The times., 1898-01-21

more tlleCtlbe lOI lHcIf Icllcl tudu "
pose as the big Beggarman.
The party of Sumner, Chase and
Seward. which proudly vaunted itself
as the friend of man, has become the
ally of pestilence. arson, famine, deyas-
tation, rape and murder.
There is but one safe and honest rule
of political conduct and that is to reli-
giously fulfill, when In power after the
election, the promises made in order to
win the election.
Now, remembering that neither the
present Administration nor the ma
jority in this House can be persuaded,
provoked or driven into helping our
unfortunte Cuban neighbors, let's see
what the st. Louis convention said on
the subject. (Here Mr.. Clark read the
Cuban plank of the ST. Louis platform
That's what you said in June, 1896,
and you intended to be understood as
promising to give peace and independ-
ence to Cuba. Yet you do nothing TO
redeem that promise. You said it be-
cause you knew the people demanded
1t. What occult, what malign, what
paralyzing influence prevents you now
from keeping faith with the people?
1t is twenty one months since you
made the st. Louis pronunciamento.
Every day the condition in Cuba has
victory. You have a brutal majority
here and yet you are afraid to open
your chops or to say your souls are
your own. Next fall, when you appeal
to the people for their suffrages, they
viii say to you: Depart, ye workers OF
iniquity,'' and will cast you into that
outer darkness, where there viii be
weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
To every suggestion that we should
re-enter upon vigorous foreign policy,
which will thoroughly protect Ameri-
can citizens and American interests on
every part of the habitable globe, We
are met with the hysterical shrek that
we are advocating war. 1t is not true,
but suppose ii were? There are some
things worse than war-deplorable as
war unquestionably is and one of
them is to play the cry-baby act until
we are despised of all nations and kim
dreds and tongues.
Thomas Jefferson was not blood
thirsty soldier or vatnS'orious war
rior He was a man OF peace, Dat ',e
was also a self-respecting America n
and. when we were only handfuI, he
dared to establish the embargo and 10
precipitate a war with the greatest
power in the world-for the war OF l8l2
our second war for independence
fought by Democrats and won by
Democrats. when the forefathers of the
present Republican party We're holding
the Hartford secession convention.
William l. Marcy was not soldier.
but he was an American of the school
of Jefferson and when we were not
half as strong as we are now he was
willing to go to war with the Austrian
empire, when at the zenith of her pow
er. to protect the rights of the humblest
of our naturalized citizens. War was
prevented only by the emperor yield
ing to our demands. But then it must
be remembered that Marcy was
Democrat, and consequently patriot,
proud of his country and ready to de-
fend her rights to the uttermost.
A Democratic foreign policy made
the sentence II am an American OF
more effect than the famous "Ro-
manus Sum''-made ii a safe passport
in every land and upon every sea.
Now that we number I0.000,000 souls.
a Republican administration cannot be
taunted, kicked or cuffed into resent
ing any insult or demanding reparation
for any injury
Such a contemplate and pusillani-
nous policy is enough to make Grant,
Sherman and Sheridan, Dupont, Far
fms
Along in the late sixties Admiral
Farragut was cruising in the Mediter-
ranean and intimated to the Sultan
that he would like to anchor his Heet
in the Bosphorus. The Sultan con-
veycd the reply that that was a privf-
lege accorded only to princes of the
royal blood. Whereupon Farragut, the
American, sent the Grand Turk this
message: II have 800 American princes
of the blood royal aboard ship. They
are entitled to the best of everything
to be had. We are clearing our decks
for action and will call upon you in
force" It is entirely superf1uous to
state that all restrictions were re-
moved, all red tape cut, all the cob
webs of court etiquette swept away,
and that Farraguet went whittier he
pleased, anchored where he chose and
did as he wished.
We desire peace as much as do the
Republicans, but il is the sort of peace
which Benjamin Disraeh, Lord Bea-
consffeld, the marvellous Jew, declared
he secured for England at the Berlin
international congress - Peace with
honor" The coming of that one phrase
would have immortaIiZed him. if he
had done nothing else. Peace with
honor is what Democrats want.
Peace with dishonor" seems to sat
isfy the aspirations of Republicans.
Just so that the President distrib-
utes pie in sufficient quantities, they
care nothing for the dying women and
starving babies in the gem of the
Antilles"
SO long as vote can be hoodwinked
with sonorous promises, they are will
ing that American lives should be sac
rificed and American property shall be
destroyed ad libitum by the Spaniards
who hate and who deride us. This is
Republican craftsmanship, Republican
patriotism, and Republican humanity
in an off year in our political system.
My Republican friends, L invite you
to Law aside the weight that is holding
you down, assert your rights, come out
on the side of eternal justice and hu-
man liberty, thereby demonstrating
that you are worthy of the high voca-
ton wherein you are called. We DEM
ocrats and Populists stand here ready
to remove from America her great re-
proach. We. on this side, will contri-
butte one hundred and fifty-two votes.
If only twenty seven Republicans will
break the yoke. defy their task-masters
and join us in this noble work, before
the sun sets this day we will send the
glad tidingS ringing round the world
that Cuba is free. Free, thank God.
by the act of the American Congress
Mr. NnSOusS Idea of Humor,