The Globe-republican., 1900-10-11
RATIONAL HONOR OVER
COLONIAL QUESTIONS.
Why Judge HornbIower De-
clines to Support Bryan.
Opinion of a Leading New York Jurist
Whose EIeI alton TO the Supreme
Bench Was Beaten by
D. B. Hill.

New York;
Judge William B. Hornblo~er of New
York, who was nominated to the SUI
preme bench Of the United States by
President Cleveland, and whose confirm
alton was beaten in the Senate for pure
" personal causes by David B. HI, has
made the following statement why he,
Democrat, cannot support Bryan:
I have been repeatedly asked during
the past few weeks what, in my judg
ment, is the duty of Gold Democrat
who is also Anti-Imperialist, IN the
pending presidential campaign. The
question is by no means q simple one,
and can we'll understand and appreciate
the position taken by such men as Mr.
Schnrz, Mr. Shepard and Mr. OIney-
For my part, however, L cannot see
my way clear to reaching their concur
sions. The same reasons which compel
ed me to oppose Mr.. Bryan in 1896 COM
pei me to oppose him in the present cam
paign- All the heresies, financial and
Populistic, which We're embodied in the
un-Democratic, crazy-quilt Platform of
1896 readopted without any attempt
a modification or modification by the
Kansas City platform The 16 to L plank
IS expressly reaffirmed and redeclared,
and this at the instance of Mr. Bryan
himself I cannot support candidate
who still adheres to proposition which
to my mind. is Il n,onstrosity and which.
IL carried into effect, would in my Judg
ment produce untold disaster to al
classes of the community and bring dis
honor and humiliation to our nation Tho
fact, if it be fact, that recent 1egisla
eion has made it difficult for Mr. Bryan
% carry into practice his avowed pr1nci
pies does not, it seems to be. make
any the more right to vote for mai
Who still maintains these principles ]
IS quite within the sibiiities that dur
ng his administration, if he should be
aIected Il complete change might be eff
fected in the political composition of boil
houses of Congress, and the verdict o.
he vsanvle cIIJrnSSad n fha nDiiS in favor
Of Mr. Bryans election President
night be carried into effect 1t viii Ger
ainly be Mr. Bryan's duty. according t.
lis expressed declaration, to do what IL
aim lies to bring about this result.
Il is not to be forgotten that AR Bryan
is not only the candidate of what is left
of the Democratic party, but he is the
candidate also of the Ponu1ist party. and
has accepted the nomination their plat
form The radical notions of the Popu-
lists If ever carried into effect in this
country, would reduce popular govern
ment to a position where should be
the laughing stock of the nations. and
would produce reaction in the minds of
the voters which would carry us far in
which [ suppose will be conceded to be
of vastly more moment to US and to our
posterity than colonial Imperialism. In
deed, the chief objection to colonial I'M
periaiisrn is its probable effect upon our
domestic institutions. and its tendency to-
wards charging the powers of the execu-
i've as between the executive ana the
legislative departments OF the govern
ment, and towards increasing the pow
ers of the Federal government as be-
tween itself and the States.
The Quest ton to what Is the para
| mount issue in this campaign is one on
which men may honestly differ 1t seems
to me. however, that the most important
issue before at the present moment is
! whether domestic affairs to be
thrown into confusion and exposed to dis
aster- The rights and wrongs of our co
loniaf possessions must in this emergency
| be subordinated to the rights and wrongs
/ of our own affairs
Furthermore. 1 am by means salts
| fed that Mr. Bryan would be safe per
/ son to whom to intrust the imperia1istic
questions which will confront us in the
| future In my Judgment he ought to
/ have made his fight a the time when the
treaty with Spain was before the Sen
ate. He should have upheld the hands
! Of such dissenting Republicans as Sena-
! tor Hoar, and he should have opposed &c
the bitter end the principle of buying for
3 eign peoples without their consent and in
: the midst OF n war for independence or
their part BY supporting the treaty Mr.
Bryan made himself a party TO its com
pact. and is. more than any other one
man, except Mr. Mckinley. responsible
F., for the situation The treaty was rati
he'd. the purchase money was paid. the
| islands are IN our possession In my
/ Judgment the question of their future
and Of our future. determined indi
recfly by their future, must wait until we
have settled the question of the present
and that question is whether honesty in
tegrity and common sense shall be ap
piled TO the financial affairs of the United
| be given to the vagaries. whins, a-Id fal
facies of the Popuiists and Organizes
| with all the resulting disaster and dis
| honor
WILLIAM B. HoRNBLowER.
New York, Sept Is