The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-04

bot, Chief of the Press Bureau of Demo-
cratic National Headquarters.
Represen tative Adamson of Georgia was
a caller at Democratic headquarters this
morning. Mr.. Adamson is here on private
business.
DR.. W. A Croffut, who styles himself a
Bryan Republican was among the callers
at Democratic headquarters today. DR..
Crofut who Is widely known as writer
and lecturer in discussing with Times
man his reasons for refusing 10 support
Mckinley and Roosevelt, said:
eyes, I have always been Republican
Never scratched my party ticket but once,
and have always been ashamed OF that
fact, for I think that any intelligent erea-
ture ought to scratch his ticket more than
once In a lifetime. But this VIII make
twice.
~ ana a Bryan Republican this year
Why? Because the leaders of the Repub-
lican party are recreant to their trust ana
have abandoned the principles on which
the party of Abraham Lincoln was found
ed. That party was distinctly founded on
the Declaration of Independence. 1t af-
hrmed over and over again that all men
have an equal right to freedom and that
all governments derive their just power
from the consent Of the governed rms
year for the first time, such panderers OF
tyranny as Mark Hanna and I. G. Plaft
affirm that only some men are created free
and that the declaration that govern
ments derive their just power from the
consent OF the governed is not true and
never vast
so we go into the colonial business.
We buy the Philippine Islands from rot
ten monarchy that does not own them and
cannot deliver them. Our officers delude
the people of those islands into ii belief
that it IS their independence we are hight
ing TO establish. We lie TO them, cheat
them, and then, after deliberately and spe-
cifically making them our allies, we hre
upon them, We chase them 10 the
swamps and mountains We lombard
their towns. We burn their wTetched huts.
We slaughter their Unarmed people We
send out a company armed with MauseTs
and it comes back boasung that IL mas
slain ninety-two Filipinos without the loss
of a mani Oh, shame! shame. And the
Republican party in convention has ap-
proved of it!
And how is all this to end? How are
these 10. 00e, 600 brought under our flag to
affect American labor? They are glad to
get u cents a day for their work. They
grow and make all that they consume.
What customers these people will be Tor
our farmers and factories?
II am for Bryan this year without the
slightest regard 10 the subordinate issues
of the Kansas City platform OF what
consequence is the currency ques-
ton when the life Of the Republic is at
stake? Everybody issued shinplasters dur
ing the Revolution, and the patriots limp
ed and stumbled along 20 the end without
reforming the currency. When the civil
war of 1861 broke out the country was
flooded with wildcat money but 1t was
not mentioned in the platforms.
THE question now is. can the United
States hold colonies and subject yassa1s
TO be arbitrarily governed by the military
power, without the aid OF Congress, and
outside of the Constitution? If Congress is
to govern them they must be under the
Constitution, for Congress itself is crea'
ture of the Constitution, and without it
has no existence Fer the President t.
govern colonies is Imperialism. Mckinley
has piled up crimes against human rights
md against the Constitution that ought
song since. to have entitled him TO i'm
peachment If he is reelected it will bt
tribute to tyranny that will constitute 8
Iisgrace to the Republic that was founded
10 preserve and extend the domain OF hu
nan ijbarty'