Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-04

1.-The people had an opportunity of
seeing man, claiming TO be big
enough to be president, acting the
part of demagogue on the rear
platform of a ear"
The foregoing is an extract from
the press dispatches of Mark Han
mas speech at Bowling Green on the
2oth ultimo.
Since Mark Hanna and President
Mckinley are in practice strictly
convertible terms, it is no injustice
to the latter to impute this language
to him as well as to his principal
the Junior senator from Ohio.
The speech suggests another ques-
ton pertinent to it: Did the people
q week or two before have an oppor-
tunity of seeing man, claiming to
be big enough to be twice presi-
dent, acting the part of a demagog
on the rear platform of car? 1t
may be said indeed that in this COM
parison Mr.. Bryan has at least some
negative points of advantage. 1t is
safe to say that his hippodrome did
not tour the country at the expense
of the government or as the bounty
of the corporations. He did not
spend his time in electioneering
while drawing a salary from the pub
lie funds of $4,000 year. He did
not take with him suite COM
posed of high officials whose
duties are supposed to keep them
elsewhere, and when he made a
statement of fact he did not conceal
the most material part of it upon the
presumption that his hearers either
were too ignorant to know it, or were
too lazy to verify it.
For example, the president, from
the rear platform of his car defended
his imperial policy by citing our
former acquisitions of territory. He
was especially voluble in his praises
of Jefferson for negotiating the great
Louisiana purchase, and argued
from 1t that the conquest of the Phil
lipines must be equally praise
worthy. But one thing he was care
full not to tell his hearers; he did not
so much as refer to the following
provision of the treaty by which
that purchase was consummated.
ARTICLE Ill.
1.-The inhabitants of the ceded ter
ritory shall be Incorporated in the
Union of the United States, and ad-
mitted as soon as possible, according
to the principles of the Federal Con-
stitution, to the enjoyment of all the
rights, advantages and immunities of
citizens of the Uuited States; and in
the meantime they shall be protected
in the free enjoyment of their lib
erty, prosperity and the religion
which they profess"
And yet Mr.. Mckinley well knew
that like guaranty to the Filipinos
is not, and never has been, within the
purpose or intent of the present ad-
in it's scheme for the
of their islands. Was
his iteration and reiteration of the
beneficent results of the Louisiana
statement of a half
truth and the suppression of the other
half of it, fair and plain dealing with
the American people, who SO far re-
spected the chief magistracy of our
country as to go to hear him?
With equal JUNCTION the President
spoke of the treaty which evidenced
the purchase of Florida. But from
aught that was heard from the ''rear
platform of his car" no one would |
know that a part of that treaty reads
thus:
ARTICLE vi.
"The inhabitants of the territories
which His Catholic Majesty cedes to |
the United States, by this treaty,
shall be incorporated in the Union of |
the United States, as soon as may be |
with the principles of the |
Federal Constitution, and admitted |
to the enjoyment of all the privileges,
rights, and immunities of the citi-
zens of the United States"
When Mr.. Mckinley held up the
L. Il