Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-18
CAMPAIGN OPENED.
Hon. Binser Hermann delivers All Able
Address to an Enthusiastic Audience.

q Hon. Binger HERMANN delivers All Alb
Address to an Enthusiastic Audience.
The presidential ca,npaig
was formally opened by the re
publicans of Benton county, a
the court house last Saturda
] evening with a vim and vige
that eliminates all idea of apatll,
among supporters of McKinle,
and Roosevelt in this section.
: Prominent republicans, ant
. many democrats, who hav'
known Mr.. Hermann for year
began arriving in town early il
the afternoon and by evening
the streets were fairly crowded
An excursion train from Alban,
accompanied by the excellen
! band of that city arrived at eight
o'clock, and when the exercise:
of the evening began the large
court room was thoroughly filled,
Notwithstanding the inclemenoy
of the weather.
| A short program consisting OF
songs by the Filipino quartet
and Albany band preceded the
address of the evening, and
hearty encores followed each
number. The quartet is one of
the best organizations of the
kind ever heard in a campaign
in this county, and Albany's
band is a credit to itself and the
city to which it belongs.
Attorney J. H. Wilson pre-
sided over the meeting and in
his announcements stated that
the meeting had been called to
organize Mckinley and Roose-
welt club.
After "America" had been
sung with much enthusiasm by
the entire audience, Mr.. Her-
mann was introduced as the
speaker of the evening. He
was greeted with hearty applause,
and during his remarks was fire.
quently interrupted with shouts
of approval. The speaker said
in part:
"Our opponents attempt to create
issues when there is no basis for them.
They charge US with imperialism when
there is no such thing as imperialism
in this proud republic of ours. There is
no democrat or populist who is honest
who will falsify his conscience with the
statement that imperialism or milltarism
has been introduced by a republican
administration, for if they do We can
remind them that there was more mill
tarism far back in the beginning of the
century; that there was more more mill
tarism then than there is now under
the administration of William Mckinley.
Statistics will show us that there is now
but one soldier to every thousand people
who make up this republic. There is
a smaller standing army in this country
today in proportion to its population
than in any other country in the world.
"They claim that we favor expansion;
but there is no such issue at this time as
expansion-that has become an estab-
lished fact. We have expanded already.
1t is now question of contraction.
''The real issue today before the peo-
pie of the United States, plain and un-
disguised, is, Are the principles of the
republican party to be approved, and
under republican administration is
there to be continuance of our present
prosperity and a maintenance of our
national honor?
"It is not enough that we have good
laws, but We should have good admin
istratien to enforce these laws. Every
pledge made by the republican party to
the people four years ago has been re-
deemed. Never since the days of Grant
has president been confronted by
exigencies aud crises SO important and
30 delicate as has William Mckinley,
and never has chief magistrate met
these grave responsibilities with more
unswerving fidelity and noble, manly
action than has President Mckinley.
We may look at his 40 years of public
career, and we find not single blemish.
During the administration of no other
president do we discover greater results
than those attained by William McKin-
ley.
when they talk Of Imperialism, they
forget that the republican party is the
party that has made free homes for
the homeless all over this country and
was the party that struck the shackles
from over 100000 slaves; further, that
it was the republican party that arose in
its might and preserved the Union from
destruction; that it was the republican
party that drove imperialism from Mex
leo and saved that country; that it was
the republican party that saved Hawaii
from monarch's rule and raised over
that people the Stars and Stripes, the
emblem of liberty, that the immediate
predecessor of William Mckinley, as
president, hauled down, but which has
again been raised to the place where it
now proudly floats. 1t was President
Mckinley and the republican party that
removed Spanish dominion from Cuban
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