The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-22
Roosevelt Declares Is the Law
of Human Progress
TOWARD UNIVERSAL PEACE
CopperheadS of '99 are as the
CopperheadS Of '6l.

mass meeting here tonight. Governor
Roosevelt arrived in the morning and
was entertained at a series of dinners by
Judge Taft, the Piccadilly club and 9TH
ers. In the evening he was escorted from
the ST. Nicholas hotel to Music hall by
bne of the largest professions ever seen
In this city, including a battalion of 100
Rough Riders all veterans Of the Spanish
war. In addition to the torches and blaz-
ing Examinations along the line of march,
there was a great display of fireworks.
The hall was filed before the parade
reached IT, Governor Bushnell and staff
were in the city for the annual police in
epection and drill, but were not at Music
hall County Chairman Kushman opened
the meeting and presented Senator For
aker as the presiding officer. Senator
Foraker made a stirring address of an
hour in support of Judge Nash for COVER
nor and the Endorsement of President
Mckinley.
when Governor Roosevelt took the floor
the cheering was os vehement and pro-
tracted. that it was some minutes before
he could begin speaking. In the very
first sentence of his speech he nominated
William McKinley as the next president
OF the United States amidst prolonged ap-
plause, and then proceeded as follows:
"a grimly comic feature Of the present
international conspiracy against America
and civilization is the way in which the
adhtrents of Aguinaldo in the Philippines,
and his apologists here, pat one another
on the back; and another striking fea-
ture is the wild invective, the savage
and incoherent violence of the language
employed by these apostles of peace
"Yet, after all, it is but natural. They
are repeating precisely the tactics of the
copperheads of the Civil war. Those of
YOU who are old enough will remember
that the copperheads who dtnouncej the
Union army, always denounced them in
the name of TIE new gospel of peace.
Their cry was Peace; even Peace at any
price and it was these apostles of
peace, who by their furious denunciation
Of Abraham Lincoln and of the northern
people and their frantic invectives against
tvery measure of the government, finally
stirred TO madness the dark and gloomy
souls that are always to be found on
the outskirts of such a movement. In
1863 the preachers of the doctrine of cow
ardly peace were esl~nsible for the ter
rible and bloody outbreaks in New York
City, with we know by the name OF
the Draft Riots. In 1855 these same era
ven preachers of peace were RESPONSE
BILE for the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
Nowadays, their SUCCESSORS, who use their
exact language in denOuncing our con-
duct in the Philippines, have stained their
own souls with the blood Of our sol
oilers and of their Philippine foes.
/ 1.-THE other day Ohio sent to New York
as a preacher of the new dispensation
Congressman Gentz, a fit and worthy
successor of Vallandigham. In his speech
IN New York, Mr.. Lentz divided his time
between eulogizingaA ltgeld, the man who
pardoned the anarchist bomb-throwtrs,
and eulogisfhg Aguinaldo, whose success
would mean, and could only mean, the
slaughter of American soldiers and the
dishonor of the American flag. He likened
Aguinaldo to Patrick Henry and called
him one of the heroes of the world, and
he denounced the war which we are car
rying on for the suppression of savagery
as more brutal and cowardly thant that
carried on by George III against us. He
took the position that Agsrfnaldo was a
hero for killing our soldiers but that If
we slew him it would be murder.
while Mr.. Lentz was thus preaching
treason, Aguinaldo was sending over a
message, which has only the other day
been published. He had evidently not
heard Of Mr.. LentZ, but he had heard of
some of the minor heroes of the anti
expansion Chat is, anti-American and
anti-patriotic) movemtnt and he praised
them In terms which. if the men were
capable of one thrill OF American feeling,
would make them shudder with horror at
having won and deserved such common
dation from an enemy of their country.
Finally. with a simple sincerity which
Aguinsldo's party allies here would do
we'll TO initiate. the proclamation Of the
Philippine chief continues in so many
words TO state that his hope of success
full resistance to the authority Of the
United States is based on the triumph
of he Democratic party. Continuing. he
says: Therefore we must show our graf
itude and maintain our position mort
Tesolutely than ever. We should pray n
God that the great Democratic party may
win the next presidential election. and
Imperialism chat is the American peo-
ple) fail in his mad attempt to subjugate
us by force OF arms
In other words, Aguinaldo IS fighting
for the Democratic party and the Demo-
cratic party for him; the arms Of mis- men
who shoot down our soldiers are nerve1
by the aid and encoura cement given them
by the anti-eXpansicA'sts of the United
States. and he continues the bloody war
On the Philippines because he hopes ul.i-
mately 10 win through their assistance
No more burning indictment Of the Dem
ocratic party under its present leadership
and Of the preachers of treason Who
have taken the lead in denouncing the
course of the United States. could be
framed by any American. Bear in mind
that this arraignment of the Democracy
Is unconsciously given hy their friend
Aguinaldo, the man who at the present
stands as the typical representative Of
savagery. the typical foe Of Civilization
and of the American peoplt and as The
peculiar protege of the men who in the
United States in 1899 are repeating the
arguments of those who in 1861 to lSs5
sought to bring US to ruin
Every argument advanced By our on
ponents can be paraileled in the speeches
Of their predecessors during the Civil
war. They use catch words now as they
used catch words then They attack Us
as imperialists- We are no more i'm
perialists than were the men who voted
for Lincoln and who bore arms under
Grant and sherman in 1854. Admiral
Dewey, when he went into Manila bay.
did rot serve the designs OF inrFrialists
He was merely carrying out the historic
policy of this nation; the policy which
was pursued by George Rogers Clarke.
when by conquest he added Indiana and