Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-11-01

alton Of Independence and the con-
stitution OF the United States for
the benefit Of syndicates and niil-
lionaires who sing "God save the
Queen" ut the millionaires BAN
quets in New York. In the terri
tory annexed by the democratic
party the American citizen could
hitch up his old bull or mule team,
and with his wife and babies pull
out for the new land and acquire a
home in virgin soil. The demo-
cratic party has been the party OF
American expansion. We ex-
banded in 1903 and got Louisiana.
We expanded in 1919 and got
Florida. We expanded in 1845
and got Texas. We expanded in
1S4S and got California. But in
each and every instance the treaty
provided that the new territory
was to be part Of the American
Republic. That was expansion;
that was growth; that was devel-
opment; that was craftsmanship;
that was broadening out the prin-
ciples of tho Declaration Of Inde-
pendence; it was giving more
people the benefit of our constitu
tiunal form Of government; it was
. blessing to humanity; and
finally, it requires no army of
100, 600 men to hold by force Of
arms the territory acquired and
annexed by the democratic party.
Mr.. Hepburn Indignantly de-
MED the charge that the treaty
made with the sultan OF Sulu
sanctioned the existence of elavary
in those Mahomedon islands, where
polygamy and slavery are estab-
lished institutions hoary with age
The damning evidence is found in
the treaty itself, and it has alien
ated thousands and thousands Of
the most prominent republicans in
the land from the support Of the re.
publican party, because it has re-
pudiated it's historical record as
the champion of human freedom
and has descended under the lead.
ership, of Hanna and the trusts
and syndicates which control the
administration to depths of infamy
which would make Lincoln, Sum.
ner, Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Gar.
rison and other abolition leaders
turn in their graves if they new
the situation which the once Crane
old republican party has created
q situation hostile to liberty ans
dangerous to constitutional govern
lnent. AS Senator Hoar the ven.
cradle and hide-bound republican
senator from Massachusetts,, said il
the senate: cit is greater
danger than we have encountered
since the Pilgrims landed at Ply
mouth-the danger that we are to
be transformed from a Republic
founded on the Declaration of In
dependence, guided by the coun.
sells of Washington, into a vulgar
commonplace Empire, founded o,
physical force"
| One Of the presidential electors
on the republican ticket faSstTzv .s
Virginia has resigned and is nov
stumping his state for Bryan.
Senator Shoup is evidently
firm believer in the adage tina
"Public Office is a Private Snap,
His brother, james A. Shoup, i
United States marshal for Alaska
and his brother-in-law, James Glen
dening, is superintendent of tn
, Bitter Root and Priest river Fcres
; reserves, and a Salt Lake man a
! that. Marshal Shoup came all tn
, way from Alaska tn stump Idah
J for his brother, aud Glend-nnin
, and all his Forest Ranger appoint
. ees are out in the woods whoopin,
it up for Shoup. Meanwhile tn
dear people pay the freight.
A. F. PARKER.