The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-30

that will be) and the last democratic candidate for president not long since raised new party standard on which they inscribed mo territorial eXpan- sion, no imperialism" whatever that may mean. But our Bridgeport demo- crats lost sight of their respective lead CTS, Cleveland and Bryan, forgot even to say word against expansion and imperialism they don't seem to have ever heard of the question.
 We have had war, one of the great est in history. When it's results shall have been fully measured it may be found to have been the most momen- tous in the history of the world Who can say but that a quarter of a cen tury hence the men who shall then have exchanged a hopeless despotism for the freedom of self-government, then point to Manila and Santiago as we point to the field whereon the Mag na Charta, to our liberties was torn from despotism. We did not seek this war. We would have avoided it if we could have done so consistently with honor and duty but we could not. Man proposes; God disposes." The war came and found us unprepared. How sadly unprepared will never be fully known. The crisis was met and in three months time an army of 250, ,000 men was raised, equipped, officered, transported, fought. Our navy was triumphant on two oceans, our army victorious on two continents. A nation that called us pigs" made haste to bn +hof tai ed us with being "shop keepers only now stand gazing at our flag with | barred heads What a wonderful cam paign that was. The men who had fought each other on the bloody fields of the civil war had no rivalry but to see who should most loyalty and fer vently support and reunite a solidified country. Henceforth we truly have on- | ly one flag and one destiny. Verify | blood is thicker than water. To all ! English speaking people everywhere I has come the grand thought that the 1 Stars and Stripes and the banner of St. | George do but after all symbolic the same idea-liberty for mankind. Every American citizen should feel that he has been clothed with greater dignity and honor and called to performance | of noble work, but this so-called demo- cratic party of Connecticut, hiding in | it's cave of Jeffersonian bi-metallism, does not seem to have heard of this great war. It does not seem to know that the map of the world has been changed, and that millions of our fel- i low men have been brought out of the darkest of despotic oppression into the marvellous light of liberty. The new duties taught by the new occasion l make no impressiono the factions warning for party harmony. In the Bridgeport resolutions, miscalled a l platform, the war is only alluded to to charge that ''the administration of | William Mckinley has been utterly in- competent to discharge the duties and obligations which the management ot l the war imposed" That is not the voice of the people. It is not the voice of the great body of citizens who have comprised the democratic party. It is not the voice of such democrats as General Joe Wheeler, General Fitzhugf Lee or Admiral Schley. It is merely the poor, pitiful carping whine of the partisan intent only on lodging issues | and duty that he may gain admission into the party ring tent. Spain would scarcely believe that the administra- ton of President Mckinley was incom potent. The world, the crowned heads and the longing peoples of the world have heard of the administration ot President Mckinley. They have no 1 af +l.o To.,;I x.t &;1,,
 and they will continue to believe tha
 the administration of President Nc
 Kinley has proved itself competent il the discharge of the obligations whicl the war imposed upon it. It has ob
 tained for our country, our flag and ou
 people the profound respect of tht
 world. Pity, oh pity, the eyes tha
 cannot see it. Republicans have hesi
 tated to claim credit for the magnifi
 cent success of our arms fearing tha
 they might not seem to give due credi
 to the men of all parties who, with
 wonderful unanimity and fervent pat
 riotism sprang to the aid of the coun
 try. They do not to-day desire tt
 claim exclusive credit for results whicl
 have enobled our land and astonishet
 the world Of the five major general
 of volunteers three are ex-confederat
 generals. South Carolina had as man.
 army appointments as Connecticut, ant
 Virginia twice as many. Tillman witt
 his pitchfork and Daniel with his fort.
 cent dollar were as welcome in tn
 White house as were your senators
 Hawley and Platt. And yet just an
 honest men will not overlook the fac
 that this war came upon the natiol
 when William Mckinley, republican o
 republicans, was president of the Unit
 ed States, and that the responsibilit
 of his success or failure was cast upol
 him and his republican advisers.
 want to tell the carping critics who fo
 the sake of hiding hopless incapacity
 and financial heresy presume to attac
 the administration for it's conduct il
 the war, that if it is to be attacked fo
 details for which it is not responsibl
 it must be given the full need of prais
 for the results for which it was respon | sible.
 There is great work yet to be dont The accomplishment of it requires at : tention and effort of the widest an ) most experienced men of the nation
 men who, while they believe in party can rise superior to the marrow, carr ing, pitiful, cunning and personal poll