The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-31
Gan | Be Separated
Record of the Twentieth and
the Cause 1t Defended.
LONG SPRINGS A CRUSHER
On the Kansas Builders of
A1ti-War Platforms
.ONG SPRINGS A CRUSHER

in this city. Extraordinary interest and
enthusiasm were manifested and the
meeting was an immense success. The
county is in good shape politically and
will come to time on election day with
paralyzing lineup. Mr. Long, in his
! Introductory remarks tonight, dwelt par
ticularly upon the question of expansion,
| though only in the special aspect of the
legal and moral justification of the pres
ent war in the Philippines, which he
| clearly demonstrated, and from which ii
followed that the president should be sus-
tanned in the national campaign of 1900,
to which the local campaigns of this year,
he said We're but preliminary, and In
which national campaign the issue was
to be: To sustain, or not to sustain, the
president. Mr.. Long then got very close
to the Kansas voter in citing the record
of the Twentieth Kansas. He pointed
out that the opposition, in their platform
making, always commencing the deeds of
the Twentieth Kansas while condemning
the cause for which it fought, had lost
sight of the fact. or, rather, had never
apprehended it, that the principal part of
that regiments service, and during which
it had accomplished those feats of daring
which had astonished the world, was seen
after its period Of enlistment had expired,
and while it was serving literally as an
aggregation Of individual volunteers;
from which Mr.. Long extracted the
crushing conclusion that to indorse their
deeds was, necessarily, to indorse their
cause with it. Mr.. Longs speech fol-
lows:
THE campaign of this year IS rre'im-
mary to the presidential contest of 1900
in which the contesting candidates will
be the same as in the campaign Of 1896
The last presidential campaign was car
ried on in the midst of a business de-
preston which had continued for three
years. Adversely and misfortune were
apparent on every hand. Farm products
had reached the lowest price within the
memory of men then living. The year
1s93 which opened with evidences Of
prosperity on every hand. closed in the
| midst of the most disastrous panic that
the country had experienced for over
fifty years. During those three years the
| government issued bonds in the amount
of 1852 100000 to pay running expenses.
During those years there was a loss in
the value of farm live stock of over $622,-
100000. The amount of money lost dur
| ing Clevelands administration exceeded
| the entire cost of the civil war, and the
| important question in the campaign Of
1896 was, What caused this widespread
disaster, and what shall be done to bring
| prosperity again to this country? The
| Republican party said: place US once
more in power, elect William Mckinley
president, and we will change the tariff
| policy from free trade to protection, and
| that will bring a return of prosperity
The opposition said: 1t makes no diff
| ference whether we have protection or
| free trade. The hard times will continue
until we have the free and unlimited
| coinage of silver, at the ratio of IS to l.
| By the largest popular majority since
| 1872, the people declared for the Repub-
| lican party, and William Mckinley was
| elected president.
THE predictions made by the Republi-
| can party have been fulfilled and the
pledges have been kept.
lone of the principal questions TO be
determined next year is. Are the people
satisfied with existing conditions. or do
| they desire a change?
"Since the last presidential contest, we
| have had a war with Spain, and war
always settles some questions and brings
other questions forward for settlement
and adjustment. This is certainly true Of
the war that has recently closed. 1t has
made it apparent to everyone that the
civil war is surely over. General Lee is
in C1ha tinu ont in
a military capacity General Wheeler is
in the Philippine islands. lighting to up
hold the authority of the government
that he once endeavored to destroy
This war has also made it plain to
| all that bravery and patriotism are not
! confined to any one class There has re-
! Gently been an attempt made to array
! the West against the East and the poor
against the rich, but in the war with
! Spain, there was a regiment of Rough
Riders, composed of millionaires from
| New York City and cowboys from Ari-
! IONA, Oklahoms and New Mexico. Their
| millionaire commander was from the
| East, but the regiment largely came from
| the West. This regiment, by its heroic
| deeds of valor at Las Guaimas and San
Juan, has shown that patriotism IS not
confined to any one class, but that rich
| and poor, East and West North and
! South can be depended upon in an emerg-
ency.
The war with Spain is over. It ended
when the treaty made at Paris by rep
| resentatives of the two governments vas
! ratified by the United States and Spain.
! 1t really ended when Dewey closed the
| war on the 18th of August. 1S9S, with the
( surrender OF Manila, he having begun the
war with the destruction Of the Spanish
( fleet on the 1st of May BY the provisions
/ of the treaty, Spain relinqUished all
! claim Of sovereignty TO Cuba and ceded
I Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands TO
[ the United States. Spanish authority and
/ power in all these islands was ended with
/ the ratification Of the treaty. and since
( that time the United States has been re-
! sponsible for the maintenance OF peace
I and order and tho protection OF life and
I property in all its new possessions.
! NO question has been raised by the
! opposition touching Cuba or Porto Rico.
! bat a vigorous and determined assault
! has been made on President Mckinley for
the policy that has been pursued in the
Philippine Islands
! Before the treaty was rated and
! while our army was rightfuIly in those
; Islands the Filipinos fired upon our
/ troops and attacked cur flag A contest
/ imme iiately ensued. and tne~inusrzents
! IN those islands nave been fighting the
army and navy Of the United States that
! destroyed the Spanish power with which
they were so much dissatisfied The
! president mas insisted thai tae Insured
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