Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-22

70 me that thes time has come when NJ
must ne either democrats or republicans
die ground. ~
Even while at Kansas City. and while
Mr.. Fowne was still chairman or the ma
tional silver republican committee. he
declared that he vas u democrat. and
uia the silver republican organization
was keut alive at the request Of demo-
cratic leaders for the sole purpose of
aiding democracy.
II this be true, then to maintain longer
the silver republican party is d pretense
unworthy the men who sacrificed much
IN leaving the old party and in trying
10 build up and maintain the new.
But there is another observation-disclosures
issue. II you please-one that I think
should have been considered and set
ued by the American people as Ameri-
cans n not as Dartisans, though sup
posed party expectancy and partisanship
mas made 1t an issue in his campaign.
ana this issue is near to the chart OF all
old-time republicans.
The flag is being fired upon and our
soldiers and sailor are being killed.
The war with Spain was no party's war;
II a a war of the American people, a
INST war, Waged in a just cause. l a
hoped we might consider all of the ques-
ions OF he war inc all Of the questions
out of it, not as partisans, but
as Americans all: as lovers or our coun-
try and it's institutions. Dewey's guns
placed upon the country new inc grave
duties and responsibilities. The Philip
pine islands are ours: ours by conquest;
ours by generous and ~magnanimous pur-
chase and ours by treaty Their inhab-
itants are in rebellion agalns u gov
ernmert: they kill our soldiers and cru
ely treat our wounded. The insur-
rection there denies the authority Of the
United States. We are as much inter-
ested in it as if one of the states of the
fed QpD l yyninn x1ro . 1nv,x - ~ H., a,,tl1
fty of the government. Let American
authority be recognized; let the flag be
respected there and no one doubts that
the Philippines will then be justly and
humanely treated.
l am an exDansionist: l believe in the
greater greatness of my country. I have
no patience with the men or party h
accept the word of an adventurous ASH
actic renegade in preference to that of
Admiral Dewey, and who continually
encourages this ignorant rebellion by
putting bad motives behind every good
act of the government at Washington.
Our country 8 flag means something
to me. In my childhood my father fought
for it that it might always remain the
emblem OF a united and liberty loving
country and that it's blessings might be
5eGueathed to his children. 1t is my
Inheritance.
h silver republicans of Colorado
have always declared that they were ex-
p~ansionists and they believed with Sem
ator Teller when he said in the senat
lean soldier dies and is buried, and the
American flag is put up, I say there it
will stay and we will grapple with the
great problem whether we are capable
of managing colonies or not, n try it;
if we fail, it will be the first time that
the Anglo-Saxon race has failed when
great questions have been presented to
them to solve them properly and right
eously and in the interests of their w
people n of the world"
I AVE considered all those questions
with anxious concern. My views upon
them have for some time been known
to Senator Teller and other leaders Of
the silver republican party. For 20
years I have supported Senator Teller,
whose life, in my Judgment, is a sublime
example of unselish devotion to duty
in every campaign in which he has been
interested in Colorado. l wish 1t were
now possible for me to be guided by his
Judgment, but seeing my duty as l see
it, and entertaining the opinions l en-
tertain,I should be disloyal to myself
and disloyal to your organization II l.
longer remained as chairman of it's COM
mittee.
do not affect to BIZ indifferent to our
good opinions and wish that you may all
know that I pursue the course here in
Dictated after anxious and serious eon-
sideration. I hope that you will all be-
lieve that there are no alliances nor en-
taglements behind my action, and that
I am now prompted by as high a sense
of duty as 1 was when I gave you much
of my time and means in the hope OF
sustaining the principle for which we
are all contending. Dislike of or preju-
dice against individuals is too narrow a
reason to keep US from doing what we
deem to be right.
Concluding, I beg to especially thank
each of you, the secretary of the COM
mittee and the members of the county
organizations for your friendship to me
in the past, which | trust may always
continue. and for the splendid services
YOU have so unselfishly rendered the or
ganization of which I ave been the off1-
cial head. Respectfully, -
A. M. STEVENSON.