The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-22
Big RATIFICATION
Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth
Wards Join Their
Forces.
CROWDS SHOW THEIR ENTHUSIASM
Gov. William Stone Makes
a Ringing Democratic
Speech.
CROWDS SHOW THEIR ENTHUSIASM


enthusiasm Saturday night Between fif-
teen hundred and two thousand voters
attended the great mass meeting held un-
der the auspices of the Tenth, Eleventh
and Twelfth Ward Democratic Clubs, at
the headquarters of the Eleventh Ward
Club, Oriental Park. The pavilion and
park were packed. Each of the clubs
paraded before the meeting and as they
marched through the streets, headed by
military bands and fife and drum corps,
they were greeted with fireworks and
cheered by the populace.
DR.. John Connell presided. Charles Es-
terbrook was secretary. The following
were vice presidents:-A. Hollingshead, H.
Newman, L. Seggell, NJ Hammerschlag,
j. Conway, J. Blohm, F. Hund, F. Gantz-
berg, H. friedman, c. Rex, P. G. Graf
ner. George Feibel Henry Waltman, Rob-
ert ]. Mcmillan, NJ. McGivern, R. Kasse-
berg. Edward F'leckenstein. Thomas
Lynch, S. P. Meehan. c. Boldecker, H.
Risker. H. Custen, F. Sehaul, ]. Schrae-
der, F. Fincken, William Haskell, H.
Cassidy. F. Seibert, H. Weisaenborn, c.
F. Staples, 5. Nagle, o. Weissenborn,
John Mehl. Jr.. A. Walter, R. Cullum,
c. Willms, George McEwan, John Boldt,
Henry Meyer, NJ. Kuntz, R. Sheehan, w.
TRIUMPH, w. Elliott, James Coyle. L.
Palmer, H. Prigge, H. Gaede, Claus Mey-
er, S. V. w. Stout, Martin Hackett, Gus
tav 10th, G. A. Blank Jacob Miller, Au-
gust Menge, J. Manion, G. Grot, F. Reidel,
F. Lynch. L. Sutton, c. Kindelberg, G..
Gantzhorn. L. Kleiber, Julius Berger, NJ
e. Kloop, Peter AIberts, John j. Koch,
B. Kearns, j. Bosquet, ]. Kuehne, H.
Kneisel. B. Bray, Theodore Bergen, L.
Gieichmann, Martin Logan, Charles Kno-
del. William T. Kern, Robert Cookson,
George Wilson. C. Wehrenberg. Theodore
Link, George Brackner, Ferdinand
Heintze, County Physician C. B. Con-
verse. DR.. o. H. Albanesius, Hugo Grum-
bach, C. Burmeister, L. Feinen, NJ.
o'Keefe. A Rochester, Police Justice Jas.
j Murphy.
Counsellor ]. W. Kelly was the first
regular speaker. He made a short but
eloquent address, in which the horrors
Of Republican rule were pictured
Candidate for Assembly George G. Ten
nant spoke of the Importance of carrying
the State for Democracy and discussed
Democracy's struggle for equal taxation.
Ex-Governor William E. Stone, of Mis-
souri,, sub-chairman of the National
Democratic Committee. was the principal
speaker of the evening. The Ex-Governor
is of the old school of statesmen. Hisngure,
his oratory command attention. He speaks
slowly and impressively. His address was
devoted almost entirely to discussion of
the Republican policy in the Philippines.
The Kansas City platform, he said, de-
H.
ment were inherent and were put in peril
by the policy of Imperialism
Imperialism he said, asserts the
right to rule another man or set of men
by force. 1t is doubly atrocious when
such assertion is made under the pretext
of democracy. This question is before US
as one of the consequences of our war
with Spain. The treaty of Paris ceded to
this Government the title of Spain in the
Philippines. Since then this government
has decided that the Philippines are to be
a permanent part of our domain.
1T is not proposed to hold thers as we
hold other territory obtained by treaty or
conquest. In other acquisitions it has been
provided that they should be admitted to
Statehood when the requirements for such
had been fulfilled and that until such time
the citizens should have all the rights and
privileges of citizens of the United States
This provision was left out of the Paris
treaty, and must have been omitted with
certain fixed object in view
The government proposes to hold the
Philippines not as territories, but as pure
dependencies without promise or hope of
Statehood. 1t is proposed to hold the
Filipinos not as citizens but as vassals
or subjects. We are to exercise the right
to tax them without their consent and to
govern them without representation. We
may open their ports TO our products, and
close ours to theirs 1t is proposed to
exercise a despotic and arbitrary rule.
That is imperialism, and our opposition
TO it makes the issue of imperialism.
(Applause)
If the Mckinley policy is endorsed at
the next national election there is only
one of two things we can do. we must
hold them as we hold our other terri
tories with the ultimate object of admit
ting them to Statehood, or we must turn
away from our old policy and hold them
with no purpose of ever admitting them
as States. For the purpose of argument
will admit that the American people
will never consent to allow another people
struggling for freedom to be governed
against their will. AS matter of public
policy ought we to hold them for the pur-
pose of admitting them to Statehood? I
would oppose holding them for any such
purpose, if every Filipino should clamor
for annexation. Looking at it from purely
an American point of view it would be
fatal in the extreme to the best interests
of our country.
Tt would be disastrous to our industrial
life." the speaker contended "The
Fillipinos earn from seven to eighteen
cents day in the fields. Admit them to
citizenship and they could go anywhere.
They would swarm into the States, at
tracted by higher wages. If we open our
doors to them we invite an invasion which
would make allsour past legislation in the
interest Of labor trivial. Against holding
them as hotages enter solemn protest.
If We go forward In this policy it win
An Old and Well Tried Remedy
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