Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-20
THE OPENING IN OHIO
Republican State Campaign Is Be-
gun at Youngstown.
Senators Foraker, Depew and Hanna
Address the ThrOnS-Bry
Issues Are Denounced In
Scathing Terms.

Sp'hN'lS WI looh pa I H'i' '''i4'
Foraker, Depew and Hanna, whose ad-
dresses are here given in part, Sen
ator Foraker began by saying:
''rhe paramount issue of this campaign
is the administration of William Mckinley.
Shall it be indorsed or repudiated? That is
the question. Money, tariff, trusts and So
called imperialism are each and all impor-
tant subjects, but no one of them can be
segregated from the others ard voted upon
by itself. In other words. the democratic
party cannot be restored to power as to
one proposition and be excluded from pow
er to others 1t must go in foot, horse
and dragOon' or not at all.
you cannot adopt it's views as to the
Philippines without at the same time ac-
cepting free silver. You cannot agree with
it about trusts and differ is to government
by Injunction The proposition that the
constitution follows the flag is coupled
with free trade, and their lamentations
about the declaration of independence ana
the consent of the brown men who are
to be governed in the far distant isles of
the sea are coupled with defiant nullitca-
tiOn of the constitution and brutal de-
nial by violence, rapine, blood and murder
of the most sacred rights of the negro citi-
Zens OF the nation, who have periled their
lives for the flag and with gallant heroism
won honor and renown for the republic
on the battletelds of the nation. 10 make
a long story short, you cannot vote mixed
ticket or have a mixed result
Democracy Ever in the Wrong.
The senator said the democratic
party had been on the wrong side of
| every great question for more than so
| years. Even now, he claimed, the
| party is hopelessly divided, saying:
Mr. Bryan stated In his Indianapolis
| speech that if elected his first official act
| would be to call an extra session of con-
gress to carry out his views, and ne asked
| for votes on that account; but Bourke
| Cochran, in his letter to the Sons Of Lib
erty,' assembled a few days after Mr. Bry-
| ans utterance in the same city of Indian
| apolis appealed to that body to support
| Mr.. Bryan on the ground that If elected
| he would be powerless, because of a repub-
| liCan senate, to secure any Legislation that
| would cmbody his heresies and vagaries.
| Mr.. Cochran is willing to see Mr.. Bryan
elected because he thinks he cannot DO
worse than throw the nation into dead
| lock, and what Mr.. Bryan and MI Cochran
| have thus respectively set forth fairly rep
| resents the differences among democrats
generally"
The trouble with the democratic
party, the senator said, was that it
| lacked sincerity and harmony of pur-
| pose, and when in power was unable
to redeem its own pledges. The re-
! suits Of the Mckinley administration
were reviewed, Senator Foraker claim
ing its promises have been fulfilled.
The free silver declaration of the
democracy was discussed at length,
| the senator holding it still the fore
most desire of Mr.. Bryan.
New Campaign Cry Needed.
Senator Foraker said Mr.. Bryan had
IL I'll lUt
it aside for the present. He con-
| tinued:
| "Ia has new shibboleth-it Is imperial
| ism. He affects to believe that President
| Mckinley is trying to subvert the govern
! ment; that he is destroying the republic
| and establishing an empire II is in this
| way he refers to what we have done in
| Hawaii. Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil
| ippines.'
| As to the Philippines Senator Foraker
! said having driven Spain out of the Is
! lands there was only one thing to do-ac-
| Cept control over them This, he said, was
| provided in the Paris treaty, which was
! approved by the votes of Il democrats, ad-
| vised by Mr.. Bryan. With the outbreak
| of the insurrecton, he said, no other pol
| icy than that pursued by President Nc
| Kinley was possible. He continued:
'If President Mckinley had pursued such
| q policy as Mr.. Bryan is now proposing, II
| elected, he would nave Deen DFdnueu as Il
| weak betrayer of his trust and as responsi-
/ bic for great national humiliation. If you
| have any doubt about this you have only
| to turn back to the expressions of demo-
| cratic newspapers and democratic leaders
at the time when our trouble in the Philip
pines commenced to learn that these men
| who are now talking about hauling down
the flag, giving the Filipinos independence,
and making peace on any terms We're then
| more imperialistic, and bloodthirsty, and
| tyrannical. as indicated by the advice they
gave, than President Mckinley has even
| been charged by them to be.
~ there has been any Imperialism II was
| in accepting our title to the Philippines and
| the assertion of our authority and power
| there in the first instance, and all that had
| the approval of Mr.. Bryan.
1--WE cannot recede; we must go forward.
| We have the strength of a giant and the
| opportunity of the centuries. The great
| duty of the hour is to show that We are
worthy of both"
senator Depeyv Predicts victory.
Senator Foraker was followed by
| Chauncey VI. Depew, who SAID in part:
"1'hose of us who were active during the
| civil war remember the second campaign
| for the election of President Lincoln The
| southern confederacy was exhausted. It's
| credit in Europe was impaired, its sup
| plies were rapidly failing. The democratic
convention which met in Chicago declared
| the war a ldllufe anu proposed, IL SUCCESS
| full to recognize the southern confederacy.
That declaration cost the lives Of over 1O0,
! 900 men on one side or the other and several
| hundred thousand of wounded and manned.
| 1t cost the loss of millions of dollars and
| the devastation of vast areas which We're
| formerly prosperous communities.
"Thirty six years have passed. We have
i had war with Spain; we have come into pos
session of the Philippine islands. No one
| denies that our title. by conquest, by treaty,
| and by purchase, is complete. a revolt
| was started against us by a few disap-
| pointed leaders. This revolt has been sup
pressed; Tagal armies have been disbanded;
/ Tagal leaders, with few exceptions, have
surrendered and accepted our authority.
Taeal government no longer exists. except
under the guidance Of the chief rebel,
| Agpinaldo.
Had the democratic convention a Kan
! sas City declared that before anything else
was considered peace must be restored in
the Philippines, the brigands captured and
security for life and property at once as
surcd under United States authority the
Philippines would be as peaceful to-day as