Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-11-03
United States, held at Saratoga on Aug.
10 and 20, 1898, are substantially agreed

as follows:
We commend the wise and patriotic
of the national administration in
first seeking to avoid war with Spain,
and in subsequently prosecuting the war
with vigor and success and bringing it to
a speedy conclusion, glorious to our arms
and gratifying to the high aspirations of
our people on behalf of freedom and
human welfare. We thank the officers
and men of our army and navy for their
skillful and heroic achievements upon
land and sea, and for their chivalric con-
duct toward the defeated enemy.
"We believe that the rescued and lib
Grated people of the surrendered islands
are in a temporarily the wards of
the %conquering nation, and that we
should treat them as such. With our
views of natural right and of the inesti-
mable privilege of civil liberty, we should
not be justified in returning the conquer
ed islands to the misrule and oppression
from which we have relieved them. AS
soon as the islands under our present
protection can be trusted to govern
themselves they should be allowed home
rule, either Independently or as a part
of the United States, as hereinafter
recommended. Until snch time as they
may be able to govern themselves they
should continue under the protection of
the United States, and the question as
to whether at some future period, at the
mutual desire of both, they should be
permanently annexed should be left to
the time when it arises.
"The United States, on behalf of each
of the territories in question, and so long
as it shall continue under our protection,
should adopt proper measures for Sc
curing out of the revenu of these coun-
tries the establishment of free element
airy, unsectarian schools sufficient for the
instruction of all persons of school age.
"Now I submit that, considering the
nature and objects of that convention,
and the fact that Messrs. Schurz and
Smith were prominent and active pro-
moters of it, and considering what the
unanimous outcome of it was as contain
ed in those resolutions, their assaults on
the president for following their deliber-
ate advice is, to say the least, of ques-
tionable TASTE"
The st. Louis Globe-D Democrat OBJ
serves it is easy now to see that the
greater part of the republican seceders
of 1896 will be back in the old fold by
1900. In a platform adopted a few days
ago by the silver republicans in Denver
a demand was made for "the vigorous
and speedy prosecution and termination
of the war in the Philippine islands, and
the earliest establishment and 'recogni.
ton of national authority there to the
end that the best possible government
may be established in those islands"
These sentiments have frequently been
expressed by Senator Teller in the past
few months. They are undoubtedly the
sentiments of the majority of the ele-
ment which he represents, and which
followed him out of the party in 1896.
Events are shaping themselves to send
Teller and his friends back into the
party next year. The silver issue is
dead, S far as any reasonable chance of
further favors to that metal in national
legislation is concerned. Mr.. Teller, as a
man of brains, sees this. Bryan himself
is trying to dodge the silver question,
though the chances are that his owen
ton in 1900 will be forced to put it in the
platform, with the hope of retaining some
of the populist support, without which
his party could not carry a single west
ern state, except perhaps Missouri, and
without populist aid for the democracy
even Missouri would be a doubtful state.
The great issue in the canvass, however,
promises to be expansion, and on expan-
sion four out of five of the Teller section
of the Bryanite coalition of 1896 will
come back to the republican party.