The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-09-27
lLLlNoIsANs oREeT BAILEY.
The Texan Defines Expansion, Hanna
and the Trusts.

bled in the town of Shelbyville,
ILL.,, to see, and hear the apostles
of democracy last Monday. The
Hon. Joseph w. Bailey was intro
duced to the crowd by the chair
man as the only man in congress
that ever kept Tom Reed level, :"
which brought The people to their
feet with rapturous yell, while
the youthful Texas statesman
blushed like a schoolboy.
/ BAILEY'S SPEECH.
! Mr.. Bailey briefly referred to the
trusts, devoting his speech to i'm
perialism.
Is there a republican within
sound of my voice." he shouted,
who will agree with the leaders of
the republican party this year that
there are no trusts? | see none.
Republican statesmen who are hon
est and-not mere time serving pol
iticians would stand up and admit
that they do exist and are great
evil. Such men, if they were alive,
would, united with the democrats,
suppress the trusts. But how can
you expect the republicans of today
to help us when their great leader,
Mr.. Hanna, says there are no
trusts?
If there is a republican of
Shelby county who believes Mark
Hanna's statement, then | could
pass counterfeit money on him. ]
could sell him gold bricks.
: Now, I want to make proro-
sition. The average republican
voter is as honest as the average
democratic voter, but he is not
quite as smart. The democrat
don't believe that high taxes make
prosperity and the republican does
The trouble with the republican i:
in the head. His heart is all right
l don't expect a republican to un
S derstand this idea, for if he did h
e would be a democrat"
: Mr.. Bailey then discussed higl
y taxes with an eloquence and logi
that captivated the crowd. Wher
he declared "All Lincoln republi
: cans are democrats this year." tn
crowd cheered again and again.
We are all patriots and imper
ialists," he continued, and ther,
i. was another demonstration. "Ant
= the democrats are the patriots VIII
have charge of the Declaration O
Independence, the Constitution an,
= the flag"
EXPANSION DEFINED.
He defined expansion, and tn
audience agreed with every point
why, if,this policy is expan
r sion," he declared, then tn
: democratic party has taken an un
democratic stand. But it isn't ex
D pansion as Thomas jefferson un
r derstood, and it isn't expansion a
Democrats now understand it. |
e is Imperialism, for Mckinley an,
Hanna don't propose to take ou
e laws. our customs and our consti
S tuition to the new possessions
4 They announce that the govern
e ment of the Philippines is not t
be covered by the constitution.
1t is expansion when the fiaE
follows the constitution and whel
the constitution follows the flag
5 The two are one and inseparable
e Without the constitution we hay
no flag to symbolic this mighty
government. Expansion mean
, states, not colonies; citizens, no
, subjects. When the democratic
party acquired territory it acquire,
{ it for the purpose of carrying i
into sovereign states. The demo
cratic idea of expansion, and tn
only true doctrine, was exemplifie,
l by Jefferson and Monroe and Polk
Does Hanna or Mckinley propos
to make states out of Porto Ric,
> and the Phillippines!"
Continuing, Mr.. Bailey ridicule,
e the Hanna plan of forming colonies
5 and the Mckinley policy of GOV
9 erning Porto Rico. He was fol
e lowed by Mr.. Todd in a speecl
i equal to >that of the brillian
Texan, and when the audience un
: derstood that Mr.. Todd was tb,
? opponent of Hamlin, they threw il
< a number of extra yells.