Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-13

foot in many states. The Republi-
can party has vehemently declared
its purpose to apply the remedy pro-
vided by the amendments in ques-
tion. if it should ever be in control OF
all the branches of the government.
1t has long been i'll control, but 1t mas .
not only done nothing to redeem It's
oft-made promises: or t" secure g.
the simplest rights OF a race
always faithful TO its political
fortunes. but it has assisted
i'm disregarding and breaking down
the constitutional barrier, when,
upon every consideration OF loyalty
to its professed political faith and oi
gratitude to dutiful race 1t should
stand by. speak for. and defend. IN
1890. bill having for its object the
security of the blacks i'll the South III
their suffrage rights. was traded Oh
in return for n few Southern votes LOT
the Mckinley tariff act. From that
time on no attempt has been proposeu
/ in Congress, or recommended III an!
message of the executive, looking ~
a remedy for this abominable wrong,
and latterly, when the eNplolters anu
PARASITES who have the ear OF the
present administration, have Iouilu
these amendments at variance Wltn
their now avowed designs OF conquest
/ of people who never offended us
and in their language standing re-
buke of their schemes OF leSallZeu
spoliation. they have taken to openly
denouncing them as obsolete ana
entitled neither IT, obedience or re-
spect. 49,. C,+l,
last wear. Mr.. Mckinley not on ~
matted the rebel soldiers on the back
and recognized an equality OF merit
between them and those who fought
for the Union. but he undertook, to
the measure of his ability and III
the ewes of a growing generation, to
. break down each landmark ana to
! obliterate every distinction between
! rebellion and loyalty. And now the
; Administration newspapers tfea,
these solemn and blood-purchasec
, guaranties of civil liberty witt
Scarcely disguised contempt, some
times speaking of them with sneer
and again shamelessly advocating
a total disregard of them. An in
! stance or two of the latter kind mus
. suffice. A few days ago, the Port
T land Oregonian, perhaps the mos
= influential and representative or
Q gan of the Administration ON TN
y Pacific coast, and, admittedly IL
\ mouthpiece, had this to say: -.
/ The suffrage amendment to tn
: constitution of the United State
was founded on theory that is no
q workable. To preserve their civil
! ization the States where the negr0e
. are numerous have been compelle
q to suspend or circumvent it; anc
. though there has been much oblec
~ tion heretofore to their action, 1t
d now virtually admitted by the couf
y try that their action not only Is Jus
! tifiable. but that there is no othe
i way. The constitution may not Q
= amended, but it will not be enforce
,r in those places where, obviously, II
&c enforcement would subvert socIet.
,t On this principle we shall procee
- in orr new insular possessions.
7e In a paper recently read before TT
II American Academy of Political an
N Social Science, Prof. Woolsey,-
IS Yale college, commended the Nj
20 Kinley policy being pursued in I'll
re Philippines, and said:
I'd NO government can succeed the
D. which is not based upon force. W
= need to place a benevolent despot
nj every district in the archipelag
re Therefore, the military governmel
ii is the only one possible. And tn
at is dependent upon the inaction
81 congress.
.ir And in it's strong commendatlon
n this deliverance, the Chicago III
ed bune adds: "It is exactly at tn
n noint that the sInallbore little Anne
o. ican' Senators and COngressmen,W WI
cd refuse to see any difference betwe'
Of the Filipino tribes and the Amerlci
ve peOple. will try to meddle and crea
pp mischief. The point made by Pr'
u- Woolsey deserves the conslderati
M of every member of the Fifty-slX
n Congress-
of Here. then, We have the amaZi
spectacle of the political scrIbes al
-e- pharisees consorting with the pub
ps cans and sinners; We see the gre
re Republican party, or those who ma
,rt ipulate its organization and Sha
,Ie its policy. turning their backs up
reS the Godlike history and glorlo
'ed principles of its earlier and bet
an days and joining hands with t
ast Bourbon Democracy, which, VIII
il ever its sins-and they are many Il
he grievous - never included amo
mo- them the inetfable hypocrisy OF p
he tending to advocate an impartial
he fairly counted suffrage, while dei
ing ing it in fact. -,
,ck Now, who are the TRAITORS? :
ich they Mr.. Bryan and those W no, W
m him oppose a scheme of eNploltatl
civ which would require us to give
The lie to more than a century proi
ing sions and practice of political fal
Ok. and which is not even clothed W
rse the pretense of taking into the be,
IT'S. ficent scope of free institutions a
of personal rights the people wh
he country we are invading and seek
rye to take from them? Or, are they
administration organs and mou
md pieces who indecently sneer at
Ter. most cherished history, and ope
ar. counsel disobedience to our pa
ion. mount and organic law?
~ G. r.. GRANT
Akron, O.