The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-17
Leads Carolina News Circulation


constitutional protection, no rep ~ta-
tion in the Congress which tai
This is the government of men 0po
trary power without their consel.- 0l
is Imperialism.
There is no room under the free flag
of America for subjects. The President
or Congress, who derive all their powers
from the Constitution, can govern no
man without regard to it's limitations.
We believe that the greatest safe
guard of liberty is a free press, and we
demand that the censorship in the Phil
ippines which keeps from the American
people the knowledge of what is done in
their name, be abolished.
We are entitled to know the truth and
we insist that the powers which the
President holds in trust for us shall be
not used to suppress it.
Because we thus believe we onnoea
the reelection CT Mr.. Mckinley. The
supreme purpose of the people in this
momentpus campaign should be to stamp
with their final disapproval his attempt
TO grasp imperial power. A self-govern-
ing people can have no more imperative
duty than to drive from public life a
chief magistrate, who, whether in weak
ness or wickedness of purpose, has used
his temporary authority to subvert the
character of their Government and to
destroy their national ideals
We, therefore, in the belief that it is
essential at this crisis fer the American
people again to declare their faith in
the universal application of the Declara-
tion of independence and to reassert
their will that their servants shall not
have or exercise any powers whatever
other than those conferred by the Consti-
tuition, earnestly make the following
recommendations to our countrymen:
First-That without regard to their
views on minor questions of domestic
policy, they withhold their votes from
Mr.. Mckinley in order to stamp with
their disapproval what he has done.
Second-That they vote for those candi-
dates for Congress, in their respective
districts, who will oppose the policy of
Imperialism.
Third-While we welcome any other
method of opposing the reelection of Mr..
Mckinley, we advise direct support of
Mr.. Bryan as the most effective means
of crushing Imperialism.
We are convinced of Mr. Bryan's
sincerity and of his earnest purpose to
secure to the Filipinos their independence.
His position and the declarations in the
platform of his party on the vital issue
of the campaign meet our unqualified
approval
We recommend that the executive COM
mittees Of the American Anti-Inperialist
League and its allied leagues continue
and extend their organizations, preserving
the independence of the movement, and
that they take the most active possible
part in the pending political campaign
Until now the policy which has turned
the Filipinos from warm friends to bitter
enemies, which has slaughtered thousands
of them and laid waste their country
has been the policy OF the President
After the next election it becomes the
policy of every man who votes to re-
elect him and who thus becomes, with
him, responsible for every drop of blood
thereafter shed.
The following resolution, proposed
by W. 5. Holden, of Chicago, was add
ed to the platform as reported:
Resolved. In declaring that the
principles of the Declaration of In
dependence apply to all men, this
Congress means to include the negro
race in America as well as the Fill
pinos. We deprecate all efforts,
whether in the South, or in the North,
to deprive the negro of his rights as
a citizen under the Declaration of In
dependence and the constitution of
the United States"
After the adoption of the resolu-
tiOns indOrsing Bryan the repre-
sentaties of the Third Party move
ment met in the assembly room of
the Commercial Club and selected
Thomas NJ. Osborne, of New York,
for permanent chairman, and Everett
V. Abbott, of New York, for perma-
nent secretary A motion was made
and carried that convention be held
in New York City, September 9Th for
the purpose of nominating a ticket.
1t is said the third party men today
offered the Presidential nomination
to Mr.. MoOrefield Storey, of Massa-
chusetts, but Mr.. Storey declined the
honor. William |. Palmer, of Colora-
do, was reported to be the choice for
Vice-President. The leaders of the
movement said tonight that they eX
pected large representation at their
convention in New York on September
9TH and that candidates for President
and Vice-President would then surely
be nominated.
Secretary Mize, of the Liberty Con-
gress, today received a letter from
William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston,
pledging the writer's support to
Bryan.