Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — ONE COMMON AIM. [ARTICLE]

ONE COMMON AIM.

Democracy Prevent* a United Front Against a Common i.nemy. Four years ago Mr. Bryan, amid scenes of great excitement and bitterness, was suddenly called to party leadership. This year he is summoned with deliberation and with unanimity to the same high place. Four years ago his nomination was resisted by nearly a third of the convention. There were many bolters from the There was general dissensions among Democrats, which led to open rupture and the assembling of a convention that put in the field alleges! Democratic opposition candidates. Now mark the difference. There is no evidence anywhere within the organization of protest or opposition. The convention was unanimous, and It was not a forced unanimity of elements hiding secret opposition, but of people who believed in the man and the cause he represents, end whose agreement on a unanimous nomination was the most sincere act of their political lives. The Chicago Chronicle, which four years ago opposed Mr. Bryan, now joining in hearty and vigorous support of his election, says: “It may be stated with emphagis that never in the history of. the party has a Presidential candidate been placed in the field with greater unanimity or with more genuine cordiality on the part of his supporters.” It is plain, therefore, that Mr. Bryan has been a growing man, and impressed himself upon his party and upon the country. His energy, his zeal, his sincerity cannot be Questioned even by his'most implacable foes. He is stronger to-day

than £ter before. He has a united party back of him, which he had not in 1890. —Pittsburg Post. Conquest. If there is one principle more deeply written than any other in the mind of every American it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. —Thomas Jefferson. Conquest. That is our object in the Philippines. The Filipinos. A people who gave up 50,000 lives to win their independence from Spain, and had beaten the Spanish soldiers back to Manila before Dewey entered the bay of Manila that morning in May, 1898. Aguinaldo. The trusted leader of the Filipinos. A man imbued with the spirit of liberty, fapiiliar with the Declaration of Independence and with the constitution of the United States, furnished with arms and used as an ally by Dewey, believing all the time that the defeat of Spain by the United States meant independence, not conquest, for the Filipinos. It was the devilish lust of conquest that made our administration, our government, play false to Aguinaldo and the Filipinos. Neither our Declaration of Independence, nor our constitution, nor our traditions, nor our form of government contemplate conquest, which is neither more nor less than national piracy.— Helena Independent. Another Civil War. Shall the United States of America continue to be a free republic, and the friend of free and struggling republics everywhere, with equal privileges to all? Or shall the United States become imperial in fact If not In form, with special privileges for the few, the denial of the “consent of the governed,” military rule over subject peoples and unwarrantable corporate or trust exactions from our own people? Shall we continue to stand upon the Declaration of Independence and a strict construction of the Constitution, or are they to become forgotten documents In a new-fashioned era of heavy armaments, great military budgets and vast military establishments to oppress the people of our colonies, or in time, perhaps, to overawe the people of our own land? Republic or cpiplre, which? That is the great question for the people to determine. It underlies and overshadows a. d exceeds In its vital Importance all other issues of this last yearfof the nineteenth century.—Albany Argus. Nullification of * Doctrine. When the joint high commission failed to dispose of Canada’s newly con-

celved and stubborn pretensions to territory that would give her a seaport for her Yukon province at the expense of the Integrity of our own const Hue, it ’has announced that Secretary Hay would take the controversy into bls own hands, separating It from other questions in dispute with the dominion. This rumor of a “provisional, preliminary and temporary” recession from our previc Italy undisputed frontier is the first news from that quarter. It looks like a proposition pnt forth tentatively in order to ascertain whether public Interest is so much engrosed in the Presidential campaign, lu affairs Lu Giilnn aud Ju other tnnt’urs at home and abroad that It will either tolerate with indifference a snrieuauc of territory or acquiesce submissively in a practical nullification of the Monroe doctrine.—New Yolk Suu. Haiiti'isr ’'own ths Fing. The United Stales did not acquire possession of Alaska by conquest fron natives who wanted independence, but by purchase from Russia. Neverthe less, our flag has been flying there fc* about thirty-three years. In the words of President McKinley. “Who shall haul it down?” President McKinley himself, through his Secretary of State, has hauled down the American flag on a considerable strip of that territory. He has done this at the instance of Great Britain. The British flag never floated over this territory until Mr. McKinley hauled down the American flag. When an impartial commission shall adjudge this territory to be outside the purchase which the United States made from Russia it will be tinae for the

President, if duly authorized by Congress, to haul down the American flag. Until such time—hands off, Mr. McKinley and Mr. Hay!—Boston Post. Mnybnry a Strong Candidate. The Democratic party has given the people of Michigan a gubernatorial candidate of the older school—no brag, no bluster, no holism, no bluffing, no intimidation, no fake “reforms.” If the people of the State are dissatisfied with tlie reckless and corrupt manner in which the affairs of the commonwealth have been administered they have it in their own power to bring about a better state of things. If they desire a government that is not the plaything of demagogues on the one hand and corporate interests on the other, the opportunity Is theirs. They can find no fault with the candidate. They can find no fault with the platform on which he stands.—Detroit News.

Why Not Divide China?' If imperialism is a good thing; why not now join with the other "world powers” in the partition of China? We have much better reasons for seizing a slice of that empire than we had for taking the Philippines. It Is a larger field, both for our trusts and for our missionary “statesmen.” At the present rate of progress the Filipinos will soon all be civilized—that is to say, dead—but In China Hanna would have unlimited scope for “Christianizing” the heathen.—Columbus, Ohio, PressPost.

Ont of Their Own Mouths. Webster Davis has been accused of using some of President Garfield's utterances In addressing a Democratic meeting. It Is bad enough to condemn Republican doctrines without proving their error by quoting from the old leaders of the party. Democrats should be forbidden to quote from Lincoln or Garfield.—Peoria Herald-Transcript. They Are Naturally Furprised. That there were differences of opinion and discussions as to policy at Kansas City naturally excites the organs of the once free and Independent Republican party, in whose conventions Hanna no longer tolerates any discussion.—Albany Argus. Not Up to Date with Hanna. To be sure, it hurts the Hanna crowd to have such a garrulous lot of old granny Republicans as Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Sherman, Edmunds, Hoar, Carpenter, Seward and Stanton quoted in this campaign.—Omaha World-Her-ald.