Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-10-25
Adj ess to Independent voters.

Ala css to Independent Voters
The undersigned citizens Of the United
States reaafd with profound apprehension
the co,.gs5 # the present administration IN
Porto Rico aud the Philippines. Our prior
acquisitions were Of adjacent territory for
the extension Of the area Of constitutional
government and the creation If new States
Of the Union. We made their few inhaIbi-
tants citizens: our people settled them; we
there established the institutions Of free
dom. For the first time in our history it
is now proposed that the President and
Congress shall rule vast territories and
millions Of men outside our constitutional
system. Officials sworn to support the
Constitution and deriving all their powers
therefrom have acquired colonies and as
sumed arbitrary authority to govern their
inhabitants without consent and to tax
them without representation. This policy
offers to the people of Porto. Rico and the
Philippines no hope of Independence no
prospect OF American citizenship, no
representation III the Congress which taxes
them. This is the government of men
bv arbitrary power: this is imperialism.
We believe that it is the first duty Of the
American people to stamp with their dis
approval doctrines 50 hostile to liberty and
dangerous to constitutional government. If
they are to remain free and their govern
ment is to continue representative, their
servants must not have or exercise any but
constitutional powers. Between the claim
of freedom that all men are entitled to
equal political rights and the dogma of
tyranny that might makes right, there is
no middle ground.
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we nave not prior 10 thls year suppOIte'l
fine candidacy of Mr. BRYAN. We do not
VIZ y
now concur in certain of his views on
minor issues. Yet his position on the
sunreme Issue Of the 1,respnt eamnaisyn is
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so sound and his advocacy OF 1t has been so
H., - ~ - - 4 l. e
''oie 'ln'i courageous eiiae We NJ" it'soi ~
election as the most effective WaV of show
ing diSappr0yal OF Mr.. McklDley3S course.
uT;+l,o,,t s,,ee;.l ,,oli+;ea1 IN
" leiioue Nis'iiiiiies any steoissi P0at0'''A u
Hneuce we 11nife for what our examnle
may be worth to our fell0w-eltlzens IN this
s1 - :. IL. $1,000,
Statement VI pioposeo aVeloil III eiie piesehoo
Of a .sa,reater dancer than we have en-
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c0untered since the Pilgrims landed at
r,..z.4l, a. 5.r,.o. t1,o4 10 ho
/ f1ymoubhZbhe ddIiStI liide We art 70 pe
transformed from a republic. founded on
oA''''''Aoi my iADn' . sP''ea-s' A'NsN- ~
the Declaration of independence, guided by
the couilsels OF Washington, INTO vulgar,
oon,,,o,,laoa amnira foundad an nhvsieaI
commonplace empire, ioull'ieu On piissie'sl
1 force. y. We invite the cooperation Of all
1 independent voters TO avert TINS great ana
;,,,,an,1;ner daraar
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George s. Boutwell,. Boston, fEx-Goyernor
and Ex7seeretary Of the Treasury
Charles Gordon Ames, Boston.
1 Melville B. Anderson, Leland Stanford Unyer-
! sity
| Francis Fisher Browne, Chicago Editor Of
The Diai).
John Beatty Ohio. General in civil war and
Ex-Congressinanl
William Rrney, Washington D. G.
ID. F. Bremner Chicago.
Albert s Cook Yale University
D. H. Chamberlain. Massachusetts. Elk
Governor of South Carolina
Charles r. Goldman Massachusetts
! Henry b. Cabot Boston
Starr Willard Cutting. University of Chicago.
4 Noah K. Davis Jrniversitv If Virginia
JOHN Dewey. University 81 Chicago.
Dana Estes. Boston
! Louis r. Enrich Colorado
Joseph s Fowler Washington d. G. (Ex-
United states SENATOR.
Edwin L. Godkin, New York Former Edi-
/ tor The Nation and H. T. Ere,,iag Post1
/ William Iiovt Garrison Boston
! Judson Harmon Cincinnati Attorney
| General United States
f. d. Huntington Syracuse (Bishop of p. F.
| church,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Boston
William Gardner Hale, University of Chicago.
George Lincoln Hendrickson University Of
Chicago.
| Henry L. Johnson fEx-Coneressman Iidi-
ana
Edward Holton James, Seattle, Washington
| William r. Lord, Portland, Oregon.
Louis r.. lawson Minneapolis. iEx-Judgel.