Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-18
'NAT|ERSON' 5 WARNING.
Noted Editor Of the Courier-Journal
Gives Bryan Advice as to
Issues.
Says Anti Expansion is Anti Democ.
racy and Can Not Win In
1900 Campaign.
Autobiography Also Losing Issue
Because Country is Prosperous
His Views.

Louisville, Sept. 1S.-"Anti-expansion
is anti-democracy. The democratic par
ty of Jefferson and jackson was ever
the apostle of national expansion.
Manifest destiny was it's rallying cry.
That idea is none the less living and
vital today than it was fifty, sixty and
eighty years ago.
"All these new territorial acquisitions
are with us to stay. They came to us
mysterious power to which we owe all
that we are, all that we have. Who
shall say it nay? He that does this
and the more surely if he be a party
leader-pr onounces his own political
damnation.
The activities of the Atlantic are be-
ing gradually but certainly transferred
to the Pacific. We are there already.
Shall we seize upon the means of con-
firming our power which God has given
us, or shall we let them go, and later on,
at infinite cost, be obliged to fight to
recover them?
mo party ever threw itself across the
pathway of its countrys greatness and
glory and lived to tell the tale, and no
party ever can or will or ought.
The foregoing is the conclusion of an
editorial which Henry Watterson has
printed in the Courier-Journal Sunday.
The article is addressed specifically to
William j. Bryan and is couched in
warning words as to the Nebraskan's
platform for the campaign in 1900.
Conceding MIR. Bryan's denomination
Col Watterson minces no words in tell
ing him he can not win on free silver or
on a cry against monopoly, as the coun-
try is too prosperous. His views on eX-
pansion have been given. He advises
that the democratic fight be made on
various alleged mistakes in the conduct
lof the war itself The editorial follows:
The main trouble with too many OF
the present managers of the democratic
party of the country at large seems to
be lack of confidence in themselves.
Seeing that they are, as a rule, most
Iself-assertive. this may sound para
ldoxical but it is true nevertheless. Elk
itremism and vociferation are by no
means evidences of self-confidence. On
the contrary, they are often signs OF
moral cOWardice.
Men of real courage, of positive opin-
lions and assured position do not neeo
TO be clamorous. They know that they
lean afford to be patient and discreet
They do not mistake moderation fol
nervousness, nor consider it necessar!
! 10 be prudent in order that they ma!
Eappear to be sincere. To them politics
lis not a series of experiments, but o
Compromises and expedients. They Gu
Their coats according to their cloth.
For example. MIR. Bryan tells US tina
A the Chicago platform of 1896 is for al
time. Why should be it be so? Why
should it be for all time more than TIL.
st. Louis platform Of 1876, or the Chi
Icago platform of 1854 and of 1892? Or
( these we carried the country. Why
4 should they be set aside and ignored
Sin favor of a platform on which we losl
the country? What is there so sacred
lin the Chicago platform of 1896. which
divided and wrecked the party, that Mr.
1. Bryan. or any other democrat, should
4cling to it so tenacously?
There is not the least doubt that Mr.
4 Bryan will be the democratic nominee
4 for president in 1900 He will have M
contestant in the democratic nationa
convention All talk to the contrary j.
mere newspaper chatter. MIR. Bryan
Twill be nominated by reclamation. Does
mot he wieh TO be elected2
HE can not be elected on the none.
Tissue as it was presented and pro
Il claimed in 1896. on that issue the part.
lis as much divided as ever it was
identified With an unsound currency j
), sill again go down in defeat. Saw
J Kentucky alone, there is not a stat
which it lost in 1895 which it can reason
ably hope to regain in 1900
Nor Will the anti-trust cry tip TIL
!, beam in our favor, because the repub
licans can cry as loud and as lon
against the trusts as we can. And the,
viii, too
Except that something happen
short of a something to revers
the prosperous conditions of the coun
try and to convert rejoicing into mourn
Eing-we shall on all the domestic issue
OCCUPY a position of signal disadvan
tage.
Put the democratic issues are no
likely to be uppermost in the publ
mind. The people Will prefer to let we
enough alone. They can not be turne
81 rom TtpuDlltdlIlsul " uCliiI'i "
, Isuch shibboleths as free silver an
I down with monopoly. But there is a
Issue of far-reaching importance and 9
} overmastering interest right before ou
z eyes and ready 10 our hands, and tina
s issue is the conduct of the war in tn
2 Philippines.
IF we make the proper use of TIL
we can turn impending defeat into Gel
tain victory But we can make no sue
5 use of it If we set ourselves against II
, war itself and go off on wild goo:
: chase after such phantoms as imperia
ism which nobody contemplates.
do this is to handicap our campaign
every possible way.
I'm the first place, we shall be throw
!. in the category of those enemies of Il
country abroad who will be continual
embarrassing us by their unwelcon
tsynpathy, and of those cranks at hon
s who will be continually proceeding
: violent and dangerous excuses. fro
an accountability for which we can n
! wholly escape. On this line the paral
5 between 1864 and the present situate
q is too close for comfort.
ID I'm the next place, by opposing Il
= war outright we cut ourselves off
y critics of the war. The country will n
accept us in that character If we ta