Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
BRYANlSM RAMPANT.
Massachusetts Democrats Give th,
Lie to State Issue Talk.

Massachusetts Democrats Give the
Lie to State Issue Talk.
The Democrats here in Pennsylvania
tell us that only state issues are in
volved in the campaign, and that alb
solutely nothing will be at stake ma
tionally until next year. says the Phil
adelphia Inquirer. 1t is not so. How
can it be. when everywhere else the
lines are drawn strictly and victory is
to be won or lost on the policies of
Mckinley and the Republican party?
Indeed Massachusetts has actually
opened the presidential campaign by
electing 80 delegates to the next ma
tional convention, every one of them
instructed for Bryan. 1t was not done
without turmoil and strife, for it was
only decent, proper and regular that
national delegates should be elected
at the state convention of next year,
but the genuine Democrats in the con-
vention, by the aid of the police were
howled down and George Fred Will
Jams had his way. Free silver at 16
to /, the destruction of trusts and So
called imperialism" were the main
planks of the platform. The old Chi
cago platform was endorsed, and the
convention said of it:
We pronounce that political code
one written not for year or for a
single campaign, but for all time,
being made up as it is of the fun
damental principles of Democracy.
upon the acceptance and enforce
ment of which alone free govern
ment of, by and for the people can
be maintained.
Here in Pennsylvania that same plat
form was endorsed. and Bryan was ac-
cepted as the 'matchless leader" But
it is "only state issue in the cam
paign here, so the Democrats tell us.
They are more honest in Massachu
setts, and they are deadly in earnest
there and in Nebraska and Ohio. and
everywhere else for Bryan. 1t is only
here in Pennsylvania that they try to
pull the wool over the eyes of the peo-
pie.
1t must require a deal of courage for
an honest Democrat in these days to
acknowledge allegiance to his party.
Listen for instance, to this malicious
harangue from one Christopher f. Cal
lahan, who presided temporarily over
the Massachusetts conventions
If ever murder was committed
in the name of war. the hands of
the Republican party are now, in
deed, dripping red with it. Crying
Christianity. they preach the doe
trine of might against right.
Now compare this speech with the
address issued by the Anti-Imperial-
ist League, which is to hold confer
ence in Chicago on Oct. II, to plan for
the further spread of its treacherous
doctrine and to "crystallize opposition
to the presidents policy" 1t says:
1t is true that in doing this the
anti-imperialists must denounce
Mr.. Mckinley individually because
he unlawfully initiated the siaugh-
ter in the Philippines by his dec
laration of war, Dec 21 1885, at
time when the United States was
solemnly bound by the protocol to
preserve the status.
What an infamous lie that Isl,
No Republican will accept it for an
instant and what genuine Democrat
can? And yet the Bryan convention OF
Massachusetts did SO.
This anti-imperialist doctrine /.
Organism pure and simple.
They understand it very well out ir
Nebraska, and how dignified is the re-
ply of the Nebraska Republicans tC
the attitude of Bryan's followers. The
Republicans say of the war in theil
platform:
While we deplore the insurrec-
ton in the Philippines. yet we rec
ognize the duties and obligations
imposed upon our nation by the
victory of our navy and the match
1n.e q, nf or,,nc ira
in the treaty of Paris which i'm
posed upon the president the duty
of maintaining the authority of the
United States over the territory
acquired thereby, and so long as
there is one gun pointed at an
American soldier, so long as there
is an armed enemy assaultine our
flag. so long must patriotic and
loyal Americans uphold our presi-
dent in effecting protection, tran
guilty and peace to all who recog-
nize our lawful occupation.
! That is patriotism and honesty
Which is the higher type of American
citizenship, that represented by thu
| Nebraska Republicans or that of tn,
| Massachusetts Democrats and the
! Anti-Imperialist league?
| Columbia county, being the home o.
| William T. Greasy, the Democratic
candidate for state treasurer, the po
| litical interest is naturally centerint
more or less around the fight between
Colonel Barnett and Mr.. Greasy, say.
a special dispatch from Bloomsbury
Pa Probably no better illustration
of the status of political matters. ant
especially pertaining to the state treas
| urer fight in Columbia county, coult
be given than an abstract from an edi
torial in this weeks Columbia Count.
| Republican. which invariably voices
the sentiment Of the Republican part.
| in Columbia county. and which read
as follows:
columbia county veterans canno
be easily deceived. because too man,
of them heard Farmer Greasy in tn
early part of the summer, at tn
Grange picnic, in Sugerloaf township