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THE SCKANTON TRIBUNE-MONDAY, JULY 16, 1900.
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SCHANTON, JULY 1G, 1900.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
National.
rrMMcnl-Vll.MAM McKINIXY.
VIcc-l'midcnt-TUEOUOItK JIOOSKVELT.
State.
ConRreMmrtvM Large OAMISII A OUOW,
nniii:nr n ronnnr.ni'.n.
Auditor Ucncral-K. 11. UAnUENDCltOII.
County.
CongrcM-Wlt.t.! M COVNT.I.Ti.
Judge-nroitni: m. watson.
shcriir-joiix ii. rnixows.
Trcasimr J. A. SCHANTOX.
District Attornej -WILLIAM n. LEWIS.
I'rotlionotary JOHN' roi'l'.IjAXD.
Clerk of Courla THOMAS P. DANIELS.
llccordcr of Derclj-KMIL IIONX.
Ilrghter of Wills V. K. I1KCK.
Jury Commissioner KUWAItll U. S.TURGES.
Legislative.
First Dlilrlet TIIOMXI .T. HKYNOLDS.
Second District .IOIIN SCIIKl'KH, .lit.
Third I)ltrlet-:iVAIlI JAMIIS, Jit.
Fourth Distrlct-P. A. I'lllLUIN.
If the constitution follows the ling,
then tho Filipinos arc already ns com
pletely American citizens, fiom the
IcKnl standpoint, ns Colonel Bryan him
self is: and in proposing1 to cut them
loose from tho Union ho Is proposing:
something without constitutional war
rant and on a par with secession.
How do our Democratic friends get
around this?
In the Nature of Retribution
IF THE ItDPOUT from St. Peters
burg as to tho fate of the Rus
sian minister to China nnd his
wife is true, it augments tho in
demnity which China will have to pay
and intensifies tho regret that the
powers did not take earlier and moro
decisive bteps to protect their repre
sentatives at Pekln. Minister Con
ger's communications show that all
the foreign ministers foresaw tho an-tl-forelgner
uprising, although it does
not follow that they appreciated fully,
until too late, Its bearing upon their
own fate, or that they made any re
quests of their homo governments
for protection which were not an
swered to the limit of possibility when
once the magnitude of the danger was
comprehended.
Honlble as Is tho St. Petersburg re
pot t, tho verification of which doubt
less means nlso the doom of every
American in Pckln, It does not essen
tially alter the task of civilization.
On tho contrary, it Illustrates more
vividly than before tho Impossibility
of bringing about order through a par
titioning of China, and emphasizes the
necessity of ruling the Chinese hordes
through co-operntlon with and re-enforcement
of the best native element.
No Intelligent mind can doubt that
had Chinese territorial Integrity not
been threatened, and especially had
not forcible thefts of sovereignty or
paramount influence In China been
consummated outrageously by certain
European powers from time to time,
tnklng advantage of China's political
weakness, there would not have exist
ed the means of exciting tho Chinese
rabble Into such frightful frenzies as
have characterized tho I5o::er uprising.
No Chinaman is so Ignorant or super
stitious that ho cannot in tlmo be won
to friendliness by kind treatment; but
where the presence of foreigners Is
associated in his mind with Ideas of
aggression nnd spoliation the mater
ials of revolution accumulate rapidly
and need merely a spark to develope
into a blaze.
Nothing which any European power
has done In China Justifies tho excess
es of cruelty alleged to have been
committed by the Chinese anarchists.
It is necessary to the peace of tho
world that these excesses should be
punished and their recurrence guarded
against to the utmost of civilization's
ability. Hut blind vengeance cannot
further this end. Tho fault Is not
wholly with the Chinese, and It is time
that the powers should realize the ne
cessity of going Into China clean hand
ed before expecting of fanatical hordes
the nice treatment pievalent among
more polished peoples.
All writers upon the subject of po
lltlcal relations In the Orient agree
that wnr between Hussla and Japan Is
probable at an early day. Will It
ogme over China as a pretext?
v'JTerton on Brynnism.
w HKRK IS one citizen of Ne
il J, brasUa who Is not In the
$ JL. least led astray by the
. ' economic sophistries of
WiUJctm Jennings Bryan. Wo have In
mind the Democrut who was secretary
of agriculture during the last term of
President Cleveland, Hon. J. Sterling
Morton. Mr. Morton now resides on a
homestead near Nebraska City, the In
conic from which suffices t6 supply all
his wants, nnd ns an Independent spec
tator of the political procession com
ments freely, frankly and without re-
P.ceentry Mr. Morton was inter
viewed with regard to the political
situation by William E. Curtis, of the
Chicago Record, Among other things
he said: "Tho man who can drink
Witter after eliminating hydrogen and
0y3en (therefrom cun swallow th
Kansas City platform without tastlnc
financial fallacies or detecting the Ha
ver of Uryanarchy. There can bo no
reunited Democracy under that sort of
leadership. Mr. Bryan himself pro
claimed such a reunion absolutely im
possible. He denounced nil gold stand
ard men as conspirators against tho
jiubllo weal. Those who had formerly
acted with the Democratic party he
anathematized as traitors, nnd In a.
anuiar speech at Richmond, Va., de-
clared that 'they shall bo branded as
traitors, nnd Bhall not coma hack.' "
Speaking with reference to tho Ilnnn
clal plnnk adopted at KansaH City.
Mr. Morion offered this Illustration of
Its fallacy: "lieu- In Nebraska City, a
place of 10.000 population, tho banks
carry a deposit of over n million ilol
lais constantly. 1'lcht miles west, In
tho village of Dunbar, Is a bank of
$10,000 capital which lias $110,000 of far
mers' money on deposit. Last week
money was loaned on land adjoining
somn of my own for three years ut sim
ple Interest of B per rent, on a valua
tion of more than $30 per acre, and I
saw that same land begging for a
puichaser at $2.no nn acre not long ago.
Under tho gold standard that land lias
become so dishonest ns to Increase 111
purchasing power so that now one ncro
of It will buy 100 gold dollars, and
when I saw It sold first one aero would
buy only one dollar and a quarter.
According to the economics of Hryan
archy, this land, with a constantly In
creasing purchasing power, Is th
enemy of tho poor nnd a menace to
society. According to Ihe Democratic
platform, good honest land should
never appreciate In value, nor shoulJ
any other honest thing."
Mr. Morton is more worried over Im
perialism In tho Deniociatlc party than
In Washington or the Philippines. "If
tho Kansas City convention," says he,
"had exercised Its own Judgment, if a
majoilty of tho delegates had acted
according to their own convictions,
Uryun and silver both would have been
shelved. It Is it singular fact that the
only convention ever held In the Uni
ted States which was absolutely gov
erned by nn autocrat nnd opeiated en
tirely under his orders should proclaim
opposition to imperialism as the para
mount Issue of a political campaign."
The proportion of Mortons to liryans,
of thinking men to emotionalists and
zealots, In the Democratic party Is
bound to increase as tho campaign
progresses, nnd the foimer will not
train In tho same paity with tho lat
ter. Great Joy was created a few days
ago in tho Popooratle camp by tho
appearance of a report that ex-Prosl-dent
Harrison, while be.ir-huntlng In
the west, had Informed an obscure
newspaper of his belief that Hryan
would this time be elected. Had the
report been true, It would have sig
nified no more than one man's opinion;
but as a matter of fact, General Har
rison never said an thing of the Kind.
The Future of Cuba.
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I1E OTHER day, before the
Indiana Bar association, ex
Senator Lindsay, of Ken
tucky, one of the ablest
constitutional lawyers, read a paper
on the legal and constitutional as
pects of the pacification of Cuba, in
which he made tho point clear that
the course which our government Is
taking in regard to Cuba, that Is to
say, its interposition to end tho sov
ereignty of Spain, followed by its re
fusal to take over that sovereignty it
self, and by its exercise of adminis
trative funtlons, wholly for the pur
pose of preparing the Cuban people
to maintain in organic forms the In
dependence which we have recognized
as their natural light, Is absolutely
unprecedented in human history and
without any warrant la our con
stitution, either express or Implied;
yet It has come about by the practi
cally unanimous wish nnd will of our
people and finds sufficient authority
in their institutional genius. It Is an
Illustration of public opinion rising
above every fetter of convention or
precedent to discharge ti duty which
could not longer be evaded; It is the
"imperialism" of common sense and
common humanity, which will be vin
dicated through the benefits which
it will contiibute to mankind.
By solemn resolution we are pledged
to leave the government and control
of Cuba to tlie people- tliereol upon
the accomplishment of the island's
pacification. Geneial Wood has lately
usseited that Cuba, In tho ordinary
acceptance of the woul. Is pacified as
veil as It Is ever likely to be. Tho
Island Is at peace. Serious discoid
thef Is none, Life nnd pioperty nre
as safe as In New Voile or Pennsyl
vania. Mob violence Is as rare as In
Massachusetts or Rhode Island. Every
natural condition of pacification Is
present, nnd tho question therefore
arises, when will the United States
withdraw?
In his last message to congress tho
president said that w hatever might
be the outcome of our Intervention in
Cuban affairs, "we must see to it that
free Cuba Is a reality, not a name;
a perfect entity, not a hasty experi
ment beaiing within ii'elf tho ele
ments of failure. On.- mission Is not
to be fulfilled by tu.-ni-is adrift any
loosely framed constitution to face tho
vicissitudes which too often attend
weaker states, whoso natural wealth
nnd nbundnnt resources nre offset by
the incongruities of their political or
ganization nnd the recurring occasion
for Internal ilvnlrles to sap their
strength and dissipate their energies."
In other words, the administration
construes "pacification" to mean not
simply the momentary absence of dis
order, which might occur as a lull
between revolutions, but tho establish
ment of government upon a basis
bioad am' tiue enough to make Im
probable a recurrence of set lous dls
order. Its policy Is to do so well tho
work now in hand that it will not
have to bo done over again after an
interval of Imperfect Independence,
culminating In a new dispensation of
chaos.
This attitude squares with common
sense and with our moral responsibil
ity to tho family of nations. Wo have
no right to add to that family a weak
ling, calculated to involve It In trou
ble. When wo made other nations
keep their hands off Cuba wo took
upon ourselves the obligation to do tho
work of pacification with thoiough
ness. This we shall do, regardless of
impatient clamor, either In Cuba or
at homo. The Democratic platform
says untrully that "still tho adminis
tration keeps tho government of tho
island from Its people, while Repub
lican carpetbag (i(I)claW plunder Its
revenues, and exploit the colonial
theory." The people of Cuba today
participate more liberally in their own
government than ever before, having
practlcnly unlimited control oven nil
municipal nrfatis, nnd Clenoral Wood
Is hastening to Washington' to make
final nirniigcmcntH for the election of
n constitutional convention of tho
Cuban people to draft the chnrter of nn
Independent state. There has been
faithlessness nn tho part of n few of
ficials among many, and It Is being
Invest Igutod and will be punished with
telentless Juitlce, but the Insinuation
that faithlessness Is the rule, Instead
of the exception nmong our adminis
trative ofllclnls In Cuba, Is n slander
upon hard woiklng men, who, In po
sitions of great dlfllculty and tempta
tion, nre doing their best to put into
honest effect tho nation's sacred
pledges, and who meilt tho support
Instead of the abuse and ccftitcmpt of
their countrymen hero ut home.
The creation out of nothing of n
'stable and enlightened state Is not a
work of fifteen minutes. President
McKlnley tntinot drop n nickel In the
slot of four centuiles of Spanish mis
rule nn draw out n full-Hedged, first
class modem republic fit to take nn
Immediate place In the category of In
dependent nations. In two years much
has been done, but much has yet to be
done. Let tho man at the helm have
his own way and his own tlmo. You
will not Improve his work by distract
ing his attention.
"The Republican party Is tho partv
that has always done things, nnd th
people who do things nre the people
who meet the most criticism. You
cannot cany Intrenchinents at the
point of the bayonet without some
body crying out. We have carried a
great many polkltlcnl lntrenchments
and there has been a gieat deal of crv
Ing out. We have can led the country
back to piotectlon, have repelled the
attack upon the currency now again
lenowed, and wo have met the great
questions of the war. Great deeds
have brought loud criticisms, but we
do not fear to present the record to
the American people. We believe that
they will understand not only what has
been done, but tho untold disaster that
would come to this country if William
McKlnley should not be re-elected In
November." Senator Lodge at Canton.
Recently Mr. J. C. Dana, of Boston,
submitted a number of questions to r.
prominent male politician and to a wo
man pionilnent as an advocate of
woman suffrage, his purpose being to
ascertain how the expeilment of wo
man suffrage is legatded in Colorado
after six yeais' trial. The answers
vaiy, tho woman differing fiom the
man In tho opinion that upon the
whole the state has benefited; but
upon one point they strikingly ngiee -that
the quality of the women who
take an active Interest in political
matters has deteriorated. If this Is a
necessary consequence of woman suf
frage, no wonder many able women
oppose It.
Tho director of tho census has tho
authoilty, if he wishes to use It, to
make a special religious census, but
he has mactlcallv decided not to do
so, for the icason that no feasible
method exists of classifying the popu
lation with respect to lellglous beliefs.
The vailous sects and denominations
mint statistics of membership from
time to tlmo which are approximately
cot reel, or at all events accurate
enough for every necessary purpose;
and It therefoie is probably just as
well that Uncle Sam does not try to
mix Into so delicate n matter, con
cerning which he has olllclally no di
rect concern.
Cnpo Nome gold seekers, in sheer
despair, are committing suicide nt tho
rate of four or five a day, yet tho
transportation companies contend that
gold may be shovylel up by anyone
like sand in that section. It seems
strange that some law cannot be
brought to bear upon tho reckless
transportation lines that lure unfor
tunates to destruction simply for the
snke of their passage money.
LI Hung Chang's refu.'-al to ti.ke
passage or. an American gunboat the
other day, looks like an exhibition of
bail judgment. From present appear
ances the hend of the Chinese states
man will bo much safer on an Ameri
can ship than in roach of his country
men during the next few months.
Instead of wildly rushing about tho
P! to 1 stnndaid waved by Mr. Hryan,
there seems a disposition upon part of
a goodly portion of tho Democracy this
season to sit on tho f jnce and watch
tho parade with Indifference-.
No necessity exists for a thlid na
tional ticket this year. Tho Republi
can ticket Is good enough for every
piaetlcal puiposo.
THE NEWSPAPER.
from tho National l'lintir-.Iouriullst.
The ltei. I'. II. Pullman in a ruent sermon
ut Pilgilui ( ongregatlonal ihurih, 1'ioildcnce,
11. I., hhovcel that he had studied tho ncweju
pir luimiiuliiiuily mill tu conic anount. He
said among other things:
"The newspaper inlluenccs our dally Hies,
Dm a those who piofe-ss to be lueiedulnus regard
ing It and its power are often found quoting
that whlth it contains. I unture tn say that
must riadcis giic themselies into its contiol aa
tiny wuuld 10 no otlur master. Tho aicragei
religious man, I untitle to say, cleioten more
tlmo to the newspaper than to tho Ilible, and
It lias a more direct clTcct upon Ills actions than
dors the Holy Hook,
"Win n wo eoiislder the newspaper wo llnd tint
it ia nude up of a combination of mind ami mat
ter that surpasses (light of the imagination. All
tho world poj tilbutt to tho newspiper. How
few of the leadtrs step to think of the host of
hands einploicd and the Hies deioted to the
tilling of its eoluinns. It) enterprise ia one of
the nunc lous things of the centiiiy.
"Tho lust papir means the best man, and the
best man must lie as pure as the purist, as brave
as the bratist nnd as noble as the noblest. The
nun who prints a newspaper simply for the
money that there is in It, Is as reeieant to Ida
trust as the minister who writes siimons siinpli
for tho salary he may get by so doing. The
pulpit Judas will be more comfortably oil In bis
nllote-d place than that editor who uses treat h
cruusly the power whlth belongs to tho high
ulhio of lespoiisiblhty of the ncwpapir, A
newspaper whlth Is a hlenfiig to a community
will so lite- on uitli and so dtul with facts thai
lill the f.it-td of life will bo Used to the lust
adiuntagc to make good Hies in tho community.
Undoubtedly human lifo needs some moral sew
erage system, but the newspaper should not con
stitute that system. A newspaper should be
dominated by the highest Ideals as to morals
and should have as Its basis a rrivrrnt fear it
God, nnd a full uudoist.iudinir of Ills will, It
ahotiM leave the lilglipat RTlfaro ef.the etltlttnjMn
Hi (are and be tho embodiment it Influential no
bility." . . '
POLITICAL NOTES.
While former Senator Ilivlil It. Hill Ii not say
ing an., (liing tint would Indicate that lie ilicr
Idir, any 111 feeling towaitl Milliard Crokcr 'or
the humiliation lie recoiled In Kama, Uty, hi,
friend, and follower, belloio that the good of
the p.irty in the Umpire atole at large demands
that fruiter be checked In Ida grab for power,
and checked so cffeituilly that Tammany will
hale rca,on to rfimmbir tliu Iooii for a long
tlmo to come. In n good many respects the situ
ation remind, tie H.vraomo l'mt-Standaril of the
Di'inncmtli! altuatlon In 1S71-'7J, when William
M. Tweed wa, running Tammany Hall. Tammany
had tilings In pretty good shape (for Tweed and
his friend,) in New York city at tint time, but
Tweed wanted to control the state so a, to pre
vent interference with tils New York city policy
by the H.ii authorities Ha had ilccled Hoffman
governor twite and bad begun to feel that he
wa, too strong to bo beaten. It iva in 1S72,
whin Tammany wa, nt the lory npet of Us
poiur, that Siiiiuel .I. Tllden. after a long ab
sence from the awmbly, went built there; and
went luck with the spcii.il minion of (.linking
T.imnnnj's gi.ib upon the pirt) anoie the Har
bin. David II. lllll sat In the assembly of lh72,
aln, a, a Joung mendxr from Chemung, lie
worked with Tlldin. What luppencel to Tam
ilian and Tweed during the following two Jears
Is pretty well known. The wholoijlo lobbirj of
New Yoik city bv Tweed and his as,oi latcs was
Moppul, tho gang broken up, and Twied died In
i ill. Tildcn's shire In the work w.i, large, and
a, a din it result he was made goumor in 171,
and two je.irs later became the Pemocratlc can
didate for president. Hill Is a bigger nun In tho
Pdiiocntlc party today than Tllden was in 172,
but bis Inttresls now are ery slmllir tn thoe
of Tllden twenty-eight Jcars ago. I rr Is as
firmly cntrmched as the illitatnr "1 ramminy
Hill now ns Tweed cwr was, and Ju-t as much
a menace to any up-state Democrit who is am
bitious. Hill knows all these things and knows
Crokir'a weak spots, and a good many of his
frlinds are speculating on tho probability of his
moling MKilnst C'roker for n fight to tho finish.
Ihey think they see signs of something of the
sort. In spite of the outward amiability of the
riial ililifs.
Henry P. .lolmson, the doquent trdlanlan who,
as a Hi publican, fought lUKInlcj In the Fifty
fifth congiess and lias now gone oicr to Pryan,
hnlng bee nine n Democrat, is noted for doing
queer things. Ho first e.ime into state pronii
runce In the Indiana senate fifteen jeara ago. It
was Ihe session of tho legislature when It was
alligid by ltcpublleans lh.it A. (hem Smith, of
Indianapolis, had usuipcd Ihe I cutenant-goicr-nr's
clulr, and the cuiirrollng berime so gen
eral and tho excitement so intense tint on sev
eral occasions there were fist fights on the floor
and at times ink bottles wire thrown. Johnson
sprang into the leadership on the Republican
fide and his flashing a rciolur in the face of
several senators scried more thin anything else
to bring the statesmen to nn underst Hiding of
wlnt they were doing and c.ilm the trouble.
The real htorj of Johnson's fierce antagonism tn
McKlnley while In congress is related In n itlih
mom!, bid , letter to the ( lilcago Itecorel. John
son hid nilioc.iled the nppolnlmenl of dptiin
l'lliott, of New- Castle, Ind , as llrst assistant sec
retary of the navy depart ment. 'Iheodore Hooso
lelt was chosen oier Kllintt and diiili.tr tho rest
of his tcim Johnson ceiuhl not be Indue cd to rec
ommend any other man from his distrie t for an
appointment, l.dlott took his defeat calmly and
was willing to take another plae.0 the piesielent
offcrcil him pros Ming he would get Johnson's
recommendation, but the congressm in wis ob
durate nnd eoiihl not be moieil. Klllott was
fin illy placed at the lu.nl of the postntliee do
piitment in Voito lllcn on the recommendation
of Congressman Watson, sucressor to Jolnisun.
The following papers of Democratic or Slug
wnnip prciclititlcs liaie boltcil Itran:
The Denier 'limes (fncl.1
Tho llillimore Sun (Dun.)
The Poston Herald (Ind.)
The l'hllidelphla lteconl (Ind.)
Tho Wcreestor, Mass, Post (Pom.) . ,
The Charlotte, ,'. C, Oltscner (Pern.)
The (ialiesloii-Pillas, Ti., News (Ind.)
The Lexington, Kv.. Hi raid. (Ind.)
The Manchester, . H., I'nlon (I)em.)
The St. I'uiltRlohp (Pern.)
The Xcw Haien Iteglstir (I)cm.)
'flip Hartford Times (Ind.)
The Siraiusc Hiiald (Ind.)
The Philadelphia Times (D.m.)
The Detroit Tree Press (bid.)
The Itiltimore News (Ind. Don.)
'Ihe lllihinond Times (Dein.)
The Chittauooga Tunis (Deiu.)
The Proi Idence Journal (bid.)
The ashillc Hanncr (Ind.)
The Ilrookhn Kigle (bid.)
The New Yoik Times (I)cin.)
The Vew York I'.tenlng l'nst (Ind. Dem.)
The rtlea Olisericr (Dem.)
The Itahigh, X. ('., Olisericr (Dem.)
The Indianapolis Ni'ws (Pern.)
The only offset wo are aware of is the Spring
field Itcpubllean, wliieh gigs at free siher, but
is scaud by Ihe imperialism bogy into support
ing Ilrian, free sllur and all.
'it is rasr," sa.is the North Ameiican, "tn
set- Ihe euiillllcs In Theodore ltoosoiolt which
make him tin- most peptilar figure in the public
life of tnc country todiy, popular In the power
to arouse (iitliiislini nnd make millions cheer
htm by h's first name. Muall iniidtnts sums,
times till the see ret betti i than long biogra
phies. In ills western trip the other clav House
lelt leached a town after nightfall, but, of
c nurse, there was a throng to demand a few
woiels. liooseielt began, but before he had com
pleted his llrst sentence n olee shouted from
the darkness, 'Hello, Colonel.' Huoseiclt paused
and exclilmed: 'Tint's a familiar mice Who
was it cillid to mer It wasn't llMillo:' Then
camo the answer: 'Yes, it was I, Iliodie,' and
llrudie was one of his Hough Itidirs. '(.od bless
j oil, old mm: mmo up here,' and the speech
was Intenupted while the greeting went on.
llooseielt has instant' gift. He is as e,ulek with
his speech ns he was with his fire in the western
haunts of big game. He is honest and phin
spoken, and, tiling without tho eleilous entangle
ments of professional politics, he Ins nothing to
pau-cc mer ami think about a second time bcfoie
giilug a reply. It is a gnat thing to have n
man like him to put some sparkle and life into
the campaign."
litre nre tho Tammany officeholders who hold
Ice Irust stock:
Hubert A. Van Wjek, Major.
J. s'ergiant Cram, Dock Commissioner.
Charles 1 Murphy. Dock Commlsslonir.
II. S. Kearny, I'ubllu Ilulhllngs Commissioner,
M. P. Ilieslln, Dock Department.
John Whalen, Corporation Counsel,
Ihndolph Cuggcnhclmer, President of Council.
II. H. Ciirull, Clerk (ieneral Sessions,
fi. V. Ilrower, Park (ciumlsslonir.
Martin MiVahnn, Judge.
II. I., rursinan, Judge.
II. A, (J ildi isleoio. Judge.
fi, C, nureit, Judge.
(I. I,, lngraham, Judge.
James i'itrgciald, Judgo,
Miles Heath. Judge.
J. K, Newberger, Judge.
Helward Patterson, Judge,
Tho following Democratic leaders also hold
stock In the ice trust:
lliehard Crokcr.
Augustus Van W'jck.
Kugenc D. Wood,
A. X. llracly.
Thomas K. (JUroy.
John 1". Carroll,
Hugh J. Orant.
Hugh McLaughlin.
Senator bodge pertinently Inquires where Mr.
Hryan would get his cabinet if elected. "look,"
sajs he, "over the roll of the Kansas City con
untlon and point out to mo a seirctary of statu
whom )ou would be willing to entrust with tho
settlement of the Chinese question. Hun our
c)u oi er the list again and tell mo where among
tho Angelcls and the bulrers jou will find a sec
retary of the treasury. Iiok at the Mom Kails
collection nnd till me whither )ou want Petti
gruv in the nny elcpirtmcut and Allen at the
head of the war department." Yet if Mr. Hrjan
shouhl be elected, all these elements would haic
to be rccognlrcel.
t'niler tho operation of the Wilson free trado
tarllf for recnue only, tlitro was a ilcOclt of
KW.ouO.iino In tlilrtj-flvc months. Under the
Dingley tariff for protection there was a surplus
of H'l.ouo.imo in thlrty-twu months, Hryan sup
ported the Wilson bill, but Is silent on the, sub
ject now.
Kx-Senator Palmer, of Illinois, says: "Mr.
nrjan, It Is reporteel. Insisted upon tho con.
lentlon at Kansas City committing Itself to the
10 to 1 folly In order to satisfy the slbcr states.
By the term 'silver states' 1 mean thvse. which
have sib it bullion to sell and dcatro 1(4 alue
to be enhanced. If Mr. Pryan succeeds at all,
It will bo by debauching1 the Demncratle party
and persuading thcni that siller bullion ran be
adinnced to the rrM "' fcr,' nni1 e-omeitlng the
party to Populism, The Democrats will call a
contention and will have a ticket In tho Acid."
The Detroit Vreo Prrss, the leading Demo
cratic paper In Michigan, si)i "The ficc and
unlimited coinage of sllier nt the ratio of 10 to
1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any
nitlori on earth was found stiff anil e-ohl In the
November snow four years ago. Dead as Harness
II. Mnce then the Hon. William J. llrjan his
gone about preaching the resurrection and the
life of this Inanlmato thing. All ...story, nil
logic, nil commercial csperlence, all business
deielopmcnts, all expressions of the Amerlun
electorate luc shown the hopelessness of his
faith."
The llichmond Times, an Influential Democratic
piper in Virginia, say: "Mr. Ilr.ian's defeat
Is certain and will be of the ercatist advantage
to the party."
TOWNE ON SUBJECT NATIONS5.
Prom the New York Sun.
Ill the present campaign the Hon. Charles
Armtte Tonno Is bound to be a flguie second
In Importar.ie to Itrjau only, nnd considerably
more cousplruous nnd Influential than Heionon.
Ills claims to consideration will be such that Mr.
Ilrjan, if eliited, would be almost cttaln to
tut Mr. Towne In, the cabinet, probably as his
secretary of the treasury. Mr. Tow lie's fidelity
to free sllier at sixteen to one Is unquestion
able. Ills comic-lions arc as earnest and sine-re
as llnan's, while he la perhaps that statesman's
superior in familiarity with the details of the
question. He has come to the front already us
a lampalgn speaker of the first magnitude, nnd
his reputation for character and intelligence
entitles him to a respectful hearing whcncier
be has anything to say.
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We aro Interested, therefore, In Mr. Towne's
tieatment of other Issues thin rlher. In a speech
at Lincoln recently he took up "Imperialism"
for the first time. The proposition to gle "re
stricted liberty" to the Filipinos, lie said,
amounted to a repeal of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. His definition of imperial as dis
tinguished from republican goiernmeut Is con
tained In this passage: "The empire Is where
the question whether a man Mull haie his due
is determined by the caprice of some oilier man;
where the 'ptomlse of nature' Is only n barren
IdealitM where the Declaration of Independence
Is repudiated and scoffed at; where the llbeity
which that gieat chatter eleelared to Ik- glien
by 7od to all men is repiaecet by the ltbuty
which a McKlnley may grant to srnie m-n in
such measuie' as suits his opinion of 'their n
pirlti'; where tho 'consi nt of the goicnvd' Is
chinged into the 'consent of tho goiernors ;
wheio there nre no rights, hut only conee-hsions;
whec- nations may be held as subjects; where
authority may be limited in Home places, but
is absolute In nil pines." This is intelligible,
and It eon.es as near as an) thing yet advanced
by am Democratic oritor to comeylng tho
funchnicntal Idea which underlies the Demo
cratic demand that the flag of the ITnlted States
shall be withdtjwn from tho Philippines.
In Mr. Towne's state of Mlnicsota, about one
hundred mlhs from bis own borne, there Is a
"subleet nation." It enjojs only a "restricted
liberti." The authority of the frilled States
goiernmmt is more neatly absolute in tluc
pait of Mlnresota than it Is in Duliith, for ex
ample, one hundred miles away. Privileges and
Immunities which are rights nt Duluth are only
"concessions' at Leech Lake. To the- people of
this part of Minnesota, notwithstanding the Dec
laration of Ii dependence, and the "promise of
nature," and the doctrine of the "consent of Ihe
goierneel," there is granted only such measure
of llbcrtv ns Is suited to their capacity, in the
opinion of tho "goierncrs." There "the epics
Hon whether a man shall have his due" is dc.
tennined according to the Judgment, or, as Mr.
Tonne would say, the laprlce, of some other
man or men. In that part of Minnesota, there
fore, there exists a condition of affairs corre
sponding in eicry particular to that which Mr
Towne denounces as imperialistic, and which he
regards as maiklng the decay of icpublle-an In
stitutions, nnd the oiei shadowing approach of
empire. It not only eists there, today, but It
has existed there ever since Mr, Towne moved
Into the immediate neighborhood of the scene
of outinge; et, although he Is now oolfcroi.s in
behalf of the Killtdnos. it Is not recorded that
he lias ever riled ills voice to protest against
the imperialistic deprivation of the (loci given
right of his near neighbors, the Chlppcwas, to
self-government.
Is this because of any difference In the charac
tcr of the title under which the 1'nlted States
government nssiimei to hold this particular ter
ritory In Minnesota? No, for It happens that
our sovereignty ever the leuitory inhabited by
the 7,."00 Chlppcwas of Minnesota was acquired
In precisely the same manner as our sovereignty
over tho "territory Inhabited by the T.eWO.WK)
rillplnos. In both eases the territory was tians
ferrcd to us by bv the foimov sovereign by
treaty, and the Tnited Stntes p.lbl the pin chase
mer.ey; f 15,Os)0 to rrat.ee for the Louisiana
percliase in 1MU, and s;20,(X)e),OUO to Spam for
tho Philippines in li'W. In both eases without
"the consent of the governed." Strargely
enough, the parallel does not end there. U the
vrry time when Agutnaldo and a single tribe of
riliplr.es, the Tagals, weie preparing to leliel
against the sovereign authority of the I nited
stntes govcri.iiunt nnd Jo attack It- flag, the
Chippewa chief, llng-a-ina go-shlg, and a single
fitbe of Chippcwas, the Pillagers, attempted to
asscil their independence of laws In the nuking
of which they bad no part. They f.ugnt to
throw of that "restricted libciti" which the
t lilted States 1:01 ei 11111 -nt had grmtoel them,
actoiilliig to Its e pinion of their capacity, and
to establish lntead the iinrcstrie tcel lib-rty
which Mr. Towne holds to be the nirthrlght of
their fellow men, the Tagils He must n
member the outbreak at Leech Lake; for It oc
1 lined' lew than two veirs ago and within a
bundled miles of his law ot".co.
What happened Pieelstly whit happened
when the Tagal revolt occuricd. The despotic
power of what Mr. Tonne calls imperialism sum
illume! to its senile the steel and lead of wlut
Mr. Towne calls nillltuism. Tho war del art
nient ut Washington issued enters, troops weie
moved, battles weie fought aril lebclllon was
crushed out with fiatlmg and Ibdehkl s rapid
fire guns, just ns though tho Declaration of In
dependence had never bun written. In the light
ogainst I!og-a-nn-go-shlg and his Pillagers good
American blood was s. crlficeel to nsstrt the su
premacy of the I'nitcd States fl is In Minnesota:
sml Major Wilkinson anil hi five men but thilr
lives In Just the same just iiue and righteous
duty tn whkh (iineral Law ton and hundreds of
Anuilians hue given tbtlr bus. c do not be
lieve that Ihe Hon Chirhs A. Towne bad .1
worel of objection to utter in October of 15.9.1
when imperhlbm nnd militarism matched side
by side tlnoiigli his ewn stale of Minnesota en
theii way to put down with an lion hand the
efforts of ,1 "subject nation' to assett tho viry
doctrines he now preaches
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