The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-07-14
LEAGUE OF REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
Annual Meeting Called to Order at
Om aha Yesterday.
Address of Welcome and Responses-
Annual Addresses by President Craw-
FORD and Ex-President Woodmansee.

oInah', Neb., July 13.-The delegates
10 Inc National League of Republican
clubs came to order at Boyd's theatre
an hour later than the scheduled called
for today.
President Crawford called the conyen.
ton to order and prayer by Rev. Flash
er NJ. Sisson of the Hanscom Park Metbo.
dist church was followed by the reading
of the official call by Secretary Stein.
Hon. John W. Webster of Omaha deIiv.
cred the address of welcome on behalf of
Nebraska. and Charles E. Winter, presi-
dent of thu Nebraska State League. smoke
for his organization, he in turn being fol-
lowed by Mayor Frank E. Moores, who
spoke for Omaha. These wera followed
by President L. ]. Crawford Of the Ma
tional League, who delivered his annual
address as follows:
| Turning to the questions of the day.
| we are unable to discover our enemy The
Democratic party no longer exists. The
| wise, conservative Democrats have been
garnered into the Republican party. The
Populists swallowed the remainder
How naturally Populism and Free Silver
| Democracy fitted into each other After
| passing similar resolutions and nomina-
| ting the same candidate, the whole mass
resembled some mongrel animal and the
| American people recognizing it as car
niverous and dangerous, hunted it to
| death. The cornerstone of the Democratic
| platform was free silver at I6 to l. and
the burden of the silver song was 'swheat
land silver go hand in hand,n but the
cornerstone was rejected by the builders
of prosperity and the law Of supply and
demand demolished the false argument in
a single season. The misguided Populists
must be taught better. Their principles
must be trampled under foot. Populism
is socialistic and founded upon the idea
that those who have must share with
| those who have not, whether the latter are
worthy or not. They consider the State
and National governments only to plan
| Tor assistance from these SOURCES not in
Heeping with their provinces or spheres
OF action. The law of nature is, and the
scheme of this government is, that every
man must by his own brain and muscle,
heW out his own fortune, and only the
| lncapacitated are to be assisted BY the
State, and then only through its eleemo-
| synary institutions. If men would RELY
upon their own exertions. instead Of
waiting the advent of fat money and
governmental assistance in the various
| forms they desire, they would be able to
| endure the lean years and enjoy the fat
| ones. But Populism, aided by four years
OF practice OF Democratic principles laid
waste this fair West, and many good
man cannot fully take advantage of pres
emit prosperity, because he could not hold
out against them.
MANY gallant American commands
have gone forth to q righteous war. The
nucleus OF trained regulars are surround
ed and supported by volunteers equally
| ready to fight and die if need be, to secure
freedom. justice and good government to
10 rx1l 30 ~
Ureaoherous and barborous destruction of
the Maine. Our majestic cruisers and
battleships are manned by skiIlful and
brave sailors and differed by as brainy,
nervy and fearless men as ever died for
country or lived to glorify it. The Gu
ban patri OTIS cry to each other:
Strike for your affairs and your fires
Strike for the green graves Of your sires,
Strike till the last armed foe expires,
God, and 20 ur native land"
If Spain had practiced an enlightened
and liberal colonial policy, she could have
kept what she had, without interference
or revolt, but she must be ground to
dust, in her colonies, and at home, if nee
essary, to end her eXtortions and cruelties
upon this hemisphere. "a
THE hypocrisy aud evil of the persist
emit efforts made of late in this country to
array the classes, which from certain
standpoints appear in every country,
against each other, is now being clearly
understood. The wealthy and influential
stand shoulder to shoulder in the thickest
personal danger, with those less fortunate
in the ordinary battle of life. In such
times, the demagogue finds his occupa.
ii on gone, the sober thought of the PEG.
pie rejects fallacious reasoning, and pref
udice and jealousy disappear when the OBJ
Ject OF it shows himself to be fearless and
patriotic. With sound financial system
and policy, wise protective tariff, !;
united country, the country boy and his
city cousin, the COW boy and the college
athlete, the rich man and the poor man.
and he OF the grey and he of the blue
standing together 10 uphold it's honorsand
it's cause, this nation has nothing to fear
from external or internal foes, from the
Spaniard or the demagogue. With last
years and this years crops and prices,
and is; with Dingley on the floor, Reed
in the chair and honest, earnest able
Mckinley in the White House, this coun-
try is assured of business prosperity and
freedom from harrassing vagaries.
Ever since it gained Independence this
country has been engaged in settling
vast domain, building cities and constrnc-
ting Internal improvements. We find
ourselves at the beginning of new era.
face to face with new problems in inter
national affairs and in our new relations
with the colonies of Spain. We shall
solve them all, unmoved by any attitude
or desire of the alleged ''powers'' and
without thought of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, shall
solve them all in the interest of Justice.
humanity and good government. If in
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and
the Canaries, tyranny and oppression
shall g1vo way to freedom and en-.
lightened progressive government. who.
at home or among the other nations of
the earth, can justly complain of the
formation of new republics of American
protectorates or even of American terri-
torial expansion? 1t would lie we'll tn
consider whether, after cooperating with
the Philippine insurgents and adnitting
the justice of their cause, we can evaP
turn those islands over to Spain in CON
sideration of any indemnity or sell then,
to any nation by way Of obtaining in.
demnity. America has expanded before
AS witness Louisiana and Florida, Texas
and Alaska-and parties have opDosed
such extensions, as witness, the Feder.
alists and the Wings. These parties died
the Nation lives. Let Organizes beware -
Ex-President Woodmansee also mado
an address as follows: 80