The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-08-31
Chinese Still in Evidence.
STEWART ON SILVER.
Reasons For Refusing to Further
Support Bryan.

Reasons For Refusing to Further
Support Bryan.
Senator William NJ. Stewart of Nevada
has always been one of the strongest of
silver men, and established in Washing
ton City the Silver Waterman, to fight
for the silver cause. A few days ago
Senator Stewart called at republican
headquarters and said he had decided to
vote for and support Mckinley and the
republican ticket. He made this state
ment as to his reasons:
The Senator's Reasons.
"The United States went to war with
Spain, urged on by the democratic party.
The popularity Of the war was such that
MIR. Bryan joined the army. The war
was successful, a treaty OF peace was en-
tered into by which the United States
agreed to pay $20,000,000 and accent
the sovereignty and public property of
Spain in Philippine archipelago There
was opposition to the ratification of the
treaty. Mr.. Bryan came to Washing
ton and persuaded his democratic friends
to vote for the treaty and it was through
his influence that the treaty was finally
ratified. 1t then became the duty of
the United States to maintain law and
order and protect the lives and property
of all residents in the islands. whether
native or foreign horn. The United
States a c the time of The ratification of
the treaty held military possession of
Manila and Immediately after such rati
fication assumed the sovereignty OF the
islands. The people of the United
States, particularly of the Pacific coast.
became entitled to the vast commerce of
the Pacific ocean, of which the Philip
pines furnish the key.
Zone Aguinaldo had raised rebellion
in Luzon against Spain before the COM
mencement of the Spanish war with the
United States. This adyenturer had
sold out or settled his rebellion with
Spain for 100000 before Dewey set sail
for Manila, and as a part OF the bar
gain with Spain Aguinaldo agreed to
leave the islands and never return.
Dewey took the willy Agunaldo back to
the islands, suppOsing as matter OF
course, that AguinaldO would naturally
be an enemy OF Spain and friend of the
United States. In this Admiral Dewey
was mistaken. Agunaldo, as soon as
he landed on his native soil, organized a
rebellion against the United States which
would have been of little consequence il
he had not been able to obtain comfort
and aid in this country. An Organiza-
tiOn was formed in the United States
called the AntiImperialistic League,
which has for the last two years cooper
ated with Aguinaldo's Tagal Junta, with
headquarters at Hong Kong, to supply
literature and materials of war for Agui-
naldO. President Mckinley had no
authority to buy out Aguinaldo's rebel
lion against the United States but was
bound by the treaty (which was the
supreme law of the land) to maintain
law and order and protect life and
property in the islands. 1t required a
large army and the expenditure of hun
dreds of millions OF dollars to put down
Aguinaldo's rebellion.
Anti-ImperiaIists Stepped In.
"The assistance and the encouragement
he received from the Anti-Imperialistic
League and the enemies of the United
States, both at home and abroad, made
his barbarOus and irregular war bloody
and expensive. Congress, however, made
all necessary appropriations, providing
the executive with men and money to
maintain the authority of the United
States in the Philippines. The so-called
anti-imperialists declared the policy to
put down the rebellion and maintain law
and order in all territories Of the United
States, without regard to the time when
such territories we're acquired, was Sim
perialism, and that any use of the army
to maintain law and order, however
necessary, was 'militarism' and that Civ
ing aid and comfort to rebels in arms
against the United States was main
tanning the principles of the Declaration
of Independence
FMr. Bryan's unparalleled campaign
for the principles of the Chicago plat
form and his insistence upon the adOp-
tion OF that platform at Kansas City
induced the people to suppose that the
campaign of 1900 would be conducted
on the issues of 1896 In this it seems
they were mistaken"
Senator Stewart then quotes Mr.. Bry-
ans declaration of his intention, il
elected, to call an extraordinary session
of congress to give the Filipinos free
dom on the same terms as Cuba. He
also denounces the recent convention of
antiimperialists at Indianapolis. He
also denOunces Mr.. Bryan for promising
to ''extend the Monroe doctrine to the
Orient"