Little Falls herald., 1900-09-14
CHANGE Of FRONT
REPUBLICANS BELIEVED IN
DECLARATION OF lNOE =.
PENDENCE TWENTY
FOUR YEARS AGO.

PENO6NCE WEN
FOUR YEARS AGO.
"A Wall Of Distress From Han
mas Secretary-Van SAINTS
Plans, According to Bixby
Republicans Plead Guilty
The Return Of Olney-Mis-
cellaneous Matter.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 10, 1900.
The Republicans were not afraid Of
the Declaration of Independence "a
years ago. In their platform Of 1876
they professed faith in that part of the
time-honored declaration Of rights
which they now regard as obsolete.
The platform contained this plank:
"The Repu ublican party has preserved
this government to the hundredth an
niversary of the nations birth. and the
party's principles are now the embodl"
n,ent Of the great truths spoken at its
cradle; that all men are created equal
and they are endowed by their Creator
with certain inalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness; that for the attainment
of these ends governments have been
instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent Of the
governed
Perry S. Heath, the secret tary of Mark
Hanna's national committee, has sent
confidential letter to the faithful with
wall of distress. He says that Mr..
drawal of our army from the Philip
pines some time next year. From
Republican viewpoint this would be
an awful calamity. It develops that
the Republican leaders do not expect
the Filipinos ever to be pacit1ed. An
army is be kept in the islands for all
time. In his speech at Alexandria
some days ago Senator Knute Nelson
announced without reserve that stand
ing American army in the Philippines
will be necessary after the war is over.
Bryan, on the other hand, does not be-
lieve in the permanent maintenance of
American troops at the anti podes. He
wants the people Of the Philippines to
enjoy the blessings of liberty and indie.
pendence; and when he says that those
distant islands shall not forever be ruled
by the American soldiery, the Repub.
ican committee crosses itself and says:
'Isn t it awful"
It is no secret that Captain Van SAINT
fought against the election of Knute
Nelson to the United States senate.
What he might do now, if he were to
become governor, is not in itself an
important question, since the supposed
contingency will not come to pass. But,
still, the friends of Senator Nelson may
find some food for thought in what
Tams Bixby's paper, the Red Wing
Daily Republican, said on the subject
two years ago. In its issue of June 3,
1898, Tams Bixby's paper said:
"No one should be such an innocent
politically as to suppose that the com.
bine, whose headquarters are at pres.
ent in the state capitol at st. Paul, pro-
poses to go out of existence after hav-
ing accomplished SO trifling an achieve
ment as the nomination of state
ticket this year. No political combina-
ton ever works that way. They are
gotten up to last, and they take into
the scope of their plans and work all
the places and emoluments that will be
for distribution for years to come.
Otherwise men would not give their
time and energy to work so tempor-
ary and trifing.
This is the case in the present emer-
gency. It pleases the combine, Of
course, to say that Governor Clough
wants nothing for himself, and that
the nomination of Van SAINT will be the
elimination of his pure and self
sacrificing political existence. This
kind Of talk may go down with a polit-
ical tenderfoot, but anyone less unso-
phisticated does not need to be taught
that the real plan runs far into the dis
tance and contemplates the couircl Of
every state and federal place within the
reach of any citizen of Minnesota.
"As an illustration, it is worth noting
that the Clough- Van SAINT workers are
passing the word around quietly, when
they think that it will do good rather
than harm, that what they are after is
not governorship merely, but sem
atorship as we'll. This is done to stim-
ulate interest in quarters where some
great incentive is necessary, but there
is no reason to doubt that it represents
the exact fact. Not one, but both SEN
atorships, have been part Of the great
prize which the combine have set out
to acquire for themselves.
Senator. Davis was marked for the
slaughter originally, and the alliance of
leaders last fall included pledge to
unite in defeating his reelection. The
progress of events have made him so
popular that this purpose has to be con-
cealed if not abandoned. What the
Clough.Van SAINT people intend is still
to beat Davis if there is the .remotest
chance, by the use of any means or in
fuence known to politics., to send
Clough to Washington in his place. If
this cannot be done without the wreck
ing Of their other schemes, then they
will swallow the Davis pill with q wry