Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-09
1T DON'T COUNT.
SOME OF BRYAN'S FALLACIES SHOWN
UP TO VOTERS.

Es secured tie Ratification II the Treaty
the United S ates Out of twenty Mliiiops
For Aguinaidn's Benefit7
1t does not count with Bryan wheth.
Ir the peace treaty passed d good or a
bad title for the Philippines. The
matter of filching twenty millions of
dollars from his fellow countrymen to
reward monarchical Spain for bad
title to the Philippines does not count.
The working for treaty by him which
perpetrated such a fraud on his couu-
try in order that he might be elected
president, and thereby convene con
gress in extraordinary session for the
single purpose of pepetrating another
fraud by passing this bad title for the
richest archipelago in the world over
to this boodler, bribe taker, Aguinal-
do, does not count. The fact OF put
ting himself in the position of work
ing for what must have been to him
an insincere treaty. treaty if it did
no. pass a good title, as claimed by the
colonel, was then treaty of fraud and
false prete nse, and to knowingly work
for such a treaty would be perpetrat-
ing fraud under false pretense. This
did not count. VIII the Democracy
claim that a good title did not pass?
Take the other horn of the dilemma,
and let Mr. Bryan claim that the title
was good-a claim he can very easily
make, as he is facile in Hopping to
which ever side produces vote. 1t
does not count, whether consistent or
not. If good title did pass (Which is
certainly tr7le), then the surrendering
OF twenty million dollars to Spain for
what would be no value to this coun-
try, If Immediately turned over to
Aguinaldo, does not count with Bryan.
When the peace treaty was up for
hearing, would it not have been the
part of patriotism for Bryan to have
said: "It is the intention to surrender
these islands to Aguinaldo; therefore
Spain should surrender her twenty
millions of dollars?" Would pro-
vision to pay anything for Cuba to
Spain been considered for moment?
If it was right to pay Spain for the
Philippines in order to turn them over
to Aguinaldo, then it would have been
right to pay Spain for Cuba, IN order
to carry out our promises to the Gu
bans. But these considerations do not
count with Bryan.
Will the colonel risk his legal repu
tation. on the opinion that congress has
territory of the nation to which it has
a good title? If it has the power, then
what is to hinder 1t parting with the
District of Columbia, or any other ter
ritory? If good title passed for the
Philippines, then congress has no more
right to surrender them than it has to
surrender the District of Columbia.
When Colonel Bryan says he will
convene congress in extraordinary
session, in order to turn this greatest
and richest archipelago in the world,
for which he has helped Spain to eX-
tort twenty millions of dollars from
his fellow countrymen, over to that
bandit. bribe-taker and boodler, Agui-
naldo, he does not mean it. Let us
give him credit for having too much
legal ability. Therefore to prevari-
cate in oroer to gain votes does not
count.
Is a man who cares so little for his
countrys flag and his country's finan-
ces that he will attempt to do the un-
precedented, unpopular, unpatriotic
and unconstitutional act Of pulling
down the American flag on American
soil, surrendering American territory
to Malay bandits, and squandering
twenty millions of dollars of his coun-
try's money on the most tyrannical
monarchy of Europe-is such man to
be trusted as the chief executive of the
nation2