The record-union., 1898-11-01
THE REAL ISSUE.
FORCEFUL PRESENTATION BY
JUDGE MCDONALD.
VIII California Condemn the Me-
Kin1ey Administra-
ton?

Judge Wade Mcdonald of San Diego
made a. most telling speech against Ma
grireism at Odd Fellows Hall in san
Francisco on the evening of October
2od. Judge Mcdonald has been a Demo-
crat for the past twenty years but now
comes out for the Republican ticket and
opposes the congIomeration known as
the fusion party. In his speech Judge
Mcdonald said:
For three years past there has been
in progress Oft our shores a war of such
peculiar character, of such awful and
uncivilized tendencies, that 1t has
shocked the world.
1--WE resorted 10 diplomacy, to en-
treaty and exhorted with Spain to bring
US some relief from the dreadful spec
tacle Of war by starvation, but our pro-
tests and our entreaties were persist
entity unheeded and the horrors con-
tinued until finally a wave of feeling
swept the length and breadth of the
land that permeated the Capital at
Washington, and notice went forth to
Spain that this inhuman war must
cease or we would stop it,
Our motive was pure; it was hu-
mane; we gave Spain notice that 1t was
not for our aggrandizement that we
would intercede. We would do it out OF
patriotism, and there is no grander,
truer patriotism than ours.
"But, fellow citizens. there are de-
Erees and shades of patriotism, and the
sort that does not urge its possessor to
give UP his blood and his life for his
cause is not the sort that is typical or
the American.
1--WE came to war and the result or
our victory, though it was bought with
our best blood, is almost beyond our
comprehension. I do not need to tell
you what the Philippines mean to San
Francisco, what almost illimitable pos
sibilities their possession opens to this
beautiful town of yours
And l need not tell you, friends that
in this war and it's results lies the one
true issue in this campaign. 1t is not
whether the Southern Pacihc owns
California or whether James q. Ma
guire made up the Democratic ticket
but it is, shall or shall not that glorl-
Gus flag of ours be folded over the
places where it now floats? Shall we
give up the lands that We have so dear
ly bought and resist TINS universal
tendency to expansion?
There is the issue no matter how
only Isl the issue. And 1 say to you, my
friends, that if that flag goes back from
the proud position it holds to-day II Will
he because there is not Republican
left to fight for it.
But we've got against US that trl-
angular, silver-lined Popocranc con-
erlomeration that they are calling the
Democracy. They have placed in their
platform a most peculiar plank. 1t says
though we are not in favor Of aggres-
sive expansion, but we favor a care1ul
analytical inspection of the Phlllp-
pines. vet we do not believe in giving
hack to Spain any land that we have
wrested from her That's consistently
and Democratically all things TO all
men, isn't it2
And that plank, I want to tell you,
is framed upon the policy pursued
through this war by Mcguire and Ste
phen NJ. White Every vote that they
cast on this matter was diametrlcally
opposed to expansion and honoraple
war I do not say that the masses OF
the Democrats were opposed to war,
but their leaders were, for they knew
that the glory of victory would attach
to the party in power.
And what was the result? When our
heroes were like an iron line at Guam
tanamo, or charging that hill at San
Juan; when they were wounded ana
sick in the trenches and Mr.. McK1nley's
Administration needed money for their
aid. where were the Democratic lead
ers? They were not voting. They were
in the lobbies harrying their brains for
some scheme to offset this wars honor
to the Republican party
And you do not have TO go out of
your State to find them. Senator White
and Congressman Mcguire We're among
them, and then they came home to dis
tract attention from their records and
the real issue by holding up the rail
road.
They allege against the Administra
tion that supplies at times were short,
that the ranks We're full Of incompe-
tents They would have excuse for do
ing this if the war were still on and
they wished to point out these short
comings, but the war is over and the
only reason they have for charging
these things now is TO turn the tide OF
public enthusiasm. And in doing so
they acknowledge the real issue.
IF Mckinley is to get the blame for
shortcomings, why in the name of rea-
son are not also the concentrations due
him?
The Democrats, on the tip from
their leaders, have carried on this cam
paign with the assurance that this is
not a Republican war nor Democratic
war. but peoples war. Well, grant
ed that this is so, what credit is that
to Mr.. Mcguire and Mr.. White, who
fought against it?
God save US from such as these! At
the devious course of Senator White I
am surprised. He has prostituted tie