The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-07-28

Onc # the spectacular ehcts ci the Re
pubheau National Convention Of 1900,
conceived by Mark Hanna, Was 10 exhibi,
ou the platform the surviving delegates to
the mr., National Republican Convention,
iu $50 One Of these Wa ES Governor
Sidney Edgerton, cf Ohio, and he wrote to
Mr. Hanna. declining the invitation la
declining Mr. Edgertou wrote hong letter
IN which be contrasicd the Republicanism
Of 1886 with that Of 1900, with the party
under the domination OF Hanna, Mckinley
aud other false leaders Below We give
SOME extracts, to which We invite the at.
tenlion Of Republicans particularly
The Philadelphia convention Of this year
Siil be nisde up Of men in whose view
the principles Of Washington and Jeifer
sou arc ayowedly antiquated aud far
out of date Ii will yociterously uphold
aud applaud the doinss of an Administra-
tion which, doubling ia is own track with
in a space Of sixty days, has broken faith
with an innocent aud con6ding people who,
by the hazards Of war, had passed under
it, jurisdiction act rightly character
lied by itself As the breach Of a plain
duty at the command of the conscience
less aud mercenary appetite for plumber
possessed by those by whom that Admin
istration was itself created, aud which thus
Is constrained to remember It's creator.
1t will endorse 4 policy which thus law
lessly put in motion has already begun to
bear the fruits Of lawlessuess in the pecula-
tious being perpetrated By cur officials upon
those whom it appears we rescued from
one set Of brigands only turn loose another
upon them, aud it viii denounce the indi-
yidual thieves, in apparent forgettulness
that the thieyery Is but the symptom and
necessary sequence of an irresponsible des
potism. For government of peoples out
Of side constitutional sanctions is, upon any
rational Republican theory, but despot-
ism; and it is 50 not the less because it is
promised TO be administered benevolent
ly' and for the good Of the governed; the
fact that they are governed without their
consent puts the policy at war with the
! htpubilCdu hutNliiit VI Cbo Anu ob'
being irresponsible at its source, the prin-
ciple of irresponsibility permeates the entire
fabric, and stealing and spoliation by sub
ordlnates follow as night succeeds the day.
Shortly before the convention of 1886 a
man of some Prominence then and later
said:
'.When the white man governs himself,
that is self government; but when he gov
erns another man, that is more than self
goyernment-that is despotsm X x
What do say is, that no man is good
enough to govern another man without that
other consent.
The utterer of these words was Ahra-
ham Lincoln Was he Republican or
not? Measured by the standard of 1856,
plainly he was Judged by the test which
will govern the Philadelphia convention of
this year just as plainly he was not.
The Philadelphia convention which you
ask me to attend will, by its platform, ap-
prove the work of an Administration which,
claiming to have subdued the Su!tanate of
Sulu, nevertheless is in treaty with its
Sultan, whereby it guarantees the lnteg-
rity of his dominions and promises to pro
tect him in maintaining his slave barracoon
and his harem of wives And not only
has it thus given him immunity for his