New-York tribune., 1900-10-01
THURMAN ON THE ISSUES
sCATHING DENUNCIATION OF A Ma
TIoN'S FOES.
THE "oLD ROMAN HALF A CENTURY
AGAINST THE ''ANTI-wAR" PARTY.
Gsr TELEGRAPH TO THE rHrBuxE.I

AGAINST THE ''ANTI-wAR" PARTY.
IsY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEI
sssWashington. Sept. SO-That the Demo-Pop of 1900
Is entirely different type of politician from the
Democrat of former times is indicated often and in
many different ways but probably never
stFikingly than when the attitude of the two on the
subject of the acquisition and government OF terri
tory Is compared. A Democrat Of the old school
was Allen @. Thurman, of Ohio who in his later
years was popularity known the "Od roman
Fourteen years before William Jennings I,ryan vas
BORN Mr.. Thurman member OF the National
House of Representatives.
In May. 1916. a bill passed Congress dec-aring
that war existed between the United
States and Mexico. The excited bitter
opposition in both branches of 'Ongress Among
others who spoke against it in the House OF Rep-
resentat tives of Mr.. Humans colleagues
Columbus Delano afterward Secretary of the IN
terror His speech provoked hot replies from Thur
Stephen A. Douglas. hot, indeed that
Mr.. Delano withheld his speech from The GLOBE
In the of his speech. which was delVereu
on May a. 1916, Mr. Thurman said:
Mr.. Chairman 1t was yesterday announced TO
this house that bill had passed both branches s
of Congress recognizing the existence OF ,d ~ar oe
tween this country and Mexico, had been aPpt%o1er %
by the President, and that therefore; Mnatever &
did now exist. both in contemplation Of law and IN
fact In less than hour after this announceHlent
addressing the house. The subject under consider
port of the Army
OHIO PEOPLE LOYAL TO THEIR COUNTRY.
Could the people of Ohio have been aware of these
facts. what do you suppose would have oeen theIr
Which their Representative was uttering? think,
sir that can Is ot of 1erY hundred Of
that people saying to themselves something like
$50, is upon The blood Of our 7 citizens
cantured bv Mexican troops Our army is assaed
by superior force. All that men, brave and
raised to march the assistance of our people
Regular troops must also be enlisted The energies
be brief decisive and glorious that the peace which
follows may be honorable, advantageous and per-
Different opinions may be entertained as to
some our own Government may be to blame But
IL hg o Is n not the 1 time & TO s be 11cb a9 VIM n
should be pronounced. 1t is not in the very be-
fessen our own moral force II is no time now TO
tell the world that we are the aggressors Success
in war depends not arms alone in this age OF
the world We have other the enemies and RoweTfsu s
wi VIII gladly seize on everything that seems TO put
I'VE must not furnish them with arguments
af aganst Hs Srguments @ s which would derive tneir
all, we must not dishearten our own people and
exalt the spirits of our foes We must encourage.
not decrease, the ardor OF countrymen. Did
we w even Know With certainty that our Government
much more strongly is It our duty when We cannot
will there be found any among us seeking 70
ae upon e be PsB eapS & by b n
1ade 7 y, tr be revived TX and an attempt be again
ton in the midst Of war f on the charge that on It.
ana not on the enemy rests the responsibility Of
we see that Congress has acted promptly, and we
rejoice to see it. Some few it appears voted as II
learn that their number was so small
MIsREPREsENTED BY \ REPRESENTATIVE.
Such Mr.. Chairman believe would have been
they would have been sadly sadly mistaken. Could
the voice of their Representative have reached
Of he i'm
country from the charge Of having been the ag-
foudiy accuse use the President of HAVING want6niy
and and wickedly produced the war; instead Of bearing
they would have heard him deno1nce it a war
upon US rs againsf our our viii thev would nave heard
made by our Chief Magistrate: instead OF hear
own @ Nation. they Would have heard t' him Sfirm
nho snd Of hearing Rm
utter words CT encouragement to the volunteer.
action as vast charnel house Of death; instead of
a5 baH him aPe & s 0n i results a. thS
war. the destruction Of commerce, and the yet
fear that the same denuncatons hurled against
the War Of 1872 are TO be reiterated against the
assaed Mr.. Madison is now to fall Mr.. Polk.
er%d [9e % OF tne party OF tRat
present day there is wonderful similarity. 1t is
Both tend to- weaken their S$overnment: both Tend
to make it subject of disgrace; both tend to
destroy it's moral force; both tend to put their
country in the wrong both tend to bring upon It
the condemnation of the world: both tend to
paralyze its efforts; both tend to inspire the foe.
Of aggression and punder; object is the
conquest of California; and making war
for the purpose of territorial acknowledgment.
Therefore Mr.. Delano says. 1T is unholy un-
righteous and damnable war
DELANO NOT so BAD AS BRYAN
OF course. the cases of Mr. Delano and Mr. Rrvan
who with his followers is denouncing the
Administration for its efforts to queII the 1nsot-
rectlon In the Philippines just as Mr. Delano and
his associates denounced the war against Mexico
ffty-four years ago-are not quite parallel The
former had not voted for the Mexican War bill:
nor had he given his potential aid to secure the
ratification of treaty with Mexico one of the
terms of which provided for the Cession of Cali
fornia to the United States and then turned about
and assailed tho Administration for using its au-
thority to restore and maintain order the ceded
territory.
Mr., Bryan caused the ratification of the Treaty
or Paris after he and everybody else knew that
Aguinaldo and his followers had already nIanned
and begun an insurrection against the authority
or the United States. TO whicn Spain had Ceded
her sovereignty over the Philippine archipefagO
MT Thurman's arraignment of Mr.. DeIanO was q
severe and scathing one. Ii he were living TO-DAY
what would he say of the conduct of Mr. Rrva1
more unpatriotc and culpable than that of Mr.
Delano and his associates more than half a cen
tury ago: WI
SENATOR CHANDLER TO YOUNG MEN.
HE POINTS OUT REPUBLICAN ACHIEVE