Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Democrats of Pulaski and White counties will hold their representative convention at Monticello today. Hon. Frank B. Burke and other prominent leaders will be present and address the meeting. George Fred Williams made a good point in his speech at Monon, on Wednesday. “I have been twice defeated,” he said, “as a candidate for governor in my state, but lam not under obligation to the governor of Indiana for protection while I speak to you!” And the people, remembering W. S. Taylor, of Kentucky, roared their appreciation of the point.—Lafayette Journal. Some of our imperialist friends profess to believe that there can be imperialism without militarism such as weighs so heavily on European countries which are armed to the teeth. But those who know that imperial government rests on the army as a foundation know that building up a big standing aimy is the first step toward a permanent policy of foreign conquest and subjugation. —Utica Observer.

If Gaetano Bresci, the assassin of King Humbert of Italy, could only have reached Indiana after firing the fatal shots, he would have been safe from the clutches of the law, and would have been a most desirable acquisition to Gov. Mount’s Kentucky proteges, Messrs. Taylor et al. Perhaps, too, the republican state committee could have secured his services on the stump this fall. There are quite a number of his countrymenprotected American (?) laborers, employed by the big capitalistic organizations of the state, working for a mere pittance, living in hovels and eating food that would sicken a hog. A desertation on the beauties of the republican “protection” policy from so noted a personage as Bresci would no doubt win many •'Dago’’ votes for the trust ticket.

The Chicago Chronicle, which was a Gold Democrat paper in 1896, and supported Palmer and Buckner, says: “Gold Democrats can recall what McKinley’s policy has lieen. A higher protective tariff than ever, the malign policy of imperialism and militarism, foreign wars for aggression and conquest, the expenses of the goverment increased to nearly $700,(XX),(KM) a year, are the fruits of McKinley’s election in 1896. It is not honest for a few men claiming to represent the remnants of the gold Democratic faction to nominate a ticket which they do not support at the polls. There are but two real candidates for President, William Jennings and Bryan William McKinley, representing opposite opinions in regard to public policy. The paramount issue is imperialism and all which it implies. Imperialists will vote for McKinley as the striking representative of their belief. Anti-imperialists will vote lor William J. Bryan, the representative candidate of the forces that oppose imperialism.”