The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-16
ANTI-IMP ERIALISTS.
Resolutions Declare Emphatic
ally For Bryan.

ond DAYS session of the National Anti
Imperialist league was called to order
by Ex-Governor Boutwell,, after a brief
prayer by Rev. S. w. Sample, pastor of
the PEOPLES church of Minneapolis, and
pending the report on resolutions, DR.
w. l. Habercom, of Washington, adj
dressed the convention
DR.. Habercom was received with much
applause. He charged that the presi-
dent had done that which he had him
self sOlemnly declared to be a great
crime and now attempts to shift the re-
sponsibility upon divine providence
He said he appealed more especially to
those who like himself. had come from a
country over which monarch reignS.
Is it not an act of imperialism, he con-
tinued, that the president has entered
upon this new adventure in China with
out assembling congress in extra ses-
sion?
THE people who like myself, have
come from Germany, know to their sOr-
row that militarism means. These are
the last men who VIII vote to convert
their country into an empire.
1.-The president has said who will haul
down the flag? No, have always be-
lieved that the flag should be hauled
emblem of liberty in Manila and Porto
Rico? There it floats over subject peo-
pie, not free people.
Il have always been a Republican. but
now feel it my duty to fight the Re-
publican party with all the ability I
possess, because it has now become the
party of Imperialism"
DR.. Habercom concluded with a de-
claration for Bryan.
Colonel Charles r. Goldman of Massa-
chusettS, read the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions, which took the
form of address to the American
people.
Colonel Goldman said that twenty-five
members of the committee were unani-
nous in submitting a report to the
convention.
racO111fiOpS ~ &La v1a0pIo 10
withhold their support from Mckinley
and to give direct support to Mr.. Bryan,
as the most effective means of check
ing imperialism. At the mention of
Bryan's name the delegates arose in a
body and gave three cheers for the
Democratic candidate.
Morrfield Story of Massachusetts,
said he cordially Joined in the state
ment of principles contained in the
resolutions, but stated that he reserved
the right to support third candidate,
if one were nominated who suited bet
ter than Mr.. Bryan.
Thomas NJ. Osborn of New York,
leader of the "Nationalists or third
ticket party was recognized to speak
on the resolutions.
Mr.. Osborn said there were many
who could support neither Mckinley
nor Bryan, not believing it right to
remedy, one wrong by substituting an
other I'VE cannot trust the Demo-
cratic party as it stands today.( Cries
of ''Bosh'-''How much did Mark Han
ma pay you to come HEREBY
The report of the committee on reso-
lutiOns says:
I'VE believe in the declaration of in
dependence. It's truths not less self-evi-
dent to-day than when first announced by
our fathers, are of universal application
and cannot be abandoned while govern
ment by the people endures.
We believe in the constitution of the
United States 1t gives the president and
congress certain limited powers and Sc
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ton of our government certain essential
rights We deny that either the presi-
dent or congress can govern any person
anywhere outside the constitution.
I'VE are absolutely opposed to the pol
icy Of President Mckinley which pro-
poses to govern millions of men without
their consent, which in Porto Rico estab-
fishes taxation without representation
and government by the arbitrary will of
a Legislature unfettered by constitutional
restraint and in the Philippines prose-
cutes war of conquest and demands
unconditional surrender from a people
who are of right free and Independent.
There is no room under the free flag
of America for subjects. The president
and congress, who derice all their powers
from the constitution. can govern no man
without regard to its limitations.
of liberty is a free press, and we demand
that the censorship in the Philippines
which keeps from the American people
the knowledge of what is done in their
name be abolished.
W e are entitled TO Know the truth. ana
We insist that the powers which the presi-
dent holds in trust for US shall not be
used to suppress it.
the reelection of Mr.. Mckinley. The
preme purpose of the people in this mo-
mentous campaign should be to stamp
with their final disapproval his attempt
to grasp Imperialism. A self-governing
people can have no more imperative duty
than to drive from public life a chief
magistrate who, whether in weakness or
of wicked purpose. has used his temporary
SIlbV6rt Chara
their government and to destroy their
uonal ideals. We therefore. in the be-
lief that it is essential at this crisis for
American people to again declare their
faith in the universal application of the
Declaration of independence and to re-
assert 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 rec
concentrations to our countrymen:
Il That, without regard to their views
on minor questions of domestic policy,
they withhold their votes from Mr.. Me
Kinley in order to stamp with their dis
APPROVAL what he has done.
%. That they vote for those candidates
for congress in their respective districts
who will oppose the policy of imperial
80 While we welcome any other method
of opposing the reelection of Mr.. Nc
kinley, we advise direct support of Mr..
Bryan the most effective means of
chuShing Imperialism.
I'VE are convinced of Mr.. Bryans sin
certify and of his earnest purpose to Sc
cure to the Fflipinos their independence
His position and the declarations con-
tanned in the platform of his party on the
vital issues of the campaign, meet our
unqualified approval.
I'VE recommend that the executive COM
mittees of the American Anti-Imperialist
league and it's allied leagues continue and
they take the most active possible part
CHINESE FLOODS.