The herald., 1898-10-05
Why Indorss the Administrations

Why Indorss the Administrations
To the Editor Of the Los Angeles Herald:
The average voter in all political parties
Is honest and patriotic In his intents and
purposes, but when his party fails to carry
out dts promises and deceives him. he usu-
ally rebukes 1t at the polls--therein lies the
safety of the republic.
The great shrinkage of the Republican
vote in Vermont and Maine Is an indication
that the Republicans may lose the house,
which would save our country from many
pitfalls prepared by the goldbugs.
Republican leaders may well be alarmed
at the growing discomfort among their con-
stituents, who are muttering loud and deep
as they behold trusts and corporations DOM
mating the G. O. p. With Mark Hanna as
their leader. the many corporations, drunk
on success are unblushingly throwing
aside the mask and boldly debating to and
cunning the Republican party. President
Mckinley Is but "a figurehead and must
quietly submit to such men as Russell A.
Alger, corporation agent charged with
corruption. sitting in his cabinet, being un-
able to mako or unmake him so long as
Alger Is faithful to the trusts. On assum-
ing the duties of president Mr.. Mckinley
swore before Almighty God that he would
uphold the constitution and execute the
laws OF the nation, yet his oath seems for
gotten as we behold him allowing his sec
retary, Alger. to disregard the mandates Of
congress--our law-making power-and neg
lect for two years to carry out Its instruc-
tions regarding San Pedro harbor.
The corporations and trusts had on the
mask when they presented Mr.. Mckinley
to the nation as "the advance agent of
prosperity and the champion. Of high tar
it," and pleaded with the wage-earncrs
to elect him to protect them from compete
ton with cheap foreign labor, while he was
to prove a savior to the sugar farmers of
America by placing tariff on foreign su-
gars and paying bounty to home produc-
ers. They threw off the mask when Mr.
Mckinley and a Republican congress, in
obedience to their mandates, kicked over
"the tariff WALL and annexed Hawaii,
thereby bringing tens of thousands of Chi
nese, Japs and foreigners into competition
with American laborers, while the nation
will be taxed to paySthese said foreigners
bonus on every pound of sugar they pro-
duce. 1t Is said that forty American sugar
princes own Hawaii.
Trusts and monopoles have waxed fat
during the last few months of the war.
While congress gave the administrati ton
oil the money asked fof to prosecute the
war, yet It Is said that more men died from
want OF protection by the quartermaster
and medical departments of our army than
by Spanish bullets. / am peased to see
many Republicans awakening to the fact
that 1t Is tmie for them to arise and re-
buke their leaders who are attempting to
make the G. o. p. the vassal of trusts and
monopolies. A gentleman said to me re-
cently1 "Sir, have been a Republican an
my life and an active worker In every con-
vention held by my party in this county
for the last twenty years. yet did not at
tend their convention this year. and do not
think l shall vote their ticket"
l look for the Republican party to be
badly showed under in November next,
with California leading the revolt in mag
nificent style. My reasons are as follows:
The Republican ticket in every state in
the Union rests upon platform which in
dorses the present administration, hence
no thinking Republican can honestly vote
his state ticket when he cannot conscen-
clously indorse the acts of the administra-
ton. Let us take the state of California
as an example. Is there a Californian who
can honestly indorse the acts Of Secretary
Alger in regard to the San Pedro harbor ap-
preparation? Think of the millions of dol
lars that would have been scattered to bless
the people of this section II the secreary of
war had carried out the mandates of con-
gress. Russell A. Alger was chosen as Sec
retary of war by President Mckinley, who
ct1 tn1A I,i lya1t y>x,a
tinuing him in office, when he could dis
charge him any day by asking for his res
igna ton,
Is there Californian who can honestly
indorse the acts of President Mckinley In
forcing congress to annex Hawaii, when
by SO doing he has landed in our midst tens
of thousands Of Chinese, Japs and foreign
ers as competitors to Americans and de-
stroyers Of the sugar raising interests of
California? Can they, who voted and
worked SO hard to elect William Mckinley
as the champion of a high protective tariff
indorse the administration in Its perfidious
act of annulling the tariff laws against
Hawaii by the trick OF annexation, in or
der that forty American princes-the sugar
trust-might receive from our government
a bounty Of cents on every pound of sugar
raised by these hordes of Chinese, Japs and
foreign laborers?
Is there Californian who can deny that
our soldiers In Cuba were ill-treated and
neglected by the war department, as
charged by General Miles, Colonel Roose-
welt and others, which has caused many to
fear that the administration has been play
Ing into the hands of contractors?
When We contemplate the foregoing fla
grant acts of the administration and real
izs that no man can vote the Republican
ticket next November without indorsing
the said acts of the administration, what
Californian is sunken so low as to stult.fy
his manhood by casting ballot for the
accursed politicians, trusts and corpora
tions who now control the Republican
administration?
ANDREW JACKSON.
September 80, 1898.