The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-07-27
BELCHING OF BIG GUNS.

BELCHING OF BIG GUNS.
The big guns of the Republican
party have been fired in the preliIni
nary skirmish. Major Mckinley al
Canton, aud Colonel Roosevelt, at
st. Paul, have sounded their senti-
ments in chosen words, intended to
be heard by the whole people of the
land. To the committee who waited
upon him at Canton, Major McKin-
ley expressed his appreciation of the
honor which had been conferred upon
him, accepted the ''exalted trust"
and promised, if elected, TO administer
it for the interest and honor of the
country" and 1.-The well being of the
new peoples who have become the
objects OF our care" He descanted
upon the purchasing and debt-paying
power of the American dollar, and
dwelt with delight upon the Dingley
bill. "a benefceRt government has
been provided for Porto Rico he
said {; then, sententially exclaimed:
There must be no Scuttle policy"
With returning breath, he passed on
to his definition of governmental pow
er over our ne W possessions and enun-
ciated the following: I'VE re-assert
the early principle of the Republican
party, sustained by unbroken judicial
presidents, that the representatives
of the people in Congress assembled
have full legislative power over terri
tory belonging to the United States,
subject to the fundamental safeguards
of liberty, justice and personal
rights"
: The address of Col. Roosevelt
at st. Paul was more on the
strenuous order; q bold, dashing
charge, going his distinguished con-
temporary upon the ticket one better
in the needless statements he made;
not unlike the valiant nineteenth CEN
tury knight at an old field tournament
who, having adjusted his lance to his
chosen elevation and hearing the
command: charge Sir knightn
grits his teeth and fast and furiously
rides pell nell past each mark. The
following is a fair sample of his hostile
breathing. formulated by him into
words which were meant to blast, like
a death dealing Sirocco: Our op
ponents,' he says, who represent all
the forces of discomfort, malice and
envy, formed and formless. vague and
concrete, can hardly be said to know
what they really do believe, because
the principles they profess, if put
forth markedly, are SO revolving, even
to their own followers, that they like,
at least, to wrap the mantle of hypoc-
risy around them" And again:
''Thsy have invented the imaginary
danger of imperialism, and about that
they rave, yet 80 conscious are they
of the holiowness of their attack, SO
we'll aware that to follow but their
professions would mean to trail the
American flag in the dust, that they
are obliged to pretend that really
after all they are for expansion"
Thus do these two so. called Ameri-
cans place themselves before the pub
lie, and plead for the suffrages of the
people, that they may be permitted
to continue in the destructive policy
of the Republican party.
In the light of the serious condition
now confronting the country, and
which have been brought about by
the party that presents you to the
people, where do you stand today |
Major Mckinley and Colonel Roose-
welt? Are you standing upon the |
platform which is nearest and dearest |
to the American people-the Consti- |
tuition? Or have you, like the present |
Attorney General, abandoned the old |
tread mill round of domestic poll |
tics" and now seek new fields'' and |
"wider intiuences:" ruthlessly forget
ting the happiness and contsntment of |
a people, in the absorbing anticipa.
ton of the power appurtenant to a |
monarch of the main?
Hear what some of your supporters
say for you-not altogether pleasing
words to be spoken to a liberty lovin. |
people, and in a land whose govern
ment rests upon the same organic law
which makes it possible for you to be
candidates for the high offices you
are now seeking. General Merritt
says: 1--WE have outgrown the Con-
1t is not worth while to
discuss it.'' 1.-The Constitution must
bend" says President Capen. "Gov-
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of some of the gov
erned" says Senator Platt. "a Con-
stitution adopted by thirteen half
weak rescued colonies,
glad to be able to call their life their
own. cannot be expected to hamper
the greatest nation in the world" says
Franklin MacVeagh. Such out
spoken disregard for the venerated
through and by which
we as a nation live, move and have
our being, and to which we daily
swear allegiance, does not, somehow,
with the promise to sdminis-