Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-29

fees have dddec new dignity to Amer
lean citizenship and given new power and
meaning to our flag.
We have abiding confidence that the
President will conclude this peace upon
terms that will satisfy the conscience,
the Judgment and the high purpose of the
American people. We realize that when
tho necessities Of war compelled our ma
ton to destroy Spanish authority In the
Antilles and in the Philippines we AS
sumed solemn duties and obligations alike
to- the people of the islands we conquered
and to the civilized world. We cannot
turn these islands back to Spain We can
not leave them. unarmed for defense and
untried I'm stutcCraft, to the horrors OF
domestic strife, or to partition among Eu
ropcan powers. We have assumed the re-
spOnsibilities of victory and wherever our
nag hae gone there the liberty, the hui
manity and the civilization which that
flag ombodics and represents must remain
and abide forever. The republican party
has been the party Of brave conservatism
of wise progress and of triumphant faith
IN the nationality of this people and we
know that the President and statesmen
aud voters of the republican party will
meet these issues of the future as brave y
and triumphantly as we have met the is
sues of the past.
We commend the annexation of Hawaii
IN the interest OF commerce, of national
security and national development.
We renew our allegiance to the doctrines
Of the ST. Louis platform. We continue
to condemn and resist the democratic poll
icics declared at Chicago. The organized
democratic party of the nation adhcrcs to
these policies of free silver and free trade
and denies the right Of the courts and OF
the government to protect persons and
property from violence. on the coming
9Th of November we are to elect not only
4 pItr nf u n Two
II Congress and members of our State
! legislature, That Legislature in its turn
Will elect a United States senator to sue
| coed the present democratic senator from
! this State, Democratic leaders declare
| that they will conduct this campaign up
on state issues alone, but 1t is known that
if the democratic party secures the State
Legislature 1t VIII rc-eect to the United
States Senate that democrat who now rep
resents his party there and misreprcsents
the state,
That senator supported the cause of free
sik or: supported the nominees of the
Chicago convention in the last presiden-
tial election; save his vote in the Senate
for the heresies of that Chicago platform,
and must, # reelected, continue to sup
port those hereses. Democrats may try
t. deceive the people by ignoring the an
archistic doctrines of that instrument in
their State platform, but their members
shall succeed in re-eecting him, cannot
and will not ignore those doctrines at
Washington. We are ready to meet the
democrats on all State issues, but in a
larger sense this campaign is a national
campaign. and our people cannot escape
Its national consequences The election OF
republican members of Congress and OF II
republican State Legislature will mean
that New York shall stand for the main
lten6nce of the gold standard and for such
a revision of the currency laws as will
guarantee to the labor of the country
that every promise to pay a dollar, issued
under the authority of the United States
shall be of absolute and equal value with
a gold dollar always and everywhere
The republican party Is fulfilling theil
pledges made at st. Louis. We have
enacted "A conservative, protective tariff
SO wisely devised that the revenue Is
J amply sufficient to pay the ordinary eX-
penses OF government in times of peace
while capital is encouraged to seek EN-
ployment and the wages of labor are
maintained at that high standard which