Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — CAMPAIGN IS OPENED. [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN IS OPENED.

BRYAN’S INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH THE KEYNOTE. Wave of Democratic Enthusiasm Felt AU Over the Country- Presidential Candidate’s Plain and Forceful Declaration of Hie Intention*. Washington correspondence: Bryan's speech of acceptance at Indianapolis starts the Democratic campaign with a wave of enthusiasm which can bo felt all over the country. His denunciation of imperialism will rank is an effort of oratory worthy to be placed beside the utterances of Jefferson and Lincoln, when those greqt leaders discussed the principles upon which human liberty and independent government is founded. Bryan’s analysis of the whole situation is clear and convincing. He has a remedy and he gives it so that no man may mistake its meaning. He says that, if elected, be would at once convene Congress in extra session and recommend an immediate declaration of the nation's purpose, first to establish a stable form of government in the Philippines and, second, to give independence to the Filipinos; third, to protect them from outside Interference while they work out their destiny just as we have protected the republics of Central and South America under the Monroe doctrine and as we are pledged to protect Cuba.

What a contrast is this plain declaration of Intention to the "scuttle policy” In McKinley’s speech of acceptance! Every voter knows that if the Filipinos are guaranteed independence and protection the war will be over. Our army can practically be withdrawn. The I only obstacle to be overcome will be the fear of treachery which the cruel mlHtary policy of this administration has planted in the breasts of the Filipinos. Bryan did the courageous and sensible thing in making imperialism the chief topic of his address. Circumstances \ave made it the burning issue. No patriot could regard anything else as of importance compared to it. The Republicans are already howling because 16 to 1 was not pushed to the front. When that question was the leading issue in ’96 the Republicans wanted to talk tariff, now that it has become an acadeintic question thdy want to use it as a scarcecrow and divert attention from the shameful record of the administration on imperialism. Republican* Arc Divide). One straw indicates how greatly divided the Republican party is on the leading issues. The Democrats are sending out tons of campaign literature composed of speeches delivered by Republicans in Congress against imperialism, against the Porto Rican bill and in favor of effective trust legislation. This is supplemented by letters to newspapers and extracts from public addresses of men who have been Republicans, but who are unable to follow McKinley when he turns his back on the fundamental principles of government. The Democrats !>ave not given the Republicans any such material. Their course has been consistent from the first. Instead of losing member*, their ranks are constantly strengthened by the accessions from the Republican ranks. The Republican abuse of such men ns Webster Davis, for instance, only shows how keenly they aro hurt by theae defections. Not even Tom Reed can be cajoled into making speeches in his home State. He has never loved McKinley and he seems to be taking n quiet, satisfaction In viewing the muddle Into which the administration has gotten Its affairs. Bryan made a point worthy of consideration when he pointed out that nearly all the large cities of the country ■re under Democratic rule. That means that the Democratic machinery M available for the national campaign. And it also means that Republican coercion and repenting tactics cannot be so successfully used on the wage workers in these large cities in this campaign as in '96, because the Democrats will be in a position to check such arbitrary and ilshonest methods. The Standard Oil Company has paid thirty-eight millions in dividends thia ii’i !”J

year, and by the end of the year will have paid 48 per cent on its capital stock, which means about 250 per cent on its actual investment. This combine not only controls the oil output of the country but has a controlling voice in a half dozen other important industries, and through its banking interests gets right into the United States Treasury. Its National City Bank bad influence enough to get the Secretary' of the Treasury to turn over to it the use of millions of dollars'Tor which It gave no security and paid no interest. Is it any wonder that Hanna goes to New York to collect a fat contribution from interests of this, sort? They own about everything in sight and are willing to put up a few hundreds of thousands to re-elect the administration ring which has proved so subservient to their inter- . ests in the last four years. The Labor Department, which is a i government department conducted by ! Carroll D. Wright, comes to the front i with the latest Republican campaign bulletin. It is based on testimony taken before the Industrial Commission and tries to show that trusts have raised wages. The facts really are that liighI ly skilled labor, through its organizaI tions, has forced an increase.of wages | in a number of departments. The trusts have been obliged to disgorge a small part of their profits to skilled labor. Unskilled and cheap labor show nd advance because they are at the mercy of the trusts. It is rather exasperating to wage workers to have the Labor Department and the Industrial Commission lined up to deceive them, but nothing better could be expected of this administration.

A Masterstroke of Compromise. •' We confess our utter inability to understand the curious plea put forth by the State Department that, while the United States surrender not a single inch of territory by this provisional line. Great Britain surrenders nine-teen-twentietlis of “the land In dispute,” and that the modus vivendl is accordingly another diplomatic victory for Secretary Hay. It is very much as,if Great Britain, in behalf of Canada, shoulil suddenly demand a readjustment of the Maine boundary at the northwest, claiming all of New England and part of New York up to the line of the Hudson River nnd Lake Champlain, and as if Mr. Hay should agree to a provisional boundary at the Penobscot River and along Its east branch to • the Schoodlc lakes and should then announce his readiness to receive congratulations on having induced Great Britain to surrender nine-teen-twentletlis of the laud In dispute, at the same time removing a source of Irritation in the relations of the two countries.—New York Sun. The Tide Bryan ward. The ranks of the supporters of William J. Bryan for the presidency are growing rapidly. Not the least of these additions Is composed of those who will bolt McKinley because of the administrations disregard for Its pledges and the weakness of the President. Here are'a few of the more recently mentioned, some of them lifelong Republicans who. voted for McKinley four years ago, who are now out firm and flatlboted for Bryan: Patrick Egan, Minister to Chili under Harrison. Senator Wellington, of Maryland. Judge C. L. Holtz, leader of GermanAmericans tn Cleveland. Charles M. Stafford. New Yprk law-

yer, United States marshal under Cleveland. Charles F. Bacon, former law partner of David B. Hill. E. L. Godkin, former editor of the New York Evening Post. Edward F. Walker, secretary of the Young Men’s Republican Club, of Evanston, 111. Webster Davis, formerly Republican Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Judge P. A. Double, president of the Ohio State Bar Association. Secretary E. M. Ordway, of the AntiImperialistic League. Joseph Breitinger, chairman of the Gold Democratic Committee, of Cleveland. George M. Hillman, leading politician of Mount Holly, N. J. Judge Thomas A. Moran, of Chicago. Seigmund Zetsler, lawyer, of Chicago. John P. Hopkins, former Mayor of Chicago. Gen. John G. Beatty, former Republican Congressman from Ohio. These are only a few of the later recruits from among former McKinleyites. No wonder good Republicans hate to read Democratic newspapers nowadays. This list is lengthening every day. Veteran* Are for Aryan. At least 75 per cent of the Grand Army men employed in the Chicago postoffice will vote for Bryan this year. This estimate and forecast is taken from an informal canvass made of the veterans by some active Grand Army men among them. There are more than 200 old Union soldiers working for the government there, and of these, it is said, 150 at the lowest estimate yet made, will vote for Bryan. “We do not like favoritism that discriminates against Grand Army men,” said one of the veterans, who has been employed in the postoflice for nearly a dozen years. “What is more objectionable to us in the postoflice management” he continued, “is the way the war veterans are treated with contempt by upstarts who have passed over them to higher positions. It has got to be a common saying around the ! office that our Grand Army badges are our only capital, our only means of ' holding a job. While this sort of talk does not interfere with our work and does not affect our places here, it is, to say the least, offensive and hardly the sort of treatment that should find encouragement from a Republican administration.”

Cont of Militarism. The Republican national literary bureau Is circulating a recent speech of ex-Speaker Manderson as a campaign document. It is supposed to prove that the United States are not, by comparison, much of a military power. Here are Gen. Manderson's statistics: War budget. Year. France 5123,517,681 1898 Germany 141,175,350 1898 Austria-Hungary . 86,683.024 1897 Russia 148,640,191 1898 Great Britain .... 88,152.750 1897 United Staten .... 51,093,927 1896 In 1896 this was not a military nation. The army appropriation for 1901 is $114,220,095.—5t. Louis Post-Dis-patch. Travelins: Mon and Trusts. It goes without saying that the traveling men who have lot their places through the formation of trusts will be a unit in opposition to trusts and to the party which has done nothing to regulate and restrain them. The traveling men who were fortunate enough to keep their employment will also be aligned against trusts If they are animated by a healthy self-interest.—St Louis Republic. . The Hard Cosh Argument. The great argument the Democrats have to withstand In this campaign Is the hard cash argument—the money contributed by the trusts as the price of Republican protection and the levies on office holders. Even the whisky and beer venders in far-away Manila aro expected to contribute to Haena’s campaign cheat—Pittsburg Post. For the Prsperity Bnrean. That story from Kansas that 500 city girls have earned enough In the harvest fields In three weeks to keep them in silks and diamonds during the coming winter is probably Intended for circulation by the prosperity bureau of Republican headQunrterß.-ClnclnnaU Enquirer.