Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-09-28
What Is the Issue?

meet. A successful campaign can no9
be waged upon a wall of woe. This
fact is that we acquired some terri
tory under a treaty, and the ratif1caa
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 tina
army to suppress.
AN unconstitutional war;" they say.
No more unconstitutional than was
the suppression of an insurrection I'M
Chicago during the administration Of
President Cleveland. 1t is true that
some silver democrats disapproVed of
his course, but Mr.. Cleveland was not
the first democratic president to sup
press an insurrection by the use Of
arms. President Cleveland and Pres
ident Mckinley have ample justif1ca-
their predecessors in the suppression
of instructions on the part of Indians,
again and again, and in the suppression
of incipient rebellions by President
Jackson. The fact is there is no is
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. 1 have seen a motion to quash
an 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, 1 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 theH
mean to aver that it is unconstitution-
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
that Alaska was acquired, I am ready
to go to trial on that issue. If they
mean to charge that we have no COM
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
am ready to go to trial on that issue.
1 am only searching for something to
try. I will try anything except wall.
The Price of Disloyalty.
HJRING the war of the rebellion the
DChicago Times took issue against
the government, and sought in every
conceivable way to encourage the in
surgents but after the war was over,
with more courage, I think, than IL
takes to storm the enemy's works, Will
bur F. Storey sat down and wrote an
editorial in which he said in substance,
Hereafter in whatever wars my coun-
try may be engaged, the Chicago
Times will evermore support the gov.
eminent" Not all who pursued TIA
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
its country was the direct and legitt-
mate result of it's utterances in ita
famous, if not Infamous, Hartford COM
vention.
History is being made rapidly. Things
come to pass suddenly. Gods provt~
dences are being fulfilled with a rapid
ity never experienced in previous years
and any party which places itself ID
the way Of these providences will ba
ground to powder. No wonder that