Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 27

()7 Full Stenographic ‘ssues of the National Campaign Discussed by Regpresentatives of Leading Parties, SOME TELLING POINTS SCORED FOR MKINLEY Rosewater Upholds Principles and Policies of the Republican Party and Uncovers Popo- cratic Misrepresentation. The largest crowd ever drawn t y & political discussion in the city to the debats between Edward Rosew und Gilbert M. Hitchcock at the music wilion Saturday night The Lour for the ¢ ‘was § o'clock, but at 6:45 people who sired chtolee seats began to arrive. By o'clock the tent comfortably filled probably 3,000 persons being present that hour the crowl began to arrive, was ‘Through every gate it poured and throngs #t00d outside of the gates endeavoring o The doors to the force an entrance at 7.4 stage were then thrown open and the es pecially favited guests began to take their places upon the flatform. The seating pacity of the platform was about every chalr occupled. Precisely at § o'clock Mr. tered upon the stage with eral Smyth. He was recelved wi and applause as he took his seat minutes later Mr. Rosewater, ac by John C. Wharton, Hitcheock en Attorney Gen made hls appeara and the crowd again shouted ltselt hoarse After quiet was restored Mr. Smyth celled the meeting to in applause and cheers. order and announced the terms of the de bate. he had been sclected Hitchcock and that Mr selected by Mr. Rosewater. to preside by Mr As Mr. Hitch cock would have the opening of the debate open the 1t was decided that he should meeting and introduce his champlon, Mr. Wharton introducing Mr. Rosewater at the close of Mr. Hitchcock's opening remarks The terms of tho debate were for Mr Hitcheock to open in a twenty-minute talk, followed by Mr. minute answer. Rosewater iu a twent Mr. Hitchcock was to talk given fifteen minutes. each following this, would close in five minutes. Mr. Hitchcock opened the debato as fol- low Mr. Chalrman, Ladles and Gentlemen: I might well feel at this moment appalled at to meet 1n joint debate tonight with the recognized and acknowledged leader of the repubilcan with him the principles which 1 balieve to be vital to the life and In the twenty minutes allotted to me in opening I shail ue—the one which 1 belleve to be the commanding issue, the ares the people of the United States are more than any the enterprise I have undertaken, party in this county and discus: before this vast audience to the future of our republic. take up chiefly one I ono to one which be the which 1 our, platform, dec paramount 1ssue, belleve the other interested in having discussed fairly, treely and fully. fn the direction of imperialism, perialism I propose to discu: People may aiffer and dent of the United States comes before the people asking re-election for a term of four years, the lssue which is paramount above all others, the lssue which is really the election, 1s an endorsement of his leading pollcy, or the repudlation of it at the ballot the one which divides the people in box. (Applause.) What has been the leading policy of Wil- term? llam McKinley during his present It has been to embark course revolutionary, upon a politl Btates. he advocated. publican party bodily prinelpl metrically opposed thereto. powe! up to within the last four ye On the 1st day of May, 1898, Admira De ended forever the maval power of Spain in the Pacifio ocean. been sent there to do. The Amerl was then supreme In Manila bay. The gar rison in Manila, though it could not be con quered by his soldiers, was helpless betore him. Admiral Dewey's Victory. Before he salled to Manila he had a con* United at Hoog Kong and bad a telegraphic sultation with the comsul the Btai communication with the ot American consul at Bingapore and be asked the American consul at Slogapore to have Aguinaldo, the sccepted leader of the Philippine people, and On the night of April 26 He arrived at Admiral | come as rapidly as possible Agulualdo came. Bo set sall from Singapore. Hong Kong and in apswer to Dewey's request he set sail on the Awmerl can dispatch boat, McCullough, and ar rived at Manila harbor, to him, of that consultation he went to All styles and sizes. Prices trom $5 to $50. Awarded First Prize Paris E 1800 OVER ALL THE WORLD. Sa vy P ias o Rerehasts For sale by Milton Rogers & Som, Mth sad Farnam’ Sta ther ot Omaha was that which pald rapt attention A enlng of the debate At and h cheers A few ompanied In his opening remarks he safd that Wharton had been Twenty minutes more were 1o be consumed by each in turn and then ten minutes, tollowed by Mr. Rosewater, who was to be | With ten minutes tour periods of five minutes were to follow and Mr. Hitchcock 1 stand at the opening of this debate, therefore, to charge that the present policy of the republican party s im- (Applause.) to what ought to be the fssues in a campalgn, but when a presi- 1 | government—government xtraordinary and un- precedented in the history of the United It bas boen to seize the republican party, to tear it away from the principles which 1t enunciated in its platform of 1556, 1868 and 1876—the principles which Abra- ham Lincoln died for, the principles which It bas been to take the re- away from those and embark upon principles dia- Not only that, but if the people of the United States go to the ballot box ou the fth of next November and vote to return this administration to they vote on that day an endorse- ment of & policy which s at entire vartance with the teachings o our forefathers and with all the teachings, not only of the dem- ocratic pasty, but of the repablican party . (Applause.) ey sailed into Manila harbor and in a fow hours of briet and brilliant action he destroyed and sunk the Spanish fleet and When that was mccom- plished ho had accomplished all that he had u flag He bad a consul- tation with Admiral Dewey and as a result work smong the Philippine people, whom be had | | He | formerly led pur e organized an a based arms.. I ed ars al Dew d the flag of the Phillppine republy He organized a pro vinclal government, a revolutionary gov ercment, under the very gu f Adwir Dewey's fleet, in Cavite. Agulnaldo vgo- clalmed himseif president of the provinclal government of the Philippine republic, T little government was organized, an army | was ralsed, it Joined American navy | in shutting up in he town of Manila the | Spanish garrison. It sent detachments of Philippin rs into the laterior It captured one Spanish town after another and fn a short time fifteen of the provinces | of the Philippine tslands were reduced and in the hands of the Philippine people. One | step after another was taken. The Philip- | pine constitution was proclaimed and in a short time the little goverument had ex- | tended over the entire jala except in Manila and lietlo. Firally Ilollo fell, too and in the whole Philippine Islands thers was no place except the town of Maaila where the Spanish flag was fiylng. Now then, Manila, screly besleged, at rendered. Up to that time th \a army and the Fhilippine army {81de by side. The Stars and | floated beside the 1i Philip publie lf,l[ But when the town of Manila fell t Philippine general was ordered to w th- draw his soldiers outside of a certaln line. He did so. He had fa'th in | people of the United States pine people had welcomed Stripes, welcomed the nav | soldiers, ana they te ra last sur- had the great The Philip- the Stars and 1 American lieved that the great | American people, who had promised liberty ud freedom to the fo of Cuba, which had gone to war with Spain to free Cuba had come also to free them. (Applause.) a for Aguinuide, Now, Mr. Chairman, what a sudden change! What a sudden change! These people who had acted as our allles, t people who had welcomed us as friends, these people who bad recognized us as the great civilizing and freedom-loviug power of the world—these people have become the victims of unbridled power of conquest in the Philippine islands. Today we bave had & war goiug on in the Philippines for a year and a balf. Every attempt of the Philippine republic, every attempt of its civil officers, every attempt of its gen- eral to have terms proposed, every effort they have made to ask of the United States that some terms of peace be allowed, has been rejected and repelled. They have been fold that there were no terms except | unconditlonal surrender, and the president of the United in his letter of ac-| ceptance, in his spoeches before the Ameri- | can people, has declared that the Stars | and Stripes having been once ralsed in the Philippine irlands, was never to be .| pulled down. p Now, what does {t mcan? It means that the people who have grown great under the promises, under the pledge that all govern- ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that we, in the hour of our strength and greatness have turned upon our former allies, turned | o upon thcse who weleomed us as saviors | and declared to them we are going Lo sub- | jugate you and hold you as provinces of the American republic. That is what it means. I declare, Mr. Chairman, and I challenge my opponent to the fact that this policy 1s imperialism pure and simple | There are only two kinds of goverament They may shade together. They do. But there are in the abstract only two kinds ct by consent and government by force. This great repub- lic was dedicated to the sacred idea of gov- ernment by consent. (Applause.) Listen! And when we undertake to gov- ern by force 8,000,000 people agaiust their will we violate the pledge which we gave to civilization when wo founded this ernment. Vo enter upon a career of im- perialism like the manarchies of the old world. Listen to these solemn words “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed,” not by Mr. McKinley, “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain fnalienable rights.” (Applaus Propounds a Question. Listen! “They are endowed by Creator with certain—" Oh, word; It welghs a tou—"certale inallen- able rights.” Rights which belong to i, which they canmot give away and which cannot be taken away from them. | (Appleuse) “That among ihese rights are lite, liberty and the pursuit of happlaess; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.” The govern- ments are for the men; the men are unot tor the governnent. (Applause) Now I ask my oppenent this question: Do you believe in a goverument by force, or do you be- leve In a government by consent! (Ap- plause.) (A volce: “That's a great ond') Do you belleve in a government by force? 1t you believe in & government by consent how dare you deny it to those §,00 people? 1 know their listen to this n 000 Mr. Chairman, that there are many republicans in this country who bave faith in thelr party, but they should remember that the republican party | bas bad forced on it a policy which belongs | to it and it will belong to it forever it it | succeeds in this campaign. 1 tell those re- publicans that it is pot oply a master of | saving the republic, but fh they would r | deem the old republican| party they must do it by repudiating tbis false doctrine. | Government by force s imperialism. We are governing the Philippine islands by force. We are governing Porto Rico by force, and as long as that goverument ex- Ists it Is imperialism. We may feel socuro amoug ourselves that imperialism will not come to us. But history has taught us that no government can long endure & govern- ment by consent at home and a government by force among other people. The history of Rome i threadbare, but it illustrates the case. For several hundred years the old Roman republic lived, grew and prospered, and as long as it extended its boundaries outside_the city of Rome, governing the whole Italian peninsula in & natural demo- cratic expansion like that which we have had heretofore, so (hat the Roman constitu- tion followed the flag and extended to the utiermost territory of Rome, the Roman republic was safe; but when the time came that the Roman republic, tempted by the lust of empire, by the conquest of weaker people, went furthéf and entered upon an era of acquisition and subjugation of peopls for plunder and wealth, when she raised her great armies and sent them fato the re- mote paris of the earth to conquer, then thy seed of decay was sown and the same army raised to sccomplish that purpose oue day | world that we o not belie: { immutable OMAHA DAITLY man citizen. It was in those days a proud boast to be a Roman citizen, just as it is now a proud boast to be an American citi- zen, but when the time came that the Roman people were held under the Roman | flag by force of arms and not by consent, then the time came that the only future | of Rome was in an empire and one Caesar | after another not only held the foreign people in subjugation, but he placed his foot | upon the neck of the Roman citizen and | Roman homes were wiped from the face of the earth. (Applause.) Rosewnter Replies. Chairman Wharton—Ladles and Gentle- men: This vast gathering here tonight bespeaks an intense interest in the great national are now belng dis- | cussed by the respective parties of this nation. Other audiences have been hon ored by the governor of New York, The nd Hon. E issues t re Rooseve kran o honor of itizens tonight has New < Bu gre two distinguished been left champion of the principles of the 1lcan party 1 present one who needs no iu- troduction to an audience of Omaha citizens I present one who at all times has had con- victions of what is right and wrong and bas had t anhood and the courage to speak torth couvictions and his principles. I present one tomight r and propr of one of tropolitan dailles that n the United States, The Omaha Bee. have the pleasure of presenting Hon. Edward Rosewater. = (Applu r. Presldent and Lad d G men: 1 appear here tonlght, not for party that counts itsel? wmoug the ens and wants to rewurr s imitating the pe s of the revol est me ther of | cannot resen ar I regret, for vast my volce utmost ies of this teot at hoarse, but 1 hope before I that here will be t what I b say 1 want say to you th the cratic party, in the present cam unearthed a new issue, havin all the other fssues upon whi able to fight battles and by been defeated in the past The republican party does not have to resort to champion ¢ the iples of th Declaration of Independence. It has b a walking laration of Independence in ail its career. (Applause.) It started out as th ¥ that proclaimed freedom throughou! land; it started out as the party that proclalmed liberty to every man, woman and child, and scught to lift the burden from the shoulders of labor and equallze it and place it on the shoulders of those who possessed wealth and sta- tion. The party that had the courage t stand up agalust $,000,000 well informed people, intelligent, well organized, having an ecstablished government in Alabama first and in Richmond afterward—a party | tbat stood up under Abraham Linccln and faced 1,000,000 men the Integrity of this pation That party stands here today. (Applause.) We are told here that half a million of people who had established a temporary lttle government on ome of the islands of the Philippines, among a total of some- thing like 1,100 fslands, have been deprived of the inherent rights of the Declaration of Independence, and you are told that that declaration, among other things, fn- cludes the consent of the governed. I admit that. And I have been asked to say through 1o del algn, ha exhausted it has been which it has (Applause.) en (Applause.) | whether I would stand here and avow my- self in faver of government by force or | government by consent told that this government was fnstituted for men by men, and I admit it. But {a #0 stating it we have announced to the o in the prin- ciple of the consent of the governed, be- cavse women are governed as well as men (Laughter.) Let us look at this declaration more critically. Let us examine this declaration | a8 it was lssued. It was issued In a build ing that still stands In Philadelphia—In- | dependence ball—and above that hall hangs a bell that is still preserved. That bell | hung upon that ball for many years before the declaration was promulgated. On that bell s inscribed: “Proclaim liberty through out the land to all the Inhabitants thereot. How did that declaration come upon that bell? It came there from away back, from the land of Judea, 3,000 years back, from the jubllee days occurring every fifty years when a proclamation was issued that ail men should be free. But notwithstanding that it was a declaration that proclaimed the natural rights of man, it is attempted in this campaign to make this declaration the epecial property, the patent right of the democratic party and Willlam Jennings Bryan. (Laughter and applause.) Why, you might just as well have proclaimed that the ten commandments have been put in t special care and keeping of the democratic party and that they alone are fo have the right to observe them. (Laughter and ap- plause.) Democratic, Inconsintency. What are ts about the Declaration of Independence? The inherent rights of man, the ural rights of man were proclaimed long before. These rights come from the very beginning. All men are| created equal. They have the right to lite lberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that right inures as well to every humau being on the face cf the globe as it does to the people of the United States. It is in- herent as much in China, 1t fs inherent as much In Central Africa as it s in these United Now, th v e governed has p 1t in who proclaim liber denied liberty to the seventy years. '.\;‘.n 15e.) y y it to him today motwithstandin these false pretensions. “Those people who proclaimed liberty to all the pecple were slave owners and slaveholders, including even George Washington. Let us not wor- ship men, but pringiples. Principles are they atl indostructible; they are the thing that we must adhere to, and no man-worship can wipe away principles. Government by Cousent. Government by consent s simply a decla- ratlon that men may directly and in- directly be governed by their consent, but their individual consent is mot asked and never Las been. The only goverument by consent, | maintain, ls the government of married women, who go before the altar and pledge themselves to love, honor and obey thelr husband. (Laughter.) All gov- eruments on the face of the earth, begin- ning with the tribal chief, with kings and| emperors and republics, have ail been gov- ernments Ly force. Government means control apd rule. And rule means obedi- ence to the order of the ruler; and the ruler, whether he is a monarch, the presi- dent of & republic or the mayor of a city, must pecessarily govern by force. They govern by the coustable: they govern by the policeman. And when a mob arrays ftselt mgainst law and order the deputy| sheriffts are called out and finally the militta. And if there is an insurrection or a rebellion, then the whole army is called forth to enforce the law and compel obedi- ence, whether you like it or mot. Ia the ate of Nebraska 133 men are chosen who | meet in the legis! these \ You bave been | na in States er been p eetings of such men as the | in arms to maintain | ax | arms, for Jefferson at that time held a large | ture and sixty-seven of | carpet baggers to govern us and these carpet by the governor, make | beggers were mostly consumptives aud BT TUNDAY the laws for you, comsent or You are mot asked about i cbey these laws. And th himself will turn In fro: | compel the authortties tc You must attorney general time to time to enforce the law 1 maintain that from the very beginning | the same policy te 1 and the has been no invasion of the Americ laration by this government under ministration of Willlam M Thomas Jefferson, who is greatest president of which bo wrote can who s the being t me eay at great mas party that I | was the ver | principles and pursued in the Philippis the outset for yoelt others within the reput was Dot it favor of br ment of the Cub arms. I was oppc e and 1 an ed to ir But the domocrats it low journalicts like that published by | plause) kept up a ¢ bombardment of congrees and finally the losion of the the declaratic am MoK 1 all he t the war, but it was force 1 he then up for the ge » United States and its flag president who was loyal wo ! A was ess and the yel and yellow jou nd her 1 when th had bee over It 18 not sary to & of Deway, alth has beeu amat ! n embelllshed to guit fact remains that De t and that he was n leave the island, After the fleot that portien of had been in rebellion in the neighborhood of « under the leadership war in conjunction with United States, that i States had at no tim allles or ed the ence, be woul to recognize the government of t nos at that particular t | the great majority of the Pl were stili under withstanding the assurance | that the Tagalogs had coutrol there are bout Terent the Phillppine These few | haps ome-fourth or one lation of the islands, could not assume for themselves the right to govern and ru The object of Aguinaldo, as we know him, | was simply loit the people and the church fn particular, and gef posse: all the church property in these isla McKinley stood for religious liberty {and equallty on those f{slands and does | today. (Applause). ‘When that treaty tlon before the United s ascertain whether it was gain we should make that t a stipulation compelling us to pay $20,000, 000 to the niards the cession of the soverelgnty over Porto Rico and the Philippine lglands to the | United States If that treaty was unjust tmpolitic or contrary to esta 1 policy | it was for the United States senate modify or reject it. But at that very juncture absolutely certain that it would be od I fled or refected, Willlam Jennings Bryan first wrote letters to members of the sen- ate, who were of the democratic of popu- st persuasion, imploring them to ratify the treaty, and then he followed it wp Fimself, resigned his commission In the army, went to Washingten and lobbied -1 this truthfully, because [ talked with Senator Spooner and have taiked with other senalors about it, who say that Mr. | Bryan lobbled there for among demo. senators *o ratify the treaty, by which &1l these things that they now de nounce were consummated (Applause.) Bryan Urged Ratification. | You understand that the title to the Philippines and the principle under which they are held and everything that was done by the administrotion in ratifying the treaty s now assatled and the admin- istration Is arraigned as revolutionary as being unamerican, as being istie, when, in fact, Mr. Bry: senatorfal friends to ratify and place the seal of approval upon that act se.) | | It takes two-thirds of the senate to ratify a treaty and seventeen dem ats and populists voted for it, and only by a ma- jority of ome was tho treaty ratified. It | Willlam V. Allen had stood out and not voted for the ratification of the treaty the | treaty would bave been rejected or mod fled. (Applause.) Now these peoplo come before you and tell you that we have committed a great outrage, that we have commlitted & great international crime that can never be blotted out. They have the audaclty to condemn us for the very thing that their political leader approved of and urged the Senators to approve Now, fellow eltizens, I want to call your attention to the manncr in which Loutsiana was acquired. When Louisiana was bouglhit for $15,000.000 from the empire of France, from Napoleon I, the people of Louisiaga were not asked for their consent; they wers not asked to vote upon the question whether they wanted to change thelr allegian France to the Unite , but the enmasse and protested against the annexa- | tion; they signed a great remonstrance n“ | mto statement of the history prox ause | have | ne so long as Iippine isiands the Spanish rule, not of my friend Remember tribes in »ple, per -sixth of the popu- eighty to exp was r co o3 sidera- senate to eaty contained | Thomas Jefferson and to congress declaring (bat they bad been tuken in under a govern ment which lef! nothing but a sort of provincial vassalage; that they had no legislature; that the judges were to be ap- | pointed by the president; that r gov- | ernment was un {mperialiste government, | and that they were entirely deprived of the rights and guarantics of the Declaration of Inde den K fferson and the men who were at that time In congress, | the meu who made the constitution, would | not listen to thei¥ petitions and insisted | that these people myst give allegiance to | the United States of Americs and yleld obedience to its laws, and anybody that knows anything knows that it the people | of Louisiana had revolted, it they had or- ganized a rebellion, just as one has been | organized in the Philippines, they would | doubtless have been put down by force of | force of troops In Feserve Louisiana apd make to the government which b sovereignty over them. Now Jetterson doing the yery denounced as lmperialis been since that t down to submit | assumed there was Mr. same thing now And how has it You talk about the consent of the governed. How was It In| Nebraska in territorial days? Nebraska was first attached to Indiana territory for Jurisdiction, and then it was attached to the Territofy of Michigan, and after 1854 it was carved out as a territory. Then ‘u-.'i president of the United States, a demacratic | president and a democratic congress, gov- | = erned Nebraska with an iron band. They | ot out Lere South Carolina and Arkansas to go these people FERETENENTERNERTRENTNTERNY no consent. | broken o Hiteheoek | ’ My friends, | answer by ¢ | have Phil man w triends shout and aacla s re it of Phil Cuba that plause.) ern Mr. B the who dress of the better classes of the possibly ir men cort and pare General T. M. Filip! intelligence, capabllity or in culture, arm thelr cities well he kind of bar- |them are mechanics, wos Now what 1s the fact? in consideration of | thesa Philippine They have 2,000 schools. be thos And 10| people are government as the pe while 1t was | We have guaranteed Concerning guarai have only thi have goln Mr. liberate Cuba was Kin v and thousand m fighting for in him Jocau the 1 ibled at CCTOTTR Report of the Rosewater- returned to destroy the liberties of the Ro- | winded bands. old politiclans who died on | (Applause and laughter.) |SECOND DIVISION OF TIME | Attempts to Show that the | Are Capable of overnment. my opponent has not 1 my question whether he belleves government by force or a governme onsent. (Applause.) He cltes t he Loulsiana purchase, which has not thing fn common with our war of con slana, & contigu- territory, in order to avold war. We undertaken acquisition of the ippine islands the cost of war. By | treaty of purchase of Louisiana every | ithin the bounds of that newly ac- | beca onco & citizen | d States and there is mot a e Philiy tslands, even a has tection of the States today yet | ory mo at the pr Ualted Bryan s responsible | treaty. 1t he is, then tmperialist republican m with joy? It he ssponeible, why don't they support him, [ e they say it {s a good thing. But | courageous, open-hearted ) had faith that ty was ratified the great people | States would do for the ippine islands what they had done for He had the right to espect that congress would gass for the islands that same resolu pasesd for Cuba. He had a ceause Admiral Dewey | 1 to the Stat at the Philip olf:govern 1s (appla Cuba—and friend has questioned ne people are capadle Listen to the words of Philipy t 20, 1898"—ml ient at Washingte on the Filf sserting thelr {ndepoad 1 an army In tho fiel) z floating over it. Admiral Dewey hed on June 23: “I express the that these people are far superior ittelligence, and more capabl roment than the patives of Cuba familar with both races.” (Gr. “Further interviews with ‘ham confirmed me in this opinion.” Tnat s certificate to the gov- at Washington d you, thls before nos the depar! had declared e they were while they b o of Iam our minister to Siam, speak naldo’s government says: *By of October, 1868, he had as- alalos a congress of 100 men would compare in behavior, manner of and education with the average man Aslatic natfons. luding the Japanese. These conducted themselves with great de- m and showed a knowledge of debate parliamentary law that would not com- nfavorably with the Japanese." Anderson sald: “Tve 8 are not far behind the Japuesses in Thelr | equipped and well handled built and kept. Many of engineers, artisans and of A middle y is wel ictans. Five million of are Christians ‘They have a num- colleges, three of at least 300 years old nd Intimates that these not as much entitled to self- ° of Cuba, to whom people of universities and 0 colleges ary yet my fi the charge that we have never those people Independence, I to say: The American people never had the chance, but g to get it at this election. (Applau Rosewater says that the war forced upon Mr. ts true. 1 glory in it ed a sword in his hand to free Cuba ho has taken that naked ord a tles away to enslave a people pendence. (A voice: “Eat to Me- up.”) Mr. Rosewater says there s no such thing as government by ¢ that, mett by says one or He says either g as govern- ow which, he A government by msent or there Is no such th rce; 1 do not the other. consent Is a government where men go to the your the congress, as mayor. as p are sent g M. doct part vole: a new has pert be publ = (A pert wrlt that sepator they of J “The ritor are rose | tkem such epithots w t vy 1{ 5 I - o | im *= LT T ot box. You go there, sir. You put allot in. You elect a man to go te legislature, a man to represent you in a man to preside over your city presid when they go there they your representatives. You have con ed by going to the ballot box and tak- part in the election. (Applause.) Rosewatdr says that this is a now rine of {mperialism that the democratic ¥ has faked up to get into power. (A e: “Tell him about the south.”) Is this doctrine that the democ faked up? Why, this doctrine of In alism, or charge of imperialism, bas 2 made by somo of the greatest re- lcans of the United States. It has been e in this city by Mr. E. Rosewater plause.) 1 have here nearly a bushel of atlons from The Bee, denouncing im- allsm. (Applause.) Those ere all ten between July, 1898, and the time Monroe L. Hayward was elected from Nebraska For some reason ed after that time. In The Bee uly 6, 1598, Mr. Rosewater sald pt of the advoeates of ter- lal acquisition to depreciate those who o ed to their policy by applylng to little Americans will with the thinking have any welght Y the man who goes to Washington | atle party | gpiicle | the beginning of its history | “We venture to differ,” |certain | wealth? Hitchcock Debate portion of the American people” (Ap- plause.) And later on he sald, tortal “But what of those who oppose the im perialistic idea that has sprung up within in that same edl- the last two months and threatens to lead | the United States into a policy absolutely centravening the course of the nation from " (Applause.) he says. “We belleve the best wisdom and the best patriotism of the American people today are opposed to the proposition that we shall depart from the traditional policy of the republic and enter upon a course which we have been warned by all the great statesmen of the past—" not all re- publican statesmen, nor all democratic statesmen, but by “‘all the great states- men of the past’™ 1s pregnant with dao- ger We belleve that the men who are opposing territorial aggrandizement are the truest friends of the ropublic, that they have the surest idea of patriotic The Omaha Bee contained that in July of 1508, and I this audience at least thirty editorials like that editorfal, and yet Mr. Rosowater comes here and says that the democrati editorial | party bas trumped up this new issus for the American people. (Long applause.) Mr. Rosewater asks what have 1 got to say about an alleged disfranchisement of the megro in certain states. I have this to say, that if the negro is distranchised in certain states it only Indicates to us that we have troubles enough of our own home without going abroad to find them 1 he s right then it fs true that we ought to sweep befors our own door before try- ing to take civilization to other people’s door. Mr. Rosew upon oursel this year—the democratl party—to have a monopoly of the Declara tion of Independence. He is surprised that that s in the party platfol Has he so far forgoten the republicanism of the past to know that the republican platform in 1568 quoted the Declaration of Independ- ence, referred to it in this language: “The maintenance of the principles pro- mulgated in the Declaration of Independ- ence and embodied in the federal consti- tution is essential to the preservation of our republican iunstitutions. The highway man's plea that might makes right is in every respect unwortiy of American diplo mwacy and would bring shame and dishonor upon any people or government that gave | it their sanction What have today fslands except the highwayman's plea that might makes right? The republican plat- form of 1868 declared “We recognize the principles laid down in the immortal Declaration of Independence as the true toundation of democratlc government.” The platform of 1876, Oh, here it is “All men are created equal’—quoting from the language of the Declaration of inde- pendence, at which you, sir, are surprised (Applause.) “All men are create: equal 'hey are endowed by their Creator with tnalienable rights, | are lite, liberty and the pursuit of happi- |ness. For the attalnment of these ends, | governments are instituted among deriving thelr just powers from," fiom force, from intelligence, No. From consent. we (Applause.) Abrabam Lincoln, the great high pricst of | the republican party, said: “The doctrine of self-government is right, When & white man governs himself that i self-gov- and when he governs himself and absolutely and eternally right. ernment, also governs another man that is despotism. What [ do say other man's cousent. erned an equal volce In the government."” Have the Filipinos an equal volc. they any volce? e at all. that only is self-govetnment That is what Abraham Lincoln said You charge we are forced to go back sev- eral hundred years for modern-day demog- racy. You cannot go back Abraham Lincoln in (Cheers.) to this campalgn. In conclusion, Mr. Rosewater has sald that arro- gate to ourselves the guardianship of the 1 want to tell it imperialism is to €0 on with its terrible sway the time may the time may come when we will Declaration of Independence. you, my friends, that come when the Ten Commandments will need a guardian in this country. (Applause.) In the four minutes remaining I want to introduce the subject sion. of the next discus. It is trusts, and I challenge Mr. Ro: water to produce before this audience any republican proposes to evidence whatever that the leader, the republican party, grapple with the glant evil of trusts, which are growing in this country. The demo- cratic party comes befors the people with certaln specific remedies. It Las declared & war upon the trusts. which trusts—(applause the remedy which we propose. Now, then, when Mr. Rosewater has out- lined in a small degree what the repuh- | lican party proposes to do with the trusts, | T will undertake to show that the repub- lican party lives by the trusts and for the | trusts and if it 1s put in power agaln on the #th of November the trusts will grow and Increase more than they have the last four years. 1 am ready for the trust discussion. Rosewater Answers. My friend has whether 1 am in f consent or by force. A STITCH IN THE BACK. Many Omaha People Have It. Can't do their work. take the poisons out of the blood. Neglect means backache, lame back, Kidneys are sick. ary troubles, diabetes; Doan’s Kidney Pills cure every form of kidney ill. say so—people who have been cured—your own neighbors— Here's proof: Mr. A. H. Weber of Hardy & Co's says nearly two years. Du cold it always settled ———" shooting twinges across the small after stooping when it was difficult~ to 1 saw Doan's Kidney drug store and procured a box. I took them a few days when 1 noticed their benefit. away and my general Doan's Kidney Vills are for sale at all drug stores—50 cents a Foster-Milburn Co ater says that we have taken| in the Philippifie| among which | men, what, from is that no man is good | enough to govern another man without that Allow all the gov- Have “That and Let every American remember that to violate the Dec- laration of Independence is to trample on the body of his fathers and to tear the char- ter of his own and his children's rights.” You cannot go It is proposed for one thing to put upon the free list every That 1s What, sir, | | does the republican party propose? asked me to declare or of a government by . I am in favor of & ‘I was troubled with government that has backbone enough to uphold the honor of the flag on every foot of American territory, no matter where it lies. (Applause.) Our attention has been called to the fact that republican platforms from year to year have reiterated the Declaration of Independeace and we have been asked to say why it s that the democratic party for the first time cannot do It with any docency or selt-respect, and I will answer you the reason why. The republican party had to do it be- cause the democratic party all the years it was In Mpow and after the re bellion of four years, continued to violate every principle of the Declaration of In- depgndence and the republican party had to femind them that the declaration must be enforced wherever the Stars and Stripes floated. After the surrender of Appomattox ats of the south continued with thelr Ku Klux to suppress the negro with the tgun; they continued to suppress {him by the tis ballot and they inued all the t to press vestige of government by consent in the country in which they clalm they bad themtelves been wrongfully subjugated by Abraham Lincoln Now they talk about Abrabam Lincoln and they never coase to quote Abraham Lincoln In 1364 Abraham Lincoln, ltke McKinley at the present tite, was a candidate for re-olection to the presidency of the United tates and the grandmother of the Omaha World-Herald (laughter), the Omaha Ne- braskan, which was succeeded by the Herald, Dr. Miller's paper, and upon that was grafted the Omaha World-Herald as it is today. On October 21, 1864, almost a period corresponding with this (laughter). Keep on with your laughter. You will soon be laughing on the other side. Here is what they had to “A vote for Abraham Lincoln is a vote for the abandonment of the constitution and states’ rights; a vote for Lincoln is a vote for four more years of war, inpumer- able drafts aud & quadrupling of the debt of our country, state and natlon; & vote for Lincoln is a vote in favor of the sefzure of men for conscience sake and imprisoning them in bastiles without process of law or hope of trial; & vote for Lincoln is a vote in favor of the suppression of free speech; & vote for Lincoln is a declaration in tavor of putting the wilitary above civil power; a vote for Lincoln is an endorsement ot all his acts and an encouragement for him (0 go on in his career of despotism; & vote tor Lincoln will be to vote away the free dom of the American people.” (Crles of nswer the question.”) Mr. Wharton—Let us bave no interrup- | ttons. piease. Mr. Smyth sue con every | Mr Do not Rosewater {s entitled to In s time tnterrupt him. Mr. Rosewater—I will answer the ques- tion fairly and fully. 1 say there is no truth whatever in tho declaration that the | Filipiuos were promised their indepenl |ence. 1 say that the opportunity for glving them the treatment Cuba has celved presented itself in the United Statos senate when Senator Vest of Missourl In- troduced a resolution to place them th and William V. Allen and some thirty dem- ocrats voted against it. (Applause.) They kad thelr opportunity There has been quoted from The Omaha Bee an article of July, 1895, and there might be a dozen of them, but it was at a time when there could be discussion as to the policy of annexation of the Philip- pines, and while I am not here to debato with myselt or to debate about The Omaha Bee (laughter) or the World-Herald, I bave got right hers a bushel of articles from the Omaha World-Herald in favor of the gold standard practically and in opposition to the free and unlimited coln- age of silver. (Applause and laughter.) 1 bave that, but 1 am not golng to cite it. Time for Discussion 1s Pa; The time for discussion ha The Phillppines have beem annexed and the sworn duty of the president of the United States s to enforce the laws upon all classes, allens and citizens, wherever they may be. They say that there is no precedent. We have the precedent in the case of Florida, I have slready quoted the precedent of Louisiana, in which the people of that territory said to President Thomas Jefter- son: “A governor 18 to be placed over us whom we have not chosen, whom we do not even kuow; he may be ignorant of our language, uniuformed of our institutions and who may have no cornection with our country or interest in its welfare. Taxa tion without representation, an obligation to obey laws without any volce in their formation, {he undue influence of the ex- ecutive ugon legislative proceedings and & dependent Judiclary, formed, we bellevo, very promiment articles in the list of griev- ances complained of by the United States at the commencement of their glorious contest for freedom In Florida we have another fnstanca. The United States purchased Florida from Spain for $5,000,000, and Oscela, Iike your friend, Agulnaldo, rebelled sgainst the government of the Seminoles, which was followed by 4 war that became almost a war of extermination. It was carried on by Géneral Jackson, a democratic presi- dent. And he did not ask the Seminoles to consent whether they wanted to be governed. He had them whipped into subjection and thea he deported them They were deported first to Georgla and Alabama and finally across the Mississippl into the wilderness, where they have been kept. And the Indian Territory for nearly 100 years has been governed by congress without a delegate in congress, without any representation and certainly not with thelr own consent. But let us go further, Look at the District of Columbla, which contalus more than 300,000 people. In passed (Continued on Twentloth Page.) T Can't urine Bright's Dizease. Omaha people 1120 Martha street, shipping clerk at leme back for ring the winter months when I caught in my kidneys and caused sharp of my back, particularly stralghten. When Pills advertised I went to Kuhn & Co's The paiu fn my back system was invigorated soon passed R'MRMMM‘MRMWWWWMMM&& box, ., Buffalo. N