The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-19
ginia going 10 DO about it7 Will II stand
by the Chicago platform, or will It stand
by tho Virginia Court OF Appeals?
DEMoCRACY's OPPORTUNITY.

Tho reports that come from the Philip
pines arc more and more discouraging as
each day passes. Vain IS il that the
administration supplies the Associated
Press with rose colored prophecies and
announcements that General Otis expects
TO sec the insurgent organization col
lapse In a short time. Consul General
Williams, who has spent many years
amongst those people, says he does not
expect to live to see the end Of the affair.
and all the authentic facts that We get
utterly negative the gllded announce
ments that emanate from the White
House. our soldiers are having to fight
every day. and. according TO our reading
Of a dispatch received a few days back,
they have fought one contest. at least,
disastrously TO themselves. They go on
fighting day after day. but we see no
solid results growing from their strug-
giles The whole business Is a most
wretched one. and, instead Of getting
better. it seems TO get worse every day.
We fear it was a sad day for the United
States when the administration deter
mined to depart from our national tradi-
lions and march out into the world as
conQueror and colonizer. For, gloss
over II as you will. that is the substance
of the matter. We are no longer a plain.
supplemented lot Of citizens attending
10 their own affairs and warning all men
hagnrnA "A G.
pirants for the gaudy show and pomp of
actors upon the worlds stage, and we
have now run foul of what such actors
must encounter when they determine to
strut around for the admiration Of man.
kind The monarchy may undertake such
n task and come out Of II successfully,
because the monarch plays such game
with dominant hand. forcing his sub
ordlnatcs 10 execute his will. But the
agents Of a republic are all monarchs and
each has his sphere Of influence, which
always. under such circumstances.
shades on into a field for plumber, and
then the real difficulties of a colonizing
and conquerlng republic set in.
This Is Democracy's opportunity. The
oniccholders and purchasable negro dele
gates from the South are going to re-
nominate Mckinley as surely as that he
lives 10 1870 That IS all being arranged
down there az Townsville Ga. at this
moment Speaker Reed. in our opinion
has not gone 60 Jekyl Island for either his
own or his daughters health We be-
ueve Il IS TO arrange a bar
gain by which ne IS to help Mckinley in
1900 and Mckinley is TO help him beat
Roosevelt in 1906 Mckinley, therefore, is
going TO be the Republican, nominee in
1909 Bat Mckinley is already loaded 10
the waters edge with Alger, Algerism
and tainted beef. He can hardly keep
his head above water now. BY the sum-
mer Of 1900 the Filipino business is going
10 have him az a point tina. will enable
any safe man to push his head down
under the water VIII the Democracy Of
the country have the sense TO seize the
opportunity? Let It only accept the situa-
ton as It IS. declare that it accepts the
inevitable and will not demand the emas-
culation of the courts, and then 1t may
nominate any man 1t chooses who is for
sound Democracy and respect for the
laws. and Mckinley will be defeated.