1 do not propose to build up a machine, and shall see to it that members of the state committee are not office holders under the governor, I belleve the best machine any individual can have is the heart and conscience of the people. If he does right, he will have this, but if he does not do right, he will not de- serve it. NO BOODLE SUPPORT WANTED. I do not want the support of any boodler, I expect and want all of them to fight me, and I say this knowing full well the forces they can control through their wealth and sinister influences, That is why I am making this race. Next to the honor of defeating them is the honor of being defeated by them. I want the issue clean cut. I had rather be de- feated without boodle votes than elected with them. Defeat without them would be more honorable than success with them. I want my party to win as much as any man, but I would rather it would go down to honorable defeat than up to dishonorable victory. The pery, is in this fight for a principle; that is what this contest is for. The Democratic party believes honesty {is the best politics, as well as the best policy. That is the prin- one of the Democratic party that will win, because it is right. If the Democratic party takes such a stand as to make the boodlers bolt away from the party, it should make good cit- izens bolt towards it. When boodlers get on one side, good citizens should go on 7 = before, and that there exposv half years ago? I managers, who are so free | fi but the effect of whav | got? | Louts, con- | reached its highest point. The corruption of that since has astounded the civilized world and appalled good citizens everywhere. Conditions & city were Globe-Democrat, in March, 189, spoke of the Republican stministretes HI FRANCHIS. OB THER. THAT IN Ti Ls TO ANY OTHER PARTICULAR CLASS OF ORDINAD INTRODUCED, Y SCANNED TO SEE IF THEY OFFER ANY CHANCE FOR THE OF PORTUD A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY IS fap FOR THBIR PASSAGE. THIS 1S NOT TION OR MALICIOUS SURMISE, OF COMMON UNDERSTANDING; AND THE VICTIMS SUBMIT TO THE ROB- BERY BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY V a IN WHICH THEY CAN SECURE WHA" branches of the mur laws to the highest bidder, stitutions were neglected; public bulld- ings went Into decay; sewers were un- made; streets were unkept. Taxi high and the ct izens groped about at night with no light to guide their footsteps except the pale rays of the moon or the flickering gleams of a@ hand Jantern. Dévelopments since that Rome in her most venal period was innocent compared to St. this dy up and overthrew that regime through «ne Democratic part proposed to cure corruption in Missour! by turning the organtzation that corrupted and Gurkest days! When Christ was on earth he pointed to the produc- tiogs of Nature and declared that same relation existed between the visible results of human efforts. them gray so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.” The people of St. Louis gath- ered from this tree the thorns of a de. based public service. Missouri desire to t produce figs t to Bt. St. Louls was run? souri tasted of that fruft were the blackest days in the history of the state, Republicans, all are Missourlans. Let us be Missourians before we are_partizans. The party is honest, and the rank and file of the Republican party is honest. ger from foreign aggression should arise, Democrats and Republicans would forget their differences and join hands in fight- ing for the honor of Missouri. same spirit prevail in defending the state from domestic foes who would by bribery thwart justice Democrats would do battle for the state against the enemies of war, 1 ask you to protect. your state from these enemies of peace, Every citizen is a soldier in the army of There have been many battles for liberty in the history of the world, but the fight now going on in Missouri is one of the all the tide of b lic life, Recween evil and good in every sphere of e. fought for; the bad will take care of itself. The difference between virtue and vice, as between the wheat that is sown and the thorns that grow wild on t way. and nurtured, wh! ish anywhere. and private affairs, the battle against wrong is never over, the fight for the right is never quite finished. viguance is ever the price of liberty. the other. Boodlers are never divided; good citizens usually are. That is how the boodlers get their power. With which party will the boodlers vote this election? It does not take a peonnet to tell they will be with the epublican party. Good Republicans said a year ago that if the Repub'ican managers should invite Ed Butler to join the publican party, they were going to get out and come over to the Democratic arty. oo are they going to do about it now’ REPUBLICAN CRITICISM. Some of the opposition criticised the prosecution of boodlers, and asked why was not this or that done. We did only the best we could, but do not criticisms come with poor grace when it is remem- bered that nobody had been prosecuted will hold undisputed sway. believe in free government are looking to Missouri! to see it vindicated by a righteous citizenship. Missourians, what will your verdict be on this mighty issue? It is for you to say what message you will send to the world. Will it be one that will to porn ionists everywhere, or one that will stri May your action be such that the hosts from one en “Sound the loud timbrel o’er land and s whatever prior to two and @ efy the Republican | in finding ult, to point to a single instance where | a boodler has ever been exposed or pros- ecuted by a Republican o‘ficial souri. | one. been done by the Demo-ratic party. FRUIT REPUBLICANS OFFER MIS- in Mis- There has been none; no, not Everything that has been gone has SOURL Does Missouri wan. the fruit St. Louis It was under Rapublican rule in St. from 1833 t») 1Wl, that corruption Then it was g oTor. unearthed the lawmaking body of the wretched that even the the Republican organ, a OPEN SECRET THAT OF ALL KINDS ARE AINED BY BRIBE AND 1S REASON TO BELIE THE FRLLOWS WITH ITCR- PALMS DO NOT CONFINE IR DISHONDSTY TO THAT OR CBS, WHEN BILLS ARE , THRY ARE CLOSEL LEVY! TRIBUTE, AND THOSE WHICH M TO PRESBED SUCH AN. OP- ITY ARE HELD UP UNTIL A_MATTER OF IDLE ASSER- BUT HEY WANT." Corruption was wing. Combines in beth nicipal assembly sold Public in- were finances low. Cit- Official debauehery shrieked through the city and laughed at the protests of 55 ies nant public, then shown ave Louis under asty. Finally the people rose Now it is solemnly tate over to the same ran St. Louis in her the “Ye shall know by their fruits, Do, men gather of thorns or figs of thistles? Even Do the people of ansplant the tree to erson City? » it be expected to here when it gave thistles Shall Missouri be run God forbid! Mi once, and those Louis? CONCLUSION. Some of us are Democrats, some are rank and file of the Democratic If dare Let that iniquity. as you and enthrone and Republicans, eace, ‘ought reatest for human rights in times, It is a battle for a by the pene against the corruption in pub- conflict overnment lighting influences 0! There is a constant Everything that is good must be truth and falsehood is the same he high- The useful un must be protected je the thistle will flour- So it is in government Eternal The Democratic party must be either indorsed or repudiated for the stand it has taken. indorsed, other political parties will do like the Democratic party has done, and the reign of boodle will be at an end throughout the land. lng 4 is condemned, then no other party is apt to fight corruption, and venality If the Democratic party is If the Democratic Those who ive encouragement and cheer e consternation in their ranks? of error will be vanquished, and then the morning of a new day will dawn in our political life. Then be heard he ie acclaim will of the land to the other: o'er sea, Wor Missouri has spoken—and the people are free.” MR. BRYAN’S SPEECH. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 2 Gee that I am able to be with ou to-day—glad because it is the open- ce, both t impor- tance, to the na- tion; and I am glad also because it al- ways gives me pleasure to come Missouri Democrats. I owe a to Letvgeeeid In yd eam: - the poh electoral vote given to iue by an} tate was given to me by Missourl, an il take me the rest of my life to repay the kindness you have shown me There is still another-reason why I en- joy visiting Missouri. I like the Missour! jocracy. In and Nebraska stood side by side in the of the Chi platform. Dur- ears that intervened be- Missouri and Ne braska wo! together for the mante- nance of the principles of the Chicago cea ‘They st at Kansas A in the convention recently held Louis Missouri and Nebraska were , and the fact that they gave me confidence in the ebraska. ‘the "Botore ente & ie age : Z 3 5, H # = i z ‘| 3 g z Fi ii i : 3 E 3s 3 : : E it LE ze E 8 home he will the: es and their descendants Fight to participate in'the government, he if when one-is tempted to remain at remember how many men en their lives to purchase ie 6 have go to the polls and cast his vote, and thus take his part in the ing ‘of a islation and in the conduct of public af- fairs. I am net sure but that we ought to have a law making voting compulso: upon those who have a right to vote. If the Democrats of this state will go to the polls on election day I have no doubt of the result. Go to th and when you have v spen of bond EA yg et the entire vote o , the second fon t make is that y vote should be erned by the les not . your Th Peaividual te ith ip men give their lives a fur the cotablishment of prineip! a iple; our rinciples of ernment have cost fives of millions. Contests aby a condition wi there are numerous as- for oft pirants pity ee eR sure he would not ha’ task without the consent of the presi- It is even fair to assume that the president read the speech before it was delivered! at least he was lacking in caution if he did not. has had a chance to since its delivery, for no one that the president's modesty is so great as to prevent him eulogistic of himself. it in advance or read it afterwards, he has certainly failed to repudiate a’ de- scription of himself which makes him a veritable God of War. Gov. Black de clares that the destinies of nations are still settled by their wars. He said in substance, that you may talk about your Board pf Arbitration and learned ref et life, and strike from your na- anthems every martial note, but " = the oe on As be the tramp of horses and the silent, rigid up- turned face. He said that prophesy and women pray, but peace would never come to abide upan this earth until the dreams of childhood, the charts to guld around the earth, and that we can not: tell when we are upon the deadly circuit; that we may be basking in the sunshine and to-morrow be in the tolls of war, and to meet this condi- resents a man of “granite and hen before was commended for the presidency on the ground that he represented posed ? Gov. Black's not only a challenge to ce, but to the Christian civilization For neariy twenty centuries the world has been growl ] wack across the Pacific, our first invest- ment in a war of conquest, bear sad tes- timony to the defeat of a resolution that | one more affirmative | carried. And go, if we elect a president, his recommendations to the next con- gross may be adopted or defeated by a Let no Democrat fail to do every Democratic er-ssional nominée, for one would re- ret it all his life if by his neglect of uty he contributed to the defeat of a card‘date whose vote in congress became cessary to reduce the army, remove the race question, or rid the country of the menace of tmperiaiism. It is, however, in the selection of the legislature that were no official ] terfere with the polling of the full Dem- the entire democratic the way in which te would have y accept honors and rewards, but by manner in which they make sacrifice and endure defeat for the success ol . fellows, not by At any rate, he But to speak of the ticket. You have in this campaign a state titket to elect; your congressional you have to elect a legislature, which not only deals with state affai but also chooses a United States senato’ and you elect an electoral ticket whi joins in the selection of-a president ana If I were a citizen of Missouri I would vote for the Democratic bottom. 1 would vice-president. et from top to legisiative districts elose, and a large Democratic mi in one district can not offset a si publican majority in another. the election of senators by the direct vote of the ople, so that each voter is choice upon his ballot, there is no Woubt but Senator Cockrel! I would vote for the legi Ucket that would return Senator Cock- rell to the United States senate, and I would vote for electoral ticket which is pledged to Parker and Di 1 would vote for the Democratic state ticket not only because of the persons upon the ticket, but because of the spien- did administration that the Democracy | would be returned by an enormous ma~ jority, but you must vote for him when you Vote for representatives in the legis- lature, and it is important that the legis- has given to the people of Missouri dur- ing the many years of Democratic su- If you will compare Missouri with the Republican states about it, you will find that the public service has been | commend ‘Senator Cockrell to your con- fidence. He is too well known among hall be Democratic. of peace to-day, conducted more honestly, more efficient- more economically than in any | you and too highly esteemed aise from those outside of th le is the Nestor of our party in the se: , and I would have been glad to have seen him the national standar of rty. The fact that he li would not, in my judgment, ha embarrassed him in the campaign, fact that he served in the confederate army would have hel have injured bim ha raised against him. The civil war has worse | been over for nearly 40 years. Those who particinated in it are now friends, and the people are much more. interested tn roblems with which they are are In the que: Republican states. Your Demo- fficials have been servants of the people, and they have well But I am especially inter- ested in the success of your state ticket this year because it stands before the country for purity in punishment of offictal souri has become conspicuous last few years for the exposure and pros- ecution of those is not because olitics and for the him rather than uestion been we are told thai not only made saat we can not ho) realization of the promises of Ho! @ are told that,war must still x controversies bet ree and young men must st ty bullets. nat the description given by Black of the candidate which presented for -nomina' ridte one is evident from issouri has been than other states. There is probably not ublican state in the Union that has uring the same time, suffered more from the corruption of its officials, but Missouri has been fortunate in that ocratic officials have discovered and pros- ecuted those guilty of giving and recelv- tions which were and in the the peopie are engaged to-da: Cockrell is on the side of the commo' His votes and his speech him to be the able and co! champion of the masses, ion was an 4 ur candidate for governor, Joseph W. | people, Folk, has become known throughout the nation for his vigorous and persistent prosocution of officials who have betrayed | no Democrat will He is a young man, barely | dan, -five, and four years ago he was ‘nown to many outelde of his own city, but to-day his name is much more familiar to the people States than mine was when I was made the national candidate of our party; and | afraid that some of those who ha wherever his name is known it stands for official rectitude, up by the Democracy of the sta ons . In an address to the stu- Point, he said that a good! ight, but anxious to remembered that fi the’ president's decla lent to saying that a not only be willin, anxious to kill. nt as bloody, ppeal to you who have seen tary service to verif; before me men who side and men who fought on t te side in the civil war; po: there may be men who took part in I know that the those here who took part in the Spanish who are members of the What one of you nd I trust that ermit anything to en- va warned you again: ‘the stay-at-home vote, been afraid of lack of interest in your our congressional ti your legislative ticket, but I hi t. ig means killing, tion was equiva- d solider must iil, but must be denounce the senti-+ of the United active in recent campaigns might be dis- couraged by our failure to secure a pla’ form declaration upon all the questions which we have been discussing. not tell you that our platform does not cover all the questions upon which I de- sired the party to take a position. far as the platform goes it is ared with the Republican platform it not only sound, but it is clear and em~- The faults of our platform are not in what was stated, but in what was We were unable to secure a platform declaration upon question, but we were able to deciaration for the gold standard, The these two elements party could get together « was to eliminate the money question en- This does not settle the question; ly removes it from this campaign. er is it necessary to say that the nominee of the party was not my choice for that place; my objec- tion to him was not to his character or tO his personality, but.to the fact that he did not stand with us upon the eco- nomic questions which have been a mat- ter of controversy in recent years, but he stands for so many things that are important that I can earnestly support His letter of acceptance will o osition upon the various plan! of the platform, and after that appears we shail be able to discuss his position with more intelligence. referred to the conduct of the Colorado authorities in such language as to en- courage the laboring men o He has condemned the violations by the Colorado authorities principles, and this the great questions earners are interested they will find in him one who will do them justice. In his notification speech he announces his determination not to be a candidate for re-election in case of success this fall, and this determination strengthens ¢on- fidence in him, for with but a single term he will be so anxious to leave a spotless record that he will better resist the temptations which great cor- porations can place before one who is a candidate for re-election. The surrender of the present president to corporate in- uence furnishes an excellent proof of the wisdom of Judge Parker in making the statement that he has at the very be- jon | ginning of the campaign. nomic questions out there are certain issues which have been litical arena by eight years of Republican rule, and .these |s- sues must be removed before there can be calm and deliberate consideration of social and industrial conditions. Take ak | for instance the race issu Roosevelt has done more white and black races against each other resident since the war. No one who realizes what a race issue means can view with indifference the growing antagonism between the Cau- The race issue He has been taken desires to intrust to him the larger cares Mexican war, and greater responsibilities of the state, I became acquainted with Mr, Folk be- fore ho became a prominent figure in In the campaign of 18%—that men’s souls—his emocracy were made nifest, and he labored in behalf of our After the campaign closed, and when we were beginning the four years’ campaign for the maintenance of Dem- ocratic principles, I visited St. Louis at the invitation of the Jefferson Club, of which Mr. Folk was a prominent mem- ber...He was the chief figure in the meet- ing then held, at which I spoke in de rinciples of the Chicago erefore had earn of his Democracy before he him- self became a candidate for office, and it gives me great satisfaction to be able to speak in his behalf in this campaign. It is not sufficient that he shall be elect~ He must have an overwhelming If he were elected by a reduced majority, the falling off in the majority would be construed as a rebuke to those who seek to elevate the public service, While it was natural that many of the Democrats of Miseouri preferred some of the other distinguished men who aspired to the honor of the nomination, no ocrat can now onpose Mr, Folk unless he is opposed to the prosecution of corrup- tion, and if there be ary in the Demo- who are opposed to the pun- officials who betray 0c: party can better afford to lose them than the Republican rty can afford to gain them. r. Folk has become conspicuous in fer- reting out the bribe-giver and the bribe- taker, his nomination has been regarded through the union as an indication that the public conscience quick to respond to an honest appeal, the defeat of Mr. Folk, if suc! tl seible, would be difficult to ex- those who live in other states. ot his majority be so large that pros- ecutors in other states will be eneour- aged to imitate hi bring to the part: the advantage w scientious regard for honesty in the pub- Mr, Folk is at the head of the ticket, and the candidate for the other state of- fices stand upon the same platform, and e same crusade against corruption. I shall not attempt to spe , but I desire to mention two. une of these is the secretary. of state. jad, if a citizen of Missouri, tor Sam Cook. The Globe- s‘that he ought not to be elected, but the Globe-Democrat also says elk should not be elected. that I have no faith in the po- litical judgment of the editor of the I am not sure that I war, and other military companie: soldied to be anxious to kill? M taken human life in the heat of passion, ernments have taken human life in enforcement of the law; and soldi have taken human life in the defense of their country and in the enforcement of principles that th campaign which courage and his n the platform ey believed to be but what sol. 1 admit that he regarded it duty to desire to take a human life? election of Judge Parker will pla White House a man whose thou, @ rather than to war; @ who believes that our nation should be admired for its moral grandeur rather than excite fear by th soldiers or of the size of its guns, and this is reason enough why I fapse of the But Judge Parker is opposed to im- e is in favor 0: ind endence to the Philippines, and he is in vor of making that promise now. He has already | that promise had been made in the spring of 1898, it would have saved our country much in lives and money. He can not regain what ready lost, but by making the promise now Wwe can convert the Filipinos into friends and begin to reduce our war ex- .. The Democratic position upon the ine ‘Question ie the earns as it aan! was the erican position then, it is the American We then declared it to be the paramount more important than the mone: question, more important than the tari! question, more important than any eco-! uestion, I went through the land presenting the objections to imperialism, repeating the declaration of our plate form that: the nation could not endure hait Republic and half Empire, The Re- publicans refused to meet the question could not reason we have al- of constitutional ives hope that in in which the wage their guns in their hands, an as the Filipinos laid down their arms the Kevublicans said there was nothing to yeason about, that the question was set- refuse to announce their po- iblican asks you him where his throughout the nat! ich comes from of consideration, forced into the to vote his ticket, as! erty stands upon epublicans believe t be. made citizens of the States? They dare not say so. We have one race question with us now, and it will require all the wisdom and ism of the country to settle i in another race question miles from home and involve our- selves in race questions more difficult of solution than that which we have at our hy licans in favor of a 1 re pledged to th ‘gg, to embitter thi would be gl than any other to cast a vote Democrat sa I | cassian and the African. has already cost this country hundreds of thousands of precious lives and hun- dreds of millions of dollars, and when- pears as a national issue 3 will be lost sight of. velt has not only done a colonial policy? 1% years we have maintain doctrine of self government; wi defend a colon ing the principles of monarchy. y jections to imperialism is not that it the Fil although I believe that it does. I believe that the Filipinos will work out their own salvation, aided. by our example, better than it out for them with and an army, but my objection to im- impares the stren; Globe-Democrat. have implicit confidence in hi IL may be Pee — tle bit by the fact that ought not to be elected, and that my confidence in his judgment has not been strengthened by his prophesies. Just after the election of 18%, the Globe- Democrat said that I ly. and permanently obliterated thi would have to fall out of a third- window or be run over b; in order to get my name into The editor has not even tried his own .prophes: ever it again thought that I | President am sure | nothing toward settling the race the condition of the black race, but.ne has injured has spread alarm and anxiety among the whites, We need the southern Democrats in our fight to resist the advances of plutocracy, and we can not interest them in any other national question while they think the! If Judge Parkers’ election nothing else than remove the race question fro: would be justified in supporting him. But President Roosevelt stands for mil- 0 we had about %,000 men in our standing army, to-day min! of 60,000, with an orized maximum of 100,000, and resident can at any time raise the army maximum without further con- policy without defend- blacks, while he was 80 Com ete ork -bag officials! statesmen declared erican olution was that it could not be defend principles which, carried out, would destroy English lb- as well as American liberty. rialism is that it can be defended without agsertin which, if carried ou government in the as in the Philippine islands. for scarcely a day has not paid its re- spects or disres; titer reason than the without assertin, 0) ition to defeat a TPT pecam Democrat in Missouri. ed with Mr. Cook even before a became | we acquainted with Mr. Folk. In 18%, before I personally knew a sourians, and before name by most of them, I visited at the invitation of Mr. Cook, an e there on the silver question, and in ong fight that has been he has ever been faithful bimetallism, He has earned place that he holds in the affections o ts of the state, and t that the Globe-Democrat is due to the fact has hel} to win so was known by inited States as weil M The Dem- of our national pros- perity! What a menace to the laboring come next in numbers to the There are but two reasons for an inorease in the army; one is that we more souitess to su im) eiater on. The other tha Smee I sus- | are the fi at man Bape ayer still cay ag ce +7) the cause to put. down lest Is the m eke was en was fired at Manil Mppine ‘les- | army is required laboring | bles. ‘Tnat the potent 6 afmy is shown before a single sho before’ we hed ite in the Democrat! that they have been nted by the selection of one of their number for the state ticket, and I am gratified that the hi earners tant element party, and I am glad fi pro- from warlike Indians, it TY have the ee G3 cts RE iy i