Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-19
SPEAKER
Henderson Of the
National House
AT WAVERLY, IA.
Strong Speech on the Cam
paign Issues.
FOREIGN POLICY Defined.
America Has Nothing to Gain By Making
Alliances.
FOREIGN POLICY DEFINED.
America Has Nothing TO Gain By Making
Alliances.
By Associated Press.

by ASSOClultu ltao'
Waverly Iowa, Sept. 1S.-Hon. Dav-
id B. Henderson, Speaker of the House
of Representatives delivered an able
address to a large audience here to-
night.
Mr.. Henderson said in part:
BE sure you are right and then &c
ahead is an old maxim. 1t is the rule
of the Republican party. President
McKinley's question is always What
| is right for me to do in this particular
matter as president of the United
States for the best interests of the peo-
pie whom ! am serving?" l believe
| can state with the greatest emphasis
and from the standpoint of an intimate
knowledge of the presidents motives
and actions. that to do right has been
his governing motive. The chief exec
utive who does that which is best for
the people of this country will in
time be vindicated.
On the other hand, the Bryan dem
ocracy seem to be governed by quite a
different rule. Their question is:
What line of action viii get the most
votes for our ticket? What policy will
best capture the unbelieving or the un-
patriotic. Or what line. of argument
will best deceive the honest and pat
riotic?" And acting on these lines we
find the Bryan democracy in 1896 and
1900 pursuing different lines of battle
and advocating anything which they
think can deceive the voters
Perhaps in nothing are these two
conflicting rules or methods better ex-
emplified than in the treatment of the
war between England and the South,
African republics. Mr.. Bryan, and
the democrats belonging to his mod
ern school of democracy, are trying to
poison the minds Of those of cur Amer
lean citizens whose ancestors came
from Holland or Germany by crying
out against the republican administra-
ton that it does net sympathize with
the Beers struggling for liberty; that
the president is indifferent to the suf-
ferings of these young republics; and,
in fact, wholly sympathizes and would
be glad to see the young republics
crushed by the arm of monarchy.
There is not a single fact to bear out
these charges. There is not single
act of the president or the republican
party to sustain these charges. From
the presidents childhood to this hour
his whole life gives the lie to the
charge, and yet day after day Mr.. Bry-
an CT his press or his stumpers seek to
impress this unholy charge upon the
public mind.
Fellow citizens. we cannot afford to
let the Bryan democracy deceive us,
and above all we cannot afford to de-
ceive ourselves. | shall challenge any
man to show that any other govern
ment on earth went as far as this gov
ernment did when President Mckinley
rendered the good offices of this nation
for the solution Of the Boer troubles.
Mr.. Bryan and his followers would
poison the German mind. | challenge
Mr. Bryan to show that Germany has
ever raised its voice in any form in
pursuit of the agreement ait The Hague,
or otherwise, to stop this war between
Great Britain and the Beers. Yes,
still go further and challenge living
man TO show that even old Holland,
whose sturdy sons went TO Africa, the
men that now chiefly constitute the
Boer republics, has ever raised it's gov
ernmental voice to offer its Offices to
solve the problems between England
and the Beers.
Again | say that the president Of the
United States asked what was his
duty. He has done it like the great
patriotic head of the republic and done
all in his power. If those accusing
him of a failure to do anything fer the
Beers. would only ask what is the
truth and always tell it to the Amerl-
can people, the observations of mine
would net have been necessary today.
But another word before close the
discussion Of this theme. When the
Boer delegates visited this country the