The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-02
HAD ENOUGH OF lis METHODS
WHY GEN. BE ATTY LErr THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY.
Spain Possessed of No Rights In the
Philippines for which She Could
Expect Twenty billions.

Columbus Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
The statement of General John Beatty,
the prominent republican banker and
civil war veteran explaining why he can
not SUPPORT Mckinley, has attracted
lie attention.
he refuses to admit that he is q dem
ocrat. although in this campaign ne has
Endorsed the position taken b. the dem
ocratlo leaders on most of the great
questions.
On the contrary. he believes that he,
and men who believe as he does, ara the
true republicans today and that the
leaders Of that party have led it astray
after false gods.
When the party returns to the priu
ciples it once advocated. l will again
10 stultify the convictions OF lifetime
at the behest OF any man or set OF
men
An Old Veteran.
General Beatty is one of the best
known republicans in the State. To.
years he was warm personal friend Of
President Mckinley. He has war rec
ord eaualled by few He Is the president
OF a fourishing bank IN this city. He is
an author and pterateur of renown.
ent thinker
In the reason for his course furnished
the National committee. General Beatty
dec.Gres that he will not DO bound by
the feeble thread Of a party name at a
time when such momentous Issues are at
stake.
Tho republican party of today Is a
sham" he says. "On.y in name does
It resemble the strong party which came
he
Of peril"
He traces the ancestry and the MS
tory of the republican party 10 the pres
ent day. and shows that 1t began with
the free sellers, whose motto was free
soil. free speech free men He dis
kects the amalgamstion OF parties which
led to the birth of the republican party
IN 1850 and resulted in the nomination
later of Abraham Lincoln.
The party, he declares, stood for
equal rights TO all. special privileges 10
none, 1t held all men free and equal,
no matter what their psrentage or bir h.
place. The republican party of the
present day denies 10 the men OF the
Philippines the rights It gives TO every
citizen. He continues
The leaders OF that party say that
the con titution does not follow the flag.
say It does, and he supreme court of
Claims of Lenders.
THE leaders VI the republican party
claim sovereignty over the Philippines be-
cause OF y treaty signed in Paris. / say
that Spain had no rights she coGsd sian
away and that II she ever had any sac
had lost them. She was In possession OF
u hiag. ! 1eny the right OF ans nation
TO barter in the liberties OF d people in
this manner. / am supported by the lead
i1g authorities OIL internatl- nal law. Be-
sides, II any nation has such right, every
man Of us Is In danger.
The leaders OF the republican party de-
clare hist the party Is made up OF the
ruling classes Of the country They say
that Bryans followers are The poor, the
outcast' the laborer, the publican and the
sinner. Grant that So we're the follow
ers Of Him Of Gethsemane And He is
today the light OF the world.
They plead tariff to protect our In
dustrles say that the tariff hlights the
country and robs the poor man 70 make
me rich man richer. The Mckinley pro-
tective tarif has produced a trust-rldden
country and we will not be free OF trusts
until II Is done away with.
1.-The leaders of the republican marty de-
clare that only in them is the salvation OF
the country say they are largely dema-
gogueS ep7ilsmen. cheap politicians with
out noble thought or a pure aspiration
Iney are the blind which seek to lead the
other blind
Brynn's Move.
rney declare the silver issue the dom-
inant one, That is nonsense. The silver
n~us 10 dead and buried. and svsn II It