The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-12-15
EX- GOV. STONE COMMENDS
SENATOR VESTS RESOLUTION

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are schisms in the party here il
Missouri would be amusing if i
were not so abortive in the way 0
setting forth the real iacte, said ex
governor William j. Stone yester
day.
HI The remark was in response to
! question as to what be thought 0
Senator Vests anti-coIoniat re solu
ton in the senate few days ago.
"Mr. Vests resolution. IS all right,
continued the ex-Goyornor, land il
line with the policy Of democrats
everywhere. L don't know of any
democrat who is in favor of the
United States launching forth on al
imperialistic and colonial policy
Certainly there are none such it
Missouri. l think / am pretty well
acquainted with the latest Missouri
utterancs on that score, delivered a,
Springfield last August.
Senator Vests senate resolution
is in line with the Spring field plat
form in which it was distinctly dc
clared that we were opposed to even
the annexation Of the Philippine
Islands.
/ have said in speeches in the past
ic5 months, and it will be seen that
was in thorough accord with dem
ocrats both in Missouri and out OF
it, that the democratic party stands
on this question of territorial expan
sion exactly where Thomas Jefferson
placed it and that was:
The United States has no right
to acquire new territory except to
develop it into a condition of state
hood
That was Mr. Jeffersons idea,
and it has been strikingiy followed
out, and by a democratic admins
tration, too"
"You think, then, that the demo
Gratis will be harmonious on the
question of territorial expansion
growing out of the war with Spain
in the next national convention"
was asked.
81 apprehend no serious division
on that point. Under democratic
administration we waged one war
that against Mexico-and acquired
q vast domain. True it is that it
was contiguous territory, but are
not Cuba and Porto Rico near our
shores, far nearer than to those of
any other nation? The same may be
said of the Hawaiian Islands
The effort to drive a wedge in the
democratic party on the questions
growing out of the war comes from
She enemies of the party. There Is
a studied effort to work friction be
tween the leaders of the party on
this score, but it will fail. Demo
Gratis are discussing future policies
forced by the exigencles of war,
openly and plainly, as they always
do public questions, and there is to
be no mistake as TO the position the
party occupies on this issue, as well
as all others that are joined be-
tween the republicans and demo-
Gratis. There is no foundation in |
fact fer this talk about there being |
democratic division, especially IN
Missouri, on the subject of new ter
ritory, and what shall be done with
il.
The democratic party to-day is as
far apart from monarchical aud i'm
perialistic ideas of government as it
was when Thomas Jefferson wss
laying down the broad lines that
Mould Away separate them
y These ideas of Capitalization and
ID rlalism belong to the disciples
fHamilton, and not TO those of
eFerson. and 1t is our duty to see
! 0 it that the republican party does
not fasten them upon the country"
- Anent Senator Vest anti colonisl
resolution and his accompanying
vigorous remarks IN the senate, his
ST Louis friends are greatly graft
fed. From time to time, through
the summer. their fears had been