The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-07-27

except, OF course, HERMAN Ofncenoiu-
ers. Germans know what imperial
ism means. The issue is, shall this
republic live or dis3 Hence the Ger
man otersalmost to man, will cast
their ballots for Bryan and Stevenson.
The ticket is vastly superior to the
soft writer and rough rider on the
other ticket. The statement we hear
go much nowadays that trade follows
the flag is bunCombe and nonsense.
Nations and individuals wifi trade
where they can do b"st, irrespective
of utilization. Canada does not buy
all she needs from England"
Charles Ii. Stafford, u New York
lawyer, Democrat and United States
marshal under Cieveland:
"lu 1896 | didn't vote at all, but l
intend 10 vote for Bryan now. One
reason why did not vote for Bryan
iii 1896 was because knew so little of
him as g man. Since then | have
studied him and now think he is one
of the greatest men America has pro
| duce 4 since the days Of Lincoln. Im-
periaiisin aud not silver, is the issue
this year"
Charles +. Bacon, formerly law
partner of ex-senator Hill:
81 shall support Bryan il this cam
paign, first because of the strong anti
imperialistic plank of the kan,as
City platform, and second, because
Of the glaring plumbers of McKiniey's
administration and the character of
the clique that controls him. In 1896
voted for Mckinley, although l
have always been an ardent Demo
crat. l believe the imperialistic tend
vital concern to the country than any
danger from sixteen to one, for it is a
| we'll known fact that no financial leg
islrticn can be enacted with Repuh-
lican Senate. | shall vote for Mr..
Bryan because the Kansas City plat
| form represents Americanisln.'
Mr.. f. L. Godkin. for many years
chief editor of the Neac York Eren-
ing Post, is another prominent come
outer" against Imperialism. We SUBJ
join his opinion of the Mckinley gang
| of corInorants
prolonged illness has so cut me of
from affairs that am a very indiffer-
ent guide for a voter seeking light ON
a crisis like this. Moreover, l have a
deep-seated prejudice against William
Mckinley and the men who surround
him and act with him.
''This prejudice is so strong that it
can only be modified by facts OF
which | am neither in possession nor
can attain. My opinion of them,
formed long ago, is. that they are the
most dangerous set of scouudrels by
which any civilized country WIS ever
beset.
You may guess, then, how l would
| vote if l were voting, and how difficult
it is for NE to be judicial minded con-
corning either him or his acts"
| L. w. Habercorn, one of the most
Influential COMMUNICATIONS in the
United States, who managed the Ger
man Republican vote in the first H
| rison campaign, and who was until
recently in charge of the German bu-
reau attached to the Republican ma
tional and congressional committees,
has left the Republican party. Mr..
Haberccrn was formerly an auditor
in the Treasury Department under
| President Harrison. He says:
cleft the Republican Congressional
Committee in May, partly because l
needed more time for my private bust.
ness and largely because was not in
full accord with the party, and espec-
tally could not defend and promote its
expansion and foreign policies.
| "A government with imperialism
over our possessions cannot long re-
main Il republic at home. AS the gov
| eminent could not live half slave and
half free, SO it cannot life half imper.
ial and half Republican.
The Republican party now stands
| for imperialism and is already busy
cultivating the spirit of militarism.
The Democratic party has earnestly,
| clearly and forcibly pronounced
against Imperialism with its resultant
evils, and stands for the preservation
| of the republic and the Constitution. "
Edwin F. Walker, secretary of the
Young Mems Republican club of
Evanston, ILL.,, says:
"As President Mckinley has shown
that he cannot be depended upon to
do his plain duty, trust he will not
be re elected TO position where he
can continue to substitute dishon-
orable Imperialism for what might be
an honorable expansion. Consider
ing civil services Indispensable to the
welfare of our country, think that in
removing more than 10000 officers
from the merit system President Nc
kin!ey has given another sufficient
reason why he should be returned to
private iife''
Webster Davis, ex-Assistant Secre-
tary of the Interior under Mckinley,
thus sums up his conversion: Life
is too short for Il man to sacrifice his
principles or his love of country for
money or for office in this republic. |
have never yet read or heard plat
form that was 50 intensely American
as the platform read here in this cop-
vention,
81 care not the snap OF my finger
for party or private citizens. / care
nothing for office, because l gave up
one Voluntarily better than any you
can give me. And the man or news
paper that makes the statement that
l was forced to leave the Administra-
ton against my will, absolutely, I'M
qualitiedIy and maliciously lies. l
love liberty, l love equality OF rights,
and love justice. When the party
that l belong. to has been too coward
ly to take stand for liberty, to re-
sent government by British aristo-
cracy and monarchy, leave it,"
Judge p. A. Louble, president of
the Ohio State Bar Association, AL
ardent and lifelong Republican. vino
was at one time a candidate for Con-
gress in MckInley's own district, in
his annual address to the organiza-
ton OF which he is the head, said: