Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1899 — Born Traitors. [ARTICLE]

Born Traitors.

The Forefathers of the Present Traitors Were all in the Same Line. The demand of Irving Winslow, of Boston, secretary of the AntiImperialistic League, for the impeachment of President McKinley for prosecuting war against the insurgent Filipinos, calls to mind a statement made by a gentleman well acquainted with the antecedents of the leading members of his modern society of the sons of liberty. He said that the great grandfather of one of the most active officials of this league was ordered out of Boston in the Revolutionary war by General Washington because he was a Tory; that of his grandfathers, both were opposed to the war of 1812, and one was in the Hartford convention; that his father denounced the war with Mexico, and that both be and his father were copperheads in the civil war. It is very evident that the AntiImperialistic League selected its chief organizers upon merit.