The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 6, 1900, Page 2

o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1900. ’ SONG AND ORATORY AND REPUBLICAN CONVENTION | BEGINS WORK SIMOOTHLY Are Followed by Temporary Organi- on and Committee Appointments and the Sims Job. Stirring Scen 7t zat Special Dispatch to The Call. | | fornfa, as HEADQUARTE:! ady recognized and approved by A CRUZ, Sept the nat cmmittee and the national con- vention ¢ epublican pairty of the t wa alled States and of Califor . names are. e 2 Te* hereby ‘approved amd. appointed {o s committee of and for_the Dist t sald ot 1 within ea such_oth: >4 thro - g 2 n e made by | nia, and ’ Prendergast, A. s v A. Smith, 3 3 James M 5 ¢ Albert Hous | Becretar 4 lon, John A. H 3, s at c| A resolution authorizing the committee 3 JRGIDIDE pointed to fill all ancies for member p ; 1 n was to be | ot Congr surth Congressional Y ! i e District occur through any . - S0 SR iop st e and olution empowering N s S Wanz MG ¥ o | the chairman to a nt a_party commit- N saw Mr. Crenninger | tee of fiye we opte nvention But Mr. ninger S & . L o' BeT | adjourned to the call of the chairman. M s Jow the unfortunite | wARREN R. PORTER d be dif- | 3 M Dyer, Wiz Gord were not for the OF SANTA CRUZ THE tion, Van Fleet,” he SIXTH'S CANDIDATE o oint Grenninger any- ot e .| CALL HEADQUARTERS, SANTA - s P A :‘f.;"‘f;w‘}‘"“\ stage. | CRUZ, Sept At a meeting of the Sixth o r ) ‘authort: > Congressicnal District Committee, held at the S 'ch H rn siness, each nent to c a motiori was put ly pledging the rominee for Congress, James McLachlan, to the bill for the completion of San Pedro karbor. Warren R. T and ca er of Santa Cruz was th n ly declared Presidential Elector w Handk of 'r:.r”'v'::‘n.-‘r;(' for the Sixth District, as predicted to-day niieatiat ol Han NantHen, %A% lin The Call. An auditing committee was the convention while | 2Ppointed by the chair for Congressional committee, candidate, Samuel M. | - . » deliv NO OPPOSITION of Mr. FOR ELECTOR IN Shortridge’s | harles E. F i of St. Louis T £08 ot B Lopie | SEVENTH DISTRICT e stic received s | CALL HEADC 4 ———— Sept. 5.— s APPOINTMENT OF District Convention was convoked As VARIOUS COMMITTEES fately after the adjournment of the nventic Dr. Chester Rowell of g s AND ADJOUBRNMENT | Fresno County cted temp s ¢ . pia chawman H Vincent of « Congressman Plarce’s | e80 wa temporary secretary. A an Fleet again | Candidate for Congress having becn al- : ready nominated, nothing remained for » order and | the deles do_except to af e lowing commit- | Presiden stor from the di i = B. West of Santa Ana nominated James McFadden fc e honor, mes nes r. W »oke ) Me : /% | itness for the important office and to! e edion% | of his great in the party. He also s T - | informed the at Mr. McFad- » Jackson, C. B.|den had received the indorsement from & s hworth, Santa | the convention which nominated J. C. an_Mateo: D. L. Fitz- | Needham as Congressional candidate e Carl Lindsay, Santa | from that district Lod Angel : | _Senator Nutt arose and in behalf of R. Freeman, San Diego County mded adden’s " lison. S faus; J. W. Knox, Merced. ' | nomination. Dr. Rowell als aa trl s yoopmitiee on platform and resolutlons—J. | ute to Mr. McFadden, and the nomina . sl McKinley, e 2 tions having been declared closed. Secre- £ ; | tary Vincent cast the ballot of the con- vention for him An urnment was re fro thep taken. As announced in,The Call = s city by >-dhy Dr. Rowell was the first choice of t mvention for Presidential elector, but as this paper declared he insisted that | Capta i in McFadden be chosen. PLOT OF CRIMMINS AND KELLY CARRIED OUT BY COMMITTEE the proceed ngs From the President. ngs had no sooner ¥ | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SANTA « CRUZ, Sept. 5.—The committee on creden- = 2 tials lost no time in getting to work im- mediately after the adjournment of the M. Shackel | convention. W. M ms of Sacramento, Dodge, Kings: chairman of the comm = Tl = E. Nutt, San nd his fellow members b ried to the mbers of lh‘! M. Sims. Sac- | Supervisors in the City Hail and for two | - sholds. Shastai | hours listened to the arguments VAN FLEET TAKES rwin Grienith, contesting delsgations from San i e co. They then went into executive s WHE GAVEL AS THE B’ and decided to unseat the delegate CALL ANNOUNCED were certified to by tion of San Franci The ¢ ment, which he did. This was denounced s unfalr b Mr. Ruef, who said the testea delegations contained only tweive delegates, while the San Francisco dele. ations comprised 130 nembers. he omimitte n_credentials that w named proved no surprise. As soon as it | was announced from the platform 1t was declared to be packed in the infer- of the Kelly-Crimmins-Herrin dele- ation. 'he part ns of Kellyv wore Continued From First Page. T i arsax of s K el mare o2 —~-— | committee on credentials would seat their ] DISTRICT CONVENTIONS HARMONIOUS —_— Presidential Elector for that district, as | delegates, no matter what the evidence predicted in The Call yesterday morning. | might show. Immediately after the meeting was ,The delegates certified to by Chairman | Alfred Bouvier and Secretary Wilson of called to order, Senator Luchsinger of So- | the County Committee were represented ! lano County was chosen chairman, and in | before the committee on credentials by a neat speech thanked the assembled del- | f\’.m_f‘{rl‘l:f. ;\‘P‘n“rp:ulfl 2 ‘f}(“.—r‘lhln am‘lI con- 2 3 % exposition o e case. . Ja M L0E Hi e e [ Atw Satt, was prosent in the itercscs on him. Dr. Wyatt of Yolo was elected | of (1o County Committee. cecretary, and after a rollcall, which| Ruef showed that, according to the call showed a large attendance, nominations | of the State Central Committee, the cer- for Presidential Elector were in order. tificate_of Chairman Bouvier and Secrc. Scpator Edward Taylor of Alameda ry Wilson all that require nated Mr. Davis, and in placing hi and that the delegate om every county : - . |In the State were similarly certified; th we before the convention paid tributes y certified; that | s worth as a cltizen. Mo opposition | the paper presented by the Kelly-Crim- | was made to Mr. Davis' candidacy and | Mins-Herrin _ delegation had been 1 was nominated by acclamation. made out after they had _discov- Mr. Davis was called upon for a speech, | ered they had = lost thelr vote at and ponded with some characteristic prunay and was a direct ef- fort to subvert the will of the people as clearly expressed at lh(‘&)rfmdr)‘ eleetion. | Watt replied. but he did not care to go into the merits of the case, relying upoa He thanked the deie; es cpression of confidence in_ him at some length on the bright pSSIONE and dwelt yrospects of the party at the coming elec- - + D e I Meteatt of Ongiand hav. | the personnel and organization of the ing aiready been nominated for Congress | Committee to carry through the scheme from the Third District, the work of the iy e had proposed in the interest of | Kelly and Crimmins. * __After listefling to the arguments of | Messrs, Ruef, Welch, and George W. Pen- I nington (who spoke strongly in favor of | the certificates signed by Chairman Bou vier and Secretary Wilson), and the m marks of James Alva Watt, Leon Sam- uels, Pat Hennessey and others, the com- tion was curtailed and an adjourn- aken to the call of the chalr. - JULIUS XKAHN IS AGAIN NOMINATED BY ACCLAMATION ment was SOUNDING KEYNOTE | OF THE CAMPAIGN| Brilliant, Logical and Forceful Is the Address of Samuel M. BUSINESS AT SANTA CRUZ SANTA CRUZ “SURF” TURNS REPUBLICAN Editor A. A. Taylor, a Lifelong Dem= Greely, Orang: | . ancisco began | < little more to do. The date | the convention in the afternoon. A mo- of meeting of the varfous dis- | tion to appoint a committee.of ~thres | ventions were announced and the | from each Congressional district e t adjourned to meet morrow | Made by Mr. Sims. who was convengion Alljourned | chairman of ‘the commlittee on creden- | As the great assembly was about to ad- | Uals, By prearrangement, Max Gold- | journ it was asked to ris: and join in the | P&, who represented the’County Com- | ing of the national hy America.” | B, O atton gt e | The scene was an imposgig one, as thou- | €isco delegation be 5 ‘rm'h “}nmvmn J:'r"'m # 4 Splendid har- | Making up of other committees, Chair- | @ mony of the national song. man Van Fleet suggested to the maker ¥ of the motion that he accept an amend- Shortridge. SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE DELIVERS HIS SPEECH. & L4 Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL. HEADQUARTEF SANTA CRUZ, Sept. here was a flow of el 1d patriotic ors in the Republica tion, and the addr three speakers—Samuel Shortridge nd Judge Fleet of San Francisco and the Charles E. Pearce of S$t. Louis, won the warm applanse of the great audience. Mr. Shortridge was eloguent, logical a convineing. He held his audience abso- lutely by a brilliant discussion of nation issues. Time and again the hall rang with tumultuous applause. Time and again the sentiments of the speaker were cheered »quent and when he had finished he received the | well-won tribute of three cheers for him- self. At the conclusion of the address of Mr. Shortridge, Congressman Charles E. Pearce of St. Louis was introduced and recefved with enthusiasm. He was called upon to speak and responded, addressing the convention convineingly on the issues of the campaign Judge Van Fleet's address. on taking the gavel, was also eloguent and patriotic, and he too received the plaudits of his hearers. The specches are given below. gt MR. SHOR;‘RIDGL—}'S SPEECH SOUNDS THE CAMPAIGN KEYNOTE Mr. Samuel M. Shortridge made the ; iittee went into executive session and be. .following eloquent and brilliant ; , S hind closed doors carried out the plot of | adqress: CALL HEADQUARTERS., SANTA |Hosses Kelly, Crimmins and Herrin, whfch e : S G Se A they had been appointed to do. moving smootk |\§‘l“/ "N‘ ‘ .I".i;)?,". Ia)is.d:,::",‘;s Y0 Tirhe unseated delegation will make no . 5 ourtl) LongTEssiona. . ad aS- | purther fight in this convention, but will The Sims Job Accomplished. sembled and were called to qrder Dr. Ed | carry it to the municipal convention, g i at Spear Jr. in W e J. Smith placed Joseph nomination for temporary chairman of the convention. Augastus Tilden placed P. H, Prendergast in nomination for t porary secretary. On motion of M. F.| the temporary cfficers were madec | As soon as ®he roll had becn for Congress were in that | which is to be keld in San Francisco. Mr. Ruef was practically alone in his fight against the strong forces of the | bosses. Throughout nis argument he was interrupted by hard-looking citizens, who were in the lobby. and for their own pro- tection the committee Lad to demand of the intruders that they remain quiet. i Despite the interruptions and threatening | looks Ruef argued for the decent element o «maq | In Dolitics. nowin: 5 Branch pleeed Cengressman : . {Riance of recelving & Ialr dealibefore Kahn's name before the conven- | it wae groeted with ent| «m, | the committee, he tried conciliatory = nthuslasm. | yoacures, but the Kelly, Crimmins and Tilden seconded the nomina- B f tion in a glowing speech. There belpg no | HETFIN “push.” feeling secure in the pos- ere- members sinated fro two conte HE Republican party of California pauses to-day for consultation; to- morrow, united and harmonious, it advances to meet its anclent foe. ‘We walk under the banner of Abra- ham Lincoln. We subscribe to the doctrines and seek to perpetuate the principles for which he wrought. We hold fast to the faith that inspired | him, under the blessing of God, to keep the flag of Washington triumph- ant in the sky. We here and now, in the presence of all men, rededicate ourselves to that faith and declare further nominations. Mr. Kahn was SeScion of o suficlent number of the chosen by acclamation and the Secretary e i no compromise. They wanted a decision irected to cast the ballot of the and they secured one. convention for the incumbent. The following resolution was adopted: = To Cure a Cold in One Day Resolved, That the Renublican Fourth Con- grecsional District Committee of the Republican | Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All ruggists refund the money if it fails to cure. party of the United States and of the Fourth | Congressional District of the State of Cali- | E. W. Grove's signature is on 2ach box. c. sisted that of its rights. Ruef spoke as robhe affair pt just proposed and accept- e entire city and county of There is no contest in San that wheresoever that flag is raised by the valor and blood of our sons, and floats over American territory, there shall it remain. We haven't exactly ‘“nafled it to the mast”; it is held aloft by the hand of an American volunteer soldier, and I would lllkl‘ to see a Democrat attempt to tear it dow are met to make other declarations. believe in a tariff framed on the the- for the avowed purpose of both sing revenue and protecting American labor on farm and in shop. defend that doctrine against the open and covert assaults of the free-trade Democracy: we | propose to continue that doctrine in’ ex- | 1sting laws, readjusting the schedule of i duties “according to the exigencies of the | times™ and to meet the changing condi- | tions of the home and foreign markets. | And we shall do this in a businesslike | way, as practical law makers; not as fan- | tastic and theoretic dreamers. The Amer. 1 peovle are now enjoying the su ntial blessings flowing from this doc- | trine as enacted Into the Dingley law, and they will not permit the destruction of | this source of individual and national | prosperity by the Democratic iconoclasts. Desire to Exalt Human Labor. To that the Republican party puts the dollar above the man is knowingly to utter a great and monstrous untruth, for the first and last purpose of all Repub- lican 'egislation has been and is to dig- | nify and exalt human labor. Garbling the words, distorting the meaning and misrepresenting the purpose of Abraham | Lincoln will not versuade the Amertcan | people of the fitness or capacity of Mr. { Bryan; it will, rather, convince them of his insincerity and utter unworth. The Presidency has never been reached by jusgiing with facts, by misquoting the ifanguage of the dead or by impugning the patriotism of the living. Following the example of their voluble leader, the Democratic mana- gers have inaugurated a campaign of | deception and slander—deception of the people and slander of Republican men and Republican measures. In the midst of all this national pros- nerity and glory, what i3 their grievance? A few months ago these needy office seek- [ ers gave out that trusts were the issue, the zreat issue, the paramount issue. Paramount issue! Have you noticed their artiality, their affection for that word? | If there is one word in the English lan- guage that the Democracy delights in it is paramount: they simply dote on it. The people not soon forget that there was once a Democratic paramount Com- nissioner—‘Paramount” Blount, who | went to Honolulu and did what no Re- publican ever did or will ever do—pulled down the American flag. It will never be | pulled down again. Republicans the Curbers of Trusts. The only national anti-trust law on the statute books was drafted by a Repub- lican statesman, Senator Sherman, passed by a Republican Congress, signed by a Republican President and has been en- forced and is being exccuted by a Re- publican administration. Acts, not words; Statutes, not immature vaporings, are the tests of capacity and sincerity. The Re- publican party ever been and is op- ocrat, Renounces Bryanism and Supports McKinley. Special Dispatch to The Call. ANTA CRUZ, Sept. 5.—The Daily Surf, always recognized as a leading daily of the State, and whose editor, A. A. Taylor, ranks among the best as a writer, came out to-day editorially in favor of Mc- Kinley and Roosevelt. The Surf, established as a Demo- | cratic paper, has always supported that | party. The editorial occupies five columns of space. In his introductory remarks Mr. Taylor says to his readers: For two decades I have addressed you upon scme topic ur other nearly every day in these columns. During this period, with only two briet intervals, everything appearing on this | page has baeu the product of my' pen or has | received the stamp of personal approval. Born a Democrat, with three generations of Democratic blood ini my veins; reared a Demo- | crat; engaged for the greater part of my active | life formulating and advocating Democratic policies and promoting the interests of Demo- cratic candidates, any other course has hereto- fore appear:d to me unthinkable It was the effort and desire of the Surf, as { well as of many others, to have the Demo- cratic Convention in Caliifornia promulgate a platform which should embody advanced sen- timent on new issues and put the Democrati perty in the van of progress. It was not done, and both parties drifted through the campaign of '3 rudderless, so far | as the new ccnaitions were concerned. Time passed and by the terms of a treaty the Philippines and Porto Rico were incorpor- | ated Into the American domain. That treaty | found some of its most ardent supporters | among Democrats, its _principal opponents among Republicans. It is a matter of history that its ratification was finally accomplished in the Senate by the personal efforts of Wil- | liam J. Bryan. Seventeen Democratic Senators | voted to confirm the treaty, whicr it is M\h"’ proposed to repudiate. 1 believe before November millions of our countrymen Feretofore affiliating with the Democratic party will see the danger of adopt- | ing the course Mr. Bryan has now marked out | and will give their ballots and their influence to upholding the oniy policy consistent with | American horor, regardless of the name borne | by the party In power or of how much they may like or dislike Mr. McKinley. | In Favor of Expansion. | Editor Taylor then outlined his views | on_expansion and quoted from editorials | published in the Surf during the late war, | Which supported the policy of the Govern- | ment. The editorial continued: In the meantime, by force of gravitation of events more than of volition. the administra: tion became committed to iis present policy, which has now been affirmed in the Republican platform and from which no party in Congress or out cannot widely depart. Under the head of “The Die Cast” he says: The Democrats in Kansas City adopted a plat- form at variance with this policy, but as po- litical platforms are proverbially interpreted to suit emergencies there might still have been room for “‘expansionists’” within the Demo- cratic ranks but for the attitude taken by Mr. Bryan, which admits of no evasion or equivo~ catlon. It is on the question of expansfon Mr. Taylor disagrees with his party. He speaks of the material blessing brought by the acquisition of the Philippines and says: In short, it transferred Califo from the rim to the center of American activities. So vital and so vivil were these changes that a few Californians have not yet been able to per- cetve the transition. Imperialism in all its subtle forms ought to be exposed and resisted, but It is a mock article which is being polftically exhibited at the present time. No sane citizen can believe that William Me- Kinley or Roosevelt are less deeply attached to the principles of liberty than, Mr. Bryan and Mr, Stevenson. On the contrary, thers eomes the ever-recurring conviction that noth- | ing could be more subversive of trus American- {sm than the course Mr. Bryan announces that he will pursue. ¥ Bryanism vs. Americanism. The editorial concludes as follows: We are no longer playing the game of politics in our own back yard. ‘We ars acting the star part on the world's stage st for it by Providencs, desiiny, fortune whatever name we may apply to the erious fate which leads men and na- in ways they knew not of. v a chain of circumstances extending a little more than two years we ave been gradually drawn to the focus of mundane affairs, where America stands to-day as the most conspicuous, the most powerful moral and material force in the whole world, destined to be the arbiter of nations, the superior power on this planet. Now in this crisis Bryanism says “draw back': Americanism says ‘“go forward. Let whoever will or may be President; let parties rise or fall.” posed to all trusts which destroy legiti- mate competition and oppress individual enterprise. It denounces such trusts as hurtful and declares them to be criminal. It would abolish them and prevent them from re-forming. one and all—even the gi- gantic and barbarous ic trust, from whose robbery of the thirsty poor the Democratic scholar, reformer, leader, pur- ist and all-around 000 Bryan backer, | “Dick” Croker, grows fat and insolent The Democratic rhetor n, who charm- ed a convention by a berrowed phrase, is strangely silent in the presence of this cake of ic It seems to have cooled his ardor. : Without pausing to consider the cause of trusts or to suggest a practical 1o abate them, he shouts that the “tariff has been a bulwark of the trusts, Will he have the goodneéss to tell us what the tariff duty is on ice? And if he can de- scend from his lofty flight and rest his imagination long enough to answer an- other question, will he inform us what the duty is on the products of the Stan- dard Ofl trust? But now th tell us that “militarism"- “imperialism’ is the issue, the paranfount issue. How they love that word! A change has come over the spirit of their dream. They now deem it politic to con- ceal their purpose of disarranging and debasing our curreney, of packing the Supreme Court of the United States, of sustaining the solid Demacratic South in its attempted nullification of the four- teenth and fifteenth amendments, and they turn to do battle witlt a creature of their heated and distempered imagina- tion. “Militarism"-*imperialism!” There is no such issue. Injected into political discussion it iy a fictitious issue, a false jssue. To borgow their beloved word, it is a paramount humbug! Sm-lls of the Grave. The American people have heard this ery before. It has not even the merit of originality. Tt smells of the grave wherein lie buried and almost forgotten the issues of the past. They were nauseated by i when Jackson was President. They lis- tened to and scorned it when Lincoln in 1%4 was making the supreme effort to crush rebellion. Farther back even the | father of his country was charged with “imperialistic” tendencies and aiming at | merarchy. | If the Democratic declaimers in Cali- | fornia and elsewhere have acquired the | habit of reading history and chance to have the speeches of Thomas H. Benton in their single tax and free trade librarie: I commend them to a perusal of his terly defense of Andrew Jacksonm, deliv ered in the United States Senate in 18% To be sure, modern Democracy has turned its back on the teachings of Jackson, but | it may be timely to recall that in his day | and generation he stood for mnatlonal unity, national supremacy and the pro tection of American citizens wheresoever | they might be on a lawful errand. But Jackson was denounced as a “tyrant, despot, usurper, destrover of the liberties of his country,” seeking to over- throw the republic and to erect an em- pire on its ruin: For leaping to the de- fense of American citizens abroad he was charged with treasonably undermining the constitution. The air was full of in- temperate attacks gon his patriotism. Speaking of his watchfulness and ag- gressive Americanism Benton says—and I quote him for the benefit of all who are just now hampering the administration and discouraging American soldiers: | But_one single inetance of outrage has oc- | curred,” and_fthat at the extremities of the world, and by a_piratical horde. amenable to ow but the law of force. The Malays of matra committed a robbery and massacre upen_an Amercan vessel. Wretches! they did not then know that Andrew Jackson was P dent of the United States, and that no distance, no time, no idle ceremocnial of treating with | 1obters and assassins, was to hold back the | arm of justice. Commodore Downes went out. | His cannon and his bayonets struck the out- | laws in their den. They vald in terror and in | blood for the outrage which was committed, | and the great lesson was taught to the tant pirates—to our antipodes themselves—that not even the entire diameter the globe eould Drotect them, and that the name of American Citizen, ltke that of Roman citizen in the & days of the republic and of the empire, W to be the Inviolable passport of all that wore it throughout the whole extent of the habitable Elobe. The People Uphold McKinley. The people understood Jackson even as thev understané MeKinley, and as they upheld the hero of New Orleans. even so | will they n;\imhl tke Christian hero who | is putting forth the strength of the re public to rescue American citizens from Asfatic butchery and to strike terrer into | the hearts of all whe would touch with hostile hands the American flag. ! Is the enforcement of lawful au- thority, the putting down of rebel- lious insurrection, “militarism”? Is| the employment of American bayo- | nets to rescue American men, womeun and children from indignity, death | and mutilation—is that “militar- | ism”? Is the establishing of peace, order, se- curity to life and property in territory | rightfully acquired by the United States— | is that “militarism”? Was General Law- ton a brigand? Is Genmeral MacArthur a | despot? Is General Chaffee an enemy of | liberty? Was Admiral Dewey a bucca- | neer sailing under the black flag, or an | erican hero, who smote tyranny in his stronghold and in an hour added addition- | al and imperishable luster to the Stars and Stripes? Is it “imperialism” to uphold authority and enforce law and order in Porto Rico, in_Alaska, in Hawaii, in the Philppines? Was James K. Polk an “imperialist when as President and commander lnl chief our flag was carried Into the heart when, after diplo proved & of Mexico and floated in victory from the dome of their Capitol? \e. e Was Andrew Jackson an “Imperfalist™ at New Orleans, or late enforced American rights in when aid, “The Union shall preserved,” and cru: nullifica- toin in South Caroli: Some Pertinent Questions. Let the Democratic false rmists stand by the grave of Jackson and prat of “imperialism” if the re. Why, if that rugged patriot w rise from his sleep he would blast th one glance—his indig them forever. Was Abraham Li when he struck se man up—when he you, for me, for all - dened an for libe er law? Was Grant an “imperial laying aside his unconquerable he said, “Let us have peace"? William McKinley an “tmperial the declaration enforcing the s in obedience is duties an tered in pre: 2 heaven he s of the 1 is this thing they “imperial- ism”? Is growth “imperialism”? If s what enthusiastic and aggressive “i iali we have been from Jamestown and Plymouth to this ve hour. Is expanding territory “imperialism’"? It s0, how have we offended? Was the Louisiana purchase due to Jef- fers ? If so, then let us call on’s “Imperialism™? restore it to France. Was Florida acq roe's devotion to give it back to Spa Was Texas the offspring of this monster “imperialism”? If so, cede it to Mexico of set it adrift as an independent nation. yas Alaska purchased in order to deck the “‘crown” of “imperfalism™? If so, res convey it to Russia. Is California, crowned with her fifty years and celebrating her golden jubilee, a misshapen child of “im- perialism’”? Were the pioneers a gang of marauders? Are the native sons, of sterling manhood, the native daughters, of queenly beauty, the de- scendants of “imperialistic” free- booters? If so, stop the celebration, pull down the stars and stripes from the dome of our Capitol and tell Gov- ernor Gage to give way to an heir of Montezuma. Democratic Party One of Dissension. ed by reason of Mon- imperialism”? If so, ¥ The Democratic party Iy a party of dissent and is the incarnation of dissa maps out no large national policy, it constructs nothing of permanent value: it knows statesmanship and aining what r and ability nothing of practical seems to care less about su has been achieved by the v of American patriots. Its most distin- Emshing characteristic, however, is its issatisfaction with anything and every- thing accomplished by the Republican party, however much those things may contribute to the stability of the Govern- ment and the pre y of the people. You remember how Democratic orators i at party's free trade foreign markets. We products of our fuctories and farms enlarged foreign markets so that our shipments abroad are now greater than ever before in the history of the republic and are increasing with al- most miraculov still tiiey are not satisfied. You rem they declaimed wce of trade being against It was against us, but and business-like admi ve turned the tide aca in our faver, constantl fin= asin in the year 1990 will moy | o the St dous sum of $500,000,000. But Sthl they are mot eatisfied. You rememboer how they lamented and shed crocodile tears over the searcity of a circulating curreney—the alleged 1 Amount of money per capita in the United States—claiming that . thewgamount of money per capita was an unfailing indct to national prosperity. We have | eased that per capita from $22 Ie when MeKin- was inaugurated on March 4, 1807, ¢ 1 on June 1, 1990; it is now larger t ever before in the republic, and Rotwith standing the constant increase in popu- lation the per capita is steadily growing larger, for reasons which are obvious (o thoughtful men—the influx of goid from abroad and the marvelous output of our mines; but still they are not satisfied. America’s Splendid Foreign Policy. You remember how they demanded a vigorous foreign policy. We have en- forced a foreign policy, aggressive, Pri- dent and firm, which has made the Amer- ican name respected in every land and the American flag honored on every wave: but still they are not satisfled. You remember how they protested their love for the laborer—beggared by their wild and suicidal poiicies; in rags as result of their legislative folly and ministrative incompetency. We have giv remunerative employment to every ind trious man who is willing to toil. farmer is prosperous; the merchant is so.- vent; the mechanic sings at his labe happy. wives and happy children greet happy American workingmen as they re- turn to their happy homes at night. But (Continued on Fourth Page)