The Republican., 1900-08-23
STEWART REJECTS BRYAN
The Free-SiIver Senator Returns to
First Love.
He Issues a Statement in Which He Gives
His Reasons for Withholding His Sup
port From the Democratic-Populistic
Candidate for the Presidency.

ters today, and announced that he
had got through with Bryan. This
announcement will be received with
qualification by Senator Stewards
many Republican friends and associ-
ates of old, and will doubtless have q
powerful effect on the public. Sena-
tor Stewart, as everyone knows, has
been one of the strongest pillars Of
the free silver party ever since free sill
yer became an issue. That has always
been his main idea and principle of
political action, and all other ideas
have been subordinated to it. Now,
Notwithstanding Mr.. Bryan is still
the champion and candidate of free
silver, the venerable Senator from
Nevada is constrained by his patriot
ism and common sense to repudiate
Bryan utterly. In a dignified and
thoroughly logical statement he ex-
plains the reason why. Like eX-Sen-
ator PETER, of Kansas, another prom
inent free silver advocate, Bryan's
ideas have disgusted him. Mr.. Stew
arts statement is as follows:
1.-The political ghosts and hobgob-
Inns created by the feverish imagina-
tion of Mr.. Bryan are the natural re-
suit of oyerwork and exhaustion.
His rawlings at imaginary imperialism
which does not exist are very much
like the antics of California horse
which has eaten weed that grows
in that country called locoweed.
When an attempt is made to lead a
horse thus afflicted over a string in
the road he will roar, plunge and re-
fuse to step over what undoubtedly
seems to him a monster or a noun
tain. 1t is evident that Mr.. Bryan's
political vision is equally exaggerated
with that of the poor brute which
las eaten the fatal weed.
1.-The facts which Mr.. Bryan's hal
&cination distort into imperial mon
ers are simply these: The United
- tates went to war with Spain, urged
on by the Democratic party. The
popularity of the war was such that
Mr.. Bryan Joined the army as pa
triotic duty, and possibly to elevate
himself in the estimation of the coun-
try. The war was successful; a trea-
ty of peace was entered into whereby
the United States agreed to pay $20,-
100000, and accept the sovereignty
and public property of Spain in the
Philippine archipelago. There was
opposition to the ratification of the
treaty. Mr.. Bryan came to Washing
ton and persuaded his Democratic
friends to vote for the treaty, and it
was through his influence that the
treaty was finally ratified. 1t then
became the duty of the United States
to maintain law and order, and pro-
tect the lives and property of all res
idents of the islands, whether native
or foreign born. One Aguinaldo,
whose political destiny is the leading
factor in the Bryan campaign, had
raised a rebellion in Luzon against
Spain before the commencement of
the Spanish War with the United
States. This adventurer had sold
out or settled his rebellion with Spain
for 100000. Before Dewey set sail
for Manila, and as a part of the bar
gain with Spain, Aguinaldo had
agreed to leave the islands and never
return. The so-called anti-imperial-
lists declared that the policy pursued
by the government to put down re-
bellion and maintain law and order
in all the territories of the United
States without regard to the time
when such territories were acquired,
was imperialism and that any use
of the army to maintain law and Or
der, however necessary, was 'militar-
ism, although aid and comfort to reb-
els in arms against the United States
was maintaining the principles of the
Declaration of Independence"
Mr.. Bryan's unparalleled campaign
for the principles of the Chicago plat
form and his insistence upon the adop-
tion of that platform at Kansas City
induced the people to suppose the
campaign of 1900 would be conducted
on the issues of 1896. In this they
I were mistaken. An hallucination in
duced Bryan to make war on an army
of ghosts and hobgobblins, which his
diseased brain created. His instinct,
which had formerly led him to con-
slider realities, departed. He sought
his closet in pursuit of phantoms, and
strung together ten thousand words,
which he gave to the public at Indian
apolis. The pledge to support Aguin-
aldo's rebellion has already borne
fruit. The Anti-Imperial League of
America, cooperating with the Hong
Kong Tagal Junta, Immediately con-
vened at Indie napolis and nominated
Mr.. Bryan for president, and promis-
ed to support him with all the zeal
iand fidelity with which they main
tain the cause of Aguinaldo. Wheth-
er Mr.. Bryan cherished the hope of
falling into the arms of and being en-
braced by this unpatriotic band at
rbe time he pledged fidelity to Aguin-
alao's cause is immaterial. His alleg-
lance was established when he made
the pledge, and cordial support OF
the friends of Aguinaldo's guerilla
bands who are numbering our soldiers
in the Philippines was natural and
timely. He is now the full-fiedged
candidate for Aguinaldo and of Ag.
uinaldo's friends and supporters at
home and abroad. Will the people
who mourn the deaths of their rela-
tives murdered in the Philippines by