The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-03
by their votes and at the request, Of
their leader?
What Is the Issue?

" - ASo0St
I AM here as a lawyer, demanding to
know what the issues are to be sothat
I may know what / must to
meet. A successful campaign can not
be waged upon a wall of woe. The
fact is that we acquired some terri
tory under a treaty, and the ratifca-
ton of that treaty, and all preliminary
steps leading thereto, passed into his
tory with that ratification. and were
thus placed beyond the possibility Of
incoming issues in a political CAM.
paign. Upon this territory, thus ac-
quired, an insurrection arose, and to
this date no instruction has ever oc-
CURED upon the United States terri
tory that the president of the United
States has not promptly called upon the
army to suppress.
Gan unconstitutional war;" they say.
No more unconstitutional than was
the suppression Of an Instruction in
Chicago during the administration of
President Cleveland. 1t is true that
some silver democrats disapproved Of
his course, but Mr.. Cleveland was not
III ltloS QSlllOCtd PIeSloSII ~ sup
press an Instruction by the use Of
arms. President Cleveland and Pres
ident Mckinley nave ample justiflca-
ton and precedent in the action Of
their predecessors in the suppression
Of instructions on the part Of Indians,
again and again, and in the suppression
of incipient rebellions by President
Too1rcor TIa 20 ot 70 {lo.o Sc 80 to-
sue The indictment is demurrable.
They haven't charged any facts as dis.
tinguished from conclusions.
1t will be urged that after saying that
there is no question to discuss, I then
spend an hour in discussing the ques-
ton. I have seen a motion to quash
ar Indictment on the ground that there
was no crime charged. no issue tender-
ed, argued for two days. That is what
I am doing for one hour. If, however.
the democratic party means to demand
the withdrawal of our troops from the
Philippine islands, in absolute disregard
of the responsibilities imposed upon
US by the treaty, I am willing to go to
trial on that issue. I would like to
have the democratic candidate for gov
ernor say what he does demand. If they
mean to aver that it is demonstrations
al to suppress an insurrection in terri
tory acquired in the same way that
the Louisiana purchase was acquired
and that California was acquired and
hat Alaska was acquired, I am ready
to go to trial on that issue. If they
mean to charge that we have no con-
stitutional right to govern the Sac and
Fox Indians on their reservation in
this state or other Indians on other res
ervations within the United States, or
In the Filipinos in the archipelago, I
an ready to go to trial on that issue.
I am only searching for something to
try. I will try anything except a vail.
The Price of Disloyalty.
Turing the war of the rebellion tho
DChicago Times took issue against
the government, and sought in every
conceivable a to encourage the in
s%urgents, but after the war was over,
with more courage, I think, than it
takes to storm the enemy's works, Will
bur F. Storey sat down and wrote an
editorial in which he said in substance.
Thereafter in whatever wars my
try may be engaged, the Chicago
Times will evermore support the gov
eminent" Not all who pursued the
same course as Mr.. Storey were thus
brave, and not all were possessed of
clear enough perception to discover
their error.
The old federalist party was opposed
to the war of 1912, and it sought in
every way to give comfort to the en-
envy. But it paid the price Of it's dis
loyalty with it's life; and the death
with which it honored God and blessed
it's country was the direct and legiti-
mate result of its utterances in its
famous, If not infamous, Hartford con-
vention.
History is being made rapidly. Things
come to pass suddenly. Gods provi-
dences are being fulfilled with a rapid
ity never experienced in previous years
and any party which places itself in
the way of these ~providences will be
ground to powder. No wonder that
the avowed leader of the democratic
Marty SDent twO-thirds of his time or