The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-09-01

There has been prepared by Democratic
writer's collection of adverse opinions e&-
pressed by former Republicans OH the pol
lev OF the present Administrations No ef-
fort has been put forth to make the list d
complete one, the only attempt bsing to
show the general note of diseord, which is
sounding in the Republican party.
William Lloyd Garrison, at The annual
meeting OF the Progressive Friends, Long
wood. Pa, Juno 10, 1899. used these words:
More than all else We have weakened
faith in ideals; accustomed ourselves TO
brutality: refrigerated to slave-holding
Views as regards the treatment of sO-called
inferior races; discarded the saving and
immortal essence of Lincoln's Gettysburg
address. and LowelI's supreme gospel of
Democracy Brotherly love, self-respect,
honesty, character, deeency-all these. we
are asked to barter for the Philippines
with their inevitable train of new wars
hatreds, seIf-contempt, murder, and dis
ease"
MIR. Garrison also said, Whittier's ring
ing question is again in order:
Is the dollar only real? God and truth and IighT
Weighed against your lying ledgeGs, must our
manhood kick the beam?
Sidney Edgertcn. one Of the founders Of
the Republican party, in a letter 10 Senator
Hanna, dated June 5, 1900 said:
The Philadelphia Convention OF TINS
year will be made up Of men in whose
view the principles of Washington and
jefferson are ayowedly Anticipated and out
Of date-useful only in the orations Of the
Fourth Sc JuIy CT the w2rmed-over parch
platituGes Of political campaign, and it
will in terms countenance policy which
denies to 100Ge,G Geo persons within our eA-
elusive jurisdiction the inaIienabie rights
which in its earlier days the Republican
party thus guaranteed, a policy which
ayows its purpose OF governing subject
peoples without their consent, outside Oh
constitutional principles and safeguards,
at the caprice of irresponsible Gppol1tCes
or q yeral majority IN Congress, ana N
fragrant and GerIsIye violation Of The 1cri1-
cipIeS Of Washington and Jefferson and
those promulgated in the Declaration Of
Independence and embodied in the Federal
Constitution,
Your Convention viii vociferousIy up
hold and applaud the doilgs OF an Admin
istration which. doubling n IFS own track,
within . space CT sixty 1Eys has broken
faith with an Innocent AID cOntding peo-
PIE who by the hazards OF war passed IN
der its Jurisdiction an act rightly char
acterized by itself Is the breach Of G plain
duty at the command Of the constituencies
and merCenary appetite for pIunder pos
sesScd by those by whom that Administra-
ton was created. ard which thus is cor
strained to remember its creator
Mr. Justice Brewer. of the Supreme
Court OF the United States, in spae2h
before the Liberal Club of Buffalo, y y.
said:
''To every man ard nation comes the moment t
IL the st.ise eli truth with falscoad for the goo,
or evil side;
Truth forever On the seafold, wrong forever ol
The throne.
Yet that zcaIfod sways the future ard. behiT,
the dim unknown
S:sudeth God with tie SHADOW, keeping WatCl
above Iis own
With these problems resting upon an5
buTdeniIg the nation i it wise to throw
upon il the awful problem Of dealing lit
millions far more incapable CT and unused
to self government? Can We expect K
ind safety in adding 10 our difficulties.
Can We relieve against one problem O
dealing with ignorant and unit masses
here BY adding millions more II the prob
lem? This IS no tTifiing question, and i.
not answered by any gush about duty anl
destiny in fact all this talk about des
tiny Is weari5one. We make our own des
tiny. We ale no. the victims but the ma
ters. OF fate. and to attempt 10 UNLOAD
upon the Almi ghty, respoas Utility for tina
which we choose TO DO. is not only an IL
suit to Him, bur 10 ordinary human intel
ligence."
John Sherman in an address at a sol
diers' reunion 81 Mansfield in August. 1899
said of the Philippine war: 1T Is Il UR
necessary war, an uEcalItd for war, an
an unjust war
Patrick O'Farren, of Washington, in
speech at Cooper Union y. Y, said: = re
member when I first saw the sacred soil 0
Virginia, during the great civil War-yes
the great war fo- liberty read a sign OF
a large brick building in Alexandria, Price
Birch & Co, dealer in slaves,
''T remained South long enough to shoe
that slavery business to death On, an
awfully proud that I was an Abolitionis
and a Republican in those days! Thos
were the days of Lincoln and liberty. Now
when I walk up Pennsylvania Avenue,
look up at the White House, and am car
ried back to the days Of Price, Birch
Co. dealer in Slaves and I read on tina
White House in imaginary lines, Hanna
Mckinley & Co., wholesale dealers in FIJI
ipino slaves -
Ex-SpeakeT Reed who has declined t
make campaign speeches in support of IN
Administration is reported to have said
Empire can watt
Ex-President Harrison whose apathy
has disturbed the Republican managers
said in reference 10 the Porto Rican tariff
1T is a departure from correct princi
pies"
Gen. John Beatty, of Ohio, has said
''The Republican ticket nominated a
Philadelphia, is made up of a civil frau
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