The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-29


Predicts "a Victory Over the Pol
icy of Conquest at the Coming
Elections.
About twenty-five loyal Democrats as
sembled last evening at the Hotel Nicollet
to greet their distinguished guests, SEN
ator ]. X. Jones, of Arkansas, and Gen.
| Watt Hardin, of Kentucky. The meet
ing was held under the auspices of the
| Hennepin County Democratic association
and was one of the most important, polit-
| ically, that has been held in Minneapolis
for many months.
After short informal reception the
| party's cohorts were gathered together
| in the parlors Of the hotel where a very
/ interesting programme of speeches was
introduced as the first speaker Senator
J. K. Jones, chairman of the National
| Democratic committee.
The senator's address in part was as
follows: II am prouder of being an
American now than l was ever before in
my life. Mankind was startled 100 years
ago by the Declaration of independence.
setting forth in bold type the statement
that power and liberty came from the
| people, and not from the chief executive
and the government. The idea that
! Justice did not come from the government
was entirely new, and the European peo-
pie thought the Americans were crazy.
A few years later when the governments
across the water thought to suppress the
pernicious government the Monroe doc
trine was given publicity declaring that
not only must the liberties of the people
be preserved, but that also the whole of
| America must be kept intact for free
| forms of govarnm ants, and warning the
| m0narchies to keep their hands off.
The idea which we started. that all
Just forms of government come from the
people, mas revolutionized European
forms of government. But fer the ex-
ample of the American declara ton, it
would have taken Europe 500 years to
learn the same principles of liberty.
Even the car of Russia and the emperor
of Germany have come to acknowledge
that the people have some rights which
they are bound to respect
The principle of liberty is the very foun-
dalton stone of this government, and
when We forget this doctrine and under
take to make serfs of people, hitherto
acknowledged capable Of governing them
selves, this country will be on the verge
of a final decline.
When this country entered into a con-
f1ict with Spain congress declared that it
was not the intention of this country to
acquire colonies and that the conflict was
entered into for humanitarian motives
alone. Now prominent public men state
that they do not. know whether we should
withdraw from Cuba or not. This coun-
try made an honorable declaration at the
beginning of the war, and if it now re-
ceGes from the position which it held at
that time, and declines to act honestly
by the people Of the countries which have
come under its control then will the Unit
ed States be fit only to be spewed out
of the mouth of the American people
when a greatquestion of principle is a
stake the great body of the American
people will find the proper solution. l be-
lieVe that the position of the Democratic
party, which now stands for the prIn-
ciples Of liberty set forth in the De-
claration of Independence is the proper
one, and that it will win out in the next
election l realize that we are in for
struggle the hardest struggle that this
country has ever seen, but we have the
right on our side and are bound to win.
When the conscience of the American
people is aroused, 1 believe that ali the
money Of Wall street and Lombard street
comblned-for it is admitted that the Re-
pubicans have been using money in past
elections to get the desired results-wll
be insufficient to turn the American peo-
pie from the right.
Ihe Republican party at the last cleo
ton pledged itself again in favor of BIZ
metallism, but it is now passing through
congress gold monometallism bill They
state that they are going to declare
against trusts in their next platform If
how
not declare themselves now? They have
congress and Republican executive and
could as we'll put down trusts now as at
any other time. They do not want to do
so, however. They are. not playing hon
estly with the American people, but are
trying to blind them Instead of taking
some action in regard to trusts they are
simply delaying action, so as to be in (:
position to fry the fat out of them at
the next election, when they need funds
to carry on the campaign.
we believe in the principles of the Dec
larat1on of independence. / believe, and
do not think that any man would dispute
me- that if at the time the statement in
regard to the freedom of the government
of Cuba was made all~other Spanish col
onies which might have been seized had
been included under the same head there
would not have been a murmur of disap-
prevail. While the Republicans through
the chief executive of the country who
has supreme power, Is figuring on re-
tanning the Philippines, though it makes
pretenses otherwise. we believe that
similar declara ton should be made re-
garding the disposition of them as has
been made regarding the future of Cuba
If declaration should be made officially
that we intend to treat the Philippines
the same az Cuba and that they would
be allowed free government, the war
would be ended in a week 1t would be
| only necessary for the government to
make the statement and keep faith
Among those present were: P. B. Win
stOn, Julius j. Heinrich, r. p. Pratt w
P. Barton, Elijah Barton, Judge Hobbs.
Judge Rea, w. Grander. Enoch Hidden.
G. H. Benton, ]. L. Bennett Jr St
Loud: E. Shumptk, L. A Rosing. Thomas
H. Bishop. E. w. Knatvold, Albert Lea:
]. Dyer, Lars NJ. Rand, w. H Harris,
DR.. o. S. Pine. Ed O'Brien, S. A. Stock
wei, w. P. Remer, ST Cloud; Oscar pag-
gett, Sank Rapids; w. F. Donahue. Mel
| rose; H. N. Gray, Moorhead; G. s. Cam
field, E. S. Corser, Peter Weiggart,
Alonzo Phillips. Ed Conroy J. G. Moore.
]. c. Haynes, Fl. L. Chaffee and F. c.
| Mcmillan.