Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
GREET CANDIDATES WARMLY
Republican Aspirants Lend Enthusiasm &c
Meeting in South Omaha.
SPEAKERS PROBE BRYANIsM AND FUSION
Judge Baxter Proves the ProsperitS
of This Community with Facts and
Figures-webster on the Crit
les of the Administration.

OF This Community with fncts nnu
Figures-webster on the Crit
les of the Administration.
Popocratic palaver and Bryanlsm received
rough treatment at the hands Of republican
speakers in South Omaha Saturday night
and the crowd cheered, pounded on the
floor and was glad Of it. Most OF the can
didates on the county and judicial tickets
were present and one after another we're
presented to the audience by Chairman Pat
rick J. Barrett each receiving a hearty
round OF hands" The candidates present
were: Judge Baker, Judge Baxter, Lee Es
tele l. G. Baright, d. NJ. Vinsonhaler, Louis
Burmester, +. d. Bryant and ID. Nj. Hav-
erly.
Judge Baxter devoted most of his time
to a refutation of the plea of the
fusonists that there is no real or wide
spread prosperity. He referred to his own
experience as a judge, filling out the lists
of officers OF election in 1896 and in 1899.
The former year he had to stay away from
his office to escape the opportunities of
many more men out of work than
he had places for. This year he
was obliged to go out of his
Office and look for men on the streets.
Whenever he found an intellectual man and
asked him to serve he received the answer
that the man could not leave his work The
speaker read a few figures concerning a
fact familiar to all those in his audience
the increase in the number of men employ ed
in the packing houses and stockyards of
South Omaha since 1896. At Cudahy's the
increase has been from 1,7O0 to 2450 at
Hammond's from $50 to $50, at Swift's from
$50 to 1,200, at the Omaha Packing and Pro,
vision companys from 225 to 45O and at
the stockyards from 200 to 354. The great
Armour plant, which was not there in
1885, now employed 1000 men and swelled
the total increase to 3,279 men. He asked
the hearers II in the face Of that they could
believe the assertions that the promises of
William McKinley's supporters to restore
the business of the country had not been
fulfilled.
Judge Baker Charitable.
Judge Baker said that he did not believe
all the people bad who did not agree with
him politically or otherwise and he had
never charged all the people of any party
with being in their party solely for office.
He assumed men were honest in their polit-
ical beliefs, but he believed the fuslonists
were badly mistaken in most of theirs For
one thing they had charged the republican
party with favoring militarism and large
standing army, when no republican had
asked for it and the president himself
had not availed himself OF all the military
powers granted him by congress. He had
only sought the quick suppression Of the
Philippine rebellion.
Lee Estelle, introduced as an old-timer.
responded as such, noting the rapid growth
OF South Omaha within recent years He
OF the civil war, in which there had been
critics Of the administration with about
the same motives as animate those of TODAY
John l.. Webster began by describing the
manner in which Bryan's picture had been
hung between and about pictures of Lincoln
and Dewey at one Of his recent meetings
In the state, under which Bryan stood and
distorted quotations from Lincoln out of all
semblance to every thought that passed
through the martyred leaders mind. Bryan
had charged the republican party with being
the father of trusts, which had existed long
before this country was founded and had
been condemned by Solomon And the re-
publican party had borrowed the wisdom of
Solomon and had said in its platform: eve
denounce the evil effects of the trusts 4"
He promised that II, republican officeholders
were restored in this state they would en-
force the laws against trusts il they were
working evil.
On the Philippine question Mr.. Webster
said in part:
"Aguinaldo's friends and supporters In
America are making appeals to our people
In his behalf under a misconception OF the
clause in the Declaration Of Independence
that governments derive their just powers
from the consent OF the governed. This ap-
peal has superficial glare Of philanthropy
and painted coloring OF recognizing human
rights, but 1t is out of harmony with the
history of that sacred document and is in
conflict with the construction which has
been put upon it by the men who framed
it and the history of our country from that
date down to the present. That clause in
the Declaration OF Independence only had
reference to the internal powers which the
sovereign government should exercise and
has no relation whatever to the acquisition
Of territory or the tranfser of sovereignty
from one power to another. II we were
to put upon 1t the construction contended
for by the democratic party, we would find
that 1t has been constantly violated for
more than 100 years. Thomas Jefferson, the
recognized founder of the democratic party,
the man who drafted the Declaration of In
dependence, when he purchased the
Louisiana territory from France did not
stop to ask the consent OF its inhabitants
whether they consented to transfer their
allegiance to the United States, or whether
they were willing to accept republican
form OF government When We acquired
Florida, when we acquired California and
the territory west of the Rocky mountains,
when we acquired Alaska, when we acquired
Puerto Rico by the treaty OF Paris, We did
not stop to ask the inhabitants whether
they consented to become part OF our re
public. Why should we ask 1t OF Aguinaldo
and the Filipinos?
| observe the suggestion in an editorial
in the Omaha World Herald, the spokesman
OF democratic sentiment in the state OF Ne
braska. that the United States should offer
TO the Philippine islands the privilege of
forming an independent government under
our protectorate. and that We should say to
the rest of the world, Hands OFF, What Is
that but Imperialism? For the United States
TO undertake through its own force and
power to create independent republics of