Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — POLITICS OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POLITICS OF THE DAY

-Mon, the presSem Si *XO« te M> W9SUI tmtMt off a* MM9 1 iLnJante? gwta off tta w ttaffl.” and yet mban X Iqn ptftete out that during this off what th* republicans atm «a3l -Ymmtetal ■*&»- tknT Mr. UcKMfy UiwK wwl tar Mt»U land for opposing It; that "wem iff ISM the rkde regafcßtaai pasty Mmd Imgßnraipe n Ois try te led g® off at," «nd than, am te Europe te tsy ie grit ric «f the piU

off bdhh% ib! making them legal sender tar aM <MHsv voted to override that w». «T the Cmitcdf States ami who Smn gold monometaßHun te a sjpewdh defir<nd at TtAeda, Otoio, caaqftaiteed das “during all of Preaideao Owefiarnff* he was dishonoring one off «mr proeitens metals, one es ear great nuoffTtk. 'discrediting silver and eahamriteff the price of gold." and made 9t aa espetfial grievance that through—ft his daw administration Cleveland had pwteßtttetly need his poaert® step the oosuageaff silver dollars and make Turney the master, everything else the serveae.’*’ Pleasing as the perseaaMty off McK» ley is It becomes -evident ta—a a gjhuace over his record that he laths ifiraa eta victions and is not fitted hy Hi «r ly and consistently «a great ■gi’mnml questions. —Chicago D—aaiaL

There is nothing 3ft* toeing gcegsutel tor the worst, aal these topniMiirm •elves with the reflection that eras iff their party is toeste® to ttoe etacneas <sff tids year the «taaces'e( ftaema n yeair training themselves i«4ecfe an the ftaaft side, and to extract ns —eh esftartadefeat la this way is nett adam a* oTtoe ladder only aa hneftea ratif iessly dabbed to the gi maad tt.* tetoZ?pXnM on when it dees came, is Cmhsd SStsne* to an article ever Ms sea dptofs. -fugues that the sacoessM party to the year before the rMtaOldwan hope that It win win n tsm.iUn.ii—lh totftpolitical history, and gee* hark aa the ■Civil war pealed as stwagntom Mb paafl-

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any thhet ever nuiad in the Buckeye Stam.” 1 the idli—■ opposition of the German— was ytii. “We are aide to deattna W—|h’ said the Republican pailtrfrhm £a his interview. “We can Jwfigr as this fey tike sentiments, wholly ma-Aasnteaa, which he has expressed maawa hfnhfem on a large scale, if am hag nihil figure ha politico. This asst at tttag fia repugnant to the Geraasm wta, and eoooeijue'iitly 1 look for a hafit fftem the Republican ranks." Shsaftl the Democracy secure a vlc9—y ta Qfita this fall ft will prove a aassaa item to the administration and mSB give height promise of Democratic The mtum off tike Democracy in Kmte—bj an— Maryland this year, mhfith shrewdy seems assured, will undenfidedEy aanua the restoration of those States to the Democratic column 8m the Pus—initial election. Kentucky 8a ca—efiefi he strongly Democratic

ttoaae tsa fltuftm restored there ought | and JbHßtfts toss kitted Ms party in j Batons—n. There fia every Indication A— toe aid aa—to. which showed nf w nail lufflag to 18—y will be soiKy Be—anratto to toe great contest of neat j— toad tor toe North, It daes n— take a very sharp observer to way Stote ttam it was three years Jritoari Mm to toe w—SSTthey ■ toil——todnk B—red, by a—ad toy ran— toiry with Carter toned. In hato ca—» toe gsratzanmt’s —as tony—t —C—l—,a—it togfrea 26mr T—VsM. 1 " J paaed the hypscottficnl excuses d— yararnaar— daes n— —end to

suited,” but in plain English and fit plain Dutch the people off the two republics are told .that their territory is wanted by Great Britain, and that Great BrftaJn proposes to take it There is a quality of manliness, though a brutal manliness, in the way England is going about the business that la found wanting In bur Invasion pf the Philippines. We ape there under false pretenses. We say we are going to give the people home rule, but we refuse to promise anything definitely Kansas City Times. Trne nnl Ki*l»e Kxnanaion. In one of his Western junket speeches President McKinley brings forth the old, threadbare and fallacious argument that expansion on the North American continent and the subjugation of troplwtf Asiatic islands are one the same thing. J lHe cites the Louisiana purchase by Jefferson as justifying his own Philippine policy, when the truth is that there ie no resemblance between the two whatever. The expanding of our frontiers on this continent has been going on steadily during the century simply. We have grown rapidly in numbers, and needed more room to breathe in. In securing the regions west of the Mississippi River we merely extended the fences of the fields we already occupied; wo did not cross a wide ocean to secure a graveyard for our sons in a pestilential climate. Even the purchase of Alaska from Russia, which McKinley also refers to, presents no parallel to the Philippines To be sure, it is still doubtful whether there is anything of value beneath the ice and snow, but the territory is American, and sooner or later “the

whole boundless continent” Is destined to be ours, so that eventually this northern section wIH round out our possessions. The Philippines belong lu no sense whatever to this continent, and they are already so densely populated that there Is no chance of colonizing them from our Shores unless we undertake to kill off all the present inhabitants. The President's policy toward these islands is both Inhuman ami un-Ameri-can. The * r «nnn-Na«h-Bttrdell Ides. _ The “Ohio Idea” in politics is 111®, trated again by Chairman Burdell, of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee, who is duftning every Federal officeholder In Illinois and the West generally, for a contribution to carry the ticket through in hts own State, the ground that “the defeat of the party in the President’s borne State would be heralded by the opposition as a rebuke* to his administration.” Civil service law amounts to nothing with Republicans; but tbe Ohio idea among them appears to be that the Union would go to pieces unless they are kept In control.—Brooklyn Citizen. Getting Miaky All Aronnd. The western situation is probably serious All accounts agree that Hanna to having a terrible struggle in Ohio, while in Nebraska it Is certain that Bryaa’s epigrammatic denunciations of tbe Philippine policy have made a distinct impression. On no other theory can be explained the summons Ur Roosevelt to go over Bryan’s recent route in Nebraska. lowa, too, may need looking after because of tbe large number of Germans there—Springfield Republican.

OrcaalMd Plnndering. Tbe soft coal combination in Western Pennsylvania was no sooner organized than it advanced prices. There to no scarcity of bituminous coal. Scarcity to impossible unless artificially produced, for tbe bills art full of coal. There has been no increase In wages to Justify tbe advance. It seems to be as Instance of organized plundering.— Philadelphia Record. The Root of the Matter. Secretary Root observes that everybody is bound by patriotism to support Mr. McKinley’s policy of subjugating tbs Filipinos. Secretary Root forgets tout very few people are drawing as large a salary through Mr. McKinley’s favor as he to tee present