Arizona republican., 1899-08-09
PHRNIx. AUGUST 9. 1899.
MILK AND WATER PATRIOTS.

The Los Angeles Times reproduces
 from tine Augusta. Ga, Herald, the
 following reference to the an;i-expan
 sicnists which ought to sgrike re-
 sponsive chord in every American
 heart:
 ''Hoke Smith should allow New Eng
 land to monopolize this milk and water
 and runaway patriotism. The south
 is still American, still patriotic, and
 we do not believe that there is any
 considerable portion of the population
 of this whole counrry willing to s. e
 American troops withdrawn until the
 American flag is obeyed and respect
 cd throughout the entire islands
 The Republican has maintained from
 the beginning that the anti-expansion
 movement lacked the support of any considerable portion of the people. In
 every community there will naturally be found persons who deprecate the
 necessity of war, and others who would sooner the flag should be haul ed down than that it should be carried into fight, and still others who per mt demagogues and street orators to To the.r thinking for them. In the time of the civil war the copperheads made such an outcry that many patri- ots came to fear that if tel: should be made of public opinion in the north it would be unfavorabIe to the con-in- uation of the struggle. The Republi- can few days ago printed an arti- cle relating to the presidential strug- gle in 1864 when even MT Lincoln thought that he might be beaten by Mcclellan. The copperhsads were to be found in every northern communi- ty Harold Frederic in one of his charming books has given an insight into the state of feeling in those days in the Mohawk valley. The poison was 1 we'll distributed but when. the critical hour arrived ehe people rose in their might and Little Mac was sent about his business with the smallest number of electoral votes ever re- ceived by a presidential candidate.
 The old copperhead spirit is abroad again. It has been fostered. unfortu- nately. by such men as Senator Hoar | and Ex-Senator George F. Edmunds. both republicans. and the democrats who hope to make anti-expansion the party shibboIeth have been quick to improve the advantage gained by the utteranccs of these men. So has Aguinaldo. It was to be expected thar Harper's Weekly, the Springfield Republican. the New York Post and the Boston Herald, would join in the cry Their mugwumpish sentiments could find no better vent than in howl of the character they are now sending up. It suits them to be "agin'' the administration. and the possibility of doing the country great Iamage is not worrying them in the least. The uttsrances of Grover Cleveland. Hoke Smith and tine oiHer has-beens whose sympathy the Bryan ties really do not care for, cut To figure whatever Given an opportunity to trail the flag in the dust and these gentlemen will embrace it eagerly.
 One who will take the trouble 70 closely need have TO fear that the -exransionists will sue ceed In their game The Amer ican people will have their say at the proper time. aEd they will upheld inc hands of the president and his ad- visers. This war was not of the pre>i- , lent's seeking. We were at war with Spain: Spain owned the Philippin es: f was our manifest duiy to break ncr l hold on the islands Thar hold was 4eVered 50 quickly and completely that :