The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-20

/ were from the people of an island towards
whom we sustain a fiduciary relation, and
whose confidence we ask. That this gov
eminent makes good the loss Is not
enough, and perhaps the lesson has NOT
been in vain If it shall serve to stimulate
US to even greater care in dealing Win
these people for whom we have poureo
out our blood and treasure. and whom we
hope some day to welcome on terms OF
closest friendship as citizens OF sister
republic.
| or the Philippines, the speaker made
| the following emphatic and unequlvocai
utterance: I've haven't been there long,
but long enough to reach two concius-
ions: One is. that the first thing we In
| tend to do is TO suppress the Tagal m
surrection and 10 establish law and order
throughout the archipelago. That is the
first thing we shall do. And the last
| the very last, thing we intend doing. is
to consider, even for a moment. the ques-
| ton OF giving up or abandoning these
islands.
1.-THE insurrection against our legitimate
authority, which, for the time, inpedes
OUT efforts to establish a government for
| the Filipinos, Involves US in a sacrifice OF
| lives and Of treasure. The obstacles we
encounter in the island Of Luzon are
many, but the chief inspiration and en-
coura cement of the Tasal insurrection
| comes from the Democratic headquarters
! in the United States. Partisanship has
| proved stronger than patriotism, even
| while our soldiers are being murdered by
marauding bandits, and Il 1t were not for
the hope held out to Aguinaldo by
| Aguinaldo sympathizers the insurrection
! IS the Philippines would long ago have
| long ago ended. The obstacles to the
establishment OF civil government in
the Islands are many, but we shall over
come them. Mistakes will undoubtedly
be made, but we shall remedy them. We
shall in time extend over that archipelago
| the aegis of our protection and of free
government, and we shall gradually. but
surely, lift up these alien and savage
races into the light OF civilization and
Christianity"
In concluding, Senator Wolcott said:
"Never since "a, when the voters of the
country were called upon TO determine
whether the efforts of Abraham Lincoln
to preserve the Union should be contin-
ued, Of whether they should be abandoned
and other measures attempted have
questions so vital been presented to the
American people for settlement Their
decision must determine the maintenance
or the degradation of both our national
credit and our national honor. A Demo-
cratic president could paralyze the oper-
alton Of the new currency law as effect
| lively as If it were wiped from our statute
| books Democratic victory would in
| fuse new life into the Tagal insurrection.
! cost us the lives of thousands of our
gallant army in the Philippines, impair
or destroy our prestige. if not our power
| in the islands, make us a byword among
| the other great nations of the world, and
| obliterate our influence in the settlement
| of the vital questions certain to arise
when China shall be opened to foreign
| commerce.
| Whatever else in the past has suffered
| change or decay, the Republican party,
which for forty years has been identified
| with everything ennobling and uplifting in
our history, was never as vital, as virile,
and as vigorous as today. And the herit-
age we shall transmit to the new century.
| to the coming generation and TO their
| children, and TO their children's children.
shall be a record clean and untarnished.
an unquenchable faith in free institutions.
an unalterable belief in the patriotism of
| the people, and an undying love of liberty
and of country
| Senator Wolcott has a clear resonant
voice, which penetrated the furthest re-
cesses of the hall. He speaks, however,
with great rapidity. and this, perhaps,
somewhat spoiled the effect of his speech.
baf ~
thorough sympathy and he had no diff
Guilty in striking a responsive chord.
When, with outstretohed arm, he predict
ed the triumphant election of the Repub-
lican ticket in November, the audience
surrendered, and when he first mentioned
| President McKiuley's name he could not
proceed for a minute, owing to the DEM
onstration. AS he rehearsed the history
Of the four years of Republican admins
tratiOn, the prosperity which had blessed
| it, the victories it had won, the glorious
outcome of the Spanish-American war.
the campaign of Misrepresentation in con
nection with the Philippines which its
enemies had inaugurated, and which 1t
had met, the convention repeatedly broke
into applause.
It was a keynote speech covering the
legislation which had been placed on the
statute books, and its deepest note was
the prosperity of this country and the
| legislation which had made its continue
| ton possible If the present administration
wos continued in power. That was the
theme to which the demonstrations Of the
| convention >clung. When he said that the
old issue of the DEMOCRATS was dead and
| that they were driven TO find new issues
| in a war which they had been almost
anxious TO precipitate, the convention rose
/ again, but the outburst was even greater
when he declared that the division among
the Republicans of the east and west on
/ the financial issue was a thing of the
past and that those who had left the
/ party four years ago in the west were re-
! turning on the issue OF expansion. The
| first mention OF expansion was also the
signal for a demonstration.
| Senator Wolcott paced up and down
along the front OF the platform as he pro-
| ceeded. and several times he consulted
his notes. He is not at his best in a
prepared speech. and his admirers were.
possibly. little disappointed
| The Indiana delegation led the applause
when Senator Wolcott announced that
! the thieving postoflce officials in Cuba
would be hunted down. Probably .le
/ greatest demonstration occurred when b
/ said that We would establish law and
order in the Philippines and that the last
thing 70 be considered vas 20 give ID the
/ islands. The delegates got on their feet
/ and cheered when he declared that our
soldiers uara hurried fr rho sands - IL