Evening star., 1900-10-17
IN A PREDICAMENT
Candidates Forced to Explain Ante
Campaign Utterances.
DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON EXPLAIN
Before Kansas City Convention
Favored Keeping the Philippines.
HAVING A SERIOUS TINE


The candidates for the state and congress
sional offices In Washington on the demo-
cratic populist and fusion ticket are hav-
ing a very serious time account of the
various expressions that they gave re-
garding the retention of the Philippines and
expansion, previous to the time that they
became candidates for office on a platform
following the Kansas City platform. Gov
ernor Rogers, an old-time populist and
who was elected by a large majority four
years ago, has administered the affairs of
the state in a true populist manner. De
cember . 1S99 ne wrote letter in which
he said
'Of course, / am opposed to Imperialism
But the verdict of the country has always
been strongly in favor of ar administration
conducting q successful foreign war. | do
not think that we should declare too strong
ly against expansion. The only difference
between the expansionists and anti-expan-
sionsts is the form of government in the
Philippines. No one advocates our sailing
away from the islands and abandoning
them. l am in favor of a protectorate
r. {. Robcrtson's Case.
Another candidate on the fusion ticket is
F. G. Robertson. who will be remembered
in Washington as the attorney of the Occur
vestigation that took place before the
House committee military affairs last
session. Robertson lives al Spokane, but
interested himself in the Occur dAlene
matter and spent nearly the entire session
in Washington trying to convict the ad-
ministrat!on of wrongdoing in that Mat
ter. He has since been nominated for Con-
gress and has been obliged to repudiate his
assertions in the Occur d Alene matter. In
trying to keep abreast with the Kansas
City platform he has also been obliged to
repudate former utterances. On Novem-
Der 30, 1885,, he made a strong argument in
favor of the validity of the title of the
United States to the Philippine Islands, in
which he said:
Spain ceded to us her sovereignty over
those islands, and we became her successor
both by the laws of war and peace. He
also argued against the consent of the
governed proposition. declaring that Agu-
naldo would establish d despotic monarchy,
and closed by saying:
ITO fail in this duty now would be TO
confess ourselves diShonored among the ma
tons of the world and show that the Amer
lean republic failed to trust itself to dis
charge this obligation imposed upon ii by
the laws Of war To my mind, independ-
emily of the question of benefit or loss, this
higher duty devolves upon us and oblter-
ates every question of party or partisan
censorship in the policy being pursued by
the national administration to suppress the
rebellion in the Philippines When ASui-
naldo fired upon the flag Of our nation, he
became its open foe. and the American peo-
pie would tolerate no policy mat did not
maintain the self-respect OF the nation
J.T RonaId's Former Words.
J. T. Ronald. the other congressional can
didate in Washington on the fusion ticket.
on July 30 1saS made a declaration in
favor of expansion, saying that the United
States was at the parting of the ways, and
upon the guide board of which was written,
DESTINY or Death and closed by saying:
1--WE are on the eve of a era Of terri
torial expansion and increase Of power and
prestige and we must respond to it, or
dwindle away and die
Richard Windxor's Position.
Richard Windsor candidate for judge or
the supreme bench delivered an address on
December 4, 1899, in which he declared:
"Al the arguments of anti-expansionists
are fallacies The government of the
United States Is government OF all the
people, viii be in time, and Congress Is.
or Will be when d better order comes only
the mouthpiece of all the people. The Fill
pnos will govern themselves, either as
state or territory or they Will have only
themselves to blame. Never has the United
States acquired a foot of territory in which
the right of self-governmeut was not freely
extended to the inha b tantS. The consent
of the governed is d fallacy.'
Another candidate for the supreme court
is William II. White, who was a member OF
the democratic national committee and on
September -, 1889. he wrote to Chairman
Jones the following:
VIM. II. Whites Warning.
MANY prominent democratic, silver re-
publican and peoples party leaders are OPP
posed to the course being pursued by dem
ocratic leaders like Lentz, Altgeld, Clark or
Missouri and even Mr.. Bryan with refer
ence to the Philippine question. II the dem
ocratic party in it's national platform takes
tJ,f S,ff hot Inc n-I ISn-tn
takes then we will be beaten out of sight
In this state, and / believe in the nation
All this talk about an imperialistic party in
the United States is simply rot l hope be-
fore the national convention meets that the
war in the Philippines will have closed. and
we can then declare in favor OF giving to
the people of these islands the largest lib
erty and self-government under the super
vision and control of the people of the
United States"
One of the most active advocates of Bry-
ans election is James Hamilton Lewis. ex-
representative from Washington, and on
December IS, 1899, he said:
james Hamilton Lewis Attitude
Il am democrat, but do not feel l can
act with my party if it places itself in op-
position to the policy of expansion upon
which this country has embarked. But l do
not believe a majority of the democrats OF
the House be whipped into line to op-
pose this policy
These speeches and utterances are now
being quoted against the democratic candi-
dates in the state of Washington, and are
causing them a great deal of trouble. The
fact is that the people of that state believe
firmly in expansion, and the democratic
cause Is lost because of the opposition to
expansion All of the Washington demo-
Gratis, as well as the Pacific coast demo-
Gratis generally. urged a mild declaration
upon the subject of expansion at Kansas
City. but they were overruled by the men
who were determined to paramount the
advocacy of national dishonor in the Pacinc
ocean.
AMONG THE CLERGY.
COFFEE BEING; REPLACED BY POSTUM FooD