Evening star., 1900-08-10
Tennessee Claimed as Republican by
a Majority of 10000.
DEMOCRATIC STALKING HORSES
Judge Gibson's Caustic Comments
on Current Issues.
EXPAN SION ,INVINCIBLE
ipecIal Dispatch to The Evening Star.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, August 1O-One OF
the republican members from the southern
states who Is always listened to in the
House with respect is Judge Henry r.
Gibson, representing the Knoxville dis
trict. Judge Gibson is a native of Queen
Anne county, Nd, and received his early
education at Bladensburg. He IL now serv-
Ing his third term in Congress. is men,
Der of the committee on invalid pensions
and other House committees and was
soldier in the federal army for two years.
During the course of an interesting talk
with Star representative Judge Gibson
said:
Tennessee Really Republican.
The democratic majority in Tennessee
will be just what the democratic state ad-
ministration chooses to make it. Repub-
hcans are practically denied any repre-
sentation on election boards. If every
adult Tennesseean was allowed to vote
and every vote counted as cast Mckinley
would carry Tennessee by 10000 majority
and the republicans would elect at least
elght out OF the ten congressman. Demo-
Gratis want government by consent of the
governed in the Philippines and Porto
Rico, but have no use for it in Tennessee
and the other southern states
The delegation from Tennessee will re-
main. in all probability, as now-eight dem
ocrats and two republicans. 81.
Bryan's Only Northern State.
Colorado and Colorado alone will be
the only state outside of the solid south
which Mr.. Bryan will carry.
IAN the republicans and a very large
proportion of the democrats are In favor
of holding the Philippines, call 1t imperial
ism or what you may. The gold demo-
Gratis will vote for Mckinley, as two years,
ago. Sixteen to one is regarded here as
lunacy by the republicans. and as a dead
issue by very many democrats. Tennessee
at Kansas City voted to leave 1t out of the
platform and to make that gold bug,
David B. Hill. the democratic nominee for
Vice President.
The People and Bryanism.
THE people don't fear Bryanism any
more than any of the other dead isms Of
the democratic party. Bryanism is dead,
but don't yet know 1t.
Il trust in God. the republican party
and the American people. just as does the
silver dollar. The trust issue is mercy a
democratic scarecrow. like the bold bug
the robber baron, the 'bloated bondhOlder
negro equality and 'centralization,' all Of
which have been used since the war as
pugaooos to scare the people with.
Expansion InvincibIe.
Expansion is the heredity and destiny
OF our race and the party that fights
against it has God to conquer Every DO
litical party in England or the United
States that antagonized expansion has
either died or been crippled. The federal
party opposed the acquisition Of Lousian ma
and never elected another President. The
whig party opposed the acquisition of Tex
as and California and never survived the
consequences. The democratic party SYM
pathiZed with secession. which was of
course, a sort of anti-expansion, and suffer-
ed serious damage. Two-thirds of the peo-
pie OF Tennessee are natural born expan-
sionists, and politics cannot change them
THE vast majority of the people of all
sections and of all parties are wei satisfied
with the record of the republican party
under Mckinley. There are some kickers
There were some among the twelve apos-
ties; it is disease. and the lunatic asy-
lums are not large enough to hold the suf-
ferers; hence the world at large must be
annoyed by their tantrums.
Prosperity the Paramount Issue.
The dominant issue of the campaign
will be the continuance of the present pros
pertty. All other questions will be mere
bubbles on the tide. The dog that swapped
his liver for the shadow never repeated
the experiment. The people have tried
democratic shadows: we are just as wise
as dogs-that Is. large majority of us.
Democracy a Mere Negation.
THE democratic party stands for noth-
ing: 1t is mere negation. fighting every
thing the republican party is supposed to
favor. If the republican party had aban-
doned the Philippines the democrats would
be bowling expansionists. II the republi-
cans had favored 16 to 1 the democrats
would be raving gold standard men, and
on both issues would swear by all the
democratic saints. from Jefferson to An
drew Johnson.
The Chinese Question.
I'VE must maintain the honor of our
country In our treatment of China but
avoid entangling ourselves with the other
nations. As soon our wrongs have been
rghted or avenged we must withdraw
doing. however. all we can to keep the
doors of China open to our trade. 1 have
perfect confidence in Mr. McKinley's treat
ment of the Chinese question.
Germans Not Dfsanected,
There are very few Germans in my dis
trict. and. SO far as I know. they are ex-
ceptionally wise and thoroughly American
and as a result look at political matters