Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-11
Halt ImperialisIn--E Bryan
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Either William J. Bryan or
William Mckinley will be elect
ed IN November. There are 9TH
er organic atoms and candidates
which may command hundreds
Of thousands Of the popular woe,
but they are not reckoned IN coo-
si3ering the utim ale issue 1f she
contest.
The battle Of 1896 was Tough
and largely decided IN Al issue
that has been entirely oversnad
owed by the assertion @ g new
and most dangerous policy TO
the tranquility and satety of the
Republic. Capitalization has been
appreciated by in5elligent po]itis
cal observers as she great peril
to the Republic ever since our
civil war; but it has been whole
somely restrained py the people,
and never reacned the appalling
attitude of positive Imperialism
until President Mckinley pro
claimed it and enforced it, re-
gardless of the wise limitations
upon Executive authority.
The paramount issue between
the two great parties today is
that of imperial prerogatives
against ..the true Jeffersonian
theory of government by the
people; and it must now be OBJ
yious to intelligent voters that
there can be no hope of hating
the present reckless aud rioJous
spirit of imperialism in any other
than the election Of William j.
Bryan as the next President of
the United States. It ia the vital
the paramount issue, and it must
triumph whenever the people of
the nation appreciate their SOW
ereign power and assert the mas
jessy Of popular rule.
We are now engaged in a cost
ly and bloody struggle in the
Philippines that could and should
have been avoided by recognizing
the right of the people to rule
themselves; aud now for the first
time proclaimed to the country
and to the world, the President
inaugurates war in the far distant
Easr, without the authority of
Congress and in defiance of the
supreme law of the natlor; and
has made and prosecuted war,
and proposes to make peace,
with all the authority Of the
Gar of Russia.
The nation is thus in peril from
| TIE threatened subversion Of tue
sovereign power of the land that
is supporting the concentration
o. capital against the interests of
Iator; that is debancsing our po-
liticel system by the open col &C.
ton of millions Of money from
projected trus S 20 expeod in the
national political contest and that
has inaugurated reign OF reck-
less RI figacy end sxtra vagance
unexampled iu the history of the
nation. 1t must be halted by the
people if they would preserve
their own government ''of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the
people;'' and it can be done only
by the election of William J.
Bryan as the next President.
| The Democrats of Pennsylvania
have a great duty and great op-
portunity in the present contest,
They can become an important
indeed controlling factor. MOI
only in restoring Pennsylvania te
a purer political system and bet
ter administration, but In gaining
for themselves and for all gooo
citizens, on honest ballot and fail
representation of all parties In ths
national and State Legislatures
Democrats have the cordial coop
GRAFTON Of Independent Republi
cans, and they must be false L
, themselves if they fail to contro
both branches of the Legislature
, and thus place the Democracy o
: Pennsylvania in a position t.
, command the confidence of tn
, people and win future victories
hacauaa thav shall deSarve fh