Evening star., 1900-07-23
ALWAYS FOR M'KlNlEY
SENATOR HOAR'S EMPHATIC REPLY
TO ANTI-!MPERIALIST CRITICS.
The Election of Bryan Means Dis
honor and Disaster to Ameri-
can People.

In the course of a lengthy reply to re-
cent letter of George S. Boutwell,. in which
the ex-governor complained of the use
which the senator made of the formers
response to Erving Winsow. Senator Hoar
says. among other things:
II do not see how the resources of lam
guage could have made it more clear than
the governor did NO agree with me when
! quoted his letter. | was accused of apos-
tasy and replica for the purpose of showing
tina: the anti-imperialist leaders had under
stood all along that l expected to support
Mr. Mckinley. and that while they dis
agreed with me in that. they expressed
Very earnest and, in many cases, extreme
praise of my attitude in other respects. 1t
was TO; To show that they agreed with me.
but il was to snow that they knew l had
not changed my mind. and had pursued
consistent course from the beginning and
We're glad to have my help, such il was.
In spite of my adherence to the republican
party 1t was To show that this notion
that l an apostate or had abandoned
any doctrine | had professed recent
fresh invention.
Where Democracy Failed.
Senator Hoar continues:
THE democratic party failed to rise TO
the occasion. Mr.. Bryan caused the treaty
which without him would have been de-
ltdiCtl, 10 De Tdtllleu- Inc condition OF
things which l predicted has come Yet /
feel now a hope which | did not feel when
l Wrote tha- letter. While President Nc
Kinney has undertaken To subdue the Phil
ipp-ne Islands. and declares they belong to
Us and not To the people that dwell in
them. making in that declaration a great
mistake. both OF principle and policy yet
both ne ami the republican party have COM
mlJted themselves to secure to them local
seif-gOvernmtnt. 50 far as they shall be
found lit for IT l believe confidently that
they Will be found fit for it, and being
found TIT for self-government and clothed
with self-government. their Independence
VIII surely follow l see no other way out
Of this business
The election of Mr. Bryan means dis
honor and disaster to the American people
at nome. and ii Will not. in my judgment
in the least help 70 a correction of the
great mistake We have made
In the case OF Hawaii l made up nv
mlnd TO vote for annexation when President
Harrison first made the treaty They were
st decaying and perishing people and had
gone down from 3O0,oOo to 30.UpO within a
few years They had put in their consti-
tuition authority to make d treaty of annex
alton 10 the United States. We had declar-
ed for generations that We would not allow
them To be annexed to any other nation.
lhey were the natural defensive OUTPOST
for us on the Pacific. They would have
been great menace to us If any other
country had got them
81 Stand by 1t Today
i made speech in the Senate reaffirm-
Ing my former purpose to vote for annexa-
ton. but at the same time expressing my
earnest opposition 10 the irnperfalistic areu-
ments some Of its advocateswere using Now
for this / am attacked as vacillating and
changing my mind. My attitude in that mat
ter was avOwed and well known from the
beginning / stand by it today.
AN Honest Mistake"
have not changed my mind. / think
the Philippine Islands belong to the Philip
pm" people l think that people have a
FiSEt to such government as they think
good for themselves and that we have no
right TO give them such government as We
thHk good for them l lament the great
mistake that has been made, hut il has
b''h made We have now to deal with the
future -
believe the men who made that mis-
take. including the President. made il hon
'Stiy. but believe they mean to establish
ii good government in the Philippine Islands
now They mean to establish a good self
government there They are disgraced for
ever if they do not do it, Local self-90v-
'EHmeEt Will surely in the end bring inde-
peH@"HCe to any people who desire IL and
demand it, '-o
II would rather trust the future of tho
fhiippine people TO those men grieyous as
tIl"If mistake has been than To trust II IN
the men who when the treaty was pending
played and juggled with this great and
sacred matter of human liberty for a Marty
purpose f''i'