The record-union., 1899-09-02
WHERE THE CHRONICLE"
STANDS.

Mr.. Bryan, who has no other occupa-
announced to deliver a political
speech in the city Of San Francisco dur
ing next week on the subject of imper-
ialism. It is not necessary to wait
until Mr.. Bryan has spoken to declare
his position. He belongs to the party
of negatives. He and his party occupy
position analogous to that of the
controversial gentleman, who, having
failed to catch the remark made by a
table companion, declared: 'tI did not
hear what you said, but I quite disa-
gree with you"
Mr.. Bryan is a true exponent of the
Democratic party. He is ready to de-
clare that the acquisition of territory
by the people of the United States is
imperialism. Well, if this be true, the
people of the United States have been
imperialists from the colonial patriots
down to the present generation, and
they will remain imperialists for gen.
erations to come. We have extended
the national domain, and the course
or the nation has been upward and
onward in consequence of that policy;
and now come verbose fools of the
Bryan type to give all these things the
hair-raisdng title Of imperialism.
By imperialism Mr.. Bryan means
expansion, and he and his followers
have been driven to the necessity OF
taking the negative side of this policy,
simply because the Republican party
in the progress of events has affirmed.
If the Administration at Washington
had opposed the annexation Of the Phil
lppine Islands, the annexation of the
Hawaiian Islands and the close of
Spanish mis-rule on the Western Hem
lsphere, Mr.. Bryan would have de-
clared all these things to be benefcent.
In brief, Mr.. Bryan is an anti-imperial-
lst who simply stands as a negative,
because the Republican Administra-
ton of the nation is in favor of ex-
pansion.
The San Francisco Chronicle" quite
agrees with Mr.. Bryan in one essential.
California is an imperialistic State. 1t
is entitled to a Senator in Congress
who viii represent the sentiment of ex-
pansion which exists overwhelmingly
in this commonwealth, and Mr.. Bryan
and the San Francisco Chronicle" are
in full accord in desiring that this SEN
ator shall not have a seat in the Sen
ate Of the United States. Mr.. Bryan
and the Chronicle" agreed that an
imperialistic Senator was a thing not
to be desired. The Chronicle" says
that ''the vacancy has done no harm.
1t can wait" This is exactly what Mr..
Bryan would say under the circum-
stances. The Chronicle" is, therefore,
playing Mr.. Bryan's little game, and
the two are in full fellowship, the dis
tinction between them being that Mr..
Bryan wants to perpetuate the vacancy
in order to defeat a great national pol
icy and Mr. de Young wants the va
canoy to exist in order TO defeat his
personal and political enemies.
In the election of 1898, the prizes
centended for were political in their
character. The Republicans won the
State ticket and won a seat in the
United States Senate. Having won this
seat, the Chronicle now meanly asks
that the party shall be vanquished in
its own victory; that the capital prize
in the political campaign shall be made
to undergo the vicissitudes of a second
hazard. The Republican party won
the Senator, and whoever counten-
ances, encourages or advises the sur
render Of the office, knowing that it
must be won again, or lost entirely, is
a contemplate traitor to his party, and
Mr.. de Young may accept and adopt
the application of this Characterization
If he chooses. It certainly fits him like
the paper on the wall