The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-10-23
THE NATIONS GLORY.
Speak for the Cause Of DemOera-
cy--DeaIe Heavy Blows.

Probably the greatest speech
that has been delivered this year
by any campaigner, was delivered
by ex-senator David B. Hill, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, Thursday night
to the largest audience that has
greeted a public speaker in that
city this year. To do justice to
the speech the, ARDMoREITE would
have to publish it in full, but this
we can't do. We can only give
the following extracts:
The paramount issue in the
present campaign is that of honest |
government. There are no war
issues so-called, to divide or en-
barrass the people. The achieve
ments and glory of the recent war
with Spain belong not to any po-
litical party, but to the whole
country. This fact should be
everywhere conceded; but if there
is a disposition to inject partisan
ship in the consideration of the in
ception or secrets of the war, we
need not shirk from a comparison
with our opponents. We may re-
call the plain facts of history. The
people have not forgotten the
great struggle in the halls of Con-
=, gress less than year ago which
preceded the declaration of war
: the fact that with a few and hon
orable exceptions-all the earnest
pleas on intervention in behalf OF
Cuban liberty, We're uttered by
> Democratic leaders; the arbitrary
= refusal for months of Republican
speaker, backed by the dominant
majority, to even consider the
Cuban question at all; the steady
persistent and determined efforts
of the Democratic minority tC
force the Cuban question to the
front aided by the powerful Demo
= cratic press of the country ant
= backed by the patriotic sentimen
of the people, until at last then
efforts were crowned with success:
and a halting and reluctant ad
ministration was forced to inaug
urate war on behalf of humanit!
y and civilization to which it was a
heart opposed.
You have not forgotten tn
cold and unsympathetic message o
w President Mckinley in Decembe
last opposing Cuban intervention
of any kind, exaggerating the diff
culties in the way and necessaril
nc reminding Congress and the peo
ut pie of our neutral obligations. Yo
"a have not forgotten the attitude Q
Senator Hanna, the Warwick G
the present administration, as we
- as the head of its financial syndi
cate-fresh from his senator's
20 triumph at Columbus, purchase
So by bribery and corruption, VIII
&c sent to the President in answer
Sc his congratulatory telegram tn
sc famous, or rather Infamous, mes
sage: God reigns and the Reput
SOC lican party still lives and wh
with tears in his eyes was pleadin
ere for peace at any price and lamen
alu ing the threatened disturbance (
the business interests of the coul
try by so unnecessary a war
Neither need l remind you (
d the dire predictions and lament
tions of other Republicans high
- the councils of the party, who
those momentous days were see
ing to stem the tide of popular e
thusiasm which was sweepiI
over the land, and protesting tn
their party was being dragge
/, into an unholy foreign war
their unscrupulous opponents.
But now that this cruel war
over and American valor has ca,
ly triumphed on both land a
sea and the American flag proud
floats over our newly acquired t.
ritory - never, as it is fond