The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28
the peoples of the western hemisphere stili |
deprived Of those blessings.
Not q Party War

centration of hundreds of thousands of the
colonial people in centers where they could
not feed themselves, and where their op-
pressors, miscalled rulers, would not feed
them, and finally the act resulting from
that friction, no matter by whom commit
ted, but by somebody that had access to
Spanish explosives, the Maine was de-
stroyed In the harbor of Havana, the
American people would tolerate these con-
ditions no longer, and without regard to
party demanded that they should cease.
(Appiause.)
In the struggle that followed the arms and
hearts of Democrats Populists and Repub-
hcans responded to the call of their coun-
try. Under leaders that had worn the blue
and under leaders that had worn the gray
great applause), all battling for the cause
or a common and reunited country, the
American people fought out the war. No
party has any right to claim that it was
a partisan matter; it was not. Gap
plause) l would not diminish by
one iota the record for patriotism made by
the Republican people of this country. but
repel the insinuation and assertion, wher-
ever made, that in this struggle Repub-
lcans were more loyal than Democrats or
Populists. (Applause.)
In the assertion of superior patriotism.
some of the old Republican leaders are
moved by force of habit. They have been
so long appealing to the people upon Sec
tional grounds, upon pretenses of higher
patriotism, that even now, when the
greatest and most glorious and most endur-
ing result of the war is the eternal cement
ing of all sections of our country, north and
CT MI in hop of
patriotic fraternity, they cannot now re-
frain from the Pharisaic cry, 1--WE are
holier than thou" (Applause.)
Sectional Feeling Banished
say the greatest result of the war was
not merely this cementing of the people in
a common bond, for the people of the south
have been as loyal to the flag of our COM
mon country since they pledged their
loyalty to it anew were the sons of New
England and the west, but this war has for
ever banished sectional feeling, unless for
party purposes, sectional appeals shall be
revived, and over the glorious fields of the
tate foreign war, where the mingled blood
OF the southerner and the New Highlander
has dedicated all sections of this country to
The holest and highest purposes for which
our nation lives, the memories and as
perities, the sectional hatreds of the War
Of tbe Rebellion are hurled forever in the
history of our country as memories never
to be revived for sectional division. ZAP
plause.) This cementing having been &C.
complished, let no man attempt to dis
turb the bond. (Applause)
"Who would sever Freedoms shrine,
Who would draw the invidious line,
Thouqb NV birth one spot he mine.
Dear ;s all tbe rest
Dear 70 mo the south,s fair land
Dear Now Enpland,s rocky strand
Daar Tho nr.,r;ed west"
oaI'AeS VI 1"e oe"Ae
Inc war is over ana the people nave
again returned 10 the consideration OF the
domestic questions that aIect the oestinles
OF our country ana the happiness Oh our
people. Inc patties Oh the future Will De
battles against the institutions and the
privileges which interfere with the equal
rights Oh our people at nome. (Applause.)
Inc Struggle 1or hperty is not over. IL
was not cohcluoeo "nen the polltlcal equal
ity OIL our people was won. Industrla
equahty is the pattle OF the future zap
piause). Inc ruder'-coarser' narsher
methods OF oppression from whlcn the
fathers Oh our republic ana our ancestors
throughout the Englsh speaking world ana
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to- of tho, ,ihertv for which our s.tbers
haoon and eIor,ous,v conducted IN. strup-
aIa IN the;r t;mcs we have ,nher,ted The
STRUGGLE and we must carry II IN The
time has come for further advance What
nrom;se does the Renub,ican nlatform NJ
tho present wear give upon these questions
None absolutely none. 1t Is the most
meaningless document that ever filled three
columns of any valuable newspaper in this
country. 1t is in the form of a STUMP
speech. and 1t appears to have been written
by somebody who ought to have had a
grammarian at his shoulder when he wrote
It. and IL it were thought worthy of very
much consideration it might have been
we'll to have had a rhetorcan there, a
logican could have done nothing with the
instrument.
Upon the platform your DISTINGUISHED Eel.