The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-10-27
OF the Democratic Position On
Expansion
SOUNDED BY SHERWOOD
II Has Been Adopted by the Democrs
tic State Committee
AS SOUND AND SAFE DOCTRINE
The Paper He Read Before the Jefferson
Club in This City VIII Become One OF
the Historic Utterances of the
Party on Live



the Historic Utterances of the
Party ON Live
Question.
Gen. l. r. Sherwood was selected TO
utter the keynote of the Democratic
campaign in the Eighteenth congress
sional district with an address before the
Jefferson Club at Canton. Gen. Sher-
woods hold upon the respect Of the people
of all parties in this state is character
istic long prominent In his career, and
was never more thoroughly vindicated
than In the sentiments he expressed on
that occasion.
His speech has been adopted by the
Democratic committee as the best p5si-
tion yet taken on the question of terri
torial expansion, and is defined by the
COMMITTEES as being the true Democratic
position. The speech appeared in full
in the issue of the Columbus Press Post
of Saturday, and will be distributed by
the Democratic committee. The News
Democrat will print extracts from it from
time to time, until the entire. speech shall
have been presented to readers of this
paper. In his introductory Gen. sher
wood spoke as follows:
at is attempted as a patriotic maxim
by the powers in Washington that our
flag should never be pulled down where
it is once planted by the sword. This,
with the unthlnking, is catchy express
sion, but 1t may be an empty platitude
without even tinge Of patriotic senti-
ment. 1t may become in the future as
in the past the cruel creed of pirates.
There is broader and more humane
sentiment that is the concrete essence of
P"'''OViSNh' SuI uaB suoulu never Do
pulled down where it is raised in just
cause. Neither does conquest achieve
title, either by law or by the custom of
civilized nations. Today the idea pre-.
vailsl in intelligent circles that because
we have planted the American flag over
the oriental city of Manila and over the
seaport cities Of Cuba and Porto Rico,
that we have by right of conquest become
possessed of numerous islands and cities
in the West Indies and the far-off Orient,
and that the Inhabitants of these Islands
thereby become our subjects, to pluck or
rule over by military control.
Under our constitution and form of
government this is impossible without
the most fragrant usurpltion. Neither is
this the custom of nations, oven where
imperialism is the governmental policy.
During the Franco -Prussian war the
German army planted the imperial eagles
of Prussia on the battlements of Paris,
the commercial and political capital Of
France. But the German emperor never
claimed any title passed to the empire of
Prussia because of this capture. The
German eagles were pulled down ana the
German army withdrawn when peace
was declared.
During the war of 1912 the British
army captured and took possession of the
city OF Washington, but no claim was
ever seS up by England, the most aggres,
sive Of imperial monarches, to any title
because Of that capture.
During our war with Mexico the
American army entered by assault the
city of Mexico and planted the Ameri.
can flag in the halls of the Montezunias.
But the Democratic president the com
mander-in-chief of the army, never
claimed title to the oatbedrals, castles,
parks, lands or hereditaments of the