The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-10-01

now indorse Bryan and his principles.
which Is equivalent 10 indorslng the peo-
pies party and its principles How silly
and ungenerous Il would be to hold that
because man had been an officer in the
Confederate army he should not be trust
| ed and respected by those who served
lin tue Union army. Stevenson Is sound
now and, has been all through HIS public
life; none dispute this, hence all popu-
lists should support Bryan and Stevenson
for principles sake II for nothing else.
II the democratic and republican par
ties occupied the same positions today
that they did in 1895 my position politics
/ ally now would be the same 1t was then.
Up TO that date the demecratIo party
had been unfaiihfu to every pledge II
made the people leading to reforms In
| tho interest of the masses; in fact IL had
| out-heroded Herod in playing into tha
hands OF plutocracy, and up TO that time
the republican party, while advocating
some principles that I did not indorse,
had redeemed les pledges: 1t was the
author OF the greenhacks and persistently
refused TO retire them when In power;
II advocated free speech, fair aud honest
elections. hence ! preferred the repuhii-
Gun party. but now all has radically
changed. Tho democratic party linden
| Brynn's leadership has gravitated popu-
| llstward until II Is camped in popullst
territory and under the nag OF populist
principles, while the republican party
has cut loose from its tImc- honored
principles and policies aud drifted in
the direction OF monarchy till now 1t Is
| anchored In the harbor OF imperialism
and there held fast by those who openly
| declare that "all democratic forms OF
government are failure. and that mon
archy is the only stable government and
the only one that can properly protect
I a ha npN
occupied by these great parties the duty
OF every citizen is made perfectly clear
| Those who desire the perpctuation and
publication OF the Republic must sup
port Bryan, while those who prefer i'm
periallsm held In power by militarism
| viii OF course support Mckinney.
am aware that the republican party
leaders denied IN 1895 that the election
OF Mckinley meant the single gold stand
I ard; the granting OF greater privileges
to the National banks or the retirement
| Of the greenbacks and treasury notes.
yet we have seen the Mckinley admins
traton do all these things under the whip
and spur OF the trusts and moneyed com
hines who dictate McKipleys policy with
the Same precision and ease that gla-
2ier shapes his putty
We have all read the solemn pledges
made by the present administration
that "the war against Spain is prose-
|
not for conquest" Yet we have seen
that same administration seize by force
Of arms and by purchase the homes of
| ten million people, whose only offense
| was being our friends and allies, and
hold these people under military law and
torture some Of them into open rebel
lion, tax them without their consent and
persistenly refuse TO indicate to them
what fate awaits tham, and in all things
| treat them as conquered provinces. No
| congress, however despotlc ever dis
played more tyranny than this since the
dawn of the Christian era.
We have seen Mckinley repudiate what
he declared was "our plain duty and
cat his declaration that "forcible aunexa-
ton Is aggression" and commit these
very Grimes" at tho dictatlon of his
masters--the plutocraGy. We have seen
the republican party leaders increase the
standing mot the volunteer) army from
$4,000 TO 900 men; seen the Stars aud
Stripes floating over conquered provinces
and enslaved people, the emblem of
power, military dictatorship, instead OF
the emblem of freedom, juBtioo and
I equality representing the conqueror in-
stead OF the liberator
We have heard the present admins
tration declare that the constitution does
not so with the flag. and seen 1t enforce
one set OF laws over the conquered and
an entirely different set OF laws over tina
conauerers. In short we have seen the
republican party under Mckinley change
from an emancipator to an enslaver.
If all this is not sufficient to convince
| the American people that the reelection
OF Mckinley means Imperialism, nothing
except the browning of him emperor
will do It, Indeed this little matter Of
detail Is about all that is now necessary
| to make the destruction of the Republic
and tho establishment of the empire com-
plete.
l am aware OF the fact that n majority
of the leaders of the democratic party
in the South and East Endorsed Bryan
and tile Kansas City platform not because
they indorse Bryan or that platform, but
because 1t was the only way to save their
official bacon; that in their hearts they
despise Bryan and Bryan principles and
that they hope the time will soon come
when they can safely repudate Bryan
and return TO the support OF Cleveland
| ism. But this does not relieve me or
any ono else OF their duty to the Re-
public or to posterity; on the contrary, It
makes It the duty Of every patriot to
stick the closer 10 Bryan and enable him
to overcome all opposition and save
the Republic. II the people stick to
| Bryan, party leaders viii be compelled
to do the Same or go out of politics.
II should be remembered that the dem
ocratic party OF 1900 under the leader
ship OF Bryan is as different In principles
and objects from what 1t was under
Cleveland's leadership as the republican
party under Mckinley differed from the
republican party under the leadership OF
the immortal Lincoln. The long list OF
names of old-time republicans who
voted and marched with Lincoln to vic
tory in the sixties and now are support
ing Bryan proves this fact. Ask one Of
these old gray headed patriots why he
is supporting Bryan and he will answer
because Mckinley has seduoed the re-
publican party from the advocacy OF It's
time bonored principles into the adyo-
caoy of Imperialism and because Bryan
now stands for the same principles That
Lincoln stood for forty years ago"
II Lincoln was living today he would
be found in the Bryan column. shoulder
to shoulder with Jefferson. Madison and
Jackson, battling for the Republic and
against the empire their records while
living prove it. Bryan has accepted the
nominations OF the peoples party demo
cratic, Lincoln republican and monetary
league IA words that lndelibly stamp
him more patriotic than partisan. Gear
and Cromwell were Indispensable as
leaders In the development OF a higher
and broader civilization; Napoleon the
great was indispensable in the sestruc-