Willmar tribune., 1900-08-22
GIVES FULL ASSENT.
Ad1ai E. Stevenson Speaks on the Ia.
sues of the Campaign Mt
Indianapolis.


Deeply impressed with sense of the re-
sponsibility assumed by such candidacy,
accept the nomination so generously ten
dered me. Should the action of the conven-
Iion meet the approval OF the people in
N november, y;AaH, it will be my earnest endeavor
TO discharge with fidelity the duties of the
great office.
Sympathy for Sister Republics
Clearly and unequivocally the democratic
convention c'ciav has expressed it's sympathy
publics in their heroic attempt to main
tain free government. In this the conven-
ton not only voiced the sentiments of
men everywhere.
War Taxes and Expenditures.
The lavish appropriations, by the present
republican congress, should challenge the
ai attention Of all thoughtful men. Subsidy
demned by our platform. The accumula-
ton of surplus revenues is too often the
pretext for wasteful appropriations of the
accommodating in the treasury should re-
main IN the pockets of the people. To this
end the democratic party demands re-
ductlon or war taxes to the actual needs
Of the government, and return to the
policy of strict economy in all govern
mental expenditures.
Laws to Curb MOnopolies.
In apt words the Dingley tariff law is
condemned. It is tersely characterized as
legislation skillfully devised in the interest
Of a class, and to impose upon the many
herring to the time -honored doctrine of the
democratic party, We oppose all tariff legis-
iation; the necessary consequence OF which
unjust advantage to the favored few Ex-
perience has demonstrated that unjust tar
III laws have deprived the government of
needed revenues, secured to favored bene-
nclarles colossal fortunes, and largely in
creased or to M the people the cost of the neces-
OF tariff Nv
form is seen in the sudden growth OF giant
1moafopol1es, 9fe,pF COMPUTATIONS in restraint of
ing than foreign foe to the existence Of
popular government.
Railroad Determinations.
At this hour I can but allude in brief
words to other needed reforms to which
the the Of the country is called by
among these Is such enlargement of the
scope of interstate commerce law as will
protect the public from unjust transport
:ation rates, and individuals from unfair
discrimination.
Labor, Pensions and imetaIlism.
Our platform favors the creation of
department of labor, whose chief officer
shall take rank with other constitutional
interest of justice and will prove an inn inn
portant step looking to the proper recog-
milton aa1aS1 and encouragement Of the producers
liberal pensions to our soldiers and sailors
and to those dependent upon them. With
equal Justice 1t reiterates the demands Of
former democratic platform for bimetal-
ism; the restoration of silver to it's prop
er function In our monetary system. For
the protection of the home laborer it de-
mands the enforcement of the Chinese ex-
clusfon act.
FavOrs Nfcaraxuan Canal.
And in the interest of an enlarged COM
| merce it favors the immediate construc-
tion OF the Nicaraguan canal: This how
main forever under the exclusive owner
ship and control of the United States.
The pending Hay-Pauncefote treaty is
condemned as surrender of American
rights, not to be tolerated by the Ameri-
can people.
The Paramount Issue.
A question is yet to be discussed, to
which all of these are of secondary i'm
portance POI atfanc It is solemnly declared by our
Questions of domestic policy, however i'm
portant, may be but questions of the hour
that of imperialism is for time. In the
presence of this stupendous ISSUE others
seem but as the dust in the balance. In
no sense paltering with words, it is the
supreme SUI question Of republic or empire.
The words of the eminent republican sem
atOr, Mr.. Hoar challenge attention: II
oei1eve that perseverance in this policy
viii be the abandonment of the principles
upon which our government is founded:
that 1t Will change our government into
an empire: that our methods of legisla-
hereafter be those which belong to EN-. en-.
pires and not those which belong to re-
We believe that liberty. as we'll as the
constitution, follows the flag. Democrats,
In common with many republicans, oppose
the Porto Rican law as violation Of the
good faith toward a dependent people It
Is imposing government without the con-
sent of the governed.
JeffersonIan ExpansiOn.
The democratic party has ever been the
advocate of wise territorial expansion
The policy of aggressive expansion-of
subjugation of distant islands-pursued by
the present administration, finds no prece-
ana country by Napoleon, that of Florida
by Spain, nor that yet later, of the vast
western area by Mexico: The territory ac-
was, with favorable climatic conditions
the fit abode for men of our own race. At
the time of annexation it passed under the
him our language and our laws. It was
territory contiguous to our own, and ac-
quired. with the declared intention-when
Of carving it into states. The result: Mil
lions of American homes. our national
varce and the the deam
the nations of the earth. Can it be that
the new policy of forcible annexation Of
sand finds in the his
is found In the bare statement Of facts.
Monroe Doctrine Enduring.
The Monroe doctrine is wholesome and
enduring. It is the faith of Americans Of
every creed and party-is Of the very warp
and woof of our political being. It was
promulgated at the critical moment when
the republican, spirit and reestablish the
despotism of Spain upon her revolted col
on1es In South America and Mexico The
essence Of the doctrine as then under
stood ste by the world was, while we forbid
upon the American continent, we recognize
the corresponding obligation to refrain
from any attempt to force our political
system upon any part of the old world.
MilitarIsm.
AS necessary corollary to Imperialism
Will come the immense standing army.
The dread hand of militarism will be felt
IN the new world as 1t is in the old; The
Tor the peaceable agencies which for more
than century have made our people con-
tented and happy. .e
We stand 100 years from the hour when
the political forces were gathering which
were to result in the election of the first
democratic president. The anniversary Of
the masterful day in our history was
wisely chosen for the assembling in con-
toric. party whose founder was Jefferson
land whose platform is the declaration Of
independence. In the great struggle now
upon us we invoke the cooperation of all
meaning parchment-but the enduring
chart of our liberties. Upon the supreme
issue now in the forefront-and to the end
that republican government be fperpetuat-
ed.Ms appeal to the sober Judgment and