Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-07-04
SINS OF REPUBLICANS.
Strong Arraignment Of the Admin
isuation by Ohio Democrat.
Temporary Chairman Webster r.
Huntington at Columbus Con.
ventiOn Talks on Impe alism,
Militarism and Trusts.

At the preliminary deliberations of
the Ohio democratic convention at Co.
lumbus. June ~, Temporary and Per-
manent Chairman Webster P. Hunting
ton spoke at some length, upon the sins
OF the republican administration, say
ing:
You are assembled in state conven-
ton for the fourth time since the memoir
able campaign of 1896. Since that time
democratic thought in Ohio has been
slowly but surely concentrating along
certain lines Of reform and manifesting
every year the renewed devotion Of Buck
eye democrats to the fundamental prin-
ciples: until to-day, more than ever be-
tore Tore; IN Its history, our party is distinc-
lively and peculiarly the party of the
people,. Your last convention at Zanes-
Vile merely emphasized the conclusions
which the party had solemnly reached
&C Columbus and Dayton in 1897 and 1893.
The GAINESVILLE convention, and subse-
quently its candidates, reaff1rmed the Chi
cago platform and Endorsed for president
in 1900 the greatest popular leader of
modern times: the eloquent orator in
whose tongue is the law of Kindness
the honest citizen in whose heart is the
love OF justice: the unselfish statesman
In whose mind is the welfare of man.
kfnd-the friend of the people and the
dreaded foe of their enemies-William j.
Bryan. That reaffirmation and that in
dorsement represented the earnest con-
v1ctions of the democracy of Ohio then;
and there is no reason to believe that
those convictions are changed now.
You are assembled at a time most
critical for the nation and for the DEM
ocratic party. We shall take no step
backward, but we shall take long strides
forward. The time has come when every
American citizen must determine for him
self whether this nation shall continue
to be In fact as well as In name a re-
public, or shall pattern after Great Brit
ain and become a colonial empire. We
believe that If we are to have a democ-
racy, 1t cannot be too democratic: if we
are to have a republic, it cannot be too
republican. To remain a democracy
to remain a republic-is to preserve the
union; while to become a colonial en-
pire is to destroy the union. 1t was true
In 1860 that this nation could not long
endure. half slave and half Free and
1t Is true now that it cannot long endure
half republic and half empire. There
fore the paramount question which must
be answered by the American people be-
fore the ides of November, is: Shall the
union be preserved?
1--WE invite an adjustment of differences
OR at least of cessation of fractional
strife-between those who are not agreed
as to certain policies of government, but
who are agreed that the union must be
preserved. There are those who would
preserve the union and at the same time
maintain the gold standard; and there are
those who would preserve the union and
at the same time restore the bimetallic
currency that has always been and al
ways will be the only basis of perma-
nent prosperity in this country. But what
good will either of these accomplish, even
from his own point of view, if we have
bimetallism or the single gold standard.
and the union is destroyed? What shall
1t profit man. if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?' What shall it
profit a nation like ours, If 1t gain the
whole world and lose it's own character?
Whatever a mans convictions on the
question, If he believes that the republic
must remain, he is fool If he trade the
greater principle for the lesser; he is
blind if he do not unite with others to
achieve the main object, no matter how
he may disagree with them in respect to
lesser objects. Democrats, get togeth-
err: and not democrats only but all you
of every political faith who would first
save the union from the threat of i'm
perialism, from the course of militarism
and from the blight of monopoly, and
after that is done would agree to disagree
while determining other questions. Our
appeal is not the appeal of the democratic
party as political organizat ton 1t is
an appeal to the honor and the interest
of our land, from all those who believe
that George Washington was right and
George III. was wrong.
eve must have a long pull, strong
pull, and a pull all together. And that
will be the end of Mark Hanna's pull
with this government
when we point to signs of empire
and their dangers, which have appeared
on every hand, multiplying every day
since the hour when William Mckinley
took oath before God and his country
men that he would support the constitu-
ton of the United States, we are told
that there is no imperialism. But they
who say there is no Imperialism are the
very ones aiming to destroy the republic
and create the empire. Their own teach
tngs, their own conduct, their own pur-
poses are startling evidences that they
lie ignorantly or viciously when they
say there is no imperialism. AS
hand to-day, both in our dealings with
our own people and our policy toward
other peoples. The present administra-
ton has established and fostered an in
dustrial imperialism at home and a mil
itary imperialism abroad. An army of
soldiers Is more imperialistic than an
army of trusts.
1.-THE waters of Asiatic seas are not
more treacherous to our welfare than
the water in millions of watered stock
A military and an Industrial dictatorship
go hand in hand. The man who would
rule others against their will by the bay
onet, and the man who would rule others
against their will by the power of mo-
nopoly deserve but one name-the name
of tyfant: and tyranny will not be en-
dured by the American people. Suppose
the car of Russia, by royal edict, were
to arbitrarily raise the price of bread
throughout his dominions to all his sub
jects; would not that be called a Wanton