Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-23
FOR MCKINLEY AND PEARRE.
Club Meeting Held Last Night at
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Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
KENSINGTON, Md, October 90, 1900.
A successful meeting under the auspices
of the Mckinley, Roosevelt and Pearre
Club was held this evening in the town hall
Mayor Clum, by way of Introduction, said
these meetings We're especially directed to
young men who would cast their first presi-
dental vote, as it was necessary that their
political career should be started in the
right way. He introduced Mr.. Thomas C.
Moves as live, active republican, who was
working hard and successfully to regener-
ate Montgomery county and bring her into
line with sound principles, sound money
and abundant prosperity.
Mr.. Noyes said he had no harsh word for
the democratic party. That party up to
1860 had in large measure written most
glorious pages in national history. JEFF
ferson and Jackson were of a noble type Of
expansonists, and through their efforts
there were added to our domains stretches
Of territory out of which were carved a
giant chain of states from Florida to Cali
fornia and from the Gulf of Mexico to Can
ada. These democrats, if on earth today
would applaud the expansion that had been
thrust upon us by Providence that orders
all things well.
rayed the anti-progressionists of that day.
who shouted dictator and imperialist and
tyrant, just as the conglomeration of pop
ocratic odds and ends is doing against Will
liam Mckinley today. 1t Is not democracy
We were fighting. he said, but a monster.
with head of free silver populstic body
and a democratic tail.
Republicans, the speaker continued. were
not afraid to meet any issue that had been
presented. They had won on protective
tariff, they had won on an honest dollar
and they would win on the policy outlined
today, that would make this country not
t1n otng-t yr,rt rfo1 hn ateSf
financial, but in the future the greatest
commercial power on the face of the globe.
We would compel all other nations to salute
our flag, not only because of the force be-
hind it, but because wherever it goes it car
ries the blessings of justice, prosperity and
the elevation of humanity.
Mr.. Milton G. Urner, eX-representative
from this district, followed. He said the
democratic cry against trusts is dema-
gogic appeal. Technically speaking, no
trusts are in existence. John Sherman, that
eminent republican who died today, faith
cred the legislation that put end to
trusts. A trust was corporation formed
to regulate the manner of doing business
for number of other corporations in one
line of business, thus creating monopoly.
Under the Sherman law these corporations
were compelled to dissolve and to form
themselves into one gigantic corporation.
This new corporation was beyond the reach
of the Constitution, and to regulate and
suppress them the republicans introduced
the only legislation that has ever been at
| tempted against them. This bill needed a
two-thirds' vote, but every democratic vote
in Congress, save five, were against 1t. be-
cause, as the democratic leader said, If this
bill passes we will have no issue to spring
upon the people during the next presidential
campaign.
Mr.. Urner said he would not insult the
| intelligence of the audience by defending
imperialism. No man, democratic or repub-
| lcan, believed such a thing possible, so long
| as the spirit that actuated Americans re-
| mains alive. The cry had been raised
| against Jackson, against Lincoln. against
| Grant and now against the kindest-hearted
man that had ever occupied the presidential
chair, but always by coterie of men who,
| like the lightning-bug, had their headlights
| on behind. They had proclaimed the civil
| war a failure, and they are now proclaim
| ing our course in the Philippines failure.
| They prolonged hostiities then, and are
| doing 1t now, in the mad hope that they can
| reap some political advantage by their
| treacherous acts. But the great, loyal heart
of the nation, republican and democrat,
raised up then and swept their traitorous
| schemes into oblivion, just as it will next
| election day,