Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 November 1898 — Page 3

1892

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DEMOCRATS AND THE WAR

Its Position In Indiana on the Silver Question In 1892.

Artemus Ward, whoa exhibiting his wax work figures, in calling attention to his kangaroo, was in the habit of. saying, "My kangaroo is an amoozing ens." And in glancing over a Republican campaign circular issued by the Republican party in 1892, Ward's reference to his kangaroo suits the Republican party most felioitiously.

the Republican party of Indi-

ana wae rod hot for silver. It ontBryaned Bryan. The circular in question did not so much as mention gold, nor gold standard, just silver, all silver and nothing but silver.

The circular displays at its head a cut of the silver dollar, "large as life." It does not call the silver dollar a "lie." It does not denounce the mint stamp a "lie." It was in 1802 as now, a dollar of 412}^ grains of standard silver. It was then as now, coined at the ratio of 16 to 1. In 1892 General Ben Harrison was the presidential candidate to succeed himstlf, and the reoord of the party and the record of Harrison on silver is set forth and urged as a convincing reason why Harrison should be re-eleoted and the Republican party krpt in power, and the cogency of the reasoning finds expression iu the statement that Harrison and the Republican party are better, more substantial and reliable friends of the silver dollar than the Democratic party. In 1889 General Harrison was inaugurated, and in 1892 was a candidate for re-election, and this fact accounts for the Republican silver circular addressed to the voters of Indiana. The circular strengthens the declaration of the Republican party's fealty ro silver by quotations from Cleveland's letter and messages, as also from reports of liis secretary of the treasury iiud deplores the decline of silver nnier Cleveland's iidiniuistration, all i' which is done to urfje the people ot Indiana, if they are friends of silver, to rush to (he polls and vote tUe Republican ticket.

It is just here that the circular becomes as amooziu as Ward's kangaroo, and Vit is reproduced here for the delictation of Republicans, press and stump orators, and, as the editor of a looal weekly papes says, "they will find it interesting reading." It may bother Republicans who lay awake of nights cud tiling their brains to coin new terms to denounce the advocates of silver, but it will conclusively demonstrate that Republicans v.i'l denounce anything or advocate anything that promises them votes. Th( fallowing is that portion of the oircular, headlines and all, which shows the Republican party to be the friend of silver:

Republicans at the Helm.

PRESIDENT HARRISON AND SPEAKER KEED TAKE COMMAND OF THE SHIP AND INSTANTLY SILVER BE GIN'S TO MOUNT. .. THIS WAS THE REPUBLICAN PROMISE. [From National Republican Platform of 1888.]

The Kopnblican party is in favor of the use of boih gold and silver as monoy. and condemns the policy of the Democratio £§administration in its oS'c.irts to demonetize silver. linrrison Advocates Coinage, -tl

THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT DIFFERS WITH HIS DEMOCRATIO PREDEOHJgSQR AND SAYS IT IS §HEEg FOLLY TO DIS

C&EDJT OUR OWN GOODS. 1 [From the President's First Annual Massage, December, 1889.1

The evil anticipations Wlileh h&vo acoompanied the oolnage and use of the silver dollar have not been realized. As a coin it has not had genoral use, and the public treasury has been compelled to store It. But this is manifestly owing to the fact thac its paper representative is more convenient. The general acceptance and use of the 6ilver certificate show that silver has not been otherwise discredited.

I have always ueenna advocate

of the use of silver In our currency. Wo are large producers of that metal, and should not discredit it.

Must Dae Rutli Metals.

THE REPUBLICAN SECRETARY DIFFERS WITH HIS DEMOCRATIO PREDECESSOR AND SAYS WE CANNOT AFFORD TO DIS

CARD SILVER.

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They Vied With the Republicans In

Giving the Administration Financial Support.

McKiiiley'it l,:»ck of Diplomacy and Vigor In Drilling With Spain Wan Roundly Cril lcisi«tl by tlie Kepublicaus—Chairman lU'ruly Would Mak) a Nonpartisan War Mate Is«ue lo ISoUter lTp

III-* railyIt oupht to be remembered, because it is true, that the Democratic party was the real war party of the nation. It was in favor of the war with Spain for humanitarian considerations. It believed that Spain's rule iu Cuba was brutal, savage, horrible, and ifr believed that the Cubans ought to enjoy liberty and independence. So persistent were Democrats in demanding a declaration of war against Spain that the remark was often made: "This is a Democratic war."

It is a matter of record that when it lpecame apparent that war with Spain Was inevitable and the admlnistrwion

wanted the means for war purposes, Democrats In cougress vied with Republicans in giving to the administration all the money it demanded and 150,000,000 was voted and placed in the hands of the president to be expended as he might deem proper.

If Democrats doubted the policy of issuing interest bearing bonds to supply war revenue, it was not because of any hostility to the war, or for the purpose of embarrassing the administration, but, rather because they believed the time had not arrived making it necessary to burden the people wit an additional bonded debt and taxation. They believed that the war would be of short duration, that the reserves of the treasury were ample to carry on tho war, even if it should continue to December, when, if bonds were required, the facts would be before the country, and a bond loan could speedily be made to meet all emergencies. In a word, the Democrats, in and out of congress, with patriotic unanimity have sought in every possible way to uphold tho hands of the administration in conducting the war.

If there were criticisms of Mr. McKinley's diplomacy and of his lack of vigor in dealing with Spain, it should be stated that Republicans were even more pronounced in their complaints than were Democrats. And it will be remembered that it required heroio efforts on the part of Republican whips to restrain Republican members of congress from breaking through all restraints and openly condemning Mr. McKinley's dilatory policy.

The Democratic party studiously declined to drag the war into politics. It was not, in its origin, a party war. If Mr. McKinley was obnoxious to criticism, it was because he "detested" war, and exhibited the greatest reluctance in beginning hostilities. In his own language he desired to be satisfied that a war with Spain would be a "righteous war,'' and even the sinking of the battleship Maine did not arouse Jjitn from his lethargy. And the facts show that Republicans were more censorious thai} Democrats over such exhibitions of "T iupineness.

And in ttus connection it is worthy of mention that the Democracy of Indiana, in state convention assembled, in putting forth their platform, ignored the war as a political issue. There was not one word in the platform arraigning Mr. McKinley's administration for anything done or omitted in conducting the war. On the contrary, the platform gave only expression of patriotic sentiments. Tlie war plank of the platform was in the highest degree eulogistic of the war, army and navy. Indeed, in suoh regards its indorsement of the war was even more pronounced than the declarations of the Republican platform.

To still further demonstrate that the Democratic party was opposed to dragging the war iuto politics, on Aug. 17 Hon. Park6 M. Martin, chairman of the state Democratic central committee, gave expression to his views in an interview in the Indianapolis Sentinel on the war as a political issue, and is reported as follows: "As I said, I don't believe that the war should be made an issue in this state campaign. It was not a political war. It was waged in the interest of humanity to succor the down-trodden, starving people of Cuba. The Democrats are not disposed to bring the war into the state campaign, not that they're afraid to, for if the Republicans show a disposition to make it a campaign matter we are going to take care of ourselves all right. If they are going to make this a war campaign it is not putting it too strong to say that we will handle them without gloves. We might be able to show, for instanoe, that the war was brought abont by the Democrats in congress, assisted by a few Republicans, and that if it had been left to President McKinley and his advisers we would probably never have had a war. I do not say this in the Way of criticism and I am opposed to trying to make campaign material oat ot a war that waB supported loyally by all parties and all sections."

This completely disposes all the shallow talk of the Republican press regarding the position of the Democratio party on the war as a political issue iu the campaign in Indiana.

Bat, Mr. Hernly, chairman of the Republican state central committee, in an interview published in the Indianapolis Sentinel on Aug. 18, the day following the appearanoe of Mr. Martin's interview, took occasion to insist that war should be and ought to be an issue in the campaign in Indiana. Evidently, Mr. Hernly believed the war issue would be highly conducive to Republican success. and is reported as saying: ••I read The Sentinel's interview with Parks Martin in whioh he said that the war should not be made an issue in this campaign, but that the Democrats are ready to meet it if the Republicans

spring it.

do not agree with Mr. Mar

tin that we who happen to be in positions of party responsibility can make the issues of this or of any campaign. The people, make the issues. They know what they are vitally interested in, and unless the stump speaker talks ot tl)r«i things he will find himself without audieuees. Just now the people want co have the story of the war told tliem. It is a story in which they are vitally interested. They want it told from the stump by the stump speakers. They are interested in the question of territorial expansion and the thousand-and-one questions growing out of tlie war, and they want to know what our public men think about them. The people of Indiana have decreed that the war shall be an issue in the campaign. "While we Republicans do not claim the sole credit, for having brought on this war, we are all proud of the masterly way in which the war was conducted by President McKinley, and we see no harm iu saying so from from the scump.

"The Republicans are forced to make the war question an issue, even though they were not inclined. The Republican party was the party in power during this war crisis. It has many things to explain to the people. It has to explain why it was necessary to issue bonds why it was necessary to establish a war revenue, and it has to answer to the people for all the steps of the

campaign. It will try to answer to the people of Indiana this fall." I ®EMIt will be observed that Mr. Hernly, speaking for his party, declared in favor of making the war a campaign issue, besides, it will be observed that DEM. Mr. Hernly declares that "the Republicans are forced to make the war question an issue even though thay were not inclined," and that the Republicans "have many things to explain."

Let it be understood that the war by itself considered—that is to say the declaration of war and the battles of the war on the land and on the sea—is not and cannot be made a partisan politioal issue, since all parties aud all sections favored the war.

Mr. Hernly sounded a keynote when he said, "The Republican party has many things to explain," and it is doubtless true that the people, if they have made tlie issue, it is with the understanding that Republicans shall "ex' plain many things"—not about "bonds' nor any of the land or naval battles, since they have been r\plained by officers iu command. What, then? The question is answered by the appointment of a commission by the president and his instructions to that com mission, in which he said: "There has been, in many quarters, severe criticism of the conduct of the war with Spain. Charges of criminal neglect of the soldiers in camp andlieldand hospital and in transports, have been so persistent, that, whether true or false, they have made a deep impression upon the country."

Who made these charges which Re publicans must explain? Mr. Hernly says "the Republican party was the party in power during this war orisis.' And the Reuublican party must ex plain. Certainly, Democrats did not make the charges. The Democratic party was not in power "during this war crisis." No part of the infamy charged, and which, as Mr. McKinley says, has "made a deep impression upon the country," attaches to the Demo cratic party.

These charges have been made by sol diers, by officers wearing the insignia of generals, by correspondents of journals of the highest character for pru .dent statements, by army chaplains and, to the extent tljiey dared to talk, by private soldiers. Tins pelting stpruj of charges, gro~iug more fierce a_8 th£ days wfcntly, horrified the people. Nor was it required for the private soldiers, who returned alive from pestilential

camps, to talk. Studebaker

To see them, as Oolonel said of his splendid regi

ment—the One Hundred afid Fiftyseventh Indiana—"with fever in their very bones," weak, wasted and bnt a shadow of their former selves, was a speech more terribly eloquent than Mark Anthony made over the dead body of Usesar.

True, they were not in the battle at Santiago nor Manila—they were not in war at all. Their battles were for life in the camps assigned them by the administration, by McKinley's war sesretary. They were iu American camps within a few hours' travel by rail of Washington, thev were within reach of telegraph and telephone, and yet they suffered and many died for want of medicines, food and care. Suffered by criminal neglect and criminal incompetency, the result of the lowest degree of partisan politics in making appointments. Mr. MoKinley, in his instructions to the investigating commission, among other things, said: "I cannot impress upon von too strongly my wish that your investigation shall be so thoroagh and complete that your report when made will fix the responsibility for any failure or fault by reason of neglect, incompetency or maladministration upon the officers and bureaus responsible therefor—if it be found that the evils complained of have existed. "The people of the country are entitled to know whether or not the citizens who so promptly responded to the call of duty have been neglected or misused or maltreated by the government to whioh they so willingly gave their services. If there have been wrongs committed, the wrongdoers mast not escape conviction and punishment."

These are brave words, and, peradventure, like stray ohickens, he may find them coming home to roost. The war department has had charge of the army, and at the head of this department is Secretary Alger, for whose appointment President McKinley is solely responsible. Hence, the traoks of the criminal blunders of that department point to the white hoase as certainly as the hoofprints of Phil Armour's cattle point to the slaughterhouse.

The nation believes that the first criminal blander was the appointment of Alger as secretary of war. If the people are right in this, the multiplied wrongs of which the people complain, the investigating commission may hold William McKinley, president of the United States, responsible.

In the relentless search for wrong doers it may be in order to track them to their hiding places, but it is in con sonance with the eternal fitness of things to find, if possible, the one man, the higher his position the more important the investigation, who is responsible, and when found stand him up before the pitiless gaze of the world and say to him, as Nathan said to David, "Thou ait the man."

INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS

How to Mark Ballot

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Secretary of State, SAMUEL M. RALSTON.

DEM.

For Auditor of State, JOHN W. MINOR.

For Treasurer of State, HUGH DOUGHERTY.

For Attorney General,

JOHN G. McNUTT.

For Clerk Supreme Court, HENRY WARRUM.

INSTRUCTIONS.

If you want to vote a STRAIQHT DEMOCRATIO TICKET make a cross thus, X, within the large circle containing-the ROOSTER at the top of the tioket. If you mark In the LARGE CIRCLE you must not make a mark any where else on the ballot or you will lose your vote.

If you want to vote a mixed tioket, you must not mark within the large circle, but must make a cross thus, X, In the SMALL SQUARE opposite the name of eaoh person, for whom you desire to vote.

You mut rOt mark on the ballot with anyth-ij out the BLUE PENCIL glvep vou .oy the poll olerk. If you by mlwSak*- mutilate your ballot return It to th* poii olerk and set a new ballot.

You must fold your ballot befsre coming out of the booth so that the face will not show, and sothatthe Initials of the poll olerks on th» tx*ck will show.

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