The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-07-04
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Republican Party nominated Free
mont in philadelphia and became
political entity, standing upon a
platform that appealed to the pat
riotism of the people. The party
is to-day gone forever and in its
name and place stands the yearling
of imperialism, offspring of the
trust, sponsored for before High
Priest Hanna, by the militarism of
the past twelve months-and SO
standing this arrogant youngster,
Through it's sponsors, proolaims that
it is the apostolic successor of the
great Lincoln and his great princi-
Piles.
Like all else that has its base in
the Hanna Mckinley regime these
protestations are false, deceptive,
ensnaring, un.American and un-
manly.
The preamble.of.the convention
of 1856 declared that
The convention of delegates, as
sembled in pursuance of call adj
dressed to the people of the United
States, without regard to past po-
litical differences or divisions, who
are opposed to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, to the policy
of the present administration, to
the extension of slavery into free
territory, in favor of admitting Kan
sas as free state, of restoring the
action of the Federal government
to the principles of Washington
and jefferson, and who propose to
unto in presenting candidates for
the offices of President and Vice
President, do resolve, &c.
These delegates were actuated by
the principles that controlled JEFF
ferson, that made the Republican
party of Republican Jeffer-
sons days, that party of which Mr..
Bryan is to-day the most forcible
exponent and exemplar.
The Constitution and the De.
claration are tho cornor stone of
this purity of Mr.. Bryan this eter-
nal, because just and equitable,
party of Democracy, and in the
days of '5G the party of Lincoln be-
lieved in them also.
The Philadelphia convention re-
ferred to above resolved, first:
That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the De-
claration of Independence and en-
bodied in the Federal Constitution
is essential to the preservation of
our Republican institutions, and
that the Federal Constitution, the
rights of the states, and the union
of the states; shall be preserved.
And again, That with our Re-
publican fathers, we hold it to be n
self-evident truth that all men are
endowed with the inalienable rights
to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness and that the primary
object and ulterior designs of our
Federal Government were to secure
these rights to all persons within
its exclusive jurisdiction; that as
our Republican fathers, when they
had abolished slavery in all our
national territory, ordained that no
person should be deprived of life,
liberty or property without due
process of law, it becomes our duty
to maintain this provision of the
Constitution against all attempts to
violate it for the purpose of estab.
fishing slavery in any territory. OF
the United States by positive leg
islation prohibiting its existence
therein. That we deny the author
ity of Congress of a territorial leg
islature, of any individual or asso.
citation of individuals, to give legal
existence to slavery in any Terri
tory of the United States while the
present Constitution shall be main
tanned.
The Republicans, who love their
party. who believe in it us did Lin
coin and Grant, Washburne, Bur.
lingame, Banks, Morgan and Gid
dings, have but to turn to the Han
ma platform of last week and find
that tho party of 1856 is dead and
that in its place the anti-constiu-
ttonal, anti-declaration of Iude-
pendence, nnti.Ropublican,I ,Imper-
ial party of Hanna, within year
has repudiated the Declaration, de-
fed the Constitution and assass-
mated the old party. Sofell Caesar
by the treacherous stabs of his
Brutus, SO will fall the Republic
unless the believers in the Repub-
lie spurn and put to death the usur-
per that has been imported from
the empires of the Old World for
our undoing.
Turn to the Democratic party of
L1SkG lis Grst resolution in that