The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-11-23
VENDING FOR EXPANSION.
He Will Either be Mckinley Demo.
crat or Mckinley Republican.

MAKYv1LLE, Mo-. Oct. 26.-Hon.
George r.. Vending, of Washington,
ID. c.. one OF the best-known lecturers
in the United States, and formerly
leading lawyer and Democratic poll
tician of Illionis, said here to-day in
an interview on the expansion ques-
ton:
If by the word expansion is meant
the retention of the Philippine Islands
and the other territory we wrested
from Spain. am at loss to know
| how any reasonable man can be OPP
| posed to it. We have those islands
now, and we acquired them fairly and
| honorab lv. AS to the claims Of the
natives, / agree with the sentiment
expressed by Gov. Roosevelt in Gin
| cinnati. when he declared: There is
not a single argument that can be
| advanced in their favor which could
not with equal reason have been ad-
vanced in favor of the Apaches and
Sitting Bull
The comparisons that are being
made between the struggles Of the
Filipinos for independence and our
fights to achieve our independence
appear somewhat ludicrous to me.
We fought for civilization; they are
| fighting against it. If any man says
that he wants to take any particular
part on this globe and fence it OFF
from civilization and maintain
savagery and barbarity there, then |
am against him, and, in this case,
am not only an expansionist, but an
imperialist.
What right have the Beers in
| South Africa. or the Filipinos i'll the
Philippines, to stand in the way of
the progress OF civilization? When
| the Cherokces refused to submit to
the usaoes of civilization in the South
we drove them out. When Sitting
| Bull and his followers did the same
thing in the West, we killed them,
and that is the way we must deal
with the Filipinos. BE civilized or
killed., sounds like a bloody and
cruel command, but it is not. If a
people persist in standing in the way
of the schoolhouse, the church, the
railway, the newspaper, and the tele-
| graph, they must be run over. We
must stand by our boys who are
fighting in the Philippine Islands to
uphold their country's flag and pro-
mote the interests of civilization
without regard to partisan consid-
erations.n
Addressing himself to politics, Mr..
Vending said:
Il have been a Democrat all my
life, but | could not support free
silver, and in 1896 | was sound
money Democrat. If the Democratic
party continues to . drift toward
Populism at its present rate, | think
that in 1900 | will be either Mckin-
ley Demo crat or a Mckinley Republic
can. st Louis Giobe-DemOcrat
A. f. Holton, chairman of the
North Carolina Republican State Com
mittee, has announced, after an in
terview with Senator Butler, that the
Populists will join with the Repub-
licans in opposition to the constitu-
tional amendment to limit the negro
franchise.-New York Ecening Post.
As the boys say Marion Butler
Twas little too previous'' in his
promise to the Republicans that the
Populists would 90 with him in an
tagonizing the amendment to the
constitution. Butler may make 6
sale but he can not "deliver the
goods" There are thousands of as
good, true, honest Populists in North
Carolina as are to be found in any
party. They withdrew from the
old democratic party for several rea
sons, not necessary to state here and
not to ally themselves with the old
rotten, rabid black Republican party
they had fought for decades. They
do not wear any mans collar as But
Ter will discover A trickster like he
is cannot beguile or betray into
servitude white men of stamina, o
sense, of character. They are ne
more in favor OF negro rule than the
Democrats are. They are white mer
with white faces and the principle:
of white men.-Wilmington Mes
Scnger.