The record-union., 1898-11-06
PIE COUNTER OR PRINCIPLE
WHICH?

WHICH?
Away up in Humboldt, the Demo-
cratic County Central Committee the
other day passed a resolution that ex-
poses the motive of the fusion move
ment. 1t declared it to be the sense of
the committee that "all elements an
tagonistic to the principles and success
Of the Republican party should be
united in the campaign in Humboldt
County, and the Democratic Commit
tee viii make all proper efforts to that
end"
That is accurate measurement of
fusionisn. It is anything to defeat the
Republican party. The principles of
the party are to be downed by union of
all elements opposed to them. After
that the elements" will fight it out
among themselves and jower over the
division of the spOils. That is the eX-
tent to which the opposition goes in
promoting a campaign.
Its assumption Of principles is a
farce. If any are enunciated in the
platforms Of the three "antagonistic
elements" they have ali been swal-
lowed up in the senseless howl of anti
railroad"
Is it anything to awaken surprise
that Mr. J. V. Webster, late nominee of
the Populist party for the office Of Gov
ernor Of California. should manifest
the disgust of a clean, fair man by
denominating the whole combination
as made UP Of pie hunters?
Governor Budd gave the snap away
only a few evenings ago when in a
speech at Metropolitan Temple, as re-
ported in the Examiner" he said:
What good does. it do for member
of our party to refuse to vote for any
of it's candidates and suffer Republic
ans to capture the offices for which we
are fighting?
That's 1.-THE offices for which they
are lighting" The Republican party,
however. while soliciting the people to
support its nominees for the offices,
which must be filed that orderly gov
ernment may be preserved, has a
greater deeper, loftier motive than the
filing of offices. It has a line of ma
tional policy to promote. 1t has a
great leader in the Presidential chair to
maintain in the work he is doing. It
has a revival Of shipping interests to
conserve, as it pledged itself to the peo-
pie to do; 1t has the grave questions Of
peace and retention of new possessions
to solve It confr6nts the world over
the waters, where European Powers
are waiting to see If in this election the
States are going to rebuke or uphold
the policy of the Administration, and
they will deport themselves towards
Spain and the United States accord
ingly.
The Republican party has upon its
shoulders the whole burden of lifting
the country out Of the slough of hard
times and setting it firmly and surely
upon the highway of prosperity, a
work already largely accomplished t
has to face the snarl and the whine of
those who cry out against imperial
ism" and are seeking to put away from
the nation the hard-won fruits Of war,
and to cover back to the rule Of Spain
peoples rescued from its intolerance
and inhumanity.
The Republican party demands the
fulfillment of the purpose for which the
nation entered upon the war and in
which many a sound biological Dem
ocrat stood with the party But not
one OF that order IS to-day found
"fusing'' with antagonistic elements
endeavoring to cripple the nation by
tying the hands of the Administration
and obstructing the path Of American
expansion by the shout of Imperial
ism"
Yes, the policy Of the party repre-
sented by the Administration is impe-
rial in its purpose, but, as Colonel Nc
Clure has so eloquentfy said:
1t is not the imperialism that is in
spired by the lust of conquest. It is
the higher and nobIer Imperialism that
voices the sovereign power of this ma
ton, and demands the extension OF our
flag and authority over the provinces
Of Spain, solely that government of
the people, by the people. and for the
people, shall not perish from the earth. -
Such is the imperialism that has be-
come interviewer with the destiny Of
our great free government, and IL Will
be welcomed by our people regardless
OF party lines, and will command the
conllnendation of the enlightened Pow
ers of the. old world as it raises for
the guidance Of all the grandest mon
uments of freedom as the proclaimed
policy and purpose of the noblest Gov
errrnent ever reared by man or
blessed byl Heaven
To carry out that plan, to make that
policy effective to accomplish such a