New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-15

made up about one-third of 1t.
John c. Coleman, vice-presdent of the West
side Republican Club, presided in the absence OF
John Proctor Clarke, president, who is with Gov
ernor Roosevelt on his Western trip.
Senator Lodge and Colonel Baxter arrived at
Sis and were received with prolonged cheer
ing Vice President Coleman said that IL ne
read the signs Alright, the American people didn't
lie cd any change from Republican to Democratic
times tipsy man In the audience started to
say something about Bryan and full dinner
pail and was promptly led out into Eighth-ave
and started for Nebraska a campaign Of his
own.
Three rousing cheers given for Senator
Lodge as he rose to speak. Mr. Lodge was In
excellent voice. AT his first mention Of Pres-
dent McKinley's name his utterances were IN
stantly drowned amid cheers and hand clapping
The audience followed the Senator with intense
interest When he dashed the Democrats for
their solictude for the Filipinos and at the same
time robbed the people of Kentucky of their
political rights, the point was cheered for more
than a minute When he said he resented the
Bryan irnputstion that the American soldier is
likely to destroy the liberty Of this Nation the
audience again showed it's appreciation in
thunderous applause
SENATOR LODGES SPEECH.
Senator Lodge said in part:
Some one among the many thinkers who attended .Li
by this selection of issue they mad put us on
the defensive ana IN reTu o 70 sa' dfrea kinds
Of defensives: The Union, armies defended the
National d0yernmept but they ,g eorried the old
f tb lPo nf There "a was e certain element Of
gression MIXED up with the defsrfe IN ne span
but we also sent our columns into Cuba and font7
ed the stars OF the hepueG IN Inc ay 0l NOR
! tray meant when he said that We were OF the de
Of protective tariff the sanctity OF the law. the
sanctity of the courts and all the conditions which
! SO far as government is concerned go to make up
prosperity in business, he is quite right-we are
| INCONSISTENT ABOUT sELF-GOVERNMENT.
ask nothing of others that am not ready to do,
and when we were confronted by an armed me d re-
Of Americans to stand together until order Der, was as
poas ana o the pocy 10 be-
That has not been the course OF the opposition
sition which has been steady encoura gement to
| them seif-sovernmcnt~s government, that re-
! preach brought against US by the party that has
Mr. Bryan van IS So interested the rights self
The Pacific let him look 70 the rights of the black
men who are American citizens ST.. 60.
Ina and L9pisiepa government Sci, self-goyeTbn
DenodratiS party. Why. their whole record is
against it The best thng they they te e9Sr did In all
the greatest expansion his county ever made
that a te eToPg? Not at all Mt JEFFERSON governed
them by the military power alone N, No gsslf-gov-
out in one breath that they are not fit for citizen
maRt The y party which struck the shackies from
the slaves. at cost greater than any country had
ever paid before for any national sin. think can
| he trusted not to enslave other men IN other
We took the Philippine Islands by treaty from
Spain, lawfully rshtqyt nnder the laws OF ma,
Mckinley saw tho great duty and the great neces-
treaty to the Senate. 1t received sixty votes in
confrma tiQn. Two-thirds are necessary to confirm
thiTeesef BE Senate They did not have one half
ratiisd a Where did the other nineteen come from?
| TEsy n BIB from Democrats and from PoP4lists,
With us sot the responkibity have no desire TO
70 take the en5ire responsibiiity nut i does not
lie in the mouths OF these men who supported rati-
to 9T srouRd an" t%n s" T hs% nc 1snT
rection broke out, insurrection against the au-
ho[y Of the United states as lawful in tqzon
suest ~ b 1 1nt sa rTpee Gd 'e
Who are the people who are to support the en-
per9,r who Is TO [SG out Of our having taken pos
he United States? Sixty thousand Of them are
there IN the Philippines doing their DUTY ana ioi
those 50 600 men are 10 be the Instrument OF des-
the American people Of their Fights and n6erties
We are 1oeG2S2 7@oG9 ed b 6n6 the Dem99TaHs
they can take his liberties from him.
ABSURD CRY OF MILITARIsM
But, ladies and gentlemen. that Is the , absurd
We'll and that is the imputation placed by this
cry OF militarsm on the American soldier. When
did II happen that the American soldier was
rsndy to take arms against The liberties Of his
at the close of the Civil War, the greatest veteran
mat bSre5 q0d eR he WITH great
victory-then indeed. there might have been dan
ger. Some of the newspapers which finding
imperialism in this situation denounced Abra am
that the great lberator of the slaves going TO
He indeed had an instrument welded and forged
under under his hand Neither he nor any other man
Army to strike at the liberties Of the country it
had saved. It disappeared Like the clansmen
OF Roder1ck Dh u seePeq as tq bItn m9t he
went back into the ranks Of private life to compete
best tel Citizens Of f the Republic
think we SHOULD protect our own wherever we
had troops there. we had ships there; we took the
lead in al that was done. IT was an american
wall with the old flag in his hands. OF the men
who is 10 be used an instrument OF tyranny
first in all those great affairs in the East Why
have been able to take that position? Why
the Powers OF the earth? I deduct nothing from
the great ability Of our President and Of Mr. Hay
: ia Manila. You could not hout and put aside the
! Men were there ships wer4 there our policy ha.
been announced to all the world and there in the
forefront Of me nations she ought always to be
of China favorable to the integrity of the Chinese
a 6 all e qny for Sn open serdn e a9d %4a 3
! stands tho United States to-day. The world power
) II was no party that made a world power; II /!
no man 1t is the handiwork of the American PEG
3 only recently begun to exercise that power W,
have found II necessary fr9m .; economic sitpa
2 hemisphere: the day has come when pro
! away the Philippines and abandon this great posj
ton In the eyes OF the world simply crafty tn,
3 | ambition OF man opposed 10 everything?
The sicilian Quartet gave several selections