Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-09-21
DEMOCRACY'S NEW HERO.
The Rcd-Handed iEuinnIdo Set Up
Against the First American
Citizen.

Representative democrats who adj
dressed the Chicago platform meeting
at Cooper union, New York, extolled
Emilio Aguinaldo and his cause. They
expressed sympathy with his revolt
against the authority of the United
States They held him up as one of
the worlds great patriots, a hero and
an idol, and crowned their demonstra-
tion in his favor with three cheers for
the rebel chief.
The resolutions adopted by the meet
ing declared that the war carried on by
the United States, whose sovereign
authority over the Philippines is recog-
nized by all the nations of the earth, to
restore good order and give good gov
ernment to the islands, lis a grossly i'm
moral assault n American principles of
government and d cruel and brutal at
tempt to crush weak people who are
bravely contending for their natural
and God-given right of self-govern-
ment," and condemned the action of
President Mckinley lin conducting the
most cowardly and unjustitiable war
carried on in the history of the repub-
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ried on by President Lincoln for the
preservation of the union. The speak
ers and resolutions also affirmed the
principles contained in the Chicago
platform of 1896 and urged the ''Ie-
nomination and election of William
Jennings Bryan, so that free govern
ment shall not perish from the face of
the earth"
The democratic party thus, in gath
ering which must be regarded as in
every sense representative, has given
free rein once more to its inborn sym
pathy with treason and sedition, and
has proclaimed its adherence to the
cause of barbarian, simply because
that barbarian happens to be in revolt
against the United States government.
That party knows him to be a boodler
who, after melting his countrymen to
revolt in 1897, sold them out for $780,
900 in cash.
1t knows him to be a brigand who de-
.manded $7,OO0,0O0 from the Spanish
government as ransom for the Spanish
prisoners in its power.
1t knows him to be pirate who
seized. looted and burned a peaceable
merchantman.
1t knows him to be a murderer who
has killed Americans and loyal Fill
pinos, after decoying them into his
camp.
1t knows him to be a savage who has
encouraged his followers TO the mu-
tilation of the bodies of dead Ameri-
can soldiers.
1t knows him to be an incendiary who
sent enSsaries into Manila that they
might burn and loot the town and mas
sacrc all the Americans, Europeans and
friendly natives whom they found
there.
1t knows him to be an assassin who
dispatched confederatcs to the Ameri-
can camp with instructions to turn
upon those who had received them and
stab them in the back.
1T knows him to be all this, and yet
the democratic party, merely because
the people of the United States elected
that a republican should be intrusted
with the maintenance of this nations
authority at time when Aguinaldo
chose to defy that authority, sets up
this creature as the idol that. in the
campaign of 1900, is to share its adora-
ton, devotion and honors, equally with
William Jennings Bryan.
So let it be.-Chicago Inter Ocean.