The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-11-05
MORE HOT ROAST
FOR tom TONGUE
His Traitors and COwards''
Speech DisSected.
exposure Of our congressmnn's Deriaraiion that
Sovereignty Is rot Ia the People Accord.
sr ingfo Rfpubilran IDEAS.


The campaign vas closed at SubIimity
by rousing meeting Of the Bryan club
Of that Democratic stronghold. The
building was packed full Of farmers and
quite number Of ladies we're present
T.. Hofer Of THE JouRNAL dissected
imperialism and roasted Congressman
Tongues declarations at Salem.
He spoke we'll Of President Mckinley
and said Il he had done any wrong II was
not his intention but because he could
not withstand evil influences, within his
party. Il would be a godsend to the
Republicans TO defeat the party now
and thus rid II forever of its Hannas
Ayers and Tongues.
Tongues Arguments Refuied.
Congressman Tongue declared at Sa-
lem that it was not the consent Of the
governed that Republicans believed
in, but the con ,ent Of the governing.
The people must make formal applica-
tion to the Mckinley managers for any
small doses OF political liberty they
might require, as under Republican rule
the governing class were not the servants
OF the people but their masters. To re-
elect Mckinley meant 70 establish this
doctrine and found political counter
part Of the present British tory party
that was engaged in strangling liberal
institution in all parts Of the world.
This might suit the Pro- British tastes
Of Mr.. Tongue but was not Republican,
ism.
Mr.. Hofer showed that the republican
administration no longer sympathized
with struggling republics, that the gov.
erhment set up in Porto Rico was
modelled after the British Crown colony
system Of legislature by the people
and a senate appointed by the president,
making the executive the government,
instead OF the people Of territory. The
old doctrine of free territories, under
the national constitution, was repudiated
by modern republicanism. The En-.
pire Of Russia had more regard for the
consent OF the governed than the Nc
Kinley administration. When had they
consulted the people or asked their con-
sent for tariff on Porto Rico, for the
introduction Of continental methods OF
regulating vice, for the squandering Of
the choicest timber lands of Oregon
No one pretended but what these out
RACES in the name OF government were
OF republican origin.
Tongues second proposition was that
sovereign ty was not ir the people but in
. government, that the government was q
, creation Of the people but no longer sub
ject 10 their control or responsible to
them. II was kind Of beneicient Frank.
enstein, that might bless or curse, and
the people had no recourse. This made
Democratic form Of government simply
T, despotism. II that was whatthey wert
! seeking 10 establish was II not time that
I, all Republicans, who still held 10 the
doctine that governments derive theiI
!, lust powers from the consent Of the
governed, aud that government OF the
people, by the people and for the people
shall not perish from the earth, " repudi
ated this new tangled Republicanisn
!. promulgated by Canadian Torl
: politician?
= A Christian might az we'll renonnc'
the principle that God is All.in-All, ant
= that in Him We live, move and hav'
and have our being, rs for moderI
imporialist 10 announce that govern
- ment is everything and the people ar
Il nothing.
- But worst Of all, yet in perfect keep
10 10 ing with the foregoing sentiments Of on
=. 49, own Republican representative, was hi
" anal summing up Of his speech at tn
IA arm6ry, that all who voted for anyon
~ but Mckinley and Roosevelt, wer
traitors and towards. Mr.. lIoier admit
~ ~ ted Mr.. Tongues ability aS a congress
- man. He had urged the Bryan voters I
a, turn and give him q courteous hearing
~ But not for 40 federal buildings di
!, - any congressmans ability warran
@ '@s him in putting the stigma OF treaso
upon his fellow citizens because tine
=. dared TO differ with his party on quei