The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-13
ASHAMED OF ANCESTRY
Charge Made by Gov. Roosevelt
Against the Democracy.


| ial train bearing the Roosevelt party
stopped for brief time this forenoon
/ at Castlewood, where Governor Roose-
welt addressed a large crowd from the
rear platform. At WATERFOWL, the next
stop, a considerable demonstration had
| been arranged. This small town is stu
ated in Coddington county. which enjoys
the reputation of having sent more men
to the Spanish war relatively to the pop
ulation, than any other county in the
United States. In the court house square
the first shaft that had been raised in
this country to the memory of those who
died in Cuba and the Philippines has
been erected. The meeting was in the
open air. and Governor Roosevelt was
followed by Governor Shaw of Iowa.
| Senator Nelson and Col. Slower. After
a stop of an hour, the train proceeded on
its way.
Governor Roosevelt said in part:
II would like to discuss not only the
serious questions of free silver, of the
trusts, of the tariff, CT the orderly pre-
servation of law and the upholding OF
the flag but I would like to discuss even
the opera bouffe questions of miltiarlsm
and Imperialism presented by our oppO-
nentS. South Dakota used to be straight
Republican. A number of men, good
men, finally dTifted off from u.s. lured by
false promises and deceived by false
hopes Feeling they must hold somebody
and something responsible, the Repub-
Hcan party stood before them and they
held it responsible.
with an effrontery which 1t is diff
cult to determine, certain of our Demo-
cratic friends have the audacity to say
they represent the principles of the foun-
ders of the Republican party of long ago.
If they had any feeling drop of the
blood that ran in the veins Of the great
original statesman who conducted the
country through the four years of civil
war and then gave up his life that his
country might live, they would turn with
indignation from the scene where the
candidate of Democracy speaks to those
nominating him, about the consent of
the governed as regards the Philippines,
knowing that one of the chief chances
of his election and the absolute triumph
of his party consists in multiplying the
doctrine in some of the southern states
which Lincoln gave his life to free.
Il want to sympa+hize with them as
party in being ashamed of their ances-
try. I congratulate ourselves upon the
fact that when we asked for the sup
port of the people we did not have to
say that though we are Republicans now ON,
1t must be understood we are not at all
what Republicans were, but are like
what Democrats were. We do not say
that we are Republicans, that we are the
heirs of the men who fought to a VIC
toriouS finish the great civil war. We
say we are the Republicans and heirs of
the men who established a home seek
erS' law in the west; we are the repre-
sentatives and the heirs of the men who
passed the tariff legislation and of the
men who stood and do now stand fol-
sound money.
1--WE form a party of coherent prin-
ciples, and now if the leaders of our
party Of 1860 were alive they would find
US quoting their words and acting up
to their principles and rising up to bid
them welcome in our councils Our OPP
ponents say they are like the old-time
Democrats; they say they belong to the
Democratic party, but they have none
r.1l ir.Ine 1nff hot 10 a fine
confession of faith for a party to make.
Mr.. Bryan having fought on definite
issue four years ago and failed, he still
keeps that issue in the foreground, and
says that it is Immediate. He says with
reference to another issue that it is
paramount I shall not try to enter into
any nice distinction between what Is
immediate and what us paramount.
Fortunately on our side we stand by all
of our issues
Let me just point out few things
that do not resemble the Cleveland adj
miniStration in its financial pollcy or
its economic administration When
they take up this new issue of impe-
rialism they are simply working them
selves under the mantle of Mr.. C1eve-
lands secretary of state, Mr.. Olney, as
he stood when he went out of office.
THE attitude in which the administra-
ton stood at the end of Mr.. Cleveland's
term and the attitude assumed by his
secretary of state towards Spain and
become one of abject humility, so almost
servile that Fitzhugh Lee was only able
to keep place and keep in direct line of
the instructions of his chiefs while in
sisting that American citizens should
not stop the butchery of Cubans by
law. And insisting that though he could
not stop. the butuchery Of Cubans by
Spaniards, there should be no butchery
of American citizens by Spaniards.
In Hawaii they hauled down the
American flag. They have used the word
Paramount in connection with that
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American flag and announced in con-
gress that the policy of the administra-
ton was that the United States could
not embark policy of Imperialism and
development, they said it could not be
done. They said we have no right to do
it. The Democrats were united on the
doctrine that we must not take possession
of Hawaii just as they We're united in
1864 when they said the civil war was a
failure