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New York Journal.
President Mckinley has discovered that
he was nominated by the Phladelph a
convention. and in response to the noti-
hcation has unbcsomed himself Of some
sdeas about politics.
Mr.. Mckinley does not agree with the
Kansas City convention about paramount
issues" He prefers to make his own para
mount issue, and he insists that 1t shall
be l6 to /. The question that he and his
party proiessed to have settled forever is
dragged from It's repose aud made 10 do
duty as the burning problem of the cum
paign.
But Senator Lodge. the orator OF the no
tlheation committee, less astute and more
candid than his chief. has spoiled the
presidents little plan OF conducting the
campaign Of 1900 on the issues OF 1896 and
leaving the record OF 1900 to go without
popular verdict. ''The peace" said Mr.
Lodge, you had TO make akne. Cuba
Puerto Rico, the Philippines you had {,
assume alone the responsibility OF taking
them all from Spain. Alone, and weighted
With the terrible responsibility OF the un-
checked war powers of the constitution
YOU were obliged to govern these island;
and TO repress rehelhoa and disorder IN
the Philippines. No party creed defined
the course you were To follow. Courage
foresight, comprehension OF American in.
teres,s. both now and In the unchartat
future. fitA In ths Amsr loan people ans
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tBY GEORGE D. ARM1sTEAD)


Peoria, Ills, July 15.-(Stah Specially
Since leaving Kansas City at the close
Of the great convention that electrified the
continent have been swinging around
a circle" Here In the heart of this great
State. now cursed by as offensive repub-
lean misrule as exists, ! find just as
good democrats as there are in Texas.
and they seem almost us numerous.
have traversed the greater part of
the length of this co nmonweEltn that
gave Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham
Lincoln to the Nation lni have talked
politics with everv enc who would j s.
cuss the campaign and who came in hall
ing distance nj me. 1l!iruis Is tbs rome
of Adlal Ewing Stevenson--by the grace
OF God AMI the votes of American freemen
the next vice president OF the United
States--and to use rather trite express
sion. his nomination at Kansas City has
set the State wild"
There isn't a more popular man in Illi-
nois today than General Stevenson. He
doesn't appear to have an enemy any
where / have talked with men " all
parties and have yet to find one who
doesn't have kind word for the ran
, who beheaded republican postm 'sters SO
gracefully and theoretically. The strength
he adds to the ticket in Illinois is WELL
nigh Unreasonable.
| Illinois democrats feel particularly proud
of the results of the Kansas City conven~
ton. MIR. Bryan was born AMI reared at
Salem and General Stevenson has lived
at Bloomington since he reached man
hoods estate. Greater donors in the mat
ter of the nominees have seldom fallen
to any State
In addition to this, he democrats OF
Illinois love the platform. They believe
IL is the greatest political declaration
ever made and they have already entered
into the work OF the campaign with heart
and soul. There Is not a sign Of discord
not a break in the lines The Illinois
democracy is hopeful, aggressive, conn
dent. Both Governor Altgeld and Mayor
Harrison have buried their personal diner
ences and they and their partisans nave
begun to cannonade their political enc
mics. There Is enthusiasm in every demo
cratic camp and Joy in every democratic
home.
These democrats who so often have fol
lowed the party's flag to political disaster
are jubilant. They sniff success on ever.
passing breeze and are confident that TIM
old commonwealth Will. In November next
repeat her action Of November, lS'2, an
cast her vote for the ticket upder tn
rooster.
: have talked with hundreds of me-
IN this State since entering 1t two day
ago. | have not found a man who Yote'
, for Bryan four years ago VINO Is not nov
for Bryan and Stevenson. Every on
OF them predicts victory. They poin
with feelings OF Joy to the shattered re
publican organization, due to the Cullom
Tanner feud and say there is no sucl
e thing as fail this year. They tell me III
| nois was for Bryan anyhow and that ten
eral stevenson's nomination has Glvel
b them a "cinch."
These hardheaded, practical lLen' ar
not dreamers. They are counting on
splendid democratic victory and Unless IN
S signs fail they will not be disappointed
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THE pnuMMER's AWAKENING.

In 1896 by far the greater number OF
travelling salcsmcn were for Mckinley and
Hobart; They believed that republican
success meant the Inauguration OF an era
OF commercial prosperity and expansi
that WOULD guarantee them continued en-
ploymen: at lucrative salaries aud gem
erous expense allowances, and that would
multiply their number.
Their awakening from this hallucination
was ruder than that which follows the
clang OF call bell announcing that only
thirty minutes remains In which to dress
and hurry forth to catch 2 a. m. train
for the next town, because when they got
their eyes open in the light of results
they found themselves In desolate COM
partnership with thousands of their fellows
with mo more job than a rabbit"
The political success to which the drum
mers misguided intelligence had substan-
TALLY contributed LAID the predicate for
that day OF consolidation which our repub-
lican friends tell us is the genius OF our
commercial greatness and progress.
The wholesale merchant and manufac-
turer discovered that, by embracing COM
petitors within huge combines competl-
tors would cease 10 exist; that they could
therefore. arbitrarily fix prizes to the
trade. and turn out their travelling men
who had built up with their marvellous
energy and attention to business the great
houses and concerns OF the country, to
hunt new fields OF labor or join the grow
ing ranks of the unemployed.
In fact neck and neck with the ad-
vantage Of being able TO fix prices ran
tho item Of expense 30 be saved by dis
pensing with an army of travelling SHES
men in the formation OF the commercial
trusts. How great an inducement TO the
organization OF the combine was the sin.
gle consideration of getting rid OF the
until Lorlllard gratultously informed /
several months ago that several million
dollars daily would be saved capital there
by.
But the drummer has seen the erro
Of his political way and except wher
he has survived with the trust, he ma
be found talking for the success OF l.
democratic ticket in 1900.
There is no lesson like the lesson {
experience and no logic like the logic
results, These things convince, and viii.
men may effect their repetition they al
certain not TO invite them along the sam
lines by which they have been once PR
duced, 1t is quite evident, tsen. thl
the travelling man will not repeat h
vote for republican President that wi
perpstuate Q regime which has turns
over. not only the business OF the eoul
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pathy for struggling republics; when "
keep up the Spanish American war u
and add millions upon millions 10 W
burden OF the people for militar.sm al
increase our army and navy and send tAsi
to the Orient; when we ignore the MOI
roe doctrine; when we court entangling y
liances with foreign nations and are aDoA
TO enter into the concert OF Europe; WOE
the, president, backed by a republka
majority in congress, ignores the PHI
ciples of the Declaration OF lndepsndens
and the constitution and boldly rules "
people OF Puerto Rico as subjects aa
proposes to rule the people Of the Paif
pines In like manner, the cause Tor aial-
for the perpetulty OF our free in2ulunSh
has ceased to be speculative and Is nis|
real.
When the president openly claims II
the republican majority OF congress w
him that we can act independently o. 4
constitution in ruling these people ~
imposing a government upon them, n''l
ever benevolent and humane 1t may Il
against their consent, we have thT0si
both the Declaration Of Independents I!
the constitution to the winds aud we
launched upon the wide sea of imperaAs'
without compass or rudder excePt
arbitrary will of the president and ma
a majority in congress. II We thus u
tablish an empire abroad over saasl
colonies. how long will 1t be until wesa'
have the empire complete, both " NJ
and abroad?
Let history, which, as Schiller eays
the worlds great court, answer thai WI
ton and 1t will be found that the pau
this dangerous policy is strewn WIN
wrecks OF the republics OF all ages
ell times. Shall this proud Repuphc A
another wreck to this long line o.
tinct republics or shall 1t adhere
lofty aims and promises Of self-go,V
ment, shall 1t take the privilege -
classes and restore them to the No.
open up again the right OF equal ecouv.E
opportunity and industrial freedom Il
thus realize the inspiration OF Llne0n
establishing a government by, oil ana
the people? III
We have come to the parting
ways, what shall IT be, republic @ Vi
pire? Imperialism is indeed the p.N
mount issue, but let the people tear "
roots with its branches.
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JUDGED by every indication that is eW-
don't at this time Illinois twenty-Ioul
electoral votes will be cast tor lne NUM-
nees OF the Kansas City conNenllon'
~
There is more speculation ooout inc
attitude OF the foreign born element Oh tne
American electorate toward the ;"o great
political parties this year than Las ever
heen INDUCED in before. l have taken
some pains to learn the Drift or heuCl-
nent in the ranks of the large io'ei le.i,
element in Illinois. have tnlNsu VIZ
Germans, with Poles, with sclnuina' e.ber
and with men from nearly every 0tnS Ia
cn,,ntrv Of Europe who nave come TO TINS
Gland of freedom"
Coming into Peoria today l rode tor
moro than hundred miles win TWO
Catholic priests-one a native OF Germany,
tho other from Austria. Both were very
intelligent, el-infOrmed on all tuoJeets
of current interest and | fouho Ioyu "a
tben, very courteous and oDligiag toIu
them of my desire TO learn +o'-i"'' tareisn,
the view taken by America loIelsn
horn nopulation OF the pending contest
"Ne are churchmen, not politicians, the
German nrIest answered, but, OF course,
know something of the polltlcal leahlns0
~ orr neople. | have never Voteu any
thing but the straight republican ~ I,en NJ
This wear | shall vote, II l liNe IN NJ ~
venber g. for Bryan ana stevenson A Nv
rahid Imperialism left the fatherlanu "
aansne is about TO be engrafted upon thls
1Irinn nv the republican party ana InaAe
-, corct-,lment of the fact that expect
~ c,orls aud vote for the ticket naheu at
Kansas CITY l speak Tor no ono 80
,nvself hut | know hundreds OF olher - -
rnsn-Americans who have always ue .ni
sfouuch republicans who feel az hv
vote as | do. l should THINK Juuse' Az
what have heard, that naJoi vo;ars of
cistva majority. OF the German YoseiS "a
Im,,ois viii vote against Mckinney anu
pnosnvelt Free silver is paa euous IT, =
49, ;,onerialism with its attendant eNl''
e. more than we care to endure
rba otber priest smiled broadly al 'niS
ooa looked admiringy at his companion,
90 am glad YOU are right at last ta'he''
he said. Then. turning to me- Ne ooN
timed. ~ have always been a demoera.
and am prouder OF that today thaI esel
before. Four years ago was lol d, w.
enthusiastically and the events thaC nov i
since transplred cause me to KNOW ina
n.as rirht MIR Bryan is one Of the
graatest men the world has seen ana tnt
Verdict of history will mark a spot lo'
him high in the temple of honor and
fame l may add that the nomination o
General stevenson has strengthened me
marry to no little extent in Illinois. WhN'
there has been no change in me- know
hundreds Of men of my race VINO nav
Changed and who from strong republican
have come to be ardent democrats W.
want no standing armies. no gigantic
uavies. no monarchy. Our foretather'
NAV not have fought at Bunker Hill o
prandywine 10 carve matchless repuo
lie out Of the heart of the new world, ou
We are ready with voice and vote Il
preserve uutarnished what the reYolu'
ton won for those who are to come ate
us.
q may be doing wrong but can no
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Rome furnishes the most striking instance
in this regard and the economic conditions
preceding the fall Of the Roman republic
are almost parallel with those existing
now in the United States, towit: the
classes against the masses; inordtnaLe
wealth of the few and the great poyery
Of the masses, etc, only with this dill
feIe that then the unequal distribution
OF wealth flowed Into the hands OF indl-
vlduals, whereas now It goes into the nav
OF soulless corporations.
The imperialistic spirit now SO ripe IN
the United States Is neither an accident
nor a myth, 1t is a necessary and real con-
sequence OF the perverse economic condi-
lions brought about chiefly by the false
economic theories affecting our fiscal
monetary ana transportation systems and
s,ubbornly adhered to by the republican
party.
Imperialism is moving, living thing
which derives It's existence from the
money power and Industrial combinations
who are fighting for their lives against
equal and Just taxation, the equal indus
trial opportunities OF the masses and a fair
and Just monetary system OF the people
based upon the free and unlimited coin
age Of both gold and silver at the ratio OF
IS to /, without the aid OF any other ma
ton.
The republicans felgn that there Is no
danger OF imperialism and shrewdly at
tempt eo separate the money question from
the question OF trusts and Imperialism.
rs a separate and a distinct issue; they
can not be separated, these three great
questions are but one issue and the dem
ocrats are going to hold them up as such
IN this campaign and challenge the repub-
llcans 70 a discussion OF them and they Will
have to accept the challenge and discuss
them as one Issue, for the people will not
be satisfied with anything less. 1t Is true
that of these three questions the one o.
imperialism has become paramount and
the democratic party has but declared
what is plainly true.
4 y
Thoughtful men Of all parties and
classes throughout the breadth and
length OF the United States are alarmed a.
the rapid growth OF Imperialism and are
beginning to fear seriously the overthrow
of our republican institutions Well may
they feel alarmed; when we have no sym.
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Cnmpau's Probable Leadership.

Denver Post.
Daniel j. Campau OF Michigan. It seems
more than likely. will be the real manager
Of the campaign for Bryan and Steven
son. Senator Jones Of Arkansas will re-
main at the head of the National commit
tee. but by reason of ill-health will be
able to do little of the hard work devolv-
ing upon National leader in hot cam
paign. But for the opposition that devel-
oped to Senator Jones 1t is improbable that
he would have sought again the chairman
ship. When, however, antagonisms de-
veloped and an effort became apparent to
shelve him, be entered the lists and sue
ceeded in beating down all opposition and
erecting his own reelection without a
division in the committee.
II is probable nevertheless, that there
was an understanding in the committee
that another--irom present Indications
presumably Campau-should WELD the
actual leadership as chairman of the ex-
vigorous and reviviiying, is at work is APP
parent from the scope OF plans already
become apparent. Among other things it
is likely there will be several branch
headquarters OF the National committee.
In 1896 the campaign was managed from
chicago, with branch headquarters In New
York. This year these TWO headquarters
will be maintained. New York caring for
the East and Chicago for the Middle West
while new headquarters at Denver or
Omaha will oversee the far Western cam
paign. and from headquarters either al
San Francisco or Portland the Pacific coast
part OF the Hghi will be managed.
Mr.. Campau has had an extended expe.
rlence in National politics and is recog.
nized as an efficient and effective leader
He has the vigor and resourcefulness thai
Senator Jones lacks. Mr. Jones is an ideal
courtly gentleman OF the old school, whose
inclination is to attribute the possession
OF honesty to all mankind, His innate
honesty aud generosity Of character lee
him TO error in 1896. Mr., Campau Is no
less honest. but he IS decidedly less credu
lous He will not devote all OF his atten
tion to democratic propaganda. Some OF /
! he will spend in watching warily treaeh
erous, INSCRIPTIONS opponent The cam
+ paign In the meantime Will he brisl
enough &c satisfy the most exacting. Tha
II will result in u fair test OF strength 1
certainty, and fair election Is all tn
supporters OF Bryan ask. II was all the
asked in 1896, but II was far more thai
they received in that year, when the cleo
ton was stolen, by different method, Blu
, just as surely as ten years before whei
Q Hayes sat in Tilden's seat
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Jay HON. RUDOLPH KLEBERG)

(BY HON. RUDOLPH KLEBERG.)
Washington. July 1S.-The platform OF
the National democratic party adopted at
Kansas City makes anti-imperialism the
apex and money and anti trust the basis
of the column OF the democratic faith
This is as 1t should be. This is the is
sue of the campaign of 1900 correctly
stated and this is the challenge which
the republican party must accept 1t is
single issue, one and indiyisible.
Imperialism grows out OF and rests upon
corporate wealth and greed. 1t is the
fungus growth which has sprung up from
the soil of a moneyed arstocracy which
has inrrenched itself behind the written
charters of mammoth corporations COM
monty called trusts. Imperialism never
was and never will be the product OF a
free people who follow the peaceful pur-
| suits of agriculture, commerce and man
uiacture in a legitimate way, but Il is
| when capitalistic AvariCe c,oaNs itself in
the habiliments of the modern industrial
leviathan OF the corporate trust that i'm
pertalism Is born Of it as it's legitimate
offspring. These colossal conspiracies
| against euudl luuuHtlAdl OppuI Lulll AlOs y
which crush the life out OF individual and
legitimate enterprises, inordinately raise
| the price OF commodities and press the IN
dlvidual man to the level of a wage
worker. can not flourish upon the soil OF
free republican institutions but they need
large standing armies and strong naves
10 protect their greedy schemes at home
| and abroad.
They need the standing army 20 protect
them against the unrest OF the growing
proletariat at home, and they need both tn
army and the navy to conquer and hold in
Eubjection distant and alien peoples
abroad, to open UP by force markets for
their surplus products which the impov-
erished consumer at home is unable to
purchase. Let no one deceive himst1i
that Imperialism Is an accident and de-
pendent upon the whims of some ambitious
leader, but It is Invariably the result Of
false economic conditions.
~
We have but TO consult history 10 con-
vince ourselves OF this indisputable fact
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in their fitness for great tasks. were then
your only guides and counsellors.
Thus you framed and put in operation
this great new policy, which has made lis
at once masters OF the Antilles and a
great Eastern power, holding firmly our
possessions on both sides Of the Pacific"
Here is imperialism, naked and I'M
shamed. Here is Antony to Caesar upon
the Luperoal you" did all Of these
things not one of which shdAld have been
done without the concurrence Of Congress
You steered the country into new and
uncharted seas. "You" governed the
Islands by your own imperial power,
You" Senator Lodge would have added
u he had been Just little frauker than
ne w5s. used your army and navy for
the creation OF your empire"
/ When things have come to this point
the issue states Itself. 1t is vain to talk
| OF the currency when change in the yer !,
structure OF our government is impend~
ing.
| You all did Gee that on the Lupercai
! ! thrice did offer him a kingly crown,
which he did thrice refuse.
So said Antony OF Caesar. MCKINLEY
would not need TO be asked three times.
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makes them cautious about repeauns
experiment. The case OF promi1eD'
trust company is an Illustration ID Y
One stockholder in the COMPANY ~
out that his involuntary share oil y.
Kinley campaign contribution amv''
to exactly IS, and he contended lps
money might just as we'll have pee.
out of his pocket without his conSsass
threatened suit for the amount a''
suppressed only by compromise
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try to the domination Of the trusts. but
the government itself
The drummer was fooled In 1895 By
the republican party. That was the fault
and crime OF the republican party IL
the drummer is fooled" In 1900 so that
he again will vote the republican ticket.
the fault will be his own and his crime
against himself that OF deliberate suicide
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Afraid of ready's Tonsu''

Nashville Banner.
There are Indications that NUT, n,
and his lieutenant managers Oh ~,
Kinley campaign are apprehens'
Mr., Roosevelt wall talk too mueh.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The general impression seems to be tina,
contributions to the Mckinley fund IN
this city will not be anything like 60
large as they were four years ago. Hostil-
ity shown by stockholders to campairr
Eifa en- the part OF certain corporation.
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II the foreign diplomats in Pekin were
safe two or three days ago the crime of those
powers that objected to Japan taking the
initiative a month past for the relief OF
Pekin is only the more apparent and the
more fragrant With the 10000 or $4,000 men
Japan has had ready for weeks aided by
the other foreign troops ashore, the min
listers in Pekin might have been saved But
no--the mean little jealousy and selnshness
Of one or two powers must leave the blood
thirsty mob to commit the crime OF the
century
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New broom Factory Mt Round Rock

Round Rock. Texas, July 1s,--Mr. S. l..
Landrum. who has been president OF tho
Texas Broom factory at this place for
several years but who recently sold his
interest, has organized new company,
known ss tha Round Rock Broom company.
WEALTHY cseizsna are tnferested In the
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shows a Courageous Mater

st. Louis Republic. a.
When Pharlsee McKinley's ifnpo ~
icy gets him into q tight corner ~
then he unloads responsibility ~
shoulders OF the Lord God Ah
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Mnr Try 1t Here soon.

philadelphia Record. =,
/ The ease with which Presldent >,
elected again and again In Mexico i, n
aid OF military rule is enough 70 W
imperialists turn green with env''
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II Commander Shaw OF the Grand Army
OF the Republic wants the South to stop
teaching special Southern history and South
ern views, no should have the North call IN
its series of grossly sectional. defamatory
and unjust histories Of the causes and events
OF the civil war The South does not claim
tho sublime virtue OF being able to smiling
ly turn tia "other cheek to the blow.
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Certainly Needs Instructi'
ashlngton Post.

In case Hon. David Bennett ~
opens school TO teach the art ..
Ing nominations we desire TO en.
Theodore Roosevelt for a echohifsN'
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way OF violating and disregardng the solemn
pledges Of this Nation to tho people OF Cuba
National honor Is about as safe in the pres
emit republican hands as personal honor would
be among gang OF highway robbers.