Washington sentinel., 1900-07-21
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MkiNLENISM the audacity or
ignorance to invite to seats on the
platform at the socalled Republican
convention recently held in Philadelphia
the survivors Of the delegates who nom
mated Abraham Lincoln in 1860. One
ofthem, Ex Governor Sidney Edgertor,
OF Akron, Ohio, did not attend, but on
the contrary sent reply contrasting in
the most iorcible manner the doctrines
held IN 1860 with those in vogue under
Mckinley. They are the very antitneses
of one another and it is a libel to call
the party OF Mark Hanna the Republican
party. A few extracts from this remark
able epistle will be interesting and
instructive. Mr.. Edgerton says:
"YOur convention will endorse and
eulogize, with fulsome praise. a policy
which has turned its back upon the last
counsel Of Washington to his people,
and which is an organized sneer at the
principles for which he fought, and will
commend an Administration which for
supple lackeying and trucking subser-
Yiency to Great Britain has not its match
IN history; aud this, too. by President
whose principal political stock in trade
for a generation past has been our econ
omic wrongs suffered at the hands OF
this hereditary industrial enemy of ours.
''It will countenance a policy which
avows its purpose of governing subject
people without their consent, outside OF
constitutional principles and safeguards,
at the caprice Of irresponsible appoint
ees, or a venal majority in Congress,
and in fragrant and derisive violation OF
the principles OF Washington and Jefier
son and Of those promulgated in the
Declaration Of independence, and
embodied in the Federal Constitution.
at will endorse a policy which, put
lawlessly in motion, has already begun
to bear the fruits OF lawIessness IN the
peculations being perpetrated by your
officials upon those whom it appears we
rescued from one set OF brigands only
to turn loose another upon them, and it
will denounce the individual thieves in
apparent forgetfulness that the thievery
is but a symptom and necessary
sequence OF irresponsible despotism.
THE Philadelphia convention which
you ask me to attend will, by its plat.
form, approve the work Of an Admins
tration which, claiming to have subdued
the sultanate of Sulu. nevertheless is in
treaty with its Sultan whereby It guar
antees the integrity OF his dominions
and prom ses to protect him IN maintain.
ing his slave barracoon and his harem
OF wives. And not only has It thus given
him immunity for his breach Of our
organic and statute law, but it has put
premium upon those twin relics Of
barbarism' by wing him a yearly
stipend for continuing to be a Jaw
breaker And by way OF sarcasm on
your campaign cry Of 1896 it pays him
the bounty in those sinful and utterly
dishonest Mexican dollars.
The Republican party Of the early
day, and long aiterward, was, upon
every consideration, the friend of and
the sympathizer with the oppressed and
downtrOdden everywhere. And il so
went on record time and time again In
the convention this year there will be no
word OF rebuke heard for the course Of
an Administration which stood calmly
but cOldly by. in sight OF the death
struggles Of two republics in another
hemisphere crushed beneath the blows
OF ornaments too overwhelming for
hope oi resistance.
ut is too notorious for controversy
that our government not only had no
good offices to trade-being itself en-
gagged in a like enterprise elsewhere,
but 1t resolutely suppressed, to the meas
ure ofits ability, all public expression Of
sympathy with the South African Re.
publics in their mortal agonies When
the accredited representatives of the
Transvaal Government reached the
shores of land, as they supposed, Of
liberty, they we're at the State Depart.
ment treated as outlaws, The Secretary
Of State also fastened to advertise the
cold shoulder he had given the rnvoys in
order that bis London friends might
reasonably know of his good services
and the President consoIed the SUD.
plants Tor their chilly reception BY
showing them the fine view from the
portico OF the White House No effort