Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1899-10-18

resolutions in support If the Presi-
dent and hts policy. Neither is IL
true that the convention turned
down senator Lodge and endorsed
the views Of Senator HOar. In TACT
the latter has been repudidtcd from
first to last. For a number of years
the senator had been chosen ns the
chiri orator AT the meeting called Ia
ratiiy the work of the convention.
This year he was ignored So far as
that honor goes aud another chosen
In his place. senator lloar was pres
ent, however, and not only Endorsed
the llatfurm hut paid the warmrst
aud most fulsumreulogy to President
Mckinley. lie said i'm part:
Every man who knows President Mckinley
likes him. Every man who knows him rs well
futunc, accorded 10 no other man in the ms.
tory Of our country, that his hi, name is known
and will go down in history as the harbingcr
and creator OF two periods of uncXamplcd
prosperity. When the tariff known by his name
was the law OF the land the laborng man, the
business man. the manufacturer and the invest
or in property in this country had attained not
only what was the high-watcr mark in the
United States, tut the highest mark of pros
perity ever reached 10y any country in all his
tory. The repeal Of that measure was followed
lE a f..rf..1 ,F aglyarsitp ugbiFb gnst the Ifpitp1
States, in my judgment. not speaking Of the
loss of life and health, but only of money, a
larger sun than the civil war itself. President
Mckinley election 10 the presidency and the
great protective measure which he signed
brought prosperity back again. The favorable
conditions today even surprise those to which
/ have referred.
Following is the chief plank OF the
platform and the one dealing with
the Philippine question, which the
Tribune tries To twist into al in
dorsement Of its friend Aguinaldo:
Under the treaty with Spain the law of ma
tions put upon the United States the responsi.
billty for the peace and security Of life and
the protection Of property, and the well-being
aud the future government of the Philippine
islands; accepting this responsibility, it is our
profound trust that the present hOstllities can
be brought 10 an early termination and that
congress, guided by a wise and patriotic al
ministrltion, will establish and maintain in
those islands, hitherto the home of tyrantS, a
government as free, as liberal, and as progress
I'VE as our own. in accordance with the sacred
principles Of liberty and self-government upon
which the American republic 81 securely rests.
1t will Toe seen that the resolution
trusts that CONGRESS-. guided by
A WISE AND PATRIOTIC ADMIN
ISTRATlON, will ESTABLISH and
MAINTAIN" etc. L. there anything
in the above that would indicate in
the remotIst degree that this gov
eminent should turn over the islands
to A~guinaldu and let him attempt to
establish his authority. AZ the Tri-
bune has been advocatingior months?
The resolution clearly says that this
government must do that.
There is no question that senator
Hoar has been greatly beloved by
the Republicans of Massachusetts
and he has been their guide in Il large
measure in all political matters, but
he came to the parting Of the ways
when the question of sustaining the
president was made an Issue. The
senator probably has not changed
his views, but we predict be will offer
no obstacles tn the president in pros
ecuting the war in the Philippines, as
Atkinson and other ''auuties' are
doing. Furthermore he will laborto
bury the party of George Fred Will
Jams in Massachusetts by 100000 ma
io'ity.