The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-30
The Desle:,,rters.-

only becomes the object OF the IdVOTS
of an unsavory coterie of operators,
but it finds itself almost deserted by
the intellect, intelligence, and integ-
rity that once made the party a power
in the nation. Among the stalwarts
of the Democratic party who have been
compelled during the past four years
roll themselves under the standard OF
their old adversaries, are such men as
Abram S. Hewitt, Charles DENLY,
Senator William Stewart, of Nevada;
George G. Williams, and Alex E. Orr,
beside Grover Cleveland, George Eos
ter Peabody, George F. Edmunds,
Palmer and Buckner and all the other
| we'll known men who were consp1cu-
GUS in the great revolt from the Chi
cago platform of '96.
Abram S. Hewitt is a Democrat in
the truest sense OF. the term, and has
long been one of the most able and
influential leaders in New York. OF
the Chicago platform as reiterated IN
that of Kansas City, he says, "That
platform, containing in it the seeds of
anarchy, would, if it became part Of
the law, destroy liberty and order, and
Furthermore, would ultimately develop
anarchy"
In his statement of the Philippine
question Mr.. Hewitt is very sbrief and
decisive He says: "The Philippines
were forced upon us by act of and
through the necessity of war. We had
them and we could not let so of them,
and we cannot now"
Charles DENLY, Of Indiana, United
States Minister to China under Presi-
dent Cleveland, and life long Demo
crat, in an open letter attacking Will
liam Jennings Bryan and his Philip
pine policy and UNFOLDING the admin
istration, says:
SIN the course of President McKin-
ley toward the Philippines not an act
can be found which indicates that he
has ever intended to treat them other
wise than to secure for them the great
est measure of liberty until Congress
should decide what their status was to
be-as the treaty provides it shall do.
He has been subject to more abuse
than any President ever was, and he
has deserved it as little as any one
ever did. In the most difficult period
of Our history he has proved himself
equal to all the demands upon him.
He has acted with an eye single to the
good of the country. The war with
Spain was not of the Presidents seek
ing, but he met the issue with exalted
courage. In diplomacy he, displayed
qualities of the highest order, and IN
military affairs he was, V ren1arka bly,
successful. He en1inently deserves re-
election"
Senator William M. Stewart, of Ne
vada, who has been one of the strong
est supporters of 10 to ever since the
currency question became the issue,
having become Disguised with Bryan's
insane and foolish talk about ''imperi-
a1ism," has issued a statement an
nouncing his desertion Of the Demo
cratic nominee. In this statement he
draws the following comparison:
"The political ghosts and hobgob-
Ilins created by the feverish i1nagina-
ton of Mr. Bryan are the natural re-
suit of overwork and exhaustion. His
rawlings of imaginary imperialism
which does not exist-are very much
like the antics of a California horse
which had eaten a weed that grows IN
that country, called the loco weed.
When an attempt is made to lead
horse thus afflicted over a string in the
road he will rear, plunge and refuse to
step over what undoubtedly seems to
/! him a monster of a mountain. 1t is
evident that Mr.. Bryan's political Wis
ion is equally exaggerated with that OF
the poor brute which has eaten the
i, fatal weed"
The strong words of warning and
disapprova1 spoken by Grover Cleve-
land, George Williams and Alexander
Orr are too familiar to need repeating.
Many others, like these, have been
forced to abandon the Democratic
party until it's ranks have been thinned
of the ''grand old men" and filled with
an element that it behooves the people
to watch most vigi1antly. These men
whose names are mentioned above
have dictated the policies and carried
the burdens of the Democratic party,
they have become as identifi-
ed with it as Napoleon with
his Old Guard and the break
ing of the bond was no less ar
duous, but so great has been the folly
of the Democratic party that even this
bond could not endure the strain.
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