The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-14
Twisting the Martyred Presidents Ut
terances, without Regard to
Truth, to Suit Their Purpose.
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED
A QUESTION MIR. BRYAN SHOULD BE
ASHAMED TO DISCUSS
Constitution Continually Violated by
Southern Members of His Party
DUTY of the Nation

WATERFOWL, s. D.. Sept lS.-The spe-
cial train bearing the Roosevelt part.
stopped for brief time this forenoon at
Castlewood. where Governor Roosevelt ad
dressed large crowd from the rear plat
form. At Watertown. the next stop. a
very considerable demonstration had been
arranged This small town is situated Ia
Coddngton county. which enjoys the repu-
tation OF having sent more men to the
Spanish war relatively to the population
than any other county In the United States.
In the courthouse square the first shaft
that haa been raised In this country to the
M CRY of those who died in Cuba and the
Philippines in the United States has been
erected. The meeting was in the open air.
Governor Roosevelt was followed by Gov
ernor Shaw of Iowa, Senator Knute Nell
son and Col. Lee Slower. Governor Roose-
Welt said. in part:
II would like to discuss not only the
serious questions of free silver, of the
trusts, of the tariff, of the orderly preser-
vation of law and the uphoding of the flag.
Y but L would like to discuss even the opera
bouffe questions OF militarism and imper-
ialism presented by our opponents. South
Dakota used TO be straight Republican
A Le nber OF men. good men, finally drifted
off from us lured by false promises and de-
hold somebody and something responsible
the Republican party stood before them
and they held it responsible.
With an efflontery which is difficult to
determine, certain of Democratic
friends have the audacity TO say that they
represent the principles of the founders of
the Republican party of long ago.
congratulate ourselves upon the fact that
when we asked for the support of the peo-
pie We did not have TO say that. though
we are Republicans now, IL must be un-
derstood we are not at all what Repub-
licans were, but we are like what Demo-
Gratis were. We don't say that We are Re-
publicans, that We are the heirs of the
men who fought to victorious finish the
great civil war. We say that are the
representatives and heirs of the men who
established a home-seekers law In the
West; we are the representatives and heirs
| OF the men who passed the tariff legislation
and of the men who stood and do now
| stand for sound money. We form a party
of coherent principles. and now, if the lead
| ers of our party of 1850 were alive. they
| would find us quoting their words and act
| ing UP to their principles and rising up
| 10 bid them welcome in our councils.
AN "IMMEDIATE'' ISSUE.
'Our opponents say they are like the
| old Democrats; they say they belong to the
Democratic party. but they have none of
| its old principles left. That is fine con-
| fession of faith for party TO make Mr.
| Bryan having fought on definite issue
| four years ago and failed, still keeps that
| issue i'm the foreground and says Ii is i'm
| mediate. He says with reference to an
| other issue that 1t is paramount | shall
| not try to enter into any nice distinction
| between what is immediate and what is
| paramount. Fortunately OH our side we
| stand by all of our issues. We stand by
| them straight
LET me point out just few things that
4 he ad,
/ tion in its financial policy or it's economic
| administration. When they took up this
new issue of Imperialism they were simply
working themselves under the mantle of
! Mr.. Clevelands secretary of state Mr. Oh
/ ney, as he stood when he went out of Of
| flee The attitude in which the admins
| tration stood at the end of Mr.. Clevelands S
| term and the attitude assumed by his sec
| retary of state toward Spain had become
| so abject, so almost seryile, that FitZhugh
| Lee was only able to keep his place and
| keep in direct line of the Instructions of his
| chiefs while insisting that American citi-
| Zens should not be imprisoned without war
rant of law and insisting that though he
| could not stop the butchery of Cubans by
| Spaniards there should be no butchery of
American citizens by Spaniards.
1 lean flag. They have used the word para
mount In connection with that transaction.
| They hauled down the American flag and
announced in Congress that the policy of
! the administration was that the United
/ States could not embark on a policy of
| Imperialism and development; they said it
| could not be done. They said we have no
| right to do 1t. The Democrats were united
/ on the doctrine that we must not take pos
session of Hawaii, just as they were united
| in 1864. when they said the civil war was
failure.
This country. In spite OF the Democracy
/ Just keeps moving. When you move the
| top of any mass you move the bottom too
/ AS We move along the Democrats gradu-
| ally move up and accept as true what we
| have accepted as true about a quarter of 81
| century before. Mr.. Bryan now does not
venture 10 quote the words OF any Demo-
cratic candidate for President in 1850 in
| 1864 and in 1865. He has TO take tho words
OF Lincoln, and his party does not dare
| to quote from the platforms OF their cam
| didates of those dates Now there IS not
| one of them that ever says word about
| Hawaii or quotes single expression that
they used about Hawaii about eight years
| ago or six years ago, but they will soon
i move up TO the Philippines, just as they
| have moved up to Hawaii. and In two or
three years they will move UP past the
Philippine question
CALLED LINCOLN AN EMPEROR.
''The Democrats at the present time are
much excited over President Mckinley as
an imperialist. but they are not nearly
as much exercised about that as they were
about Abraham Lincoln as an imperfalist.
You have read the foul abuse OF the mo-
tives and measures of President Mckinley.
| He has been criticised in the most shame
full way, but what has been said OF him
| by our opponents might be considered
as praise as compared TO what was said
about Lincoln, the man whom they are
| now talking about and quoting i'm their
| speeches and documents. Now this seems
| absurd, but 1t is a fact which cannot be
| denied. They said In 1864 that Lincoln
wished to make himself an emperor; they
said when the army OF the Nation had con-
| quered the Southern States. that IL meant
| the formation OF an empire. In 1858 they
| from the war and they said If President
Grant was inaugurated IL would mean that