The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-11-03
ADDRESS TO VOTERS.
An Appeal From Prominent Repub-
ncans to Support Mr.. Bryan.

States regard with profound apprehension the
course of the present Administration 10 Porto
Rico and the Philippines. Our prior acqui-
siti0ns were of adjacent territory for the ex
tension of the constitutional government and
the creation of new States of the Union. We
made their few inhabitants citizens; our peo-
pie settled them; we there established the in
situations of freedom. For the first time in
our history it is now proposed that the Presi-
dent and Congress shall rule vast territories
and millions Of men outside our constitutional
system. Officials sworn to support the Con-
stitution and deriving all their powers there
from have acquired colonies and assumed ar
bitrary authority to govern their inhabitants
without consent and to tax them without rep
resentation. This policy offers to the people
of Porto Rico and the Philippines no hope of
independence, no prospect of American citi-
zenship, no representation in the Congress
which taxes them. This is the government
of men by arbitrary power; this is Imperialism.
We believe that it is the first duty of the
American people to stamp with their disap-
proval doctrines so hostile to liberty and dan
gerous TO constitutional government. If they
are to remain free and their government is
to continue representative, their servants
must not have or exercise any but constitn-.
tional powers. Between the claim offreedom
that all men are entitled TO equal political
rights and the dogma of tyranny that might
makes right, there is no middle ground. q,
We have not prior to this year supported
the candidacy of Mr.. Bryan. We do not now
concur in certain of his views on minor issues.
Yet his position on the supreme issue of the
present campaign is so sound, and his adyo-
cacy of it has been so able and courageous
that we now favor his election AS the most eff
fective way of showing disapproval Of Mr.. Me- \
Ksniavfc Without flu ora.
cial political influence, we unite, for what our
example may be worth to our fellow-citizens,
in this statement of proposed action in The |
presence of "a greater danger than we have |
encountered since the Pilgrims landed at Ply
mouth-the danger that we are to be trans
formed from n republic, founded on the De-
claralion of Independence, guided by the
counsels of Washington. into vulgar, com
monplace empire, founded on physical force"
We invite the cooperation of all independent
voters to avert this great and impending dan
ger.
George S. Boutwell,, Boston tex Governor
and Secretary Of the Treasury.
Charles Gordon Ames Boston.
Melville B. Anderson, Leland Stanford
University. Il
Francis Fisher Browne, Chicago (editor Of
the Dial).
john Beatty, OHIO general in Civil War
and ex- Congressman.
William. Birney, Washington.
ID. +. Bremner, Chicago. /
Albert s. Cook, Yale University. \
ID. Fl. Chamberlain, Massachusetts lex.
Governor of South Carolina. i
Charles K. Goldman, Massachusetts.
Henry b. Cabot, Boston. i
Starr Willard Cutting, University of Chi
cago. i
Noah K. Davis. University Of Virginia. 4
John Dewey, University of Chicago.
Dana Estes. Boston.
Louis R. Enrich, Colorado.
Joseph s. Fowler, Washington, d. c., (ex-g
United States Senator). i
Edwin L. Godkin, New York (former edi-
tor The Nation and New York Evening Posi- J. |
William Lloyd Garrison, Boston.
Judson Hartman, Cincinnati (ex-Attorney
General of the United States.) 4
+. ID. Huntington, Syracuse Bishop of
Protestant Episcopal Church). Il
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Boston.
William Gardiner Hale, University of Chi |
George Lincoln Hendrickson, University
of Chicago. i
Henry U. johnson, Indiana Tex Congress
MANI.
Edward Holton James, Seattle, Washing
ton.
William R. Lord, Portland, Oregon.
Louis r. Larson, Minneapolis (ex-Judge).
John V. LeMoyne, Baltimore lexicon
gressman)
Charles +. Lummis, Los Angeles (ediior
Land of Sunshne).
Joseph Lee, Boston,
George Gluyas Mercer, Pennsylvania. 4
Thomas A. Moran, Chicago, (ex-Judge).
Edwin d. Mead, Boston, (edtor New Eng
land Magazine - j
Charles Elliot Norton, Harvard University.
Henry Loomis Nelson, New York
Warren Olney, San Francisco.
William Morton Payne, Chicago. 4
Franklin Pierce, New York city.
Arthur Latham Perry, Williams College
ii. A. Ratterman, Cincinnati. 4
U. NJ. Rose, Little Rock
Rufus B. Smith, Cincinnati Judge Supe-
rior Court.
Edward NJ. Shepard, New York city.
Moorfeld Storey, Boston (ex-president
American Bar Association).
Edwin Burritt Smith. Chicago.
Albert II. Tolman, University Of Chicago
Edwin f. Uhl, Grand Rapids, (ex-Ambas-
sador TO Germany.
John j. Valentine (president Wells Fargo
Express Company.
William Woke, Chicago.
c. E. S. Wood, Portland, Oregon.
Lew Wallace, Jr., Indianapolis. $50
Charles B. Willy. Cincinnati.
George L. Wellington, Omitted States SEN
ator, Maryland).
Herbert Welsh, Philadelphia (editor City
and State)
John Dewitt Warner, New York city Eek
Congressman.
Sigmund Zeisler, Chicago
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