The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-07-20
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ingtOn.
(COnmunicated).
w ASHINGTON,
July lG, 1900.

The Republicans are beginning
to realize that the opposition of
our German voters to Imperialism
is not mere passing whim, but
is based upon principle which
will cause many thousand votes
cast for Mckinley in 1896 to be
east for Bryan and Stevenson
this year. Dir. l.. w. llabercorn,
who was head of the German Lit
erary Bureau of the Republican
National Committee during the
last campaign and who is now
supporting the Democratic ticket,
has made public a statement of
his reasons for abandoning the
Republican party, from which
this is quoted; "EXpansion Of the
Union on the American CONT
ncnt is proper. Expansion not
of the Union, but by the acquiSi-
tion of possessions which are to be
governed as dependencies, subject
only to the will and caprice of
our Executive and Congress, un.
restricted by the Constitution and
without the consent and against
the wishes of the people to be
governed, who thereby become
subjects, is, in my opinion, inn
proper, unjust, and uurepublican;
the government of the United
States is thereby transformed m
to an imperial government for our
possessions A government with
imperial power over possessions
cannot long remain Republican
at home. AS the government
could not have lived half slave
and half free. SO it cannot live
half imperialist and half Repub.
lican. The foreign policy adopt.
ed by the Republican party em.
br0ils us in all the quarrelS Of the
world and entangles us in foreign
alliances. 1t has already entan
gled us in One-an unwritten al
lance with Great Britain. Since
British diplomacy succeeded in
/ perSuading our administration
and our Peace Commissioners to
force Spain to cede to us the
/ quickly-withdrawing shadow Of
its already expelled sovereignty
over the Philippines, we have
been compelled to go hand in
hand with England. The Repub-
lican party now stands for the
imperialistic expansion and is al
ready busy cultivating the spirit
of militariSm. The Democratic
/ party has earnestly, clearly and
forcibly pronounced against i'm
perialism and its resultant evils
fOI the preservation of the repub
lie and the Constitution. The
issue is thus made up and | CON
slider it my plain duty to help
maintain the republic by such eff
forts as | can make, humble
though they are"
General Leonard Wood, Mill
tary Governor of Cuba, is coming
to Washington this week to con
suit with the administration or
so much of it as can be found ON
duty, about the constitutional
convention the CubanS are short
ly to hold.
Secretary Root says of this con
ference: "ln arranging for con
stitutional convention Gen. Wood
and | will talk about the districts
to be made in Cuba for the elec-
tion. We will discuss the time
for holding the election, what
number of delegates should con
Stitute the convention and the ap-
portionmcnt of these delegates
among the districts or diviSionS.n -
Others, say, however, that all
these things could easily have
been arranged without General
Woods coming to Washington,
and tuat the real reason for his
trip is to arrange something which
it was feared could not he safely
trusted either to the mails or to
the wires-whether the admins
tration desires official pressure to
be used to get a majority elected
to the Cuban Constitutional Con
vention that can be depended up.
on to support declaration by
the convention in favor of annex
alton.
The administration is figuring
on legislation at the coming ses-
sion of Congress, when the cleo
tion will be over, for a large in
crease in the regular army. This
is not a guess. 1t is based upon
plans now being made by the War
Department to keep 10000 sol.
diers in the Philippines to do
police duty after July /, 1901,
when the twO-year terms of the
volunteers now over there will eX.
pire. Present laws provide for a
regular army of less than 1000
men and, of course, the entire
army cannot be kept in the Phil
ippines. Therefore, it is 49,
lutely certain that the@1