Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-31
"%1MpER1AL1sT, LINCOLN

"IMPERIAL1sT" LINCOLN
1t is rather %lludicrous, to say the
least, to hear :the "anties" talk about
Mckinley. and. the republican party
standing for "imperialism,'' and how
republican,, victory would wipe ont all
constitutional liberties and wind up
u glorious republic. They pretend
to quote Lincoln Ito prove that he
would be against the republican party
we're he alive to-day, And yet these
same antics we're abroad in the land
when Lincoln was alive and opposed
him then just as they now oppose
Mckinley. The Indianapolis Sentinel
in 1864 felt about as badly over Lincoln!s
candidacy as the World-Herald and
such hot ::popocractic papers do now
over McKinley's. Hear the Sentinel
of those days:
"Shall we profit by the teachings of
history, and even by our own exper-
fence, or continue q policy that must
end in the overthrow of one of the
best governments that the world ever
saw, and of civil liberty? Il y Have
not the people daily evidence that
i Abraham Lincoln is assuming the
power-despotic p~ower-to enable
him to pay his debts and replenish
his over drawn Golfers, exhausted by
extravaganza and ambitious strife
for power?"
Sounds familiar, doesn't it-quite
like the antics.
In July 1864, the Sentinel thus
prophesied:
1.-THE only hope of preserving con-
stitutional liberty, the rights of the
states and restoring peace to the
Union is in the restoration of the
But let Abraham Lincoln be elected
to another term, and what will be the
consequence? Four years more of
abolition war, national bankruptcy
and then European interference"
But Lincoln was elected, and now
the same old party, the democratic,
is pointing with pride to the glories
of his ADMINISTRATION.
Then again we have that Indian
apolis democratic organ of the antics
of those days, as it still is wailing as
follows:
"More than 1900 years ago Rome was
governed by three men at the end of
that republic. One was Caesar. They
we're all of noble blood. And we, too,
have IL triumvirate-Lincoln, Stan
ton and lialleck; but, Unfortunately,
neither of them can boast a very high
descent. The three succeeded an
emperor, who could fiddle while Rome
was burning. We also have our
emperor, Lincoln, who can tell stale
jokes while the land is running red
with the blood of brothers."
There you are, the present antics
argument percisely, and against
Lincoln. Just as they nov delight to
refer to Mckinley, that anti organ
called Lincoln an emperor"
And again, in bolder terms than
before, the. Sentinel proclaimed that:
"Should Mr.. Lincoln be reelected
There will be no longer a republic of
! United States, but a consolidated
empire. Every safeguard must soon
er or later give way. The limitations
! of the executive power will not be in
the constitution but in the pleasure
= of the president. Il n We implore
= patriotic and intelligent men to pause
i and effect and give their verdict on
= Tuesday next. If the people do not
y save their priceless constitution anG
j union, it is lost"
, How like the present day agitatol
o,,l ,1..,,:,A AI,,& lo,, ,o,,, rNLo,,
prophesied the same dire calamities
. that W. o hear them croaking about
, If Lincoln should be reelected, they
!. declared, "this will be no longer a re
public of the United States, but 4
consolidated empire" So they sale
4 of Lincoln when he was a candidate
SO they say of Mckinley to-day. II
was just as true of Lincoln as it is Of
McKinley-no more, no less. Neither
one ever for a moment would have
done an act favoring anything but {
republic. Lincoln was a president
q had to be-and Mckinley has had te
go through with similar. trials, and has
been subjected to the same sort o
criticism from the antics. There wer,
those who were continually howlin,
S against Lincoln's administration an
= war policy in the sixties just the sam
G as you find them now bowling agains
all that Mckinley has done. Lincoll
4 and Mckinley had to bear the blum
~ of all the clamity bowling and oppc
sition that the antics could muster
History will continue to repeat itsel
and as was ..the case of Lincoln, so th
present administration which ha
been tried and assaulted just as wa
Lincoln's, will just as e%mphatically an
triumphantly come out victoriou
y over the democratic alarmists an
L. Observation-Disclosures. The sam
'r patriotism and loyalty is still abroa
and will sustain McKinley as it SUI.