The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-04-25
SOLEMEN WARNING
Given the Republican Party BY
Senator Hoar.
A MASTERLY ARGUMENT.
He Makes a Brilliant Address
Rich With Citations From
History, Delivered With
GoIen1i5 Pba4oric
Splendid Rhetoric.


Massachusetts, occupied the attention
of the senate with speech in opposi.
ton to the policy of imperialism, D
upon which, he maintained, this govern.
nent had embarked. As prepared, the
address was $4,000 words in length, but
Nh. Eoar omitted much of it owing to
an incipient attack Of the grip from
which he was suffering.
The speech was brilliantly written,
was illuminated with splendid rhetosi-
cal figures snd was rich with citations
from history. One Of the notable parts
of the address was the eulcgY Of
| Aguinaldo. MIR. Hosr did not Ikea
the insurgent leader to Washington,
as has been done heretofore, but to
Kossuth, Doom Paul, Joubert, Nathan
Hale and other builders of the church
Of liberty. In statecraft he hkened
Aguinaldc aRd his associates in the
leadership Of the F.lipinos to the best
minds ever produced in the Asiatic
race, race which handed down to US
''tbe Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments, the poetry Of David, the
eloquence Of Isaiah, the wisdom Of Solo
mon and the profound philosophy Of
Paul"
One Of the most effective parts Of his
ADDRESS was his fancied roll-call Of
some Of the distinguished statesmen Of
the United States on the question Of
the retention Of the Philippines. he
began with George Washington and
| closed with Vim. Mckinley, each in a
| sentence giving the reason for his vote.
Every vote was in the negative, except
that Of Aaron Burr, who voted ''yes"
and explained: "You are repeating
my buccanneering expedition down the
| Mississippi. am to be Vindicated at
last" When the name of William Nc
| Kinley was called, he replied: "There
has been cloud before my vision for
| moment, but I see clesrly now; go
! back to Whist I said two years sgo:
'Fercible annexation is criminal sg-
gression; governments derive their just
powers from tbe consent Of the gov
erned, not some of them, but all Of
them. I will stand With the fathers Of
the republic. I aill stand with the
founders Of the Republican party.
No"
The effect was dramatic. As Mr..
Hosr pronounced his peoration the
stiffness in the chamber was intense.
Applause swept over the galleries, but
It was hushed quickly by the president
pro tempore.
Mr.. Hosr took as his text the Bever-
idge resolution declaring the Philip
pines United States territory. He
cited the glory Of the war with Spain,
the prosperity Of the American people
at its close, eulogised President Nc
Kinley's course ct that time, character
izing him as the best beloved president
who ever sat in the chair Of Washing
ton. He begged the Republican party
party not to recede from its principles
and said II, when ne made the peace
treaty, We had adhered to the purpose
We declared when We declared war; If
We had dealt with the Philippine ISL
ands as we promised to deal, have dealt,
and expect to deal with Cuba, the
country would have escaped the loss Of
5000 brave soldiers, other thousands
Of wrecked and shattered lives, the
sickness OF many more, the expenditure
Of hundreds Of millions and, what is
far worse than all, the trampling under
foot Of its cherished ideals.
II do not expect to accomplish any
thing Tor liberty in the Philippine
islands but through the Republican
party; but upon it the fate Of these
islands for years to come is to depead.
cannot look with 1aVor upon nr.
Bryan as an alternative.
I believe that not only perseverance,
in tie present policy Will be the aban-
donment Of the principles upon which
our government is founded, that it will
| change our republic into an empire,
that our methods Of legislation, Of dip
| lomacy, Of administration must hereaf-
ter be those which belong to empires
| and not those which belong to repub-
lies; but ! believe persistence in this
attempt will result in the defeat and
overthrow Of the Republican party"
Touching upon the constitutionality
Of the question at issue, Mr.. Hosr said:
II hold that this acquisition Of terri
tory, holding end governing can be only
q means for constitutional end. And
maintain that you can no more hold
and govern territory than you can hold
/ and manage cannons or fleets FOX any
other than constitutional end"
| Adverting the authority to be found
in the declaration Of independence,
Mr.. Hoar declared: 'There is e1psn.
sion, enough in it, but it is the expan-
sion Of freedom and not Of depotisn; Of
! life, not of death. Never was such
growth in ell human history as that
from the seed Thomas Jefferson plant
ed. Il has covered the continent It
is on both the seas. 1t has saved South
America. It is revolutionizing Eu-
rope. It is the expansion Of free
dom. It differs from your tinsel, pinch
beck, pewter expansion as the growth
Of g healthy youth into strong man
differs from the expansion of an ana
conds when he swallows his victim.
| Ours is the expansion Of Thomas JEFF
| ferson. Yours is the expansion Of
Aaron Burr. It is destined to &s short
life and to a like fate.
"Tou have tried governing men Of
ether races than your own at home for
| hundred years. You have dealt With
the Indian, you have dealt with the
negro, close at hand, knowing all
about them. l suppose you feel en-
couraged By yeur success. There are
| 10, 600, 900 of them. And now you go
forth to lay your yoke on 100000
more 7. coo miles away, Of whom you
| L,ouJ NOTHING Vor oo fc-th is7,4;Iv