The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-23
0ARk'S LETTER
Mark Hanna Seems to
Have Gone Daft.
enARES THE REPUBLICANS.
whenever He Opens His Mouth
He Puts His Foot In It.
grTBRIDGB WANTS IMPERIALISM.

gfTBRIDGB WANTS IMPERIALISM,
u.orTd HoId Cuba Regardless of Ou-
Promise and the Desires Of That
Corutrv-Corgressnnan Jett ON Ar
NY AbUses- Officers Promoted to
Give Them Higher SaIaries-A Con
eraI FOR One Overwhelmingly Loses
Observation-Disclosures the Peon1a
special Washington letter.
The ~corsensus Of public opinion even
among the Republicans appears to be
+hat when Mark Hanna opened his
mouth in Chicago he put his foot in if
More AMI worse than this, q great
many people assert hat the handling
of much Doodle hath made Mark mad,
r in plain everyday American he is
%rdottv." Governor Mount of Indiana
hop0ed on to him with both feet and
talked about him in as vicious a man.
rqr as any anarchist could do. While
lam neither the legal. political nor spir-
araI adviser OF Mark, l advise him to
consider the wisdom Of the old saying,
"Ltt the shoemaker stick to his last"
which being interpreted in this in
stance means that Mark should stick
70 his barrel. Before he delivered his
great historical grafton at Chicago he
should have remembered the Rev. Mr..
Rvrcha"d and been warned by his ex-
ample. When the votes + in and it is
.-.,,J +Jo+ D,,,~ . 49,
Mark viii be the most thoroughly exc
Grated man in America. Now he is
hing. emperor, ear. tycoon, sultan and
prerytltug else that is high and
mighty: then there will be none SO poor
&tOd do him reverence.
The Cat Oct of the Tag.
Senator Beveridge let the cat out of
tie bag in his Chicago speech. That
Effort is imperialism pure and simple.
The young senator from the Wabash
0atendS that only n mistake has
tan made by US in all this Spanish
ggbap-Philippine business. and that
vas he resolution ~solenlnly passed by
-1gress and sOlemnly signed by the
~Sldeut prOclaiming to the world that
tie CuhanS are and of right ought to
BE- Lee and independent and declar-
Ing that We were not interfering in the
>a2tSL-Cuban imbroglio for purposes
ri land grabbing or territorial aggran-
lEemeut. He ~aSSeyerateS that we
--4t to hold Cuba forever. nolens vO-
.rs l wonder if he thinks that con-
CESS passed that resolution and the
PRESIDENT signed it just for amuse-
rputt Or was it done to accomplish
S-e great purpose? The latter is the
truth II was passed for two reasons.
10th good and suticicnt-first, to salts
Il our X conScicnceS; second, to set
ourselves right in the eyes of other ma
tarS, to secure their good opinion. to
@5y their fears. to remove the suspl-
.au that We were starting on q career
Of universal conquest. And that sol
emu resolution accomplished all those
ends. We never did q wiser thing, and
resolution of congress ever wrought
lore good to this great republic. Now,
Senator Beyeridge and men OF his llk
Ind their way we would repudiate that
ESgluti5u, act with punic faith toward
-1 "y'll IN eneral tHe CuHaiiS ~
~'Ut-'a', and write ourselves down III
~>-l.t rs Il set OF consclencclcSS ila!S.
N7-a(ot beIeridge appears to be inca
.o.'e of recognizing h fact that any
'9-t has any conscience. lie
"A ms speech in h senate a line OF
'.Acy in the Philippines which is prop
wy 4eA9uIHated as wholesale grand
"'eeny, When the Republican cam
rag" committee burned 20O.Ooo copies
I'll that speech because it was afraid to
@~l 'lc1 OFT, he ought to have learn
p" l-at there are still people in this
WHO possess II clerlsh d
.-se u. I-4t That was q severe jolt
- "D4-a nave taught n yaluaDle les
'- 10 almost anybody except BeVer-
,--e. Like Ephraim of old. lie appears
fg ~" 5'.'.I 70 his idols and is abso-
"'g'E M~cynlgible.
A nroinv Deooc-nt.
Among t.c Young Democrats n the
+l4>o o. r#~uvnsnptatiyaS there is no
Her fgr-. +.ao a. d., Thomas N
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