Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-25

cratic Congressmen who voted against
The measure In the attitude Of oppos-
Ing measure appearing, nominalIy at
least, to be aimed against the trusts"
A gentleman In the audience remark
ed further that the constitutional
proposed would have
placed the people absolutely at the
mercy Of the United States Senate, to
which the Judge replied that 1t would.
And he reviewed the character of the
Senate by showing how the seats
therein had come to be acquired by
purchase, by bargain and sale, as was
done by Mark Hanna from Ohio. The
speaker then called upon his hearers
to note how the President had ratified
Mark Hanna's purchase of his seat by
rewarding with federal appointment
every legislator whose vote had been
bought to effect Hsnna's election.
This is the character OF the body,
composed Of trust lawyers or trust
agents, to whom the Republican party
has proposed to commit the responsi-
bility of enforcing laws against the
trusts.
The Judge closed his remarks by re-
ferring to the coercion and intimida-
tion which would be brought to bear
In the last days of the campaign to
cause voters to support the Republi.
can ticket against their wishes. He
told of the fake reports about con.
tracts that "were not to be discharged
in the event Of Mr.. McKinley's defeat"
and told his hearers not to be alarmed
about them; that they were made for
political effect only; that the deter.
mining point in all contracts was not
the election of any particular candi-
date to the Presidency but that it de-
pended solely upon whether or not
the contracting parties could make any
money by the transaction. He said
that when voters position unfortu-
nately depended upon his expressed
political convictions that workingman
could not be blamed for assembling,
| for permitting his employer to believe
that he would support the candidate
| favored by the side of coercion, but
| that when the time came to vote the
workingman should do so according to
his own convictions.
II will divide my last crust Of bread
with neighbor if he be in want"
concluded the Judge, "but never will
divide with any man, high or low, my
convictions or my right to cast my vote
as see fit"
The Judge told of the independent
and contented condition of the New
England farmers Of 100 years ago. as
described by President Timothy
Dwight, the celebrated president
Of Yale College, in book written
at that time. President Dwight
had said that he wanted the
people of 1900 to know how the people
of 1900 lived. In striking contrast with
the conditions today, when the army of
tenant farmers is growing every year
when one per cent. of the people OWL
more than rs per cent. of the nations
wealth, were the Ideal conditions de-
scribed by Presiden, Dwight, when ev.
cry farmer owned his own land anO
was independent, prosperous and con
tented; men who would not inhict a
wrong upon their neighbors nor permit
one to be inflicted upon themselves.
After Judge Grant had finished his
speech Mr.. w. A, Clerkin asked hin.
to explain, for the benefit of some OF
the young men present who wanted in
| IOEiudtiOl, III WHdI ulduuti uue du
ministration's foreign policy was i'm
perialistic. The Judge briefly referred
to the attempt of the administration
to govern subject peoples without theil
consent outside of the constitutions; t.
the discrimination against the Porte
Ricans at the behest Of the Sugar
trust, to President Mckinley's omis
sion from his letter of instruction t.
his Philippine Commissioners of ths
right of the Filipinos to a trial by Jury
as guaranteed by the Constitution il
the Sixth Amendment, and to the
boast of Secretary of War Elihu Roo
that the inhabitants of American col
onies have no rights not guaranteed by
the treaty whereby they We're cedee
to America, and which treaty specifi
cally left to Congress the determination
of those rights-the same doctrine tha,
was practiced by George III when h,
promised good government to tn,
American colonies at the time OF tn,
revolution.
President Bachtel requested tn,
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