The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-07-06

| publican Imperialism. The first Is a
! natural growth by the addition Of con-
tiguous American territory into every
| foot of which Is carried the
CONSTITUTION, THE FLAG
| and the Decalogue, and over the shoul-
ders Of every inhabitant of added ter
! ritory Is thrown the purple robe of
sovereign citizenship. 1t Is q growth
4 that has added eighteen stars to the
| field of blue in the Banner of the
Free" to symbolic the states that have
been carved from territory annexed to
| the domain of the nation, by the wis.,
| dom and craftsmanship OF the Demo-
| cratic party; this Is an expansion that
is bounded on the north by the ccnsti-
| tuition of the United States, on the
east by the Monroe doctrine, on the
south by the declaration of independ-
| ence and on the west by the ten COM
mandments.
How different this from the bandit
policy of Republican Imperialism, with
its standing army and the bayonet rule
of conquered provinces; its govern
| ment of sullen subjects against their
will by force and fraud; its denial to
them of the protection of either the
| constitution or the command which
| says Thou shalt not steal''-a policy
that would send Uncle Sam off his
American range with a cowboy hat,
| a rope and branding iron to rustic and
| brand-over all the loose islands of the
| Orient, while hypocritically chanting
the long-metered Doxology.
| Democratic skies are tinged with
roster hue today than when we met in
convention four years ago. Then
financial cataclysm had spread over
| the country, and although it's every in
| ducing cause was easily traced to the
errors and follies of the Republican
party, yet We were in power when 1t
came, and we were wrongly held re-
sponsible for the wreck of shattered
fortunes which followed in its wake.
| Torn asunder by dissensions within.
and disasters without, our party faced
| a gloomy and forboding future which
| seemed to augur it's dissolution. The
problem then was to select a standard
| bearer bold enough to cover the rear
of retreat and save the party from
destruction, If not from defeat.
| While discord with her flaming torch
confused the counsels there, from out
| of the sunset realm a champion came
and bid defiance to the oncoming host.
| With the strength of youth and the
wisdom of age, with knightly mien and
| matchless speech, he lowered above his
peers and all who saw him then, with
one accord did hail him "Chief," and
gave our party's banner to his hand
Slowly despair gave way to hope; con-
fidence took the place where timorous
feet had been; the broken, shattered
columns formed again, and behind him.
| ct, -;xr GwyA
thousand valiant men to that unequal
fight.
And the story of how well he fought,
how fearlessly he fell, and how dearly
the enemy's victory was bought, has
all gone out into history now.
Back from his first battle" he came,
a baffied but unconquered hero of the
Right of Man. Conscious of the rec
titude of his purpose and cheered by the
belief "That no issue Is ever settled un-
til it is settled right" he cheerfully ac-
quiesced in the result of that cam
paign, and girded his loins for the next
great contest between the dollar and
the man.
For four years he has waged an un-
ceasing warfare against the peoples &
enemies-for four years he has held up
|
cheered the hosts of Democracy in
every state and territory.
When the trusts began to increase
. under the protection of Republican
administration he was the first to point
: out the danger and prescribe remedy
When the alarms of war for humani.
ty reused the heroic spirit of our land
he offered his sword to his country.
| n
clared.
When later he saw the administration
:. departing from the ancient land marks
of our institutions, in its enchanted
dream of empire and militarism, h
D. was the first to raise warning voic
y and resigned his commission on tn
day the treaty Of peace was signed, h
threw himself into the contest for tn
>. rescue of the republic. t
Realizing that Imperialism, like tn
tabled Antaeus, was born Of earth, an
e that contended with upon the selfis
: worldly plane of greed and gain an
d gold, 1t was of giant strength, and
,r thrown down would rise again refresh
ed from contact with its mother elf
ls ment He, like the mighty Hercules
N raised 1t high above the sordid spher
he from which it's strength was draw
E. and on a plane Of lofty patriotism, h
strangled 1t.
D. With the issues now clearly draw
es no doubt remains as to the name I
to our candidate. On that question "
T. are a reunited Democracy.
MS Already worthy allies, differing fro
us rather in name than faith, hal
IT shouted for our gallant leader agai
ny and every state and territory has Il
lc' structed its delegates to this CONVEX
tion to vote for him here. SO 1t on
" remains for Nebraska to pronounce
name that has been thundered for
OF from the foot of Bunker Hill, and &c
zee oed back from sierras's sunset slor
ey and that reverberates among the pi
Id, clad. snow-capped hills Of the Mort
Of and rises up FROM the slumberin