The times., 1898-06-14
Alleged New Issues.

Alleged New Issues.
When the country is at war, and
there are but two parties necessarily
another of Tory obstruction, it is a bad
time to talk about domestic politics and
issues; but it is beginning to be done
and while we abhor the idea, perhaps
discussion cannot long be escaped.
This might not be so if the sordid
monopolistic interests opposed to ma
tional expansion and the future great
ness of the nation had not shrewdly
seized upon and financially promoted
certain elements and instincts of moss
back opposition to the party in pow
er. and made them, perhaps unwilling
ly, suhservient TO designs which every
patriotic citizen must condemn and will
antagonize to the end.
Thus, there is a Tory effort to dis
credit the Democratic organization by
making it appear to pose as the enemy
Of Hawaiian annexation and acquisi-
tion Of the Philippine archipelago. The
fact that certain leaders" in Congress
who call themselves Democrats. and
owe their prominence on the floor and
on committees to a trade with Speaker
Reed. at the expense of their princi-
pies, are at the front of the fight
against Hawaii and our enjoyment OF
Dawey's victory. is awaited OF by or
gans of the bond and trust rings to
raise the cry that the silver issue is
dead. and that the Democratic party
next autumn will go before the country
with nothing but the record OF an CT
ganized attempt TO hamper the gov
ernment and thwart the will Of the peo-
pie.
We are bitterly sorry to admit that
the spectacle presented by some Of
these creatures Of Reed is calculated
to lend color to the calumny 1t is
nothing but a calumny, because the
Sugar Tories who stand out aga nst
the determination of the whole nation
10 provide for the future by annexing
Porto Rico Hawaii and the Philippines,
and building the Nicaragua canal, are
not Democrats in any proper sense OF
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think they see some personal advan-
tage in making themselves obnoxious to
the universal sentiment of their fellow
citizens.
It is their attitude which enables the
gold and bond clngs, the trusts and mo-
nopolies. to declare that the silver
question is dead and buried. It is, in
fact, as full of life as ever it was, and
the only reason it is not being pressed
TO the front and made the fighting point
of the next campaign is that it is
domestic matter which we must and
will fight out among ourselves, and one
which it might be out OF place TO rally
upon now. when il is the manifest duty
Of all patriots to sink party and help
the Administration TO fight the war.
But for the Democrats of America.
there would not have been a war. They
knew perfectly well that it could not
be waged without money or without
compelling the United States to shake
off their old provincialism. and take
their predestined place among the great
naval as well as commercial, powers
of the world. The thinking men and the
masses of the party appreciated and
accepted this, and they are not in the
least degree pleased with the unfaithful
representatives who are trying now to
upset the work which their American
ism and love Of liberty and humanity
so gloriously began.
1t is not that silver is dead. but that
decent American Democrats are dis
gusted If these Congressional Tories
who are doing the dirty work of the
Sugar Trust should succeed in eXertinS
any influence over the party councils
prior to the elections, and are to have
nothing better than the history of their
efforts to defeat national expansion
to present. they need not trouble them
selves to print tickets. They will be
quite superfiuous.
Such statesmen" would do well to
inform themselves Immediately that
the American people are patriots before
they are partisans.