The evening times., 1900-09-22

HAGERsToWN, Nd, Sept 22-Major
Charles a. Little, Democratic candidate fos
Congress. formally opened his campaign
in the Sixth district last night and de-
Hvered an address before the campaign
club in Hagerstown. \ large crowd was
in attendance and the greatest enthusiasm
prevailed Among other things, he said:
The Democrats in this contest are On
the offensive and the Republicans are on
the defensive, although it takes them a
long time to find it out. We. being the
aggressors, will not allow them 10 say
what line of arraignment we are to follow.
We will adhere to the line of battle map
ped out By the party's platform and let
the people be the judges
'It viii not do for the Republicans to
brush aside as of no weight the grave
charges with which we have indicted
them, and as defence against the charge
of imperialism 10 argue the full dianer
pail. against the charge of militarism to
defend By crying free trade, and against
the charge of fostering trusts 10 say there
are no trusts, or that all trusts are good
things To have. The fact is that for the
past four years The Republicans have been
manufacturing and storing away for future
use such large quantities OF anti-free silver
powder that the realization of the fact
that free silver is d dead issue and that
their supply OF ammunition is about TO be
useless has brought CONSERVATION into
their camp and gives them some trouble
in reforming their lines.
We are charged with being opposed TO
progress and expansion. l am not op-
posed TO the growth OF cur country nor TO
TaT limit
the expansion is made in accordance with
the constitutional provisions II the bal
lot law in North Carolina is wrong, as the
Republicans argue, that does not make
violation CT the same principle by the Re
publicans in the Philippine Islands a right
but the faCt is that the law in North Caro-
lima is rot any more of a violation OF the
principles underlying the right OF suffrage
than the law cf Massachusetts,. These are
matters Of detail with which the respec-
i've States have dealt in their own way
and do not by any means so to the funda
mental question as raised by the Philip
pine question.
1.-The taxpayer is the rerson to fully ap-
preciate the evils Of imperialism and the
cost of maintaining il when he stops TO
consider that the acquisition of the ISL
ands means nothing to him in a financial
WY except that out OF his earnings he
III u.s. pay MS DOl titil u the SOtVstup ItleL
are required every day TO support the
present Army Of the United States. The
mothers, wives, and sisters count the cost
of it when they stop TO think Of their
sons, husbands, and brothers giving up
their lives On the firing line or in the hos
pital, and the money brought to the cof-
fers of those whose trade is increased by
reason OF the new policy OF our Govern
nfent cannot afford consolation TO them
hp of those who and
dear TO them We need no large standing
ARM. The past has proved that the great
bulwark and protector Of the rights OF a
free people are the volunteers, who have
always responded TO the call for troops and
who Will always do SO in the future.
'Cn all sides We are confronted with
the trusts. We see individual enter
prise swallowed up By the powerful cCr-
poratiCns that are constantly being
formed in our very midst, and we are
costantly seeing the ruin CT thJse who
have not been fortunate enough to be
taken in and made part Of the cCmbina-
tions. The accumulation OF wealth and
the aggregation Of capital as carried o.
IN this country today can but bIing ruin
to the Industrial world and make Us all
subject TO it. They are menace 10 the
land and should always be viewed with
suspicion. The farmer and the msCEanic
have nothing to Eain from them. but
all 10 lose Ihe only KIND OF JTuS- they
know anything about is the trJs= that
they are too often obliged TO ask for
when they have no money wherewith to
buy the neCessaTies OF life.
The Republicans in their speeches
rarely fail 10 speak OF our flag and our
country in a way that leads enc to be-
lieve that the flag and the country end
all belong TO the Republican party and
to that alone; that the great mass Of
the people in the Democratic party have /
no interest in them Let me say that |
the Democrats love their country and /
their flag just as much as do the Re- /
publicans, and in times OF war, in times !
of need, when the call for volunteers /
comes the Democrats as well as the Re /
publ cans respond thereto; and when |
within the past TWO years we found men |
from all parts CT the land the North and /
the South, the East and the West, and |
men from all parties vying with each /
other to get to the front to fight for !
their country, the time is past for any |
one party to claim the flag as theirs !
and the country as theirs, and theirs |
alone"