Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-04
.AILL TAKES the
STUMP FOR BRYAk
fhe New York Ex-senator Opens
the Campaign In Empire
State.
IMPERIALISM IS HIS THEME
Scores the Administration for Its
GhiliuniuA TDrl;or...rI,o f,n,,.
IMPERIALISM IS HIS THEME
Scores the Administers zion for Its
Philippine Policy.--The Com
stitutton and the New
Possessions.


stitution and the New
Possessions.
New York, Oct. 3.-David B. Hill
was the principal speaker at the Acad-
envy of Music, Brooklyn, last night,
the occasion. being the opening of the
democratiic campaign in Kings coun-
ty. Controller Bird S. Coler, who had
been scheduled to preside over the
meeting, was unable to attend. The
hall was crowded to its capacity when
Presiding Officer John L. Clark called
the meeting to order. y telegram of
regret was read from Mr.. Coler, after
which Mr.. Hill made his appearance
on the platform and was greeted with
a storm of applause. lie said, in part:
II make no apologies to anyone for
my activity in this campaign. / par
ticipated in the convention at Kansas
City which framed the platform and
named the candidates. convention
which treated me with marked cour-
tesy from the commencement to the
end of its proceedings-and as an hon
orable man | was bound to acquiesce
in the result of it's deliberations. /
expressed my intention at the conven-
ton in seconding the nomination. of
our national candidate for president
in behalf of the masses of the democ-
racy of the state of New York to give
the ticket not merely my acquiescent
adherence, but my active support, and
that assurance | am now fulfilling. l
repudiate the idea SO persistently in
culcated by impracticable doctrinaires
that every time citizen is outvoted
in convention, Il church, corpora
ton OF a society-even upon ma
terial mattcr-he is in honor bound to
bolt and form another party, estab-
lish new church, set up rival cor
Without depreciating the impor-
finances, taxation, Capitalization,
government by injunction, home rule
economic and other questions worthy
of attention, it was believed by the
Kansas City convention that the vital
whether our form of government is to
be preserved in all its simplicity and
integrity. 1T is called in brief the is
sue of imperialism in other words.
it is the issue of republic versus an
empire.
president Mckinley SAYS there is
no such issue, and yet he devotes the
greater part of his extended letter of
apcRntaupa in, 4
ut is the contention OF the demo-
cratic party that the constitution is
and must be supreme over every por-
ton of our country. Hence there can
be no such thing as an American col
ony belonging to the United States
and over which our constitution has
no jurisdiction. Such situation is
impossible under our form of govern
ment.
But the attempt of the national
administration to hold the Philippine
islands against the consent of their
people has led to the PRONUNCIATION of
new doctrine in American affairs,
which insists upon the establishment
of system of colonial governments
over conquered or purchased posses
sions, not to be formed into states or
territories, but to permanently re-
main as colonies, and to be governed
by congress outside of the constitu-
ton and according to its own discre-
ton. This position is unprecedented,
unwarranted and revolutionary.
ut is monstrous doctrine that the
constitution does not extend to the
territories. 1t has only now been in
voked to Justify the proposed estab-
lishment of colonial governments
which are confessedly to be and re-
main outside of the constitution.
'Yet, as we have seen, this is the
republican contention as to territor-
les, and is the proposed republican
program as to colonies. Then it
would follow that Il citizen of New
York, journeying in u territory or in
a newly established American col
ony,' would not be entitled, if arrest
ed, to the privilege of habeas corpus,
could not legally demand jury trial,
need not be confronted with the wit
nesses against him, and could be SEN
fenced to cruel and unusual punish
ments; could be twice put in jeopardy
for the same offense; his person could
be searched and his property seized
without warrant and he could be de-
prived of life, liberty and property
without any process of law; freedom
of speech and of the press could be
denied, and counsel to assist in his
defense could be refused him; i'll
short, nearly all the rights and privi-
leges which an American citizen of Il
state now enjoys under the guaran-
tees of our federal constitution and
which render this country the freest,
the best, the most beneficent of any
government under the sun, could be
arbitrarily taken away from the citi-
zen because under this new doctrine
he is beyond the pale of the constitu-
ton of his country, although he may
be under its flag"
Ex-Governor Stone, of Missouri, was
presented at the conclusion of Mr..
Hills speech. He was rendered .
genuine ovation.
What's in a Name?
Boston Herald: When I heard last