Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-01

the women take up the guns to fight
(, when tho men are dead, the Republi-
cans are go busy specializing upon the
profits Of an imperial policy that they
have no time to sympathize with people
who are hgting. battles that revive the
memories of Marathon and Their.
mopylae. Today the Republican party
is 80 tame that when a king dies its
representatives, the President, can send
message Of coincidence, hut when two
republics expire no Republican weeps
over the death of libarty. tApplause. }
DO you believe the Republican party IS
a good guardian of liberty here If it is
go uEconcernea about liberty in South
Africa? | want you Republicans who
have been taught to believe that what
ever the Republican party did was right,
TO inquire what your party is doing
before you decide TO follow it this fall.
A man went into graveyard and found
on tomb stone these lines, LAS | am
now so you shall BIZ. Prepare my
friend. to follow me.'' and no wrote
beneath those lines the following, 10
follow you am not content unit know
which way you. went. Laughter.
Don't you think you Republicans had
better find out which way your leaders
are going before you follow themY If
they are going towards private
monopoly you don't have to follow
unless you want to. II they are going
towards a military establishment
like the establishments OF Europe,
You don't have to follow unless
you want to. If they are going towards
q European colonial polio, you dJn't
have to follow I'm ess you want to. If
they are going towards imperial govern
ment, fashi oned after the Imperialism
of the Old world, you don't have to
follow unless you want to. Fer il you
follow Republican lenders and fasten
on this country an imperial policy,
you will find that we will be doing Just
what other nations nave dune with
colonies, and if you think We will do
BETTER let me remind you we have
already embezzled money in Cuba, and
il We do it within 200 miles of cur
shores, what will he done in the Philip
pines 1000 miles away from home?
(Applauss. !
Today millions of people are starving
in India, and why? Because English
taxation is SO heavy that when there is
a good crop the farmers have nothing
left, and when there il poor crop they
have nothing at all. Instead of sending
money TO feed the starving millions of
India, the English government is
spendingahe millions to kill people in
another part of the world, who want the
right to protect themselves from the
same conditions that England is forcing
upon India. applause. But, my
friends, you must take these questions
to your homes. You must think about
them. You must settle them for your
selves, and IL you believe we are right
in this great contest, want you to
have the courage to cast your votes
with us.
Don't say that because you have been
against us in the past, therefore you
must be against US now. Remember
that when Lincoln was organizing thu
Republican party he used to invoke
the name and PRINCIPLES OF Jefferson.
And he brought together men from all
parties to form the Republican party,
and it came into existence in order to
give the Declaration of Independence
to the black man. Now that party
denies the declaration to brown man,
who Is only half black, and ought to go
out of existence because it has lost the
genius of the party. 1t you are with
US you can show it by voting the
electoral ticket, You can show it by
voting the congressional ticket. You
can show 1t by voting for Legislature
that will elect two Senators to carry
out these ideas. am as much in
terested in the election of your men,
bers of Congress and Of your Senators
as ! am Ia your electoral vote, for IL |
am elected | have no ambition to be
there merely to distribute the patron
age. If l am elected / want to have a
chance tc sign my name to bills that
will open the doors OF opportunity to
the young men of this country, bills
that will give to the Filipinos chance
to celebrate the Fourth of July, bills
that will announce to the world that
the Declaration of Independence IL still
law in the United States, and that our
sympathy girdles the globe and goes
out to any people who are fighting for
the right to govern themselves. Gap
plause
But, my friends, would not be en-
tirely satisfied unless / knew that those
who on our State ticket are fighting in
defeuce of these doctrines also received
your support, and when in Nebraska on
election night an receiving the news
from various parts OF the country, I
want to hear from Delaware that Ford
has been elected governor and those
with him on the ticket, (Applause.)
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