New-York tribune., 1900-10-27
NEw-YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, OCTOBER p. 1900.

Psgenss teaches % US that thsrs are some % things
thst they can % be Corrected by govepnmenf action
without doing more harm than good. then such
experience and no one who is now talking has that
wisdom or seems likely TO have It.
Reviewing the attitude of the Democrats tow
ard the Philippine question. he continued;
therefore say that al of this violent declama-
notion of turning the country over 10 the Demo-
cratic party because Mr. Mckinley has tried to
practically ali of the Democrats joined is absurd.
to enforce the authority W Of the United States in
the Philippines doubtless the chief charge against
false to his trust and had abandoned the hard
won possessions Of his country.
MR.. ODELL'S REMARKS.
Benjamin B. OdelI. 1r, the Republican candi-
date for the Governorship, got a rousing recep-
tion. In the course of his speech he said;
Learning nothing from experience, Mr.. Bryan
miltarism and trusts. hoping thereby 70 conceal
the real issue. Notwithstanding the fact that, az
in the free and unlimited coinage of silver. subter-
ASK the Republican party why they coin silver
of other nations" his answer the other day
to query as to his position upon this question:
FIVE cents worth OF paper to print thousand dollar
0 Is R & for ne e9Sd @ 30 S9tn not VINE he SILVER
in the dollar any more than the paper in the bill.
majority had pledged the Government that. what
ever the form of the dollar, its value was one hun
No sophlstry, pretence, can hide this great
issue from the American people Shall we continue commune
the value of dollar up the full issue of one
and bind ourselves to a dollar that does not pos
sess the value IL purports TO represent? Mckinney
esty. Mr.. Bryan has been going through the state.
deerying against everything without onerins any any
efh paRy fnr he guile he
The whole drift of Mr. Bryan's talk is one of mis-
representation He has been going about deciaim-
ing against Governor Roosevelt because ne does
not suppress the Ice Trust. He knows or ought to
know that the Chief Executive is not the Court:
and it remains to the Judiciary to interpret and
issue its own mandates. Mr. Bryan whose love love
for the judiciary is not prover6iai may not regard
9 Ydz as ra yeTy 80 obstacle 6Tt We 90
Roosevelt can remove Mayor Van Wyck, II guilty,
vigorously prosecuted by the Attorney General ne
has more power in the matter Of suppression OF
right to denounce trusts. but how about those who
attack them and grow rich out Of the proflts! xo,
that the State and Legislature should remain with
National Administration should remain under Re
publican control During the last two years many
laws have been enacted Rail as our opponents
may. yet the fact remains that no law has been
place upon the statute books that is discredi to
the Republican party. Neither has any law been
passed without due consideration as to its i'm,
anu state eXtraVagance IS question Which snouIu
receive the attention of the incoming Administra-
of the purpose of party for economical govern
ment. The growth of our corporate interests and
am sure entirely relieve real estate from the bur
dens OF State taxation. Economies in the various
commissions and executive department AT Albany
probably be effected and in this direction
pledge my hearty cooperation, if elected.
But it is not alone in State matters should
concern ourselves. The growing tax rate and con-
stantly increasing expenditures here in New-York
are such as should be restrained and the tendency
to municipal extravaganza checked New-fork
the great commercial city Of our country is entitled
wharfs and docking privileges should be given,
to which we are entitled. Municipal ownership of
water is also subject of deep concern, and the
repeal of any law. grant franchise which would
hinder this. has the pledge of both the party and
its candidates
WHAT. EX-GOVERNOR BLACK SAID.
Ex-Governor Black was cheered again and
again IntermingIed with the applause
many cries of 'Hurrah for our next Senator!'
He said, in part:
keep the real issues in the background and the
h IN @ Tine bat fP9a There fba1 is mere mere 5s IL
framing them. The chief purposes are to bring
Courts To these three the Democratic party is
nC m 1T but they have been too
distrust s vie" e''eF 70 arouse s''''S'' OF escape
They are therefore ordered to the rear for the
present, and high o.nding titles have been sub
stituted in their place Anti-imperialism is not
attempts TO conceal the things in which it believes
by shaking in the faces or the American people
scarecrows in which no one believes That kind OF
campaigning win meet the same fate which ought
to Overtake any campaign which is not fought upon
homes. lines When the music and firing stop next
that the people have not aimed at the scarecroWS
at al. but have shot straight at the real dangers
and dropped them in the dirt.
The doctrine of free silver, which has pelted the
West with the fury of a haStOrm. slowly subsidies
on its passage toward the East till the last echo
dies away on the banks of the Mississippi River.
There relay must be harnessed and a new
cry must be raised Imperialism Is substituted for
free silver and the army OF political ragamufins
m he
"enemy's country They do not believe that i'm
perialsm is among the intentions the dangers of
every present impulse, every hope for the future
guarantees that hey' will not deviate from the
path which they have so long followed, to the ad-
rnlration ana envy or the human race. Every
American knows too well the blessings OF a reDub-
lie and many naturalized Americans know too well
the sorrows OF an empire.
DEMOCRATIC INTEREST IN COLORED RACE.
This recent profound and active Democratic inter-
est IN the colored race suggests strange anomaly
in the Democratic character We all remember
that this sacred Constitution whose mantle
is affeCtionately spread over the Colored
natives of the Philippines, was twice amended in
order to from the outrage of Democratic
hands the COlored natives of the United States
If that party had been in the past socitous
for the liberties of the peaceful Southern negro
1t now is for the rights OF the rebelious Philippine
barbarian, the most disgraceful chapter in Amerf-
politics would never have been written negro
blood. Even the amended Constitution. which, in
just and immortal words, guarantees the rights OF
the negro has been powerless even within our own
borders to secure to that Wronged and suffering
has injected into that instrument in behalf of
naked and unciviliZed allen. The same hand that
would stultify the Constitution protect the
Phlnpplne savage has raped II many a time to de-
grade the American negro. Those islands will
be surrendered upon the demand of enemies either
at home abroad and the rights of the Southern
~ tha last