The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-30
plause.) The men before us are Mr..

to present the issues of these two parties
today.
I'VE Democrats arraign the present
administration, first, for imperialism. 1t
is THE REAL ISSUE,
we say. DO the Republicans answer
our statements, or meet us on this issue?
No. There is not Republican speaker
who will do anything but scoff. Even
Teddy (Applause. THAT Mexican
mustang stategman, who has been GO
ing over this country in champaign
special-that man who thinks he must
act like a gentleman in the east but in
the west must get on n broncho and
cavort Uong applause.) I want TO
say he Is one Of the most dangerous mon
whom you could suggest to occupy tho
char as vice president"
Here hirses We're heard from one
corner Of the galleries. Mrs. Cougars
alert eye Travelled quickly to the gal
lery and caught the two or three young
miscreants who had been guilty of the
disturbance. Then, as the house b.
came very still. she said slowly:
There are 5'5st two things that hiss
a snake, FOR its venom, and a goose, for
It's lack OF brains" Applause greeted
this sally, and the speaker continued:
Use your reason-don't show your
prejudice. Teddy tells us imperialism 10
phantom. SO they scoff. But 1 want
to tell you that the endorsement CT
William Mckinley means the death of
popular government This is no phan.
t,,. 4. Z
before an intelligent audience and cX-
pain away these facts, that we are
presenting TO ynl this campaign"
The speaker described the organi7a-
tion Of the auti-Imperlalist league. The
pe:sonne, of this great organ'z zatlon-the
famous rames on it's roll-should. Mrs
Cougar sad, cause people to think. She
was born and reared as a Lincoln Re-
publican. That Is why she stands on
the Platform this campaign Bryan
Democrat Mr.. Lincoln had declared
tfat kings had been judges of the neces.
sity of war, but that the constitution
of the United States had been SO ar
ranged that no one man could have the
power to emLrCil the nation i'm war. Mrs
Cougar took up the history of the con
quest of the Philippines. "If the Fill
pinos," said Mrs. Cougar, "can look
only to Mr. Bryan for sympathy, all
hail Bryan, .Aguinaldo, and the Demo
cratic party. lApp'auseD When did
the struggling republics of The wo-,d
cease looking to the Republican parry
Tor support ana sympathy" The
speaker Continued with q strong argu-
ment, dlsproving the talk that Aguinal-
do and his advisors were mere barbara
ans. With in ense Carrestness she de-
tai'ed the events, now history leading
up to the actual beginning of war or
the F'ilipinos.
'Is there anything" she continued
"on the pages of history showing that
Hanrabal, or
CAESAR, OR KING GEORGE
did any act so wanton as this, commit
ted so great n crime against an inno-
cent people as this? If the congress
which convened last year had been more
patriotic and less partisan, President
Mckinley woU.d have been impeachei
and removed. CApp auae) And. If ]
am any judge of the spirit of the times, |
he will be irlpcached b. he peop.e on
the 9Th of November (Applausr.y
Aguiraldo will lie written on the page
of history with as much credit to the |
history of his country as Washington |
has credit in the his ory of our cw,l ma.
tion. |
Must commerce be bought at the nx- |
perse of human liberty? Let us ceas, |
acting the bully on these struggling |
people. If trade follows the flag. and !e. |
us go out and fight and lick some peo-
pie whose trade is worth something |
The American flag is only great when |
1t represents humanity, liberty and |
popular government. The Republican |
party have pulled down The principles |
and left the rag. When that flag repre- |
sents murder and rapine and injustice |
and empire, l say, in Gods name, pull |
It down. Npp'ause), 1t is as hon
orab!e for ration to retrace its steps
when it IS wrong, as an Individual. The |
Republican party is not to blame-we
cannot blame. the Republican. party un-
less it puts VIII am Mckinley back into |
the chair. The people who are to blame |
are Mckinley and the unconsclonable |
scoun arels who control him. Why yes
we've pulled down the flag before. We
pulled 1t down the other day in China |
be it said TO our credit.
But did you ever think of the bias
phemy of the men who claim a dis |
pensation from the Almighty to claim |
these islands? If Mark Hanna and his |
associates have such a dispensat,oa |
why did the Almighty send them c. |
o. d. for $20.000,000? CApplause.) Agui- |
na!do telegraphs. William Mckinley |
asking him, what kind of a government |
will the F!lipinos have If they surren-
der? And Mr.. Mckinley tells Aguinal, |
do in the words of King George, SUI
render Internationally, then we will |
give you the form of government that |
we think best. |
MURDER IN THE PHILIPPINES.
1--WE are guilty of the lowest venge- |
ance in Philippines. Our soldiers are
non -combatants there. They |
are brutally numbering prisoners. AS
an American woman l stand here to say
that II our boys are driven and trained |
to such brutal warfare, 1t were better |
for Ollr homes that thay navar cnp,a |