Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1900-01-10

The Governor OF illinois, Parting
Words tn His Party at
Springfield

| 'NiiA- II. dliliti SdAL.
Fellow Republicans: greet you tod
| as representatives. of a political party
| which rests, and has long rested. the gra
burden Of responsible political action
| the state and tho nation. There has b}
! 70 other responsible party ia Amerio
| politics since 1860 Even when democ
| wax In the presidency ne was compelled
appeal TO the patriotism Of the republi
| party TO prevent dishonOr and disgract
| the management OF the national finland
! and he did not appeal in vain. And n
the democratic party has degenerated
| a noisy horde OF guerrillas. without ord
| discipline or principles. They are me
| political ghost dancers who have actualiy
| mistaken little Billy Bryan for the truS>
| Messiah. The great sachems OF Jemerson-
| ian democracy are discredited and can find
no resource but to vote the republican tick
ct Those now in charge of the party are
| not true democrats. but are popu,!sts, with
| all that odiCus name implies. N
! Nothing is so painful to the leaders Of
| the populist wing OF the democrat tic party
| as the fact that their country is now pros
| porous They like the old negro who
! answered all inquiries after his health by
! saying: i am quite poorly. thank Godv
| How ungratefui and mean Is the task
| which now devolves upon politicians OF the
! Bryan-Alt Seld-Harrison stripe, They are
! actually compelled 70 go out before a pros
| porous and contented people. through a
| smiling and happy land. where the banks
are all bursting with money and where
| every factory wheel is turning, and all
| labor employed, and try TO explain away
| the splendid rosperity OF their country
! Politicians reduced ID this extremity
] should flee from land OF which they ara
| unworthy and join one Of Aguirasio's clier-
| rii'a bands in the mountains OF Luzon
| where they may meet congenial company
such men are colleagues of calamity
! and pestiIence. They are sworn allies OF
| the cut-worm and the weeVil. They are
! full partners OF the Kansas hot wind and
| the hog cholera. Nothing suits their stv,a-
| OF campaign better than an early frost
! They want i1-ceut wheat, lucent cornl and
| Decent oats and t. all the bins were empty
! even at that price. much the better for
| them. Nothing disconcerts these men so
much as a full savings bank and the sight
of working man carrying Christmas gifts
| home to his waiting children IS enough TO
give "A populist politician the cramps such
men have only one use for laborers ard
mechanics, and that is to have them sitting
! idle and ragged in a row upon the curb
stone, cursing the administration
But our country is through with demo.
cratic calamity times The holy year will
! dawn in three days more, so the pope says
and it Is going to be republican year.
In spite Of the fact that we committed the
! crime of 1873 and that we have suoverted
| the declaration of independence. establish
! ing a despotism upon its ruins: in spite OF
| the fact that we have soreIy outraged the
| historic tenderness of the democratic party
! for the down-trodden Of the earth-partic-
ularly for the black mani say, in spite OF
| all these things. the political highways are
| just all cOnVerging towards the re-
| publican party
seriously. there never was such cause tn
congratulate the country upon the outlook
for business and commerce a S now: and TO
no statesman since the days of the i'm
mortal Washington has the business Of the
! country owed so much as it now owes
to that superb Christian statesman, that
saSacious and inCOrruptibe patriot VIII
liam Mckinley. His administration has
/ TNnf N OF
II has raised our flag in the midst of a new
empire OF trade and commerce in distant
seas, and all the democrats in Christendom
assisted by our own dyspeptic college pro-
lessons OF the land, never pull that
flag down
But a painful circumstance for Mr.
Bryan TO consider is that a great many
better democrats than he ever was don't
want to pull down that flag. They have
caught tho national instinct for national
growth and trade and expansion, the moss
Is gradually peelng off from their demo-
cratic backs, and Mr.. Bryan is now finding
out that he jumped into the arms OF Carl
SchurZ rather prematurely. The anneXa-
ton OF the Philippine islands Is now an.
accomplished fact. Only madcaps and sim
pletons can talk OF giving them up Even
the south wants them: the west feels II
must have them, md the east L. rapidly
learning that a few emaciated. dyspeptic
and egotistical college professors who eat
red meat only once in II months. are not
such men had controlled the policy OF Eng
land she would to-day be of less corse-
quence than Denmark or Belgium
Gen Lawton and Gen. Young in dis
persing Aguinaldo's army have knocked
the last plank out of the democratic plat
form Free trade died forever with the
revival OF business under the Mckinley
tariff and free silver a the rate of is TO
got itself hung in the selfsame moose.
Then. with the instinct OF a drowning man
who grabs at a straw. Mr.. Bryan seized
upon anti-impcrialism and tried TO make it
a new issue. He went around quoting
Scripture and told how the wrath Of God
came upon King Ahab because ne stole
NabOths vineyard. lie declared that Pres
ident Mckinley was daring the lightnings
Of heaven and riveting chains upon our
own people because he insisted upon ex-
tending benign American rule over ter
rtory which had been acquired by treaty
He pictured the usurper and despot
Aguinaldo, who hasn't even "A tax title 10
the presidency OF his bogus republic. as
second George Washington: but now alast
his George Washington has taken 20 the
woods The Philippines are ours by pur-
chase, by conquest. by treaty. and by the
cheerful acquiescence Of the best part OF
the p0puIa tio1. Mr. Bryan's new George
Washington can on longer pose as Hhero.
Nothing mains for the new democracy'~~
but to take TO the woods with their leader,
for they have not an issue left with which
10 90 before the American people
IF the people Of the country at large
are TO be congratulated upon the success
OF our national policies. no less are the
people Of Illinois 20 be congratulated upon
the success or the party policies In this
state Illinois has been redeemed from
democratic misrule and bankruptcy The
dehcit LETT in its treasury by the rctrcatlng
Atgeid has been made good. and nobody
has crept ste8lthtlv into the treasury vault
M the dead OF night. .n order to secretly
falsify its condition during the present
republican administration The credit OF
the state which Iid not suffice Mr. Atgeld
20 borrow money 20 keep the wheels turn
ing at less than from SIX 10 ton por cent.
has been redce med. and the state can bor-
row money at az per cent. the state lnsti-
tutions are all nourishing and there is not
one OF them That IS not to-day living within
tts appropriation