Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-28

And If you know of other ruptured people ask
write at once; do today. a27-s&w- toapso-77
nearly three months for somebody else to
come forward to attend to 1t, 1 calculate
now to attend to 1t myself daughter and
applause) The other day 1 rode through
the. city Of Philadelphia and bought an
evening paper, and at the head Of the
column, in type an inch long was Nc
Kinley, murderer and 1 turned down the
column, and 1 found that a gentleman
whose name 1 cannot recall had denounced
the President as murderer by name amid
universal applause of the united imperial
list national meeting in Philadelphia to eel
citrate Washington's birthday, that great
conference presided over by a dead man.
and Its exercises conducted on the floor by
mad men. daughter and applause on the
republican side)
The failure of the democratic attack on
the front has not discouraged them. After
retiring from the front attack they have
ordered movement by the flank and have
brought up battery of condemned cannon
smooth-bore Interpretation of law
daughter on the republican side) Some
tim!d and pious souls on this side of the
House have entertained the notion that
after having driven these people from the
front. the American people are going to be
scared out of the Philippine Islands by
pounding their commercial prospects to
death with copy of the Constitution of
the United States annotated in the hand
writing Of John c. Calhoun. applause on
the republican side)
The Democratic Attitude.
AND they wonder and come along con-
stantly to inquire why was this thing per-
mitted to arise? Why did you allow such
matter as this to come up? In God's
name, in the face of a united and coherent
enemy. how could we help it coming up?
You say you are surprised. Well, am not
7 h,,k do,
thought we would get any help from the
democratic party in managing this bust
ness, and that was the day when my friend
Mr.. Bailey, got up and pledged everybody
to stand by the government in the Cuban
Intervention: Ny faith in that distin-
guished young statesman lasted just three
days, for when we brought in bill to pay
the expenses of it, he went all to pieces on
the proposition that we refused to pay the
army, and float the navy by coming the
Seigniorage in the treasury. Uaughter.)
Such pages as from decade to decade
have glorifed the last forty years in the
life of the republic. l do not know whether
1 selfish about It, but the older l get
the better 1t makes me feel to think that
the republican party wrote every one Of
them, every page, every line every word.
Our democratic friends only managed to
work in a few punctuation points, comma
here, a semi-colon there. an exclamat ton
here. an Interrogation there and finally, in
1892, a full stop, at least far as our
worthy prosperity was concerned. Laugh
ter. Today the democratic party in
similar strait is under necessity either to
retire from business or to reassort its prin-
ciples and find one not yet shopworn in
and warranted to last at least through one
campaign. daughter on the republican
side).
And Mr. Bryan would have been, in nv
judgment, left holding the bag too, If he
had not with a sagacity decidedly profess
sional. comprehended In dim sort of way
in the camp at Tampa, Fla, that an i'm
portant step in the history of the United
States was about to be taken and that his
party would need somebody experienced in
the strategy OF democratic warfare to man.
age the tail end of the procession. Laugh
teri I do not dispute his qualifications for
the task. The man who dug his way out
of the debris Of the Wilson tariff law and
inside of three years pasted the label on a
new remedy and actually got more than
six millions of his countrymen to take II
down needs no instruction from Boston to
qualify him to superintend the nasty little
jobs that the democratic party is now en-
gagged in setting up on the United States of
America
The COuntry's Hope.
"Oh, my countrymen," he concluded. I'VE
are in the midst Of such difficult RESPONSE
bilities that sometimes feel that cur reso-
luton and our purpose are almost over
whelmed. If the republican party cannot
stand together. we are surely overwhelmed
But believe the republican party can stand
| together. l believe there are democrats
who will stand with the republican party,
and above all, 1 believe that there Is a
guidance and a wisdom in the affairs of
men that is higher than any poor wisdom
| OF ours. There are two ideas of the ma
| tional duty in this emergency. One is that
| the nation should take care OF itself and let
| the world alone. That is a narrow view of
| cur national duty. The other ideal of ma
tional life, an ideal born in the heart of
| the Workman OF Nazareth. is that no ma
| ton liveth to itself alone, but that every
| real national life pours itself out in the
| service Of mankind. 1 do not believe that
| the American republic, with a motive like
| that and purpose like that, will be al
lowed by Providence to fall amid the diff
| culties Of this hour. You have read the
masterpiece OF fiction where hand from
| the sky touches the shoulder of Napoleon
| the Great, puts an end to his career and
says to him: Your business is over your
| time is up. your affairs are at an endr That
was the CLEAN of a superb imagination.
| There is in this world the steady light of a
faith more superb even than that. a faith
| in the future of humanity, a faith in the
| greatness of the republic, faith in Provi-
! dence who has guided every footstep OF
our national life from infancy until this
! hour. Let us have faith in God and faith in
| the American. republic and in our future
mission. l believe in the United States OF
America
| Bryan Arraigned.
| No man, he went on, should have voted
| for the appropriation to carry that treaty
| into force who had not taken the manfu
| resolution to shoulder the infinite response
| bility which Is laid upon his country. He
denounced in scathing terms a man who
| would seize a miserable opportunity to
| harass the government for political pur-
poses. Yet such a man, leaving his uni
| form in Florida, had fastened to Washing
| ton to rally his supporters for the ratifica-
| ton of the treaty In order that he nigh,
| subsequently turn it to political account
| In the heat and dust of the coming cam.
| paign, he said, the moral characteristics OF
| such man would not escape the attention
of the American people. In other times. hi
| said. such measureless degradation would
| be properly characterized. But the political
advantage he sought was not so obvious
| The wisdom of the administration had beer
| demonstrated as the folly of everything