The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-12
HOAR'S FIRM STAND.
Says Bryan and His Councillors Are Not
to be Trusted with ureat Issues.

on whom the anti-imperialists counted
so much declined to go with them and
support Bryan, because he said his
election would be worse for the nation
than the holding of the Philippines.
A few days ago Senator Hoar gave his
reasons for his position to some extent
and sent them to the Republican state
committee of Massachusetts,, which has
forwarded copy to the national COM
mittee The statement is as follows:
1t is thoroughly unmanly and I'M
American to take to the woods. Either
President Mckinley or Mr.. Bryan
will be chosen. Voting for third
party, under the circumstances, is not
better than not to vote at all. You
may as we'll leave your vote with the
census officer as to leave it with the
election officer, unless you vote for
one or the other of these two men.
Now, President Mckinley made
the treaty, and Mr.. Bryan, when its
defeat was assured, came to Washing
ton and saved it. These two great
political leaders, between whom you
are to take your choice, are equally re-
sponsible for everything that has taken
place. These two great political leaders,
between whom the law of the land, the
public faith was pledged to pay $50, 600,
900 for sovereignty over the Philippine
islands, and that congress, and not the
people should dispose of them here
after. 1t became the constitutional
duty of the president until congress
should act, or declare otherwise to
reduce them to order and submission.
The supreme court of the United
States so held long ago. The only
difference up to this point between
| President Mckinley and Mr.. Bryan is
that President Mckinley believed he
was doing right, belonged to a party
which had always been, as he himself
had been, the champion of political
| liberty, in the past, and is right on all
| of the other questions that are at
stake in the coming election and is fit
to be trusted with all new questions
that are at stake in the coming cleo
ton, and is fit to be trusted with all
new questions that shall arise. On
the other hand, Mr. Bryan thought the
| whole transaction wrong, makes
some thin frivolous excuses for his
conduct, and the party with whom he
and will surround him as his coun-
sellers are men who have been the OPP
| ponents of righteousness, equality and
| civil liberty always, in the past, are
| wrong on all the other great questions
| that are at stake in the present cleo
tion, and are not, in my judgment, to
be trusted with new questions how
ever important or vital, that are to
come up in the future.
l say to the lover of liberty, | say to
the anti-imperialist, I say to the man
who thinks the Republican party has
made great and greivious mistake,
you cannot look for the correction of
that mistake to candidate or to a
party who, whatever they may think
of the principles applied to the Philip
pine islands mean to apply those prin-
ciples in their worst form to citizens
of the United States.
In the matter of imperialism there
has been little practical difference be-
tween President Mckinley and Mr..
Bryan in the past. There will be little
practical difference in the future. Mr.
Bryan does not even promise to use
his power as executive and COM
mander- in chief in calling our troops
from the Philippines. He only prom
Uses to call congress together. He
knows very we'll he cannot command
even the strength of his own party
to undo what seventeen of his own
followers in the senate at his own in
stance wrought when they ratified the
treaty.
In 1886 you regarded Mr.. Bryan's
campaign as passionate crusade
of dishonor. - You said its success
would bring with it not only adver-
sity, but disgrace. Would its success
not bring disgrace now2 Mr.. Bryan
said at Topeka that if he were
J elected the free coinage of silver
should be accomplished before another
presidential election. Secretary Gage
says he can lawfully accomplish it by
executive power alone. Whether Mr..
Gage be right in his construction of
the powers of the president under ex-
listing law, 1 will not undertake to say.
But I will undertake to say that Mr..
Bryan will not hesitate to use that
power if he has the great authority of
Mr.. Gage for it's lawfulness. do not
believe the man who promoted the
ratification of the Spanish treaty
means business in this matter of the
! Philippine islands. But | don be-
/ lieve he means business in the matter
/ of the free coinage Of silver, in the
matter of free trade, and in his pur-
pose to reconstruct the supreme court.
! He means bad business. He means
business which will overthrow pros
perity and embarrass manufacture
which will reduce wages and destroy
credit which will debauch the cur
rency and render the standard of value
uncertain which will impair the obi
CATION of contracts and the value O
savings; which will hurt our credi
and break our faith. All this you be
Iieye, as do. You said SO in 1896
You have been confirmed in you,
opinion by everything that has hap
pened since. Will you support can
didate who, if he have his way, yor
admit will accomplish all these things
. because he and his party give you al
empty promise of justice to 10, 900, 90
Asiatics, and at the same tim
Neutrality-suspicious. injustice and wron!
to 10, 600, 900 Americans2
1 will not vote for candidate for tn
, presidency, or help to bring part.
into power who, while they plant on
heel on the forehead of Booker Wash
+ ington, and the other on the forehead
B of Robert Small, wave the flag owe
Aguinaldo and Mabini. GEORGE F
HOAR, Worcester, Mass.
Editor Adams and wife, of White
S. D. spent Sunday and Monday in tn