The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-07

they say that secured the ratification of
the treaty.
1T seems to me that if 1 had to help
the President secure the ratification Of the
treaty that closed the war, the kerubli-
cans ought to feel more kindly towards
me than they do. If your President and
your party in authority In both houses
could lot get the treaty ratified without
my help, 1 am not such a bad man as you
thought. No, my friends, 1 have not yet
found a single Senator who has publicly
declared that he voted for the treaty be-
cause l wanted him to; but Senator We'll
lington has said that he voted for the
treaty because the President asked him
to, and promised that the Filipinos should
not be held permanently If the treaty was
ratified; so that If you attempt to prove
that am responsible for the treaty you
cannot do 1t; but you can prove by Sena-
tor Wellington that the treaty would not
have been ratified but for the promise of
your President.
But will say that If the Republican
party will not assume the responsibility
for the ratification of the treaty, ! will do
1t myself. Great applause) 1 favored the
ratification of the treaty. l was not a
Senator and did not have vote do not
know that my voice changed one single
vote, but l am willing to waive all that
and am willing to assume the responsible
ity for the ratification of the treaty. Blu
Republicans you must assume the respon-
for everything that has happened since
that treaty was ratified 1t was a Republi-
can President who appointed the commits
sion that made the treaty, and that treaty
was made according to the advice of the
President and that treaty might have
given independence to the Filipinos when
1t gave independence to the Cubans
Il believe that 1t should have given inde-
pendence to them when 1t gave independ-
ence to the Cubans, and if when 1t was
m q dn toh t1a -
the treaty had given independence to the
Filipinos as 1t gave independence to the Gu
bans, not one drop of American blood
would have been shed In the Philippine
islands from that time to this. (Applause)
You ask who Is responsible for the shedding
of American blood in the Philippine
Islands, and say that that party is respon-
sible for the shedding Of blood that was
responsible for a treaty that made free men
of Cubans and tried to make vassals of the
Filipinos. Great applause)
wnIIiten in Vain
Whenever you hear a Republican say
that am responsible for the ratification of
the treaty, l want you to listen and see IL
he adds that I also favored a resolution
promising independence to the Filipinos,
and you will listen in vain. The Repub-
lican charges me with helping to ratify that
treaty, and Is not honest enough to tell you
at the same time that favored resolu-
tion that would have prevented bloodshed
IN the Philippine islands, and made them
our friends instead of our enemies.
81 resigned by commission in the army
on the 10th day of December That day the
treaty was signed 1t was accepted on the
18th of December. On the 18th Of December
l gave out an interview. 1t was published
in the papers on the morning of the 14th,
SO that lthe interview appeared two days
after my resignation was accepted, and in
that interview pointed out that It was bet
~ he frna attyn md 6naIn hi
tion's purpose by resolution, which would
promise the independence to the Filpinos
and end the war, than to reject the treaty.
What Republican Is honest enough to