New-York tribune., 1900-10-02
TRUE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
SENATOR LODGE SAYS 1T Is THE CUES
TIoN OF ORDERED LIBERTY-BRYAN
CANDIDATE OF MIXED TICKET.

Philadelphia Oct 1-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
this evening addressed audience of three thou
sand persons in the Academy of Music presided
over by Joseph G. Darlington. president Of the
Union League. under the auspices of which organ-
zatson the meeting held On the stage were
many Republicans prominent in the city and the
State Senator Lodges address. prefaced by intro
ductory remarks from Slas ". Petit and Mr.
Darlington. interrupted frequently with ap-
plause and at times with cheers.
Said Senator Lodge:
this Campaign. Tne That is the the dicuity Of de-
fning, the opposition. They are generally re re-
fair to the party II The sm4eS Bdf
psy p 9Tgi%naIy % Was naoocrsc 20 az party went
into the paying or bonds with paper. Then they
Sek men nder surSes 1R oday as its
candidate. Then they went after the silver party
swallowed them Finally they went after the anti
imperialists-one of the smallest parties they ever
Bryan as the candidate of the mixed ticket.
But Mr.. Bryan has declared the issue of anti
imperialism to be the paramount issue of this
nF to discuss t gs tengh ti h as Ss
with Mr. Bryan, although great many ,I PeoPe e IN
the American people is still l6 to /
BY imperialism 1 take II that Mr. Bryan means
pire through the medium of the Philippine Islands
We are not to be converted into an empire 6nroQga w
are to be converted by the Philippine Islands
II recoiiect right the Democrats who were in
Congress Immediately before war with Spain was
President Mckinley because he did not get into
war with Spain soon enough
Mr. Lodge reviewed briefly and wittily the history
Of the Spanish war, down TO the signing OF the
treaty OF peace and the acquisition Of the Spanish
possessions dwelling especially upon the defeat in
the Senate of Mr.. Vests amendment to the treaty
for the acquisition of the Philippines on the same
basis Cuba.
After discussing the situation in the Far East
and declaring the Philippines the key to the stu
alton Mr.. Lodge asked how the mixed party Of
the opposition could accuse the Republican party
Of seeking to enslave the people OF the Philippines
saying:
The party that struck off the shackles from four
million slaves will not put them na on naT nation hee OF
69 ha9d f 9%n ose @ m It ne Ta sae Ier Dd
has never been hauled down while it was being
fred on: Two words we have never put in our
treat" and surrender We are not going to put
them there
He said the silver question that would
survive the antimperialist cry long after the
ent campaign was over. 1t was settled in the
East. but it live issue still in the West and
South. The Republican voters must not let them
selves be deuded into the belief that the question
which Mr.. Bryan declared to be the paramount
issue was the vital thing. He remarked in con-
ciuson:
have said there was no paramount issue;
hsxe felt that all through hs his G9hmPagn amp E until rd
II involves a great deal more than the Philippine
Islands-more in my judgment than the tariff
than the silver question. 1t is the question of
ordered llberty-whether to turn this gov
ernment over 10 men who preach hatred between
man and man, who try to set class against class,
labor against capital whose only object is to tear
down. That is the paramount question-whether
we are willing to turn it over to these men. I
have what this preaching comes TO. When it
ignoran to know what thew are doing II t6e t6e
destruction of free speech l do not believe in
imperialism. There is imperialism There is
danger of Imperialism while the great political
fabric of American liberty stands
1t is the time to preach 10 America the gospel
of despair. Let US meet things like and han
die them. The gospel Of America is hope not de-
spair; and the Republican party stands faith
IN the great people of the United States appealing
now. it has already done, to all that was great
in its past, the brightness of its future It ap-
peals TO the hope Of the Republic. 1t will not ap-
peal In vain
A reception followed at the Union League