Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-09-20

Of the flag is to stand for muir
der and repression, for the ex
tinction of that liberty which i
the foundation stone of this re.
public, for a denial of justice and
God-given rights to a struggling
people, then / say down with such
a flag, and make another which
shall be more in keeping with
the spirit Of orr republican insti-
buttons"
The copperheads of TS6l-65 live
again in the cheers given for
Aguinaldo at the recent Cooper
Union meeting in New York city
of the so-ca.ied Chicago platform
democrats. At the very hour when
our volunteers were embarking
from San Francisco to risk their
lives in the Philippines upho.ding
the flag against instruction, the
Bryarite democrats of New York
city were throwing up their hats
and cheering the Philippine adven-
turer whose victory would mean
the launching Ct a Malay piratical
proa in the China seas. Every
democratic state convention held
this year has denounced the war in
the Philippines or demanded the
withdrawal of the United States
forces, dipping our flag in confessed
defeat to Aguinaldo. The
Nebraska platform, which Bryan
wrote and read TO the state con
ven'ion, condemns the administra.
tive policy which has converted a
war for humanity into a war for
conquest. The Iowa democratic
plank was framed in nearly the
same language. The Ohio plat
form bluntly calls for the immediate
evacuation of Luzon and recogni.
ton of Aguinaldo's army of
banditti as republic.
The effect of this Identification
Of the democratic party with the
cause Of Aguinaldo upon patriotic
men who have hitherto followed
its flag is illustrated by the action of
Hon. +. 7. Dunn, leading dem
ocrat OF the eighth Ohio district
for more than twenty. five years,
who has published a card re.
nonncing his allegiance to the
democracy and resigning his APP
poiniment as delegate to the sena-
torial convention. Leading dem
ocrats of long political experience
are already beginning to warn
Altgeld, Len,z & Co. against the
fatal blunder of Ii king inseparably
the fortunes of Bryan and Aguin-
aldo. fl /. Jacquith, a leading
democratic lawyer OF Massachusetts
threatens to resign from the state
committee, if the democracy 81 Guild
declare against expansion and call
upon the president to withdraw
the army and navy from the Philip
pines. The Memphis Com
mercial- Appeal indorses President
McKinley's Pittsburg speech as
"voicing the popular sentiment OF
the country" This democratic
Southern newspaper says: 1--WE
cannot leave the Philippines with
out counting national dishouor. -"
Elk United States Senator Pal.
mer, OF Illinois, says that the dem,
ocratic party committed its fir t
blunder in refusing to ante in
suppressing the rebellion" TIL /
blunder cost tn democratic party
its exclusion from control OF the
government of this country for
more than twenty years. The
copperhead democracy were sound.
ly beaten the moment they boldly
wrote upon their flag the legend OF
Opposition TO the war" @They
were invariably beaten, even III
the darkest hours of defeat. From
December, 1862, to December,
1868, included the great Union de
feats of Fredericksburg, Chan
ceilorsville aud Chickamauga, and
the terrible drawn battle of Antis-
tam and Stone river; and yet in
that dark wear the copperhead
democrats were most soundly
beaten. They were beaten in 1864
despi the fact that the awful bat
tie summer of that year gave us no
decisive victories under either
Grant or Sherman, until Sherman
took Atlanta, September I, and
Sheridan whipped Early, Septem-
Der 10, at Ops guam. 1t will be so
in the Philippines if we win soon,
the democracy will be discounted
on the eve of the national campaign
of 1900, and if we crush Aguinado
later on, our victory will wet
blanket" the democr ICY as effect
ually as Atlanta did in 1864.
Let the democrats remember
that 1t was their patriotism in
! 1912 IL that seated them so firmly
IN the saddle that they were not
unseated unit. 1870, for even John
| Quincy Adams was Monroe dem
ocrat. In 1872 IL the New Eng
land tederallsts set up in speech
the standard of separation aud
rebellion. The Hartford conven.
ton sat tor the express purpose of